Making Money Online

Making Money Online continues to be one of the most debated issue ever. Blogs, corporate site, ecommerce sites, social media sites – they all want to make money online. Having read many blogs, magazines and media sites over the past few years, I’ve narrowed to the top3 ways to make money online 1. online advertising via ad networks or direct ad sales by site owners 2. paid subscription model for something in demand and hard to get elsewhere 3. Affiliate programmes.

As I explore these three in depth with my own site and other projects I am involved in, the following is a list of ad networks and affiliate programs I use to make money online at siliconcaribe.com outside of the usual google adsense. We’ve added this topic as a permanent link at the top of the blog as we’ll be updating it regularly. This information is for individuals with blogs and sites small to large who want to make money online. Right now I’m inviting you to check out kontera.com,etoro.com (a forex affiliate programme) and widget bucks a pay per click shopping affiliate programme.

Kontera ContentLink

Kontera ContentLink is great for sites that are content rich and are committed to consistent quality content. Their technology reads your post and turns certain words into an ad. The highlighted words are double underline and an ad pops up when you hover over it.

Sign up for Kontera

eToro forex

Forex trading, forex investment clubs, online forex trading platforms in fact anything forex or foreign exchange continues to be among the most read posts on our blog. Having gone through a few forex affiliate programmes from ones that only started paying you when someone starts trading I signed up for this one because they pay you per lead whether they trade or not. So if you have semi decent and relevant traffic, you can make some good money with this one.

Sign up for eToro

Widget Bucks

It is said that shopping widget make your more money. With Widget Bucks is a pay per click affiliate programme. Once you sign up, you can quickly customize your own widget based on the colour, nature of your site and what you think your site visitors will be interested in. Categories range from video games, cars, health and beauty, gadgets and electronics, computers and sports. The widgets are designed to fit all type of blogs and sites. Right now they have a US$25 signup bonus. And they start sending your cheques as soon as you amass US$50 in your account.

Sign up for Widget Bucks