Ad Sensing

I am interested in making some extra income through Google AdSense and ClickBank. I know that I need to have my own website in order to profit from this, but I just need some tips on how to "get the ball rolling." I would appreciate some feedback from anyone who has some know-how in this area, or anyone who has advertised through AdSense or ClickBank. Thanks so much!

To "get the ball rolling" your first thought should be the CONTENT of your planned website. The amount of money you will earn from advertising will depend on the type of content you have — whether that content can attract visitors to come to your site, whether that content will compel them to come back again to your site, or whether other websites will want to link to you and give you traffic. Everything starts with content.

There are several ways you can earn money from advertising:

1. Join an advertising network. Advertising networks are organizations that aggregate Web sites that offer advertising space, and sell banner ads (and other advertising options) across them. Traffic requirement is often a minimum of 5,000 monthly impressions, although many do not accept sites hosted by free page services.

Burst Media http://www.burstmedia.com
Fastclick (ValueClick). http://www.fastclick.com
Advertising.com. http://www.advertising.com
Tribal Fusion http://www.tribalfusion.com

2. Participate in contextual advertising networks. Contextual advertising are text ads delivered based on the content of the web page using an automated system.

– Google Adsense https://www.google.com/adsense/
– Yahoo! Publishing Network http://publisher.yahoo.com/
– Intellixt http://vibrantmedia.com/site/web_01a5.htm
– Quigo Adsonar http://www.quigo.com/adsonarexchange.htm
– IndustryBrains http://www.industrybrains.com
– Commission Junction Evolution http://www.cj.com
– Kanoodle Brightads http://www.kanoodle.com/about/brightads.html
– Clicksor http://www.clicksor.com/affiliate_programs.php
– Contextweb http://www.contextweb.com/
– Bidclix http://www.bidclix.com/

3. Sell advertising for your site directly. This is admittedly a more difficult route for a small business site wanting to earn advertising revenues. But hey, as they say: "no pain, no gain!"