Tips On Converting Your Traffic Into Cash

Let’s face it… having traffic or visitors coming to your website is the first step, next step is how to convert those traffic into cash. In Internet Marketing, this is known as traffic conversion or simply “monetization”.

In other words, in order to convert your web traffic into cash, you need to have a monetization strategy. If you don’t have a monetization strategy, you’ll be wasting or throwing away traffic that visiting your site.

This article will provide some tips you can use to monetize or convert your traffic into cash.

1. Promote a product/service

If you’ve your own product (an ebook, software or service), always mention it in your site. If you don’t, you can promote other people products as an affiliate. There are many places you can find affiliate products to sell such as ClickBank, Commission Junction, PayDotCom, and ShareASale. These are the biggies.

Tip: If you can’t find the products you’re interested in there, try to search using the search engine. For example, if you’re interested in skincare products, just go to Google and type in “skincare +affiliate programs”. You’ll see many affiliate programs that offer skincare products. Signing up as affiliate is FREE. NOTE: DO NOT join any affiliate program that charges you a sign-up fee.

2. Viral marketing and list building

Create a useful ebook that is related to the topic of your site and make it available for people to download for free. You can put your website links and affiliate links in the ebook. Tell the readers that they can distribute or give the ebook away to anyone. With this viral marketing technique, you can increase traffic to your site, publicity and branding without having to spend a dime.

On top of that, you can also build your email list because people need to give you their name & email address before they can download your free ebook. Once you’ve their email, DO NOT bombard them with promotions after promotions. You need to try your best to build good relationships with your email list by providing them useful information, tips and more useful freebies. You can promote products to them but do so by PRE-SELLING.

3. Include AdSense Ads on your site

If you haven’t got an Adsense account, go to google.com/adsense and sign up an account. Follow the instructions and place ads on your site. Google Adsense will automatically display relevant ads for your site. Google will pay you when your visitors click on the ads on your site. Most people use Adsense, but of course there are other alternatives such as Chitika, Yahoo Publisher Network and Kontera. If your site receives good traffic, these programs alone can bring in nice paychecks for you.

Related Article: “Monetization Models“.