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Posted by Luqman Shah
Luqman Shah
188 Points

How do you make money off of ads on your WordPress website. (or websites in general)

I already know how to add ad pluggins, but how do you make money off of it. Please someone walk me through this. Thanks

3 Answers

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
9,767 Points
Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
9,767 Points

Get lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of people coming through it each day and then pray as hard as you can they click on a Google ad or you can try selling advertising space to companies but it all comes down to having a shit hot site with hundreds of thousands of visitors a year. To make any real amount of money, you need millions per month. Google and YouTube pay 1 or 2 cents per click to you so for a million clicks, you'll get $10,000 dollars but the click rate is about 0.2% so you need 20 million or is it 200 million visitors to get that $10,000.

Aaron Walton
Aaron Walton
3,557 Points
Aaron Walton
Aaron Walton
3,557 Points

This really isnt true. If you have a niche site in a high value market, ad revenue can be high on just 10's of thousands of unique visitors per month. If your site is about Justin Beiber or something similar, then yes you needs hundreds of thousands of visitors at a minimum.

laram25
laram25
10,106 Points
laram25
laram25
10,106 Points

Google Adsense, and affiliate programs like Amazon Associates, can help. What you need first and foremost is regular and relevant content, and to market your site so you get visitors. The more traffic, the more likely you are to get those clicks. It takes time, but it will work out if you put constant time and effort into it.

Luqman Shah
Luqman Shah
188 Points
Luqman Shah
Luqman Shah
188 Points

Thanks guys, but I just dont get one thing. Where does all the money go? How do u get it? Do u have to sync in the ads with ur bank account or something. I now understand the whole concept of making money with ads, but where is all that money stored so u can use that money??

Johny Cage
Johny Cage
1,492 Points
Johny Cage
Johny Cage
1,492 Points

You'll get paid the next month your balance becomes $100 in Google Adsense. In mean time, Google AdSense would ask you to provide your contact & tax details. If you still dont have AdSense account, it'll be very very difficult to get it approved for new website. (you need to have large websites/published content to get approval from Google AdSense) In case of Amazon affiliate or similar program you can also redeem the earned commission in terms of gift cards. & Use the same gift cards for your future purchase.