How to Make Money from Online Advertising

If you have content on the Internet, you too can make money by adding text ads to your site. There are several ways to make money off of online advertising, but these text links can be an unobtrusive one compared to the bigger graphical ads, which can sometimes contain obnoxious animation or bright colors that jar with your site's design. This is obviously not a problem when the advertisements are part of the text content of your website, allowing you to gain ad revenue without distracting your viewers from your actual message.

There are a couple of different kinds of text ads, ranging from ads which are included on the side of the website to those which are actually integrated into your page content directly, by way of hyperlinks that show ads when hovered over with the mouse. Many services, such as Kontera, will actually automate the latter process. This means you don't have to go through every single bit of content you put on the web, because their program will select where to put text links based on keyword relevancy. That is, they will automatically choose the words that are most likely to get lots of clicks to salable products or services, and thus generate the most ad revenue.

To get started on this kind of Internet advertising, the first step is to set up a user account with an advertising company of your choice, which offers text ads as one of their advertising options.

Google Adsense – Google offers more traditional advertising, with clickable text descriptions in place of graphical advertisements. You can place these text links anywhere on your page.

Kontera – This company offers more advanced ads, adding hyperlinks on the fly to your page's actual content. When a keyword appears that is likely to get lots of hits, Kontera will automatically add a link to an advertisement on top of it for you to gain ad revenue from.

There are many more options than the two listed above, but most will offer a similar system. For allowing them access to your page—usually by pasting chunks of pre-created code into the top of your site's code. Whichever system you use, though, this type of advertising can be very lucrative, and can earn revenue without the flash graphical ads normally associated with internet advertising.