My Rich Pickings


30 March 2006

Make your music website pay for itself

I have always had a great love of music, so it happened naturally that my first website turned out to be music related. I admit that the idea of it earning money didn’t even occur to me at the start, and I believe that just like mine most music related websites are started because the owner has a passion for music and not as a deliberate business venture.

But after a while it became frustrating paying for hosting etc (not to mention the time and effort expended keeping the site up to date!) and seeing no return for my effort. The realisation that many webmasters were making good money from their sites only added to my frustration and I resolved to learn how to redress the situation.

Without a product to sell, the obvious solution for monetizing my website was with some sort of advertising, so I eagerly signed up with an affiliate marketing service and proceeded to fill every available space on my pages with various sized advertising banners. I then smugly sat back and waited for the cash to roll in.

When the money failed to show up (I made about 20 cents in 3 months!) I realised that there was more to it than simply plastering any old advertising on my site, so I started to look for specific music related advertisers. I figured that giving my site visitors something relevant to their interests would help the CTR (click through rate).

What I discovered was that there are some very effective and lucrative affiliate programs in the music niche, and in fact when I started to exploit this I made $40 in my first week, which was a big improvement on the previous 20 cents.


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