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Unless you are building a personal homepage to share with family and friend, chances are that you probably want to make money off of it. Here we are going to tell you how to do just that.

If you are selling your own products or services you’re already one step ahead. You have something to offer to visitors and that should be the focus of your home page. Whether you want to sell your products or services, or monetize your home page by selling other people’s products and services as an affiliate, it’s a good idea to have a lead capture mechanism on your home page.

By building a highly targeted mailing list and providing your subscribers with valuable information, you’ll be able to continue to market to them long after the website. A good choice for this service is Aweber. Aweber is an extremely easy way to capture names and e-mails of your prospects while they’re on your website.

If you don’t have your products and services to offer, there still plenty of different ways to monetize your homepage.

Affiliate Programs

There are literally thousands of different affiliate programs on the Internet, as it should be easy for you to find a product or service to promote that will be a good fit for your specific niche. Here’s a few affiliate networks to you might want to look into.

Azoogleads.com
Neverblueads.com
Marketleverage.com
Clickbank.com
CJ.com

Between all of the networks listed above you should find an offer that ties in nicely with the niche of your website.

Contextual Advertising

Contextual advertising are services that allow you to be paid every time somebody clicks on one of your ad’s, or in some cases on a CPM basis. CPM means that you get paid a certain amount for every thousand visitors that see the ads on your website. Here are a few of the most popular contextual advertising services.

Google Adsense
Yahoo Publishers Network
Adbrite
Kontera

Contextual advertising services can be a great fit for many websites because the advertising networks read the content of your website and display highly relevant ads catering to your specific website niche.

Direct Advertising Sales

Some websites may perform better with direct advertising sales. This is where you actively seek out relevant advertisers and work out a deal where they can directly purchase advertising space from you on your website.

In most cases the only way to find out the most effective advertising model for your website is to test several different options, monitor the performance of the ads and the overall income generated in order to find out which advertising method is going to generate the most revenue for your website.