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I make my money by creating hundreds of small sites that only take me a short time to create. Most are considered “flops” and only make me a couple of dollars a day, some make me more, much more.
Most sites are created for the sole purpose of sending the visitor to where he/she wants to go, using my referral link of course. For example, if someone searches for “eHarmony free trial” my goal is to have my site appear at the top of Google & Yahoo & MSN for that keyword. On my site I may just have a short and simple 1 page review of eHarmony with a link for them to enter the site they want. Visitor clicks and joins, I make money.
Other sites don’t have a clear sponsor and aren’t meant to just redirect the visitor. These sites are “information sites”. These are perfect for advertisers to buy ads on them or to place Google Adsense ads.
That’s the category that this site, Cash The Checks, falls under. Because this site doesn’t promote any sponsor exclusively and is a bit of a general site, I can promote sponsors offering: credit cards, marketing books, loan sites & entrepreneur magazine subscriptions. I can also promote contextual sponsors like Google Adsense who offer up ads based on the content of each page, if I can’t find a suitable sponsor. Finally I can also sell ad spots for people to promote their own site(s) too.
There’s plenty of ways to make money off a site, the harder part for me is getting the quality traffic.