How to earn money by givin out free stuff?

Hello, I own a website. There i givin free programs. But i have 1 problem. Everybody know that isnt cheap to drive a website.

We have like 500 visitors day and 10-20 downloads every day.

I have made like a Sponsor system, which you can buy Advisement space in every program.
Do you think somebody gonna buy that?

So is there any other way to earn money by givin out free programs?
I'm banned on Google adsense , so i cant use that


Thx for all answers!

 

I would probably create a form for a list and start building a list (especially if the free stuff is niche related). After that, you could send offers, and then funnel the buyers into a different list.

 

Obviously the best way would be to sell ad space directly to people. You don't always need a third party to handle everything for you. You could try to come up with something additional that people can do on the site if they pay...? Like offer them more downloads. I don't know how many people would go for that though, if any.

 

I thought about a other way, example as Adbrite etc.
Something else.
Does any know about a service which gives you money by have popup on your website?

 

You can try other ads networks such as clicksor and bidvertiser.

 

Bidverister have low Click rate , 0.01 per click.
And on clicksor you need at last 5000 visitors day!
And i have only 500

 

Is the traffic US ?

 

Yeah, The most of the traffic is from US

 

you could add a donate button some people might dontae a few bucks and you could sell premium accounts that offer special featueres

 

Thx for the tips, well. I made a Paypal donate button as well for 3 weeks ago, no donations
And i sold products , but nobody bought.

 

stick with the donate button it's does not cost you anything to keep it on your page and in 4 weeks maybe somebody is willing to donate something

 

try uploading your softwares in the links on my sig, you can make money using them