Making Money From Your Guitar Website I'm just here to discuss ways in which you can make some money out of your guitar website. How can you make an income out of your site? Here are the techniques I use: 1. Google Adsense Obviously everyone would have heard of this and it is a very common method of income for sites of all categories. In case you haven't heard of this and want to sign-up, here's the link: Google Adsense 2. Affiliate Schemes I have signed up for various affiliate schemes. I've found that writing a short review for each of the sites you're promoting dramatically increases sales. One site in particular I use is called GuitarAlliance. This site runs 4 (?) guitar tuition sites, e.g. GuitarAlliance, Guitar Mojo, Riff-o-Matic, Just Acoustic etc... With each sale you make you can earn upto $15 and recently I've been making a small but satisfactory amount of cash through this. Sales are relatively easy due to the high quality of the lessons hosted by these sites. Most of these sites use text, audio, video and images to teach which really helps clarify things. Click Here to Read Example Lessons By GuitarAlliance 3. Membership You could do what the sites such as GuitarAlliance are doing and charge a membership fee before allowing people to read your lessons. If you are doing this then it's a good idea to provide some of your better lessons as demos for your potential customers as this will be a powerful persuasive tool. Setting up an affiliate scheme and using PayPerClick advertising campaigns such as Google Adwords is a good idea too to get targeted traffic. 4. Link Sales I personally haven't used this technique so far but if you have a Google PR of 4+ then it might be worth selling some text/banner links on your website. A numerous number of forums on the internet allow you to advertise your link sales so research into them. You could even set-up automated scripts that allow advertisers to pay and upload banners automatically. 5. Content Sales If you don't mind then you could even consider selling your website content to other webmasters out there. When doing this make sure you outline a clear set of terms and conditions to clarity what the buyer can and cannot do. You could even set-up a webpage just to automate this content sales process. Hope that was useful and good luck! H.Hashi H.Hashi is the webmaster of the Internet Guitar Database, IGDb.co.uk. Copyright 2006 All Rights Reserved H.Hashi
Sorry about the affiliate links. I didn't read the guidelines throughly enough and didn't realise we weren't allowed them. I'll remove them now! Sorry again