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Donation buttons.

I also decided to set up a donation button. If you don't already have one, you will need to set up a PayPal account. To set up your paypal account Click Here, Once you have set up your PayPall account you will be able to receive donation payments via credit cards, debit cards, and paypal. PayPal provide an easy to use Button factory where you can build your donation buttons. All you have to do to build your donation button is follow the simple instructions on the screen then copy and paste the prepared code into your web page. As I provide a lot of free content I decided that it might be an idea to add a donation button to certain pages, thus giving the visitor the option to make a small donation if they found the content of my site beneficial.

The next thing I am going to do is free some space up on some of my higher ranking pages so that I can place a message offering advertisers the chance to advertise their products and services within the content of my pages. In return I request that they make a contribution which is usually agreed upon prior to placement of the advert.

I have been doing this for a while now and it has already worked for me. Below is just one example of how well it can work. I was contacted via the link on my page, like the one to the left, and offered $100.00US dollars to place three individual adverts on three of my pages. After careful negotiation the sum of $152.00 US dollars was finally agreed upon . (See Below).

Once I had received the adverts I waited for confirmation of the payment via my paypal account and then placed the pre prepared adverts on the requested pages. All I had to do then was email the advertiser with the relevant URLs to let them know their adverts were in place.

It does work some times, just don't get greedy or you will quickly put potential advertisers off. Obviously the higher ranked or more popular the page the more chance you have of being approached and the more you can charge. It costs you nothing to set up, takes very little of your time to implement and does work. AS proved above.To visit paypal, set up your account and build your donation button Click Here,

22 May 2009

Payment From

xxxxxxx

Completed

Details

152.00

-6.23

$145.77 USD

This is one genuine snippet from my PAYPAL account statement.

All of the information on all of the pages in this article is offered freely. There is no payment required and no catch but please feel free to use the donation button to your left if you have found what you have read beneficial. It is not iron clad and what works for some may not work for others but if you follow the simple instructions and implement them into your web site you may be surprised.

You will not make a million, but you might make enough money to cover the running costs of you website, and who knows perhaps you might even make a little profit for yourself which you can use to spend on yourself or to further develop your website and increase its earning potential. Everything I have suggested in this article I am doing myself and it is working for me. I haven't yet made a million and I doubt that I ever will. I have made a small profit which I plough back into my site. Any money is better than no money at all and we all have to start some where so I strongly suggest you give it ago.

Please feel free to use the donation button to your left if you have found what you have read encouraging and beneficial.