As the popular saying goes.. “Webmasters don’t click ads”. I’ve been finding this more and more true lately as I’ve been branching out into several other types of websites. The funny thing is that I’ve been running webmaster sites for the past few years but my sites that get the most clicks are my videogame, entertainment, celebrity, and general related sites. I think this is either because webmasters are used to seeing ads, or they just don’t care about ads. I know that I hardly ever click on ads and I bet it’s safe to say that other webmasters don’t either.

So how do you monetize a webmaster related site? Well, you could always charge for memberships, but, I don’t recommend that. There are enough free sites out there that you have to compete with to begin with. Charging won’t make growing your userbase any easier. One way is CPA and CPM ads. Sure webmasters don’t click ads, but, they have to hear about their tech and web related products somehow.

What kinds of ads and services interest webmasters? Personally I’ve had a lot of success with programs such as Text Link Ads and Google Adsense Referrals. Some other really good affiliate programs are Azoogle and Click Bank.