If you run your own website, whether for personal use or for business, you’ll definitely want a reliable, efficient web host. Luckily, that’s pretty easy. At BluePromoCode, we often cover deals from a wide variety of web hosting companies, and all of them provide cheap hosting options.
What you might not realize is that web hosting companies can also offer you opportunities to make money, effectively helping you offset the costs of hosting and running a website. One of the more common ways to make money via a web hosting site is through their affiliate programs.
Today, we’ll take a look at GoDaddy and Network Solutions, two of the biggest web hosting companies around. GoDaddy is infamous for its raunchy and edgy commercials, which really don’t have much to do with web hosting, but are eye-catching nevertheless.
They offer web hosting and a variety of other services, from website building to SEO to website management and security, all at relatively low prices. Network Solutions provides many of the same services, and in addition provides social media management services.
Both GoDaddy and Network Solutions offer affiliate programs. Through affiliate programs, you place ads on your own website, and when people click through on those websites, and buy products from either GoDaddy or Network Solutions, you’ll make a commission on those sales.
GoDaddy offers you two choices - you can be an affiliate through GoDaddy, or you can apply to join Commission Junction, which is a third party affiliate network. With both, you’ll be able to earn up to 40% commissions on sales. Putting the ads on your website is as simple as copying and pasting some code onto your own page.
Network Solutions offers a similar deal. You can earn up to 30% or $150 on commissions, and sign up via Network Solutions, or apply via Commission Junction as well. You can offer your customers different products and earn varying commissions on those products.
Taking advantage of affiliate marketing should be a no-brainer. It doesn’t cost you anything, and with the insertion of a few snippets on your website, you can sit back and relax. When someone clicks through on the ad or link, and purchases a product, you earn money. What could be simpler?
