Monetizing my websites have been a big deal for me. I want to retire early. This goal is quite a wasy off and does not seem to be happening soon, but I have a few good starts.

One thing I have done is produce a very simple widget to using eBay’s Partner Network listings on a web page. eBay lets you create an RSS with embeded information that makes you money if anyone wins an auction after using your link to look at the auction item. eBay is paying you back for sending them traffic. The advantage of this is that it works reasonably well for low traffic sites as long as they are highly targeted. The trick is to find those high volume niche markets in order to get traffic from searches that are not well served by the internet at large.

Here are a few:

Shimano Bike Parts: I accidentally discovered that there are lots of people looking for these bike parts and I get a few dollars a day from this.