How does SynthaSite make money?
June 13, 2008
7:47 pm
We’ve been hearing this question recently from the SynthaSite community and thought that now was as good a time as any to answer it for you.
Without giving away all of the details of our business plan, we can tell you that you’ll start to see us work a variety of monetization strategies into the product over the next 12 months.
Some of them will be fairly straight forward, such as selling domain names to users who want them (e.g., www.yourwebsite.com). Others will be more novel, such as partnering with other companies to offer you special services, like search engine marketing, appointment scheduling, local advertising, etc.
These companies want you as a user of their services and will pay us for referring you to them. In addition, we are also planning on launching our own advertising network, that will allow our users to get paid for placing advertising on their websites from our advertisers - yes, you will be able to make money from your website!! We have a whole bunch of ideas like this, but these should give you a feel for where we’re going.
When will we be able to use our own templates and put a blog on our websites.
Comment by Graham Moreton — June 16, 2008 @ 2:01 pm
I’m looking forward to making money from my site via advertising other than Google Ads (not that there’s anything with Google Ads).
Also, would it be possible to have more templates orientated around vertical menus rather than the horizontal ones such as above? and possibly some more coloured variations of the current designs.
With regards to the comment above, you could just put a link to your blog on the page of your website. Failing that, i think you can embed your blog via HTML. I found a forum topic on another website here (http://www.bloggerforum.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15374)
I’m not sure about the specifics though. Hope it helps.
Comment by skinnyeddy — June 17, 2008 @ 11:04 pm
Great suggestions, skineddy. Styles with vertical menus are often more flexible. We will certainly look for more of these. We intend to add extra colour palettes for all our styles as well.
Thanks for the tip about linking to an existing blog!
Comment by Monique — June 19, 2008 @ 2:07 pm
“These companies want you as a user of their services and will pay us for referring you to them.”
so, uh, spamming your userbase is a monetization strategy?
Comment by andrew — June 23, 2008 @ 6:52 pm
SynthaSite does not sell or share any of our user email addresses with any of our partners. We hate spam as much as you do!
By partnering with companies and providing links to them within SynthaSite, we are able to promote these businesses and their products and earn a share of their revenues, provided our users are interested in purchasing their services (for instance, Genbook.com).
We strive to allow our users to find services they like, in an un-obtrusive fashion. Our primary goal is user satisfaction!
Comment by Vinny Lingham — June 23, 2008 @ 7:39 pm
Congratulations on a genius website guys - your web-building software is a dream come true. I will tell all of my friends how amazing you are in order to decrease the chances of you going out of business and me losing my site!
Rich
Comment by Rich — July 2, 2008 @ 6:31 pm
hi i am a new comer to your web site and i hope to have a pleasant
experience with your web sites and hope you all come and visit my site
manuela from South Africa
Comment by manuela — July 6, 2008 @ 12:48 am
I love synthasite. Look at my page. I found the perfect backround.
Comment by Kasey — July 12, 2008 @ 1:09 am
How & when my website start earnings? is it o.k. in present form? What about its hosting? I am new to all of these things. What about ad posting on the site for which people will attract to the it. Please reply.
Thanks!
Yours’
Praveen Kumar Sharma
Comment by Praveen Kumar Sharma — July 14, 2008 @ 4:06 pm
i want to earn the money from the making the website
Comment by kishore kumar — July 15, 2008 @ 5:46 pm
im new here….any suggestion on attraction people to my site.
Comment by ebizlens — July 18, 2008 @ 6:49 am
Thank You synthasite for your great product! I have been a professional Dj for over 10 years and people have always asked me if I has a website… all I could say was no. Well now I have one thanks to you! Your service is great!
http://streamline.synthasite.com
Thanks Again!
Dj V.Smooth
Comment by Dj V.Smooth — July 18, 2008 @ 8:28 am
i’m a newly added person i would like to publish my personal collections of different types of images ,wallpapers and many more ideas.
Comment by thomas mathew — July 18, 2008 @ 9:50 am
synthasite is very usefull for all ! tell by my friend
Comment by thomas mathew — July 18, 2008 @ 9:51 am
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Comment by Luke Edyy — July 19, 2008 @ 7:04 am
Hi can I setup a tennis tournament on synthasite. Input palyers name and etc.
Comment by Dee — July 21, 2008 @ 5:43 am
I HAVE TRIED MANY WEBSITE HOST.AS FAR AS I’M CONCERNED.SYNTHASITE BEATS THEM ALL.IT’S FEATURES ARE EASY TO WORK WITH.LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEW ONES.I’M STILL BUILDING MY WEBSITE.
Comment by RUTH BLOUNT — July 28, 2008 @ 4:36 am
Vinny,
Please Vinny, please, when you add the new items just “don’t” make it as bloated as google or type pad did, they would add a new item and if they didn’t think enough people were using it the would just delete it and if you were using it your content went with it.
I do like what I see and will put up a site shortly.
I have one question, “How do you link to another site?”
Thanks Joe
Comment by Joe — August 6, 2008 @ 4:07 am
I think this is really cool!!!
Comment by nicholas — August 24, 2008 @ 12:27 am