Huge traffic but no money

First, could be the type of offers you're promoting.
Second, might be your landing pages.
My advice: Split test it all. Try different offers to see which ones works well
Also try different landing pages.
Good luck

NO landing pages. This is a website.
So... you guys are telling me that this can indeed happen even an a site with such traffic? There are certain months when I get more than 2 million page views a month.

It's really hard to say, I don't think you've mentioned your niche, the offers you tried, what types of ads you tried and how many different of variations of all of the above. All of that would be needed for us to try to help.

It's a video sharing site. It was doing well with Adsense.. then the inevitable Ban just like the others. The account was banned because of the iFrames. Basically it was not our fault.. we allow others to embed our videos to their sites by using iframes. The problem was that the iframe itself contained an Adsense code. It was a mistake and we're suffering for that mistake.

Have you played around with Amazon's affiliate program?

I feel sorry for you, man. I used to be in the same situation. High traffic with no $$$ and Adsense didn't pay as much as it used to about a year ago.

My suggestion is to figure out your demographic and to affiliate or create/sell a broad product. Even something like weight loss. You'd be surprised at how well stuff like that sells across all demographics. Or amazon ads for nike shoes, etc.

Running with CPA networks will involve learning ad optimization etc.

If you're looking for a simple replacement for Adsense, then look to other display networks.

For a video sharing site, I'd suggest the Rightmedia (/ex Rightmedia) type of guys.

CPX
Xtend (matomy)
Harren
AdPerium

The first ones that spring to mind from the top of my head.

I think your site is too generic to do well with CPA. Think about it. People go to the website to see a funny video, they get their funny video and then leave. There's no room for CPA there. It's different if someone goes to (like jag said) a weight lifting forum, looks for supplement reviews, gets a good review, sees the ad on the right side for the supplement, gets to a landing page that says the benefits (that were backed up by the reviewer) and then buys it.

It's super logical if you think about it.

Also are you using landing pages before your affiliate offers?

No landing pages. I use banners that go directly to the advertiser's site.

Have you tried on line gaming offers? Like performance mentioned above. That might suit your audience.

With that huge amount of traffic you should try sites like buysellads or blogads.

Get some direct advertising sales on your website. Have you tried it?

Huge traffic doesn't matter if it's crap traffic.

You can have 1,000,000,000 uniques but if it's crap it's crap.

A video sharing site is not going to convert on CPA offers. You need to look at adsense alternatives I guess.

Contact sites that you think would want to advertise on your pages - broker a deal!

check out preroll video placements. That should make you some good money if you can do it.

PPC-Coach,

Yes, my thoughts exactly.

Before worrying about anything, I would setup split testing. With a high volume, you should get a clear winner..... Unless those "uniques" are bots.

God Bless,

Rich Beck BCIP, MCSD, MCIS

Before I start, this is my opinion, it aint gospel and should be treated as such.

I would punt the idea of monetizing via CPA out the door str8 away. With the numbers you get Adsense was working because it was tailored to what the person was normally searching for, whereas CPA is tailored to what you think the user will be interested in.

Theres a big difference there.

Why not offer them freebies in order to sign up to lists? Then sell solo ads to the list. Obviously you will need to beef it up but its an idea.

Why not try infolinks? I dont know your site so cant comment on what material you have but its a mini Adsense so it may bring in something.

Also remember CPA traffic is geo targetted so you could find people clicking on it and then being redirected.

With the figures you are getting I would defo be selling some ad space on your site.

Just a few to get you thinking

Drop all of the ideas you have heard so far, and just sign up for a CPM network. Boom, problem solved.

I would test and track the ad copy for your banners as well as the clicks you are getting for each banner. Also, make sure the offers you are putting on your website are related to your website content.

This may seem elementary, but don't put a motorcycle ad on a gardening website. Sometimes we forget the most basic things.

In my experience, it's always a combination of factors - probably in this order:

1. Powerful creative and/or headline. Regardless of your ad type, be it a banner, a landing page, a text ad or a solo mail - you need to catch people's attention. Just how important this is can only be appreciated after you waste a few hundred $$...

2. Solid offer. Whatever you're selling must be TOPS, and if it comes with a free gift - all the better (as long as it's a GOOD freebie).

3. Appropriate Network. Unfortunately, the only way you'll really know is by trial and error - or by following a reliable guide. Not all networks work for all things. For IM products, for example, most ad networks will be pretty useless, etc. If you're selling a "hot" - and I mean HOT product, most networks will work to some extent. But the more specialized the product - the more care you need to take with your network selection.

4. Careful demographic targeting (which the ad network must support - most will SAY they do, but only experience will prove them correct).

5. Track your creatives, landing pages and other ads to see which ones convert the best.

6. Consider also your overall strategy. More often than not list-building (e.g. by offering a VALUABLE free product) should precede sales. But it depends, of course.

I can tell as a merchant that we don't allow free video streaming/downloading websites into our program. Not because we don't like them, but because over time this kind of traffic has proven to be of a low quality. People came to your site because they are not willing to spend money, correct? Then use this approach when choosing your CPA offers.
Something with free trial, no commitment or any other freebie might be more appealing to them and will help you bring the CR up.
Good luck!

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how about content locking? If you have compelling videos... people might want to complete an offer to view it!

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First, are they U.S. visitors?

Second, you just got many members (according to your first post) messaging you to run their ads and they are willing to pay you, and you reject their offers?

Well, there's some money going down the drain.

You should use an exit popup to make money.

rickjerk321 is right, majority of your traffic could be from outside of the US so even if your sign-up or buy anything from the offer, it doesn't count.

Try to understand the demographics of the traffic coming to your site and find offers best related to them.

Try build a list from that huge traffic and you can send them more targeted offers later on.

With a landing page, it helps with the conversion most of the time but split test just to be sure.

Are you tracking goal conversions in Google Analytics? Which one of your pages has the highest bounce rate?

can we know from wich countries your traffic is ?
and the percentage like US 36% UK 24%

Like some have mentioned already, it's hard to know what the problem is if you don't take all the factors and analyze them together- GEOs, CTR, Banner characteristics, banner formats, types, etc.
As an ad platform manager myself, I can tell you that it is next to impossible to evaluate any results if these characteristics aren't taken into account. Also, it may very well be that CPA is not the model best suited for your type of traffic. Have you considered trying rev share?

recently internet browser's are just wonderer, out of 100 not even 1% are genuine.

google adsense is the one pay better, all others pay nothing link 1 or 2 cent

you can fine someone you trust, family member and have transfer site to them and add new adsense code

May be that works

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