Best Way To Monetize 100,000 Visitors/Day

[majortraders]

I've been trying out a lot of affiliate programs in the past couple months. I'm not impressed with AdSense to be honest. I'm currently getting ~$1.50 eCPM with AdSense and almost twice that with my other advertisers.

I'm not a big fan of CPA programs but it's just because I haven't gotten more with CPA than I have with CPM.

So my question is for those who have similar traffic.. what is the best way to monetize ~100,000 US/CA/UK visitors/day? What affiliate programs do you use and what should I expect?

[retsek]

That is nice traffic. Not the amount, but where it's coming from.

I have three sites that each get similar traffic like that. However, they are in niches which convert very poorly or not at all. I'm talking entertainment and general blogs.

Here's what I do to monetize them:

Adsense: Adsense is great. But you can't use it alone. So I use ONLY 1 300x250 unit in the hottest spot (see the heatmap) and 1 link unit below content. 300x250 because it performs just as well as the bigger unit, and also has much much image and flash inventory. CPMs are high with that configuration.

CPM: I use CPM chaining, which means I link together a bunch of different CPM networks by utilizing the default "out" tags on each network in the chain. The trick is put the highest paying networks at the beginning of your chain, so you always get paid the most.

In my case, I use ContextWeb as the first link in my chains. They are an ad exchange and you can specify what CPMs you want. At $3 per 1000 impressions they're giving me 40%-50% fill right now on my US/CA/UK impressions. The remainder of the US/CA/UK traffic then goes to Burst Media where I have a cap set to not run any ads that pay lower than $1 per 1000 impressions. That fills another 30% to 40% of the traffic sent from contextweb. Then the remainder goes to ValueClick, TribalFusion, Advertising.com or even Adsense.

On some sites, i go a bit more advanced by segmenting the traffic using an adserver (OpenX FTW). For example: some sites are popular in certain regions of the world, so i seek out ad networks that specialize in that region and the adserver allows me to split the traffic and geotarget the tags. Splitting it that way results in less redirects and makes your site faster. And also you get higher rates, rather than sending that "World" traffic to a bottom feeder like ValueClick or Adsense.

Another good use of adservers, is for example, Advertising.com pays well, but they only pay good for the first 5 impressions per 24 hours per visitor. An adserver can cap it, so the advertising.com tags are not shown a 6th time to that particular visitor for 24 hours. So on the 6th time, we can show tags from another network where premium rates will be paid. This is EXTREMELY important on your sites which have forums.

Edit: I forgot to mention that for the CPM chain, I would have 3 tags from each chain -- 300x250, 728x90, 160x600. Sometimes I go with two 300x250 and 1 160x600.

So basically I always have four ads displayed + 1 link unit with Adsense "always on" in the hot spot, then the three CPM tags which display any of a multitude of ad tags depending on certain conditions such as visitor location, visitor pageview count, etc, etc.



For others reading, go to Flippa, buy yourself a untapped high traffic site, implement these tips above, and make your money back in 2 weeks. I've done that two times now and i'm talking thousands.

Good luck.

[DPM70]

100,000 per day? You are joking, right?

[DPM70]

For others reading, go the Flippa, buy yourself a untapped high traffic site, implement these tips above, and make your money back in 2 weeks. I've done that two times now

How exactly do you find them and what sort of price would I expect to pay?

[retsek]

Originally Posted by DPM70

How exactly do you find them and what sort of price would I expect to pay?

Expect to pay $10,000+ for good sites w/ forums.

[aygabtu]

I can't believe anyone here is getting 100,000 visitors per day. PER DAY?? Please share with us your site. I am curious.

[jkiley]

Originally Posted by aygabtu

I can't believe anyone here is getting 100,000 visitors per day. PER DAY?? Please share with us your site. I am curious.

yeah and the other guy said he has three sites which get that kind of traffic. hahahaha

These guys are probably mistaken. 100K/day is 3M/month which is huge, you are talking millions of dollars worth of websites here.

[retsek]

Originally Posted by aygabtu

I can't believe anyone here is getting 100,000 visitors per day. PER DAY?? Please share with us your site. I am curious.

i realised the OP is just trying to sell his sig link, so I wasted my advice.

But its easy to get legit traffic. Just think of current events that have a continuing pattern. Ranking for them is always easier compared to established keywords. Then you provide good content, so you keep some returning visitors, and make use of forums!

[TheFBGuy]

Originally Posted by majortraders

I've been trying out a lot of affiliate programs in the past couple months. I'm not impressed with AdSense to be honest. I'm currently getting ~$1.50 eCPM with AdSense and almost twice that with my other advertisers.

I'm not a big fan of CPA programs but it's just because I haven't gotten more with CPA than I have with CPM.

So my question is for those who have similar traffic.. what is the best way to monetize ~100,000 US/CA/UK visitors/day? What affiliate programs do you use and what should I expect?

Could you make it any more obvious that you are promoting you signature? Jeez... the Warrior Forum should do away with signatures.