Best way to monetize these websites?

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Hi everybody! I own a few websites that work within the Kik messaging app. This popular messaging app has a section in it called "top sites", that lists the most used sites that work with the app, enhancing the chat. I own KikMe (7th), HeyYa (10th), Cute Girls (20th) and many more. Altogether they get about 800k pageviews per day, that turn in a revenue (from adsense) of about 300$ per day. Right now I only use adsense, but i'm looking for a different way to monetize this big amount of traffic. Do you have any ideas? Please try my websites and let me know! Thank you!!
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  • Profile picture of the author erob
    Maybe you should leverage the traffic by building a list, present the sign up as a newsletter or something like that. Then promote niche specific products. Your sites have to do with relationship and dating I think, so I would push these types of offers. Aslo use banners or you could sell banner space on your site, With 800k sky is the limit.
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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    have you considered simply creating a page about direct advertising, and allowing people to purchase ads that pay better than Google Adsense. Then when you get a purchase, you simply remove the Google Adsense and replace it with the ad that was purchased. I did this on my site and it worked beautifully.
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  • Profile picture of the author CliffRCS
    I think you should look for Neverblueads for related CPA offers, you are getting hell lot of traffic and I am sure neverblue would offer you very nice CPA rates.
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  • Profile picture of the author extrememan
    There's tons of ways to monetize your website. Try amazon.com or google your niche + affiliate products and see what you can find?
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  • Profile picture of the author seoboyz01
    Are you relying solely on search engine traffic or other methods of social marketing as well? If you are only relying on one method of traffic generation, you should start by diversifying to ensure you always have such great success with traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author tatoskate
      Originally Posted by erob View Post

      Maybe you should leverage the traffic by building a list, present the sign up as a newsletter or something like that. Then promote niche specific products. Your sites have to do with relationship and dating I think, so I would push these types of offers. Aslo use banners or you could sell banner space on your site, With 800k sky is the limit.
      Originally Posted by dvduval View Post

      have you considered simply creating a page about direct advertising, and allowing people to purchase ads that pay better than Google Adsense. Then when you get a purchase, you simply remove the Google Adsense and replace it with the ad that was purchased. I did this on my site and it worked beautifully.
      Great ideas, i'll try them!

      Originally Posted by extrememan View Post

      There's tons of ways to monetize your website. Try amazon.com or google your niche + affiliate products and see what you can find?
      What kind of product do you think would be best? i think the users are mostly teenagers bored and looking to chat with someone (i don't think they have much money to spend)

      Originally Posted by seoboyz01 View Post

      Are you relying solely on search engine traffic or other methods of social marketing as well? If you are only relying on one method of traffic generation, you should start by diversifying to ensure you always have such great success with traffic.
      I'm relying on Kik only


      Also, the traffic went up to about 1.1m pageviews/day but the CPC went down to about 0,04 (before they were 0.05/0.06)... So the earnings are much lower. Any idea on how to get higher CPC?

      Thank you!
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      • Profile picture of the author pluto1
        Originally Posted by tatoskate View Post

        I'm relying on Kik only


        Also, the traffic went up to about 1.1m pageviews/day but the CPC went down to about 0,04 (before they were 0.05/0.06)... So the earnings are much lower. Any idea on how to get higher CPC?

        Thank you!
        Congrats! You are getting some nice traffic and decent revenue per day!

        As for CPC, checkout the traffic you are getting from what countries. My traffic is mostly from US, UK, Canada. CPC rate seems to be high from these countries, and other countries not that high.
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        • Profile picture of the author tatoskate
          Originally Posted by pluto1 View Post

          Congrats! You are getting some nice traffic and decent revenue per day!

          As for CPC, checkout the traffic you are getting from what countries. My traffic is mostly from US, UK, Canada. CPC rate seems to be high from these countries, and other countries not that high.
          Mine is too! So i don't know why it's so low :/
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          • Profile picture of the author leo1in88
            800k pageview and only 300$ in adsense. Are u kidding me??
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            • Profile picture of the author Rory Singh
              Originally Posted by leo1in88 View Post

              800k pageview and only 300$ in adsense. Are u kidding me??
              That's pretty darn funny don't you think?

              800,000 page views daily and ONLY 300 bucks per day?

              It's great to see someone generating that kind of traffic but it's not great to see someone not profiting from all that.

              I see a lot of bloggers out there getting lots and lots of traffic, leads and followers but not too much in sales.

              It's good that tatoskate is getting $300 daily but with that kind of traffic, someone with the right money 'mindset' should be making at least 7 figures (at least).
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              • Profile picture of the author tatoskate
                Originally Posted by Rory Singh View Post

                That's pretty darn funny don't you think?

                800,000 page views daily and ONLY 300 bucks per day?

                It's great to see someone generating that kind of traffic but it's not great to see someone not profiting from all that.

                I see a lot of bloggers out there getting lots and lots of traffic, leads and followers but not too much in sales.

                It's good that tatoskate is getting $300 daily but with that kind of traffic, someone with the right money 'mindset' should be making at least 7 figures (at least).
                I guess i'm not really good at monetizing, that's why i'm asking.. I've only used an adsense banner, which has a low CPC and a low CTR. I think my websites are not exactly built around the idea of making money with them so they don't have the right niche/keyword "formula", as you can see if you visit them. That's why it's harder to find a way to profit them better. If you have any idea i'd be very interested!
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  • Profile picture of the author ajmalkhan
    did you tried top move your adsense banner here and their and with that amount of traffic you can create your own advertising plateform and you should try teespring amazone assocites or cpa if need help than i can help you but currently i am not in my country so can you wait for week and one more thing analyz your traffic with google analytics
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  • Profile picture of the author tatoskate
    it's actually pretty hard to understand you :/
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  • Profile picture of the author maxqsoft
    My friend if you are really interested in monetizing then a Business Directory is a great way to go. Add a business directory to your site and since you get lots of traffic advertisers would be glad add their business to your business directory and drive some of the traffic to them. Because business directories can hold thousands of advertisers you only need to charge each one a small free. Example: 200 advertisers at a fee of $30 per month is $6000 per month. See my profile for more information.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bryan99
    Don't look for long term solutions, your websites have hype and you should profit from them right now. I would advise you to go with mobile CPA offers, which shouldn't be too hard to do. If you want more help contact me via PM so I can examine your websites and offer insider information.
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  • Profile picture of the author TymBolla
    Very interesting. I didn't knew about this app from before.

    Seems like your sites are dating related so why not promote some date online success courses...
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  • Profile picture of the author ajmalkhan
    I want say that move your adsense banner between contents so it become much more viewable and Sorry for my confusing answer i want to tell you that you should analyze your traffic from which country it is coming and which age as you said that most of them are teens you should go for dating offers i think it work like a charm with your traffic
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  • Profile picture of the author HuiBang
    Earning money online is obviously not as easy as we think, but it’s definitely not impossible. All you need is a bit of patience and monetization strategy. Here is the list of different ways to make money from website, blogs, videos and app.
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