I have 6k-9k unique visitors/month: How to monetize it?

by MathewMaso

Posted: 11 years ago 31 replies

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Hello, I started a website 2 months ago, its a technology blog focused in new stuff coming out (I'm posting at least 1 post/news daily - yes I like the topic), and also it's in spanish my native language.

I did good keyword research, bought an Exact Match Domain, and made some backlinks around the web... I'm in #3 for my main keyword, and many of my posts are ranking and giving me traffic, if everything continue like this, I'll be hitting 15k visitos per month in about 2 months or less.

I added some Adsense banners (2 big vertical banners for the sidebars of the blog and 2 small text link boxes also for the side bars).
Well with my 200-300 unique visitors daily I'm making about .01 - .05 dollars per day. (If I get lucky I get 1 click on the banners each 1000 visitors) So I think that Adsense is not an option to monetize my tech blog.

What do you suggest?

CPA offers? Since my site is in spanish, most of my traffic is from LATAM and Spain, and most CPA offers require US traffic. And spanish offers usually have pretty low pay rates. (around $1-$2 per action)

Clickbank product? I could find some decent spanish products in clickbank, but not sure if people will click and then buy! If I get 1 click every 1000 visitors, then thats 6-9 clicks per month.. If I get 1 sale out of those 9 clicks, I think I would be very lucky.

My own product? I think that's pretty much the same situation than clickbank product..

Also, what kind of offer would be good for my site audience? Its people looking for news about the latest technological stuff (my site categories are, computers, health, robotics, entertainment, telecom, etc).

Selling Ad Space? I think that would be a good option, maybe to contact local companies and offer ad space, but I think I need more traffic to do that, at least 30k/month.

What else could I do? Any ideas? Any help is really appreciated

#6k9k #monetize #unique #visitors or month

Dragonfire Wealth 11 years ago

You could always try and optimize to increase the amount of clicks on a clickbank offer, 9k uniques per month is enough to make a really nice paycheck with clickbank

Or you could start a newsletter and collect emails, provide them with valuable content and trickle a couple offers per month to them

And take adsense off there, show your visitors that you care
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Vikram73 11 years ago

Technology blog in Spanish? I don't know enough about Spain and available offers there but I'd say:

1) Build up a list (more important than your fanpage)
2) Provide some value to your list (solve some of their tech problems)
3) Send them some reviews of products once you've earned their trust

I'd imagine Amazon, MacMall and other big tech sites have nice affiliate programs. There are also tutorials / training materials on tech that have affiliate programs you can promote.

Selling ad space is also an option - I purchase ad space from buysellads.com but it's all US traffic in my experience.

I'm surprised AdSense isn't giving you a better CPC.
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- MathewMaso 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Vikram73
  
  There are also tutorials / training materials on tech that have affiliate programs you can promote.
  
  Could you give me a couple of examples about this?
  Thanks!
  
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MathewMaso 11 years ago

I forgot to mention 2 things,

1) I paid for some ads on facebook and now my Fanpage has 5200+ fans. And also I have a wordpress plugin that publish every post I made to: fb, twitter, stumbleupon and delicious.
2) I have a newsletter subscription at the buttom of the page, but nobody has signed up since the site started :S.
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- JMSD 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Prodak
  
  I forgot to mention 2 things,
  
  2) I have a newsletter subscription at the buttom of the page, but nobody has signed up since the site started :S.
  
  Your optin box should be above the fold and prominent. Most people don't scroll down far. Also offer them a free product in exchange for their name and email address. You can get PLR products related to your niche to offer your subscribers.
  
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Warrior X 11 years ago

If I get lucky I get 1 click on the banners each 1000 visitors

I don't do adsense, but surely that click thru rate is absurdly low. I mean, no
own would bother doing it if those results were normal.

Maybe someone who works with adsense can tell you how to improve that--
but you need to look at how your ads are placed and whether they are
correctly targeting your visitors. Something is going wrong somewhere.

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madstan 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Prodak

Selling Ad Space? I think that would be a good option, maybe to contact local companies and offer ad space

You just answered your own question within your question.
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etelligent 11 years ago

Maybe you have started from the wrong end of the stick?

Find something you can actually sell first, what are they looking for. People that visit your site must be interested in many different things, find out what that is.

Then build a massive email list, capture everyones email. You can still email them cool content on the main topics of your niche, but you can also cross sell.

maybe rank your site for a few new keywords that involve few new things.
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owenlee 11 years ago

Hi,

You can try the following:

1)CPA
2)Adsense)
3)Clickbank
4)Review of local products (Get paid from the owner)

hope this helps
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- MathewMaso 11 years ago
  
  Thank you all, I just found a clickbank product that might work, a grow taller product with good conversion rate in spanish.
  
  I just created a nice animated creative that looks good with the site style, and it says something like "Latest Technology to Grow 1"-2" at any age" (in spanish), ... so it looks kind of tech related, also I placed it very near the top.
  I'll monitor my CTR, the product pays $27 per sale...
  
  The product is not very related with my tech audience, but maybe some of them would be interested in grow an extra inch (and also be stupid enough to beleive that will happen by buying an ebook)...
  
  What should be a decent CTR? I would expect 1% that's about 3 clicks per day.. and the conversion rate of the offer.. well with a 3% conversion rate of the product page (I hope its higher than that) I should be selling 2.7 products per month. that would be around $72 per month with my current traffic.
  
  Its way better than the $2 dollars adsense is making right now.
  
  BTW I removed adsense banners, let's wait to see the numbers, will keep you posted
  
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Marx Vergel Melencio 11 years ago

Here's something you can try:

Offer mind-blowing content with an attention-grabbing headline and an enticing description that can lure viewers into signing up to your mailing list. You can look at the top selling, wildly popular local Spanish tech magazines. Generate some ideas from the current cover story headlines and the feature stories themselves of those magazines. If those are top selling tech magazines in the Spanish market, then that means the cover story headlines of those magazines are grabbing the attention of the target Spanish market, and the descriptions of those feature stories are enticing enough for them to take it off the racks and buy it from the counters. Develop your mailing list subscription offer in ways that could give you the same results. Then:

Identify the key problem areas tackled by your mailing list subscription offer. Study the solutions provided by your mailing list subscription offer, and think of more helpful solutions for related problems and needs that aren't provided by your mailing list subscription offer. Next:

Find tech products that can solve the related problems and satisfy the relevant needs of your target Spanish market that they can neither solve nor satisfy on their own,. Pinpoint ones where its developers (software), manufacturers (physical tech products) or authors (comprehensive tech books, guides, tutorials and so on) have an affiliate program. Then:

Sign up as an affiliate of those developers, manufacturers and authors. Request for review copies of their products if possible. Pinpoint good tech products to promote as an affiliate. Develop follow-up email content for your mailing list subscribers that offer more benefits not found in your original mailing list subscription offer. Include in some of those follow-up emails detailed reviews of those affiliate tech products, then recommend those products to specific groups of people with particular problems and needs that can be solved and satisfied by those products. And:

If you're based in Spain, you can talk to local tech shops, businesses, companies and corporations, especially those with newly launched products and service offers but without affiliate programs. Show them your website, local traffic stats, local Facebook fans and local mailing list stats. Tell them you can promote their newly launched products in your website and to your mailing list subscribers, all for a low fixed monthly fee and a fixed commission rate per sale that's generated by your site and mailing list promotions...
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Boga Dhami 11 years ago

with so many visitor to your website,you must start building list by putting optin form or popup on your home page.As they say money is in the list.
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techbul 11 years ago

Your Adsense CTR is incredibly low. What banners do you use and where do you have them placed?
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jinglee 11 years ago

Are you interested in putting up popups?
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- MathewMaso 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by jinglee
  
  Are you interested in putting up popups?
  
  I'm not sure, if you are interested PM me with more details.
  
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MathewMaso

11 years ago

Thank you all. I just signed up at GetResponse, to start developing my list. I had an idea.
Even though my website is about technology, I could build a list in the money making niche, offering a free ebook about that.. (I could even write I few pages about it, or offer some free content just to get them to send their email)... and then configure a follow up campaign, with some emails with tips, and then another email with a recommendation of some money making clickbank product. then more tips.. then another offer... Im sure I could get at least 5 suscribers per day or so. Maybe they could start buying products... definitely will try this.. I'm already typing the follow-up campaing, so if you have some advice that would be great!

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Marx Vergel Melencio

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Prodak

Even though my website is about technology, I could build a list in the money making niche, offering a free ebook about that.. (I could even write I few pages about it, or offer some free content just to get them to send their email)... and then configure a follow up campaign, with some emails with tips, and then another email with a recommendation of some money making clickbank product. then more tips.. then another offer... Im sure I could get at least 5 suscribers per day or so. Maybe they could start buying products... definitely will try this.. I'm already typing the follow-up campaing, so if you have some advice that would be great!

Hmmm... Yes, MMO (Make Money Online) is a laterally relevant niche to the technology niche, though do you have substantial knowledge and expertise in the MMO niche? What I'm saying is you need to have significant knowledge and expertise in making money online, to provide mindblowing content that will be beneficial for people interested in earning income on the Internet, more so to be capable of pinpointing the products (affiliate products) or developing your own products that will help them achieve the results they want, which is to make money online. If so:

Making money online requires a stable computer, so you can review laptops, desktops or tablets that you've used, as well as a wide variety of software like document development tools, image development and editing software, video development or screen recording applications and so on, especially ones that have given you the best user experience in terms of working on your MMO campaigns. That's one way to connect the MMO niche to the tech niche. Also:

Making money online requires technical knowledge about domain registration, Web hosting, Web server maintenance/management, website development and maintenance, CMS, image and video development, onsite and offsite SEO, online payment processors, automatic secure product ordering and downloading processes, autoresponders and so on. You can review and recommend service providers (with affiliate programs) as well as digital info products and other tech products (also affiliate products) you've used, especially ones that have given you beneficial results, such as domain registrars, Web hosting companies, tutorials on how to configure and manage Web servers, Wordpress website or Joomla or Drupal setup tutorials, Wordpress and Joomla plugins, payment processors, guides to use the Wordpress CMS or the Joomla CMS, affiliate management scripts and how to install and configure and use them, autoresponders and how to install and configure and use them, image and video development software and how to use them, onsite and offsite SEO tutorials and so on. That's another way to connect the MMO niche to the tech niche. There are other MMO sub niches that are laterally relevant to the tech niche, such as mobile marketing.

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MathewMaso

11 years ago

Thanks Marx,

I do have good experience with most of the things you mentioned, also there are plenty of content about that around the web.

What I'm thinking here... is it worth it?

I mean, I would need to be doing all those reviews and generating all that content... to have a good list of interested people... and lets say I get a 1000 ppl list... from mail to mail I would add a promotional mail with an offer (maybe a clickbank offer to start)... lets say 1% buys the product... that's 10 sales, if I get $30 per sale, that's only $300... for a looot of work.

How many times I could sell stuff to the same guys?

Also another question I have.. lets say I just set a 30 day follow-up autoresponder... mixing 1 or 2 offers per week.

After that 30 day follow up ends for an user.. what happen? does it start again?
Or do I need to be creating more and more mails to keep them engaged?
Or maybe I send 1 newsletter to ppl in that category (post follow-up) every week.
How does it works?

Thanks!

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Marx Vergel Melencio

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Prodak

I mean, I would need to be doing all those reviews and generating all that content... to have a good list of interested people... and lets say I get a 1000 ppl list... from mail to mail I would add a promotional mail with an offer (maybe a clickbank offer to start)... lets say 1% buys the product... that's 10 sales, if I get $30 per sale, that's only $300... for a looot of work.

This is where the importance of reasonable, logical and realistic RoI projections comes in. If you spend 10 hours/week or 40 hours/month doing this on your own, and your day job or other businesses earn you $20/hour, then that means you're investing $800 of your time per month for a projected return of $300 per month. However, if you invest around $200 of your time (10 hours scattered across 3 to 5 days) in a week to test, hire and train a remote employee to work 40 hours per month at $6/hour, then you spend $240/month for a projected return of $300, which nets you $60/month, in which your initial $200 investment of your time can be recovered in less than 4 months. Play with these numbers, until you get the RoI projections you want.

Originally Posted by Prodak

How many times I could sell stuff to the same guys?

If I were just learning to make money online, I could initially be interested in upgrading to a better computer, then getting useful applications and guides to use them, then learning and getting domain registration and Web hosting, then learning to set up Wordpress and develop a website with useful plugins through the help of some tutorials and other things that will help me make money online. If I were in your mailing list and consider you as a friendly, expert resource of useful info, advice and trustworthy recommendations, then I could buy most of these things from you (and those are a lot of things). Also keep in mind that there are affiliate products with recurring monthly or annual commissions, such as software.

Originally Posted by Prodak

Also another question I have.. lets say I just set a 30 day follow-up autoresponder... mixing 1 or 2 offers per week. After that 30 day follow up ends for an user.. what happen? does it start again?
Or do I need to be creating more and more mails to keep them engaged?
Or maybe I send 1 newsletter to ppl in that category (post follow-up) every week.
How does it works?

You can test out different combinations for this. For instance, all those who sign up gets your current mailing list offer as well as access to your past mailing list subscription offers and follow-up emails (if you post new mailing list subscription offers once your XX-day series ends, from the day you get your first subscribers). It'd be best to keep your subscribers engaged, and new content with new or supplemental or additional benefits can do this. It's also best to post new mailing list subscription offers with follow-up emails, so you can entice new viewers to become your subscribers, since the MMO and tech niches are rapidly changing industries.

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MathewMaso

11 years ago

Thanks for all these great ideas, I kinda have everything in my mind now.

Originally Posted by Marx Vergel Melencio

Sorry man I did not fully understand this.

Let me rephrase it:

Basically... A user confirm his subscription and gets the freebie that I offered in exchange for his email... and then he starts receiving a series of 15 emails spread in 30 days.

Some of these emails will contain product reviews with affiliate links, others will be freebies... (by reading your suggestion, you recommend to start offering everything to them? like try to sell a computer, software, etc, etc?)

After this user has 30 days as a member of the list.. there will be no more autoresponder emails...
So you recommend me to be constantly creating emails and adding them to the follow ups, so the content never runs out.. right?

And everytime a new user subscribe he will start receiving the first follow up series... and then after 30 days, the new series..

Is this correct?

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Marx Vergel Melencio

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Prodak

Basically... A user confirm his subscription and gets the freebie that I offered in exchange for his email... and then he starts receiving a series of 15 emails spread in 30 days. And everytime a new user subscribe he will start receiving the first follow up series... and then after 30 days, the new series.. Is this correct?

You can rethink this, especially if you intend to provide new mailing list subscription offers and follow-up emails. For instance:

What if your 1st mailing list offer and follow-up emails are comprehensive step by step guides for maximizing the benefits your subscribers can gain from making full use of the functions integrated into the Wordpress CMS version 3.2? Wouldn't that offer be outdated by the time Wordpress has been updated to 5.3? And, would you still manage to entice new viewres to subscribe to your mailing list when you're still offering those Wordpress 3.2 step by step guides at a time when Wordpress 5.3 is already the standard? How about setting it up this way:

Your old subscribers get your new mailing list offer and follow-up emails after they have already received your 1st mailing list offer and follow-up emails, while your new subscribers (people who subscribe at a time when you're already offering your new mailing list offer and follow-up emails) get your new mailing list offer and follow-up emails, along with download links for your old mailing list offer/s and follow-up emails. Hope this makes sense. Also:

Keep in mind that you can also offer your mailing list subscription offers as affiliate products. This way, you can post it for sale on your site (include an option in that page where your buyers can also be signed up to your mailing list after purchasing your offer), then post it in affiliate networks and offer it to affiliates with a 90% or more commission per sale incentive. This way, your affiliates will be helping you populate your mailing list with buyers, instead of just freebie seekers.

Originally Posted by Prodak

Some of these emails will contain product reviews with affiliate links, others will be freebies... (by reading your suggestion, you recommend to start offering everything to them? like try to sell a computer, software, etc, etc?)

Recommendations of paid and free products with detailed reviews, yes. Be more subtle in your approach. For instance:

Instead of telling them all that they should buy this computer and set of software, tell them that your recommended computer setup options for that particular set of software to work as good and as fast as possible can be found on these pages (link to some of your site pages with detailed reviews and comparisons), though they can first test out that set of software with their existing computer setup and decide if they need your recommended computer setup. And, those pages on your site can have your affiliate links, though tell them that you recommend those merchants as good sources where they can purchase those products at reasonable prices and with excellent discounts or incentives (make sure those merchants do offer reasonable prices, discounts and incentives).

Originally Posted by Prodak

After this user has 30 days as a member of the list.. there will be no more autoresponder emails...
So you recommend me to be constantly creating emails and adding them to the follow ups, so the content never runs out.. right?

Yes, because fresh content with new benefits not found elsewhere keeps your subscribers engaged, entertained, informed, educated and happy with the new benefits and results they get from you and your content.

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moreno 11 years ago

Some ideas:
-translate into spanish some bestseller from english ( books , report , guides...kindle...)
- GET AMAZON PRODUCTS (as far as i know Spain is OK)
-buy MMRfor some product related to your niche and sell them
-The banners don't convert as much as text links ( try to insert them in your articles)
offer service related
-go LOCAL OFFLINE ( many guide on the forum)
just some ideas because with this much traffic .....
BUILD A LIST BY OFFERING SOMENTHING OF GREAT VALUE -INVEST IN THIS !!!_:p
Que te vaya bien hermano
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Randall Magwood 11 years ago

I would sell some ad space. You should seek out advertisers in your niche and ask if they want to get more traffic to their site by advertising on your blog.
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Tanya E 11 years ago

Use pop up domination or any other pop up plugin to capture email addresses. You can build a relationship with your subscribers and then start promoting affiliate products at frequent intervals. Once your list reaches a thousand you can do ad swaps and increase your list even further.
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MathewMaso 11 years ago

Also just to clarify a couple of points:
I'm not living in Spain, but Mexico.

And also my site is growing so fast!, today It got 400 uniques, that would be 12k a month... and I'm currently at #8 google rank for my main keyword, I'm sure I can get #1-3 .. I'll keep my SEO efforts, and hopefully my site will be hitting 20-30k uniques per month.
With that number I must really do something to monetize it. For now I'll definitely start building my list.
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adetunji 11 years ago

You could sell an some Ad space.

Just my opinion
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khooster1 11 years ago

I am surprised without your Adsense income.
Did you track your website bounce rate?
Use google analytic to track your traffic..

Perhaps, you can PM me your website. I can probably revert with some good suggestions..
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bonesaj 11 years ago

maybe put some reviews of related amazon products?
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edhuu 11 years ago

Sell Ad space.. Just my opinion..
Anyway, how could you get so low CTR with your Adsense? Maybe you can try to move around the adsense placement.. It works
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resz 11 years ago

I would definitely offer some ad space. You will need to seek out advertisers in your niche and ask whether they want to get more visitors to their website by promoting on your blog.
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turutas 11 years ago

Im from spain

CPA for spain: Adjal or Tradetracker
CPM for spain: Adpv

if you want you can PM me and I will provide you me referral link
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