Why did this not work?

Because your market is looking for answers to math questions, not products. If they can't find it on your site they go to the next one on Google.

Yes, I'd believe it with no difficulty or stretch of the imagination at all, I'm afraid.

We may need to know more, to answer confidently, but if you want a guess, my money's on your not having fulfilled the three basic essentials of selling ClickBank products: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7110523

(I think Drewfioravanti makes a good point above, also. It's very closely related to the middle one of the three points I'm talking about).

People are not accustomed to paying for math advice on the Internet.

There are a lot of free math tutorials all over the web. You're competing with a ton of free information, and if your visitors are in high school, they might not have the budget or the inclination to purchase anything. In order for a product to sell, you have to offer a solution to an urgent and important problem, and one that isn't easily solved in the context of the broader marketplace.

I agree with dancaron, people are not looking to buy math related stuff. They are just looking for answers. You can however monetize with adsense??

You've hit that classic problem that most people stumble onto after buying a site with a ton of traffic and all the 'potential' in the world ... only to find it never converts to $$$ (or £££!).

As a few people have pointed out, it comes down to knowing your audience, and what their intentions are in order to decide how they will ultimately behave. In this case, they're looking for an instant solution.

I could imagine the Clickbank products to be of interest to parent who maybe wants to teach maths to their children or solve the problem of their kid's lousy grades, but people searching for answers to maths problems are typically the kids themselves who have

1) No access to Paypal accounts / credit cards assuming they're 16 and under
2) Little intention of paying - the 16 - 24 group is the group most likely to torrent something rather than pay for it.

You've done a great job of attracting the traffic, so maybe it's a better idea to study your analytics, determine exactly who your audience is (you can also use Quantcast and Alexa) and forge a plan for other products to sell to this demographic, even if the product isn't related to maths.

For example, if you find out your demographic is mostly 14 -16 yr old students in the US, your best option is usually

a) direct advertising (Adsense is useless for anything except remarketing in this case, as there are so few Math related advertisers so it will end up showing a few unfocussed ads that will result in a low CTR).

b) CPA deals - for example surveys and promoted software downloads aimed at this demographic where you get paid $x for each complete one.

Sounds like you've got a great platform that should give you a return with a little tweaking.

All the best

Justin

You could also consider lockable content, unlocked by performing actions such as surveys/offers etc (there are companies that provide this service).

Perhaps have a points/award system people win points for completing math quizzes and then can unlock content. Keeps them coming back.

Move some videos onto Youtube as tasters and then link back to your site in the video description on Youtube. This is a quick traffic win.

Spend $5 hiring an actor to promote your site with Fiverr put the video on youtube..with a link back.

Use Facebook to authentic users/members and add social like/share buttons. Incorporate Facebook comments widget on your content.

Perhaps also do your Math Tutoring as Fiverr gigs. Link your Fiverr profile back to your Webpage..

Create an Android App with your Vids. ( This will be extra traffic by the end of today). Monetize through affiliate programs for Android.

just off the top of my head

One path you could take is to sell it.

With all the traffic it's getting, some people might be interested in it despite the lack of income. They might have a better a better way of monetizing it than you do.

As others have mentioned, the audience isn't looking to buy anything.

If you want to stay there, you need to identify a specific math market, and need. Then, sell that solution.

What about selling lesson plans or creative ideas for math to teachers? Or a set of teaching videos that parents could use? Maybe focus on creating resources to help home school families?

Something like that....

Basically, you need to have a clear target market in mind, and sell to that market. General concepts, especially in non-buying markets, are very hard to monetize...

Yep, I can definitely say your market would not be interested in spending money on that stuff. There's no mirrors or smoke involved in maths, it's all theory. If they can't get it on your site they will just go elsewhere. I would also assume the majority of people looking for this type of information are high school students or college students -- you know, the type of people who have no money.

Your best move would be to start looking at the stats of your visitors and work out the demographics of your typical visitor. Once you know the age and sex of the average visitor you can find other things to sell them. There's still money to be made from that traffic -- just not necessarily selling them maths lessons.

People looking for graph paper are high school kids with no credit card or paypal account. Adults are not looking to solve math problems nor will they pay to download graph paper! Your website appeals to a crowd with no money to spend!

Thanks for all the input on this. I like the idea of putting CPA ads on it. Not sure if I'm ready to sell the website outright just yet.

What are your demographics? Who is your ideal customer and what age range are they in? There are a ton of great free math sites online (and math is math no matter which site you go to)... question is, what's your USP?

Try to promote brain games. Students like games.

CPA offers are also very good for this audience.