I need help to Monetize?

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I have a website that gets about 200+ people a day visiting and searching my site and wanted to know if anyone could help me monetize it better or if you could help me with some ideas?

The site is World of Warcraft Wallpapers

Thanks for any help!
#monetize
  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    The fact that you are here is a great step in the right direction. You may need to try some things, but surely you can get somewhere with a little effort over time. It looks like your images are pretty large. You might want to use thumbnails so that you will be able to handle a larger volume of traffic.

    I'll throw an idea out for you. It may not work, but here is my idea.
    1. Have 2-3 Free Wallpapers of the day.
    2. Watermark all the images
    3. Charge a low fee like $5 to have access to the complete collection of wallpapers.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dylantk
      That sounds it could work but with the amount of sites that already offer these wallpapers for free it wouldn't convert well at all.

      I also have a forum of 96 people who don't say anything...lol they sign up and leave.

      Thanks so far!
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  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    There are 2,481 results found for "world of warcraft" on eBay right now.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dylantk
      Originally Posted by bgmacaw View Post

      There are 2,481 results found for "world of warcraft" on eBay right now.
      I don't know what to do with that information with this site?
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      • Profile picture of the author radhika
        Originally Posted by Dylantk View Post

        I don't know what to do with that information with this site?
        You can keep ebay product links on your web site as an affiliate.

        Keep adsense ads on your site.

        Plus you need to improve your home page layout. I can't see the list of images untill I scroll down the page more than half.

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        • Profile picture of the author Dylantk
          Originally Posted by radhika View Post

          You can keep ebay product links on your web site as an affiliate.

          Keep adsense ads on your site.

          Plus you need to improve your home page layout. I can't see the list of images untill I scroll down the page more than half.

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          Ah, I don't know how to fix the layout for IE users. I'm going to be working on that soon.
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          • Profile picture of the author iphonecashmachine
            you should try out some wordpress themes that are one page something like dokumentation which is just sexy white.

            Then mod that theme to perfection.
            Also invest in icontact or aweber so that you can get emails to re use latter.

            Try hosting competitions in wow forums the links you get will be massive.

            Links = cash.

            cheers.

            Originally Posted by Dylantk View Post

            Ah, I don't know how to fix the layout for IE users. I'm going to be working on that soon.
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      • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
        Originally Posted by Dylantk View Post

        I don't know what to do with that information with this site?
        Here's an example of what I'm doing with a MMORPG game on my review site: Age of Conan Review | Product Reviews and Buying Guides from OpTempo
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        • Profile picture of the author Dylantk
          Originally Posted by bgmacaw View Post

          Here's an example of what I'm doing with a MMORPG game on my review site: Age of Conan Review | Product Reviews and Buying Guides from OpTempo
          Well the site that I have is for wallpapers, But I don't know how I could include ebay. Unless I made side ad of products that are selling on ebay.
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          • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
            Originally Posted by Dylantk View Post

            Well the site that I have is for wallpapers, But I don't know how I could include ebay. Unless I made side ad of products that are selling on ebay.
            You could format your posts like this

            [intro text for SEO purposes, about 50 words]
            [ads]
            [wallpaper download]
            [ads]
            [more text for SEO purposes, about 100-300 words]

            I'd recommend adding the text primarily to add additional long tail search combinations. This simple step should significantly improve your search engine traffic over time.

            You also didn't use SEO friendly post names. This would be another way to bring in significantly more traffic.

            After reviewing your site I think that with a little basic SEO work you could be bringing in 1000 or more targeted search visitors a day. This would greatly increase your earnings no matter what monetization you settle upon.
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  • Profile picture of the author GuerrillaIM
    I would add a "FREE Warcraft Guides" newsletter.

    Take peoples email address then feed them into an autoresponder series. There are so many guides around that you can get lots of good content. If you follow the forums you can get the latest information on whats working well in the game this month.

    At the end of each free newsletter message do a short write up of an affiliate WOW product with a link to read more about it. Cloak the affiliate link by adding a page to your site with a 301 redirect.

    If you need anyhelp with setting it up feel free to PM me.

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    • Profile picture of the author Dylantk
      Originally Posted by honestbizpro View Post

      This is Sound Advice!


      You are wasting traffic if you do not capture them for future marketing.

      Remember you can expand on all types of marketing once you have a list.

      You do not have an incentive? Make one. What are you waiting for?

      Take on a partner from here at the forum if you need to.
      I would Gladly take a partner If they are willing to work with someone like me lol.
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  • Profile picture of the author iphonecashmachine
    i have a couple of ideas.

    Why not have your own world of war craft cheats. Buy one of those prima guides and search for online manuals and sell it to your users.
    You can also host competitions in graphic user forums so that you can get link backs to your website.
    Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author iphonecashmachine
    Oh you can also create your own world of warcraft theme for wordpress and distribute it in wow forums. You should get some crazy traffic coming in to your website.
    That way you kill 3 birds with one stone, you get links back and you get to annihilate all the competition that you are getting from your other competitors
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  • Profile picture of the author Tyrus Antas
    There are a lot of casual and hardcore affiliate programs out there. Why not make these people sign into a newsletter and then slowly try these programs with them? Check out Big Fish games, Real arcade, Plimus...

    Tyrus
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    • Profile picture of the author Dylantk
      Well as it is now I don't know how to get them to opt in or rather I have nothing as a incentive. I have a opt in box there but I don't ever get any opt ins.

      My forum now has 100 members who don't post lol. I have some people who posted today. It be nice to be able to get that going too.
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