
I'm stuck on what to do next with my community
My Story
I started a beatmaking forum as just a forum and now it's grown into this much bigger site. I have competitions, articles, and it's well known in my niche. However, since it's not a website that I initially tried to make money from, it's become a problem at this point. So years ago I added Adsense which worked out well at first but now the payouts are very low.
Basically, I'm at the point now where I don't know what else to do. I've done some affiliate marketing but my members just weren't buying anything. I get a very steady amount of traffic daily, and also I get numerous new members each day, however not many people are posting regularly.
Part of it is that I want to of course make some income from the site, the other part is that I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. I've written countless articles, done my SEO, yet it just seems like my site is just not at the top. When I look at other sites similar to mine, they have much less in regards to articles and forum members.
I know that it's possible that my website is just not something that's profitable. I get that. But with the consistent traffic and new signups, I have no idea why no one is more involved. I have some members that stop by daily and interact, but not nearly like years ago. Part of that is due to social media, but that's a whole other mess.
Anyway, I'm looking for some sort of input and ideas. I've been going at this alone for years and maybe I'm not seeing something.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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