Find me the plunder! (Help me monetize, please)
Where I struggle is in finding my own treasure island- namely- monetiziation. I have primarily informational websites, a blog or two, and a couple of forums. I realize that no one can give me any kind of magic bullet here- there's no single answer- but perhaps some stories of the ah-ha moments people had when they figured out how best to monetize certain kinds of sites could be useful for me and for others (i.e. my forum income and popularity took off when I made it a paid membership, I added a single adsense ad to my blog and it's making me $20 a day, I changed to purely CPA offers in my PPC campaigns and now I'm making back twice what I invested, etc.)
I'm not looking for someone to tell me, "if you do this, you'll succeed." Obviously- that's stupid. But there's not a lot of good advice on monetization, and at least hearing some success stories might help me spur on some ideas- and it might help some others who are trying start making money on their sites- or to ramp up the income they're making through means other than more traffic.
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