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What to do with a partially tapped money site?

by Cataclysm1987
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Hey all, here is my situation.

I have a nice website at Taming The Markets that is one of my money sites. I'm thinking of experimenting with some new traffic methods, but I don't know where to begin.

Here are some of the traffic methods I have already tapped:

Video marketing: relevant videos on penny stock trading are already ranking on the first page of Google right along my site, so my traffic from this is pretty good! In fact, youtube is my number one source of referral traffic. I would like to add more to this, but I am not sure what else to write. I only know a bit about the subject matter, so I am unsure where to begin.

SEO: My site is ranking well for the products I have reviewed. It gets a decent volume of traffic, nothing major, but enough to pull in a couple hundred per month on auto pilot. However, it would be very nice to see this couple hundred move to a couple thousand, or at least a thousand or so.

Untapped traffic methods:

PPC: I am afraid of this, I will not lie! My visitors are not very valuable. They are worth 50 cents or so, perhaps maybe even a dollar on a good day, but for the most part I couldn't afford to roll with the big boys on Google adwords because there isn't enough money coming from each customer. Any ideas on cheap PPC I could use and what landing page I could send them to?

Article marketing: I have really only recently gotten good at this. When I first started TTM, my clickthrough rates on EZA were around 7 percent. They now hover at around 22 percent. I am just at a loss for what to write about! This topic is not something I am seriously educated on, more of a hobby than a fanaticism really, but I would still like to max this out as much as possible before fully moving on to another niche since it is just so profitable and converts so well for me.

Seriously. I have EPCs as high as 6 or 7 dollars per hop on some products from this site. I'm not afraid to reveal this to people, because I am not afraid of a little competition in this market. If you want to try and take me on, be my guest.

Anyways, any advice you guys have as to how I could increase traffic would be great. I think I just need some fresh ideas of some sort. I would prefer not the same old hey do this or buy this product, but rather something I just haven't really thought about. If you guys have anything like that, please let me know as I would love to max out the potential of this particular money site!
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  • Profile picture of the author BusinessHut
    You mentioned that you rank well for SEO, but are there other keywords you could tap into? Just by using google's keyword tool, you could find tons of related keywords to start targeting. Of course there are paid keyword research tools, but the AdWords Keyword tool is a great place to start. Try to find some keywords that have high search volume, but lower competition. (sounds obvious, but usually isn't) If you have the ability to create new pages, create a few to target new keywords. It may take a couple of weeks or months, but if you create a very targeted page every week, you should be into the thousands in no time.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rock Solid
    You could always sell it for profit and coach/advise the new owner, stating past revenue to get some decent money?
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    • Profile picture of the author Cataclysm1987
      Already tried selling.

      Best offer I got was 1200.

      I'm not selling a 400 dollar a month asset for 3 month's worth of its earnings. That's a total ripoff.
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      • Profile picture of the author Etak
        I would take off the "Penny Stock Report" right at the top since you already have the pop-over and add one or two products there. That is such prime real estate, I would think that would help your conversions a bit.

        I would also put a page on FB and start getting your target audience to sign up. It seems to me FB would be a goldmine for your site.

        Also, have you branded yourself as an expert in any way?
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        • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
          What's your opt-in rate for the free ebook? Unless I missed something, I'm guessing it's pretty low.

          Unless I'm into collecting free ebooks for some reason, there's no real incentive to opt in. At least tell me how I'll benefit from opting in, besides getting another file to clog up my hard drive.

          What do subscribers get once they opt in? An endless parade of affiliate offers? Anything related to penny stocks or investing on Clickbank? Anything of actual value to them?

          I'm not deliberately being nasty here. You've already said you don't know much about the subject and that it's mainly a hobby. A lot of hobby sites have an opt-in and a giveaway because that's what they are told they are supposed to do.

          If you can build a responsive list, you can boost the traffic by sending them valuable content and getting them to comment on it at your blog. But first you have to get them on the list and involved.
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  • Profile picture of the author InternetMarketingIQ
    The only markets that matter are the ones that bring in Targeted Traffic. In and of itself traffic is only good if you can do something with it. Otherwise you are just wasting your time.
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