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Super Affiliate

14 years ago

What you can do is go to AdBrite: The Internet's Ad Marketplace and list your site. Like RatRaceWinner said, banner advertising is probably your best bet with that kind of traffic you receive on your site.

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mrpals

14 years ago

Does adbright pay pretty well? I have also heard about text link. Or maybe some way to sell our own. I know nothing about making the money with sites but there has to a be a way.
Dedicated server is eating me out of house and home.

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Super Affiliate

14 years ago

Originally Posted by mrpals

Does adbright pay pretty well? I have also heard about text link. Or maybe some way to sell our own. I know nothing about making the money with sites but there has to a be a way.
Dedicated server is eating me out of house and home.

Adbrite pays decent. Online Advertising Marketplace | BuySellAds.com is pretty good too. You can check them out.

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NickEllisTV

14 years ago

There is a plethora of ways, and you can use multiple ways at once if you like! I prefer an optin form, as these are ever-renewable sources of income(If you treat them right, that is.) There is also adsense, but I do not recommend that over any other source. You can also contact other sites and offer on your site for them for money, or even use a clickbank affiliate offer in the sidebar or in posts! If you want to do sponsored reviews, go ahead! Just make sure they are good quality first.

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RatRaceWinner

14 years ago

In textual links pay less than any others in my experience..

Have you also thought about building up an 'opted in' email subscription list, and then marketing affiliation products to the subscribers?

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mrpals

14 years ago

Originally Posted by RatRaceWinner

In textual links pay less than any others in my experience..

Have you also thought about building up an 'opted in' email subscription list, and then marketing affiliation products to the subscribers?

I have feedburner subscribing but I don't think that is what you mean.

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Lou Diamond

14 years ago

Hello,
I always like to put up a banner to a hosting company, I have put them up on non IM sites and have done very well.

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NickP

14 years ago

Looks like you've got adsense up. You should see some revenue from that.

As a matter of personal experience, I haven't had great success with the link units, but I would just make sure you keep track of which units perform the best.

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mrpals

14 years ago

Originally Posted by NickP

Looks like you've got adsense up. You should see some revenue from that.

As a matter of personal experience, I haven't had great success with the link units, but I would just make sure you keep track of which units perform the best.

I have each of the adsense units on channels to track them. I use to not have the banner at top or in the side bar, but google sent me too letters and wanted me to put one in each of those locations. They said it would increase but actually decreased the earnings.

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ThomKenton

14 years ago

First off, I must say that is some nice traffic you are getting. The first thing I would do is start building a list to market to in the future. Second, I would recommend that you put up relevant CPA offers on your site with banner ads. CPA is much better than Adsense because you can get a much higher CPC.

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mrpals

14 years ago

Originally Posted by ThomKenton

First off, I must say that is some nice traffic you are getting. The first thing I would do is start building a list to market to in the future. Second, I would recommend that you put up relevant CPA offers on your site with banner ads. CPA is much better than Adsense because you can get a much higher CPC.

Forgive my stupidity, but what is CPA?

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spennyc

14 years ago

Put links to products that are impulse buys being that the traffic isn't that targeted and you're basically reaching people who are in the mood to goof off.

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mrpals

14 years ago

Originally Posted by spennyc

Put links to products that are impulse buys being that the traffic isn't that targeted and you're basically reaching people who are in the mood to goof off.

Where would one locate such products that you speak of? I am running a logo creation contest the first of October and should double traffic so if can find some good products to add during, it would be great.

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NickP

14 years ago

Forgive my stupidity, but what is CPA?

It means Cost Per Acquisition. There are "CPA" networks that have advertisers who will pay you a flat fee for an action that a user takes on their site.

Example: you place a "Insurance Quote" ad on your site. You don't make any money if someone just clicks it, but if they click it and fill out a form, you can make some good money.

There are some leads that will pay good money (mortgages, insurance, debt relief, etc).

Head over to the Forum:
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mrpals

14 years ago

Originally Posted by NickP

It means Cost Per Acquisition. There are "CPA" networks that have advertisers who will pay you a flat fee for an action that a user takes on their site.

Example: you place a "Insurance Quote" ad on your site. You don't make any money if someone just clicks it, but if they click it and fill out a form, you can make some good money.

There are some leads that will pay good money (mortgages, insurance, debt relief, etc).

Head over to the Forum:
Ad Networks - CPA, CPM, CPL - Millionaire Makers - Would've posted a link, but don't have enough posts yet

for info on adnetworks

Thanks for explaining that, my little site isn't relevant to mortgages, insurance, debt relief though

But I will check it out and see if it fits.

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mrpals 14 years ago

Originally Posted by jiyan

He can give you 35 sites for you to operate. He can teach you keyword, ppc, teach you to make blog, get traffic. This is good for a beginner. You can try.

Forgive me, but who is "He" and what do you mean? I already have a site that gets over 150,000 visitors a month. I am looking for ways to make money with it to help offset server costs.
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Peter.J

14 years ago

CPA is a good way to go, try people like Chitika, Technorati Media and 24/7 Real Media is apparently pretty good also.
On a side note, you still having problems with my site mrpals?

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mrpals

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Peter.J

CPA is a good way to go, try people like Chitika, Technorati Media and 24/7 Real Media is apparently pretty good also.
On a side note, you still having problems with my site mrpals?

Thanks for the info, I will look into those. I tried your site in firefox and works fine. I will try to come up with some funny and weird stuff to put on there.

Should I make a group or something for weird news? Like a category or something so the link to that group shows up top?

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Peter.J

14 years ago

Originally Posted by mrpals

Thanks for the info, I will look into those. I tried your site in firefox and works fine. I will try to come up with some funny and weird stuff to put on there.

Should I make a group or something for weird news? Like a category or something so the link to that group shows up top?

Yeah give them a try. I made some good money with Chitika already with other projects I run.
You can make as many groups as you wish

The sky is the limit. If you have news that you think could work let me know then I will create a catergory for that.

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joelraitt

14 years ago

Dude, how much are you making? If it's reasonable I'll purchase all o the ad space for 2 weeks and see how it does.

What would make it worth your while? Please PM.

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mrpals

14 years ago

Originally Posted by joelraitt

Dude, how much are you making? If it's reasonable I'll purchase all o the ad space for 2 weeks and see how it does.

What would make it worth your while? Please PM.

Purchasing ads on my site would depend on the niche you are in as to if my visitors would be interesting in clicking. My site really is in no niche other than weird news and funny stuff.

By December I should have it well over 500,000 visitor per month so maybe the numbers game will work then.

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diyakapoor

14 years ago

Banner advertising would be best for you. Banner space is sold on monthly basis for which you can earn $$$ as per the website popularity and traffic.

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David Allen

14 years ago

Hi

On a few of my sites I use GoViral - GoViral - Branded Content Distribution - and they pay me every time someone watches a video from my site.

They have a Syndicated Player code that you can insert which displays the latest video ad campaigns. The ads are quite quirky so I get a fair few clicks.

Payment is around 5c per view which doesn't sound much but it soon adds up.

David

PS - I am not affiliated with this company, just use them on a few sites.

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mrpals

14 years ago

Originally Posted by kiosk2

Hi

On a few of my sites I use GoViral - GoViral - Branded Content Distribution - and they pay me every time someone watches a video from my site.

They have a Syndicated Player code that you can insert which displays the latest video ad campaigns. The ads are quite quirky so I get a fair few clicks.

Payment is around 5c per view which doesn't sound much but it soon adds up.

David

PS - I am not affiliated with this company, just use them on a few sites.

That sounds pretty interesting, What kinds of video do they have?
Also would I need to embed their videos or they have banners?

I won't embed from other sites as it tends to create too many calls server side. At peak times this site can pull 3,000 visitors in a single hour and as much as 12,000 page views durning an hour. So the advertising would need to be JS based where I can place querry in the footer.

JS can not run dual in parallel because it freezes page loads so by placing the querry in the footer the page will load and the js can open 1 at a time without slowing the page down.

Maybe that was to much info.

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David Allen

14 years ago

They are mainly geo targetted advert videos. Advertisers range from Renault to LG Mobile.

You can see an example at Fantasy Footy League :: Free To Play Fantasy Football League and at the log in page also.

You have to embed the code for the video to display on your site - simple JS code, banners won't display the videos.

If you only have room in your footer then it may be no use. That also may be the reason your revenue is low as well, simple footer ads don't cut the mustard - you need to display ads amongst the content of your site.

David

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That sounds pretty interesting, What kinds of video do they have?
Also would I need to embed their videos or they have banners?

I won't embed from other sites as it tends to create too many calls server side. At peak times this site can pull 3,000 visitors in a single hour and as much as 12,000 page views durning an hour. So the advertising would need to be JS based where I can place querry in the footer.

JS can not run dual in parallel because it freezes page loads so by placing the querry in the footer the page will load and the js can open 1 at a time without slowing the page down.

Maybe that was to much info.

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AfteraDream

14 years ago

Originally Posted by kiosk2

If you only have room in your footer then it may be no use. That also may be the reason your revenue is low as well, simple footer ads don't cut the mustard - you need to display ads amongst the content of your site.

David

Along with this, I think site needs redesign to be more convenient easier to read. I came to visit it and it was really tough to undertand what to read and where. Too much text.. Add borders to content boxes, more pictures would look good. This would help get more pageviews too.

Congrats on growing a big site tho, mrpals! Good job!

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mrpals

14 years ago

Originally Posted by AfteraDream

Along with this, I think site needs redesign to be more convenient easier to read. I came to visit it and it was really tough to undertand what to read and where. Too much text.. Add borders to content boxes, more pictures would look good. This would help get more pageviews too.

Congrats on growing a big site tho, mrpals! Good job!

What site was you at and what browser? newsweird.com front page has about 15 thumbnails divided into 6 categories. Perhaps I have missed a browser compatability?

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mrpals

14 years ago

Originally Posted by kiosk2

They are mainly geo targetted advert videos. Advertisers range from Renault to LG Mobile.

You can see an example at Fantasy Footy League :: Free To Play Fantasy Football League and at the log in page also.

You have to embed the code for the video to display on your site - simple JS code, banners won't display the videos.

If you only have room in your footer then it may be no use. That also may be the reason your revenue is low as well, simple footer ads don't cut the mustard - you need to display ads amongst the content of your site.

David

Sorry, I didn't mean put the ads in the footer, I mean place the js querry in the footer and let the ad load in normal place. Have the Jquerry in the footer just helps pages load faster.

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IwebSeo

Banned 14 years ago

Try banner ads and text link ads for your website on most popular website and do some social bookmarks and article marketing with blog comments n forum posting on many 1000+ forums.

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David Allen

14 years ago

Originally Posted by IwebSeo

Try banner ads and text link ads for your website on most popular website and do some social bookmarks and article marketing with blog comments n forum posting on many 1000+ forums.

LOL - he's asking how to monetize, not increase SEO/traffic.

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theentry

14 years ago

just visited your site and I got an 500 internal server error

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mrpals 14 years ago

Originally Posted by theentry

just visited your site and I got an 500 internal server error

Sorry about that I had traffic spike "2,200 visitors" and wasn't watching server. Is back online now
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Mrsparrow

14 years ago

One thing you can try is to set your Adsense ads to show only text, no images.

In some cases this increases the CTR, because people tend to have a more acute "banner blindness" when it comes to images as compared to text ads.

If you do this, try to customize the colors of your ads to match your website.

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mrpals

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Mrsparrow

One thing you can try is to set your Adsense ads to show only text, no images.

In some cases this increases the CTR, because people tend to have a more acute "banner blindness" when it comes to images as compared to text ads.

If you do this, try to customize the colors of your ads to match your website.

I am in agreement with you about the text links, As a 3 month test I see a major difference in the CTR of text compared to image. Thanks for reminding me of that.

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Richard Tunnah

14 years ago

Have you thought about hiding some posts and making them only available to subscribers? With the traffic you are getting you could charge $1 a month to subscribe and go for volume!

Good luck.

Rich

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mrpals

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Tunnah

Have you thought about hiding some posts and making them only available to subscribers? With the traffic you are getting you could charge $1 a month to subscribe and go for volume!

Good luck.

Rich

I have thought about that but really don't think people would be willing to pay for a laugh. That would be sweet though just to get 1 buck a month from visitors. I could be a fat cat then and maybe buy some new shoes.

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DanGlobalizer

14 years ago

Hey mrpals, one of the most important things you should know in this industry is to always be testing. Always test different offers or techniques to try to figure out what would give you the highest EPCs.

We have a bunch of campaigns that should do well with your traffic. Contact me, and I'll do my best to help monetize your traffic.

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