30K Uniques a month!!!

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I have a niche website getting over 30k unique visitors a month, I need to monetize it somehow. I put Adsense on last month and as of date its on pace to make me about 40-45 dollars this month. I just wondering if there was anyone out there who has experience in turning traffic into $$$$. I just feel like with that much traffic I should be able to do MUCH more then I am now. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

BTW..It is not the site in my signature
#main internet marketing discussion forum #30k #month #uniques
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    Depending on the niche, you can monetize it with affiliate offers. Try CPA maybe, basic things at first like email submits? And if your getting that much traffic, then it might be worth starting to build a list.
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    How can we help with no details?

    What's the niche?
    Is it a sub-niche or niche site?
    What kind of traffic is it?
    Demographics?

    You can't really expect us to just have a magic formula that works for everyone...

    Help yourself by giving us what we need to help you.
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    • Its reviews movies of a particular kind. The traffic is through google mostly.
  • It really helps to know even the basics.
    I have the same questions as Ryan.
  • Solving a problem in your respective niche and offering a very good service through that is one of the best ways to make some cash without having your credibility go down the drain.

    It all depends what are your intentions and start to think out of the box into funneling the traffic into something ca$$y. Hope that helps
  • Really tough niche to monetize, perhaps you can find some affiliate/CPA offers about movie rental or even amazon links to the movies? Assuming they are released of course.
  • My site reviews "chick flicks", so I would say the main demographic is probably woman. The traffic is organic and mostly through google.

    Ryan I tried to PM you but am not allowed until I post another 40x
  • It really does depend on your niche, if it's dealing with legal or insurance then you are going to make more. Personally I have seen and had sites with 60-100k uniques a day that did much better with direct advertisers then it did with Adsense. 30k uniques is ok but keep in mind it's not really that much traffic just yet.
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    When I see the words, 'review' and 'chick-flick'..

    I instantly think of either monetising with netflix/lovefilm depending on what country your traffic comes from..

    Or/both..

    Amazon - an affiliate link to the film that you are actually reviewing.

    That's just off the top of my head, but you could think a little out of the box in regard to your demo-graphics.

    Let's say your main demographic is for 21 year old females who are caucasian..

    Well, what kind of things do 21 year old caucasian females like?

    (Other than me of course :p)
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  • Haven't been on the forum for a while, but love helping with advice.

    The only problem here is that you are giving us NOTHING to help.

    It's like asking:

    "Hey, can you guys help me fix my car? It's making a humming noise."

    "I know you can't see, test drive it, or even hear my car, but I still expect some helpful tips on how I can fix it. All replies are appreciated, thank you!"


    All kidding aside, seriously we cannot help without actually seeing your site.
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    • I'm new to this whole thing but the advice I was given was to NOT put my site name out to the general public....is my buddy just paranoid maybe??
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  • 30k a month for a movie review site? I would try becoming an affiliate for Netflix.
  • Weight loss. Dating. Private ads.
  • Thanks for all the input guys, boxoun.. your private ads idea sounds like a good one, but would google ban me from adsense if I sold space on my site?
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      I replied to your email, Jeff.
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      Why are you so worried about adsense? You could make alot more money with money with other affiliate programs.

      I know that because if you were making a lot of money with adsense you wouldn't be asking us how to monetize your traffic.
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    • You can have other ads on the same page as google ads. It isn't a problem and I've done it often to test.
  • No your adsense is safe. Why neglect weight loss or dating? Consider your market. Just because its a movie site doesn't mean you sell movies. Find out who's visiting. Seems like women. What do women buy? Weight loss crap and or dating crap. It doesn't have to be netflix. That's not how marketing works. Just copy other sites that Target same demo. Find out what they are selling.

    Listen to sports radio. Do they try to sell guys golf clubs or baseball bats? No they sell viagra.
  • Amazon for movie dvds.
    Content lock for the latest upcoming movie reviews & trailer
  • Try using different ads and changing the position... put some ads in the post like 300x250 ad
  • affiliate offers and CPA offers try netflicks you'll get about $30 per reffer
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    • I think everyone here agrees to try out netflix and lovemovie.....besides i dont think its a good idea to have adsense and affiliate program together as this will take the attention of the visition away. I would say make your site look simple and user freindly and use either cpa or affiliate program such as netflix or lovemovie.
      Regards
      haden
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  • Depending upon the niche you can use CPA.. I insist you to collect email address of the people who visit your site and later promote clickbank product through email marketing..
  • Offer a contest and give away a special basket of prizes related to your subject matter, like DVDs or posters or movie related books. Price raffle tickets, 2 for $5 or 5 for $10, and draw the prize.

    If you can get 1% of your 30k traffic entering (doable) you could generate a few hundred dollars or more. The key is in coming up with a prize that excites your audience.
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  • Capture your traffic to a mailing list and start promoting affiliate products. Your traffic is probably mostly females so pitch them the right products. Dating, weight loss, and beauty products come to mind when I think of your target audience.
  • Thanks to everyone who responded, I appreciate the help.
  • Does this lend itself to celebrities? if so you could try "how the celebs lose weight" monitize with weight loss products. You'd stand to make a slew of money if you do a wso on how you got that many hits. IMHO.
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    • IMHO?? Not sure what that acronym stands for
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  • use adsense.
    Adsense is a hell better than all.
    you will make 120-160$ from that traffic a day.
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    • I'm using Adsense right now and my best day to date has been like $3.66, unless I'm doing something way wrong
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  • Chick flick and women? Get an affiliate account at Clickbank, Moreniche or Markethealth then promote beauty products on your site. You'll make huge bucks with that kind of traffic.
  • If your site is using word press you can add plugin called maxbanner(it's free) and post banner on every page.
    -netflix
    -LOVEFiLM
    just Google 'film affiliate programs' and collect urls
  • How to get it dude. I am still way behind . Take a look at my website here in my signature
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    • I checked one out and one thing I would say is you need some words man. Google loves content, throw a paragraph in there with each theme describing it, what type of niche its good for, things like that. If you put 150-250 words with each theme I would think that would help you out a alot
  • God DAMN bro, I am jealous!

    I need to learn SEO!
  • Well, so many traffic and no adsense money it is really a matter of thinking seriously....... let me know if you are getting referral traffic..
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    • Top referrals Google, Facebook, Wikipedia .....together they make up 1.05% of 36,107 hits the past month(374)
  • Congrats on getting to 30k/mo! Quite an accomplishment.

    You definitely need to test ads in different positions. I would also test amazon affiliate ads for movies, movie poster affiliate ads, etc. Find things that you think your visitor demographic may be interested in. If it doesn't work trash it and find something else. When you find something that is earning you money, tweak it by changing your site around until you can maximize your monthly profit.

    You're correct in that you should be making a LOT more money off of 30k/mo.
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    • I am very interested in advertising on your movie review site, please pm me.
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  • 1. The easiest thing to do is put up Amazon banners for DVDs of the movies. Amazon pays commission on all products bought from your referral. Not just those DVDs. So you may get lucky when someone clicks through to buy a DVD and ends up buying a treadmill.

    2. Netflix as others have recommended. However, I wouldn't put too much effort into it. Its fairly saturated now.

    3. Pay attention to those silly facebook quizzes. You have an audience of 30,000 people now. That is your "seeder" audience. Invest in creating quizzes and other link bait stuff that your 30,000 people can start spreading. And go from 30,000 to 300,000 people.

    4. Try and find a place where you can buy DVDs at a discount / wholesale. Ideally someone who would do drop shipping too. And sell "The Ultimate Romantic DVD collection." List 40 DVDs on a page. Allow people to select any 12 of them. And ship it to them. There isn't much money in selling 1 DVD at a time. But there is money in selling 12 DVDs at a time.

    5. Try and do the same for chickflick books next.
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    I have a niche website getting over 30k unique visitors a month, I need to monetize it somehow. I put Adsense on last month and as of date its on pace to make me about 40-45 dollars this month. I just wondering if there was anyone out there who has experience in turning traffic into $$$$. I just feel like with that much traffic I should be able to do MUCH more then I am now. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks. BTW..It is not the site in my signature