Is it possible to monetize this website?

It's very hard to monetize this website. So sorry

You can try to get some local business owner attention and if you can convince them one or two banner can be placed.

@aurettemag Hard to monetize??? What planet are you on.

I see so much potential here that I'm struggling to contain my excitement. As we all know, where there's real traffic there are always ways to make cash.

@danp142 Look around for London-based affiliate offers on sites like Affiliate Window, or Paid on Results.
Search for things like sight-seeing tour offers, London souvenirs, even consider Groupon ads and Amazon affiliate links to the new local London offers, or even books and stuff about the architect (was it Lord Rogers? I dunno).

I do know these offers exsist, as I've considered getting into the 'London niche' myself, and probably would have done by now, if I hadnt bailed out of the UK in favour of a beach in Brazil.

Basically think outside the box. Take a look at the search terms people are using to hit your pages, and then consider the offers you could make to your vistors...

EDIT
Crikey, just checked out your link, it's way more than a page, it's a fully grown website, with a Google page rank of 2.
Get to work mate, you have so much potential and heaps of useful (-ish) info already.

I'd start by changing your header title to something like 'The Shard and Other Memorable London Landmarks' to let people know you have more content, then grow your site into a real authority on modern London buildings, or something like that

What you're sitting on here is a very easy daily income of let's say £10-£40, and much more if you're prepared to work a couple of hours a week publishing new content, blogging and getting social.

You wouldn't be breaking copyright laws if you are an authorized re-seller of items related to The Shard or if you create the products yourself.

Does the Shard have a directory of tenants online? If not, that could be a monetization opportunity...

Much potential. As an example I just searched "sightseeing tours london affiliate" and all sorts of options came up. Get busy!

Would you guys say that the Amazon affiliate programme would be a good place to start?

I'm only getting around 60 unique visits a day, this used to be over 100 but I haven't updates the site in a while. I think I could get it to the 200 mark if I started a blog and did some reviews.

Is that kind of traffic sufficient to make any money? (anything over $20 a month which is what I get from adsense)

Where is the majority of that traffic coming from? Local or otherwise?

Hi,

Any website can be monetized if you share immense value through the website or an adjoining blog.

Money follows value.

Money also follows the quality and number of business connections you make.

Build relationships with pros in your niche.

Promote them. Share their content. Help them. Doing this makes you sticky to prospering relationships, all forms of value and of course, money.

Sharp site and great look. Keep sharing value and building connections!

Hope this helps.

It will be hard for yu to monitize this site. Actually it is always needed somthing have more demand so that you can make son mony from your website.

Adsence like affiliate programs, create some slots for advertisements...then try to sell outside affiliate program...

What the...? What kind of advice is that? Go home, kid.

Howdy.

My, oh my, what do they teach 'em whippersnappers in schools these days? :confused:

My suggestions for the site:

1. NEVER do a black background with white text. It's the opposite of what our eyes are accustomed to taking in.
2. Have a slideshow right at the top. I know you have one a little bit further down, but I believe that one at the top will boost user engagement.
3. Change the link color (PM me or Google it if you need advice on how that's done).
4. Make sure the ads blend in with the background. The stark contrast might get them noticed, but it could adversely affect bounce rate.

Pros:
1. I love the quick facts thingy. Nice setup there.
2. Good info.

Hmm. How come I never heard of it?

That's very good. Very good. Congrats - what are you doing to drive traffic?

I've got some adsense up, but that only gives me about £10-15 a month, enough to pay for the hosting costs but not much more.

Aha.

1. Contact real estate website in the UK and ask them if they are interested in direct advertising.
2. Optimize it for a higher AdSense CTR.
3. Affiliate with the Shard? Do they have some sort of paid tour someone could buy online, and could they pay you if you referred the person over to them?
4. Sell it.

Hope this helped!

Regards,
JR John

Thank you JR John, I'll try out your website suggestions and see what happens!

I'm not doing anything to drive traffic, just letting Google do it's thing. I''ve recently set up a twitter blog page so I'll spend some time on those to drive some more traffic

Oh and the shard is a very new building but is quickly becoming a major landmark for the city, I'm hoping that in a few years it will be as well known as the London Eye.

With the right content added it's extremely simple to achieve tens of thousands of views, or even hundreds of thousands of views a day via high traffic blogs, facebook and twitter, and the power of viral YouTube clips.

Forget adsense. You're talking chicken-feed there.

You can monetise this site 500-fold within a matter of weeks. There is content available that would effectively make it an authority site. Monetising it is a simple matter of offering the massive traffic you would generate from the methods I previously mentioned, products such as Kindle/ebooks to download direct from your sales page.

Of course, restructuring the site, the addition of more content, and the subsequent work involved with Facebook, YouTube video creation, etc, will all cost money.

If you're not prepared to invest in the site then you've a long road ahead of you before it will generate a healthy income. If you are prepared to invest then you should be turning over 20k+ a month, within 3 months.

I went past The Shard once. It was a spectacular building. Sadly I only had a view from a prison van.

Back on point. Do The Shard sell tickets for public viewing? If so could you not contact the ticket sellers and see if they have an affiliate program? Or ask if they can set something up so you can make money from referrals?

But as EeeTee stated, there could possibly be a trademark issue here.

My first thoughts - can you make many of those sites, one for each great building in the world

Regarding the shard site - maybe tickets, restaurant bookings (you could add live bookings code to book from your site), special events (there are lots on the shard).

No. Imprisoned for computer hacking. 32 months. Had a nice view on the way back from Southwark Crown Court after I was sentenced. Couldn't see the top, clouds were covering it.