Other monetization ideas?

by TLondon

Posted: 10 years ago 14 replies

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Hi,

I have a website with around 500 unique hits a day, 900+ subscribers on MailChimp and 300+ followers on FB and Twitter. It's a year old, and is based around a mixture of entertainment, education and occupation categories. Target geographic: majority UK, followed by US. 85% of traffic comes from Google.

There are no relevant products that I can see to these people, except maybe if I wrote a book. Adsense doesn't bring anything (about 80 EUR a month), and affiliate marketing isn't working either: there are just a few books to sell on Amazon and generally, UK people aren't that inclined to buy from website's links as US people. No decent stuff on Clickbank or similar platforms.

Any ideas how else can I monetize this website, please? I will continue growing it slowly without too much effort anyway, but I'm just curious if I can monetize it or should I just sell it once it's even bigger.

Thanks for your input!

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watsonovedades 10 years ago

create your won product and put a paypal payment gateaway to receive payments
most poeple have paypal
or maybe you could start promoting CPA offers? good option you may look into it
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Sgt Kraut 10 years ago

Have you thought about directly contacting companies that might be interested in advertising on your site?
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Marco Moeschter

10 years ago

Originally Posted by forzes

I have a blog created about two months ago. I need about 120 free traffic a day but I am not achieving my aim. Is there any help and advice to drive traffic to my blog site?

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carcin0genic

10 years ago

Originally Posted by forzes

I have a blog created about two months ago. I need about 120 free traffic a day but I am not achieving my aim. Is there any help and advice to drive traffic to my blog site?

Increase your knowledge of the marketplace and publish killer content around that knowledge or nobody will come back once you get to your aim.

If you have good content, then increase your exposure on forums, make connections on fb, and/or start optimizing youtube videos. Any of those ways can drive free traffic.

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TLondon

10 years ago

Originally Posted by carcin0genic

Mike, I have some traffic. I don't know what to do with it. I'm pretty much an expert in the field so there's not that much learning left, but there's nothing to sell to these people.

RSK3000 and AffMack, they are looking for career advice in a certain field, and I'm giving it to them. None of the things mentioned for sale would interest my readers; that's not why they are there for. There's nothing to sell, unless - like I said - I wrote a book. But writing a book is not like putting a link in the article.

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Mack 10 years ago

Originally Posted by TLondon

There are no relevant products that I can see to these people, except maybe if I wrote a book.

You might have answered your own question with that one.

Are there any big worries/needs in your websites niches that you can offer solutions to?
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Marco Moeschter 10 years ago

I would try different things like CPA offers (for entertainment), you also can sell ad space on your blog with buysellads.com for example. Try physical products through Amazon or have a look at Offervault for products/ offers which can fit your blog!
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- RSK3000 10 years ago
  
  UK people aren't that inclined to buy from website's links as US people.
  
  I'm not sure this is true.
  
  But even if it is, you have no choice - you need to start selling something!
  
  Who visits your site? What do they want - you have an email list so you can ask them - offer a prize for the best replies.
  
  You know who you are writing for. There must be product reviews you can write with an affilliate link to Amazon.co.uk - electronic consumer goods for example might go down well with a younger visitor profile with higher disposable incomes.
  
  What about writing 'top 10 film articles in 'various niches'', with each film linking to Amazon.
  
  How about selling UK concert tickets.
  
  Have you joined affiliate marketing companies like AffiliateWindow.com to see the wide range of companies they deal with?
  
  How about making/ selling t-shirts - these guys are based in the UK T-Shirt Printing. Personalised T-Shirts & Hoodies | Spreadshirt
  
  Start a new section on Personal Finance.............
  
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  jwmann2 10 years ago
  
  How many Adsense ads do you currently operate on each page? You're allowed 3 ads per page. Adding more ads without looking too spammy will help generate a little more revenue via Adsense. Have you explored all affiliates on Commission Junction, Shareasale, Pepperjam Network, Amazon and Affiliate Window?
  
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taxtorpedo

10 years ago

Originally Posted by TLondon

TLondon:

Basic marketing strategies:

First, conduct a survey through an email to your list. Ask them to check off
what they want more of in your posts and emails (you do have a regular
publication schedule, don't you?).

On the survey form have a slot where they can contribute original
suggestions.

Give them what they want! It sounds too simple to be true, but it isn't.

Second, grow your list through an ad exchange. There are sites that
facilitate mutual mailings to each others list.

Also, grow your list by guest posting, just be sure you have a opt-in
form on your site for new visitors.

Third, grow your Twitter followers to at least 5,000

Fourth, you must get AT LEAST 50% of your traffic from sources
other than search engines (Google and others).

Social media (83 Social Bookmarking Sites With High PR #socialbookmarking #blogtraffic #blogpromotion #increaseblogtraffic #linkpopularity #targetedblogtraffic #targetedtraffic | A Listly List),
guest post traffic, limited article marketing, targeted blog comments, and
forum participation (help solve peoples' problems).

Also, be sure you promote your RSS feed.

NEXT:in relation to your content categories

(1)Entertainment
People in the entertainment industry love free publicity. How about
interviewing some through a podcast.

If your content relates to ONLINE entertainment, you can greatly expand
the geographical reach of your site (e.g., MUSIC features). You can sell
a lot of music downloads through Amazon with an affiliate link. How about
related books through Amazon.

(2)Education
Expand your education content to include kids. There are a ton of
products with affiliate programs aimed at children.

(3)Occupation
Expand your occupation content to include ONLINE vocations. This
will enable you to sell support resources as an affiliate.

Finally, you may need to outsource some of your content creation.
Re-investing some of your income will enable you to easily increase
the frequency of publication.

Best of success.

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cyberzolo 10 years ago

Sell adspace and I don't see how affiliate marketing isn't working for you.
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- RSK3000 10 years ago
  
  OK now I understand.
  
  I suppose the question is do you think there is much room for expansion?
  
  If the career niche is small and you have a dominant position within that niche there may not be much more you can do to increase revenue.
  
  You may want to try experimenting with different affilliate ads - jobs website indeed.co.uk have an affiliate program, for example and other recruitment companies might have them also.
  
  Adding a forum, may help you build your list. However, its time consuming and isn't guaranteed to increase revenues even if it becomes substantial.
  
  I presume you have been following Pat Flynn's progress with his niche career website which he talks about in great detail, here - SecuityGuardTrainingHQ.com
  - there might be some ideas there that could help......
  
  As you know there is money in digital products - think podcasts and videos, not just books - and that might be one way to go.
  
  Another might be to offer career advice in person, to groups or by phone/Skype.
  
  And that brings us to selling the site. As someone might be able to build a career counselling business off the back of it you may want to consider selling to someone operating in the career counselling industry. A recruitment company operating in the niche might also be interested. A selling price equal to 18 - 24 times the monthly revenue would not seem unreasonable - perhaps more depending on the niche.
  
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FlamingWolf 10 years ago

Few ideas that pop in my mind:
1. monetize your list ( promote products, sell ad space inside your emails, sell solo ads, etc... )
2. create a product related to your niche
3. create a kindle ebook related to your niche
4. contact companies and ask them if they want put their ads on your website ( and you can ask way more than what Adsense pays you )
5. create a survey and ask people ( both on your site and on your list ) what are their problems and find ( or create ) a product, a service or a membership that helps them solve those problems
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- Gold Dragon 10 years ago
  
  The most profitable idea is create your own product.
  Amazon, ebay or sell adspace
  Maybe an offline event?
  
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