How to monetize a website with 30 000 unique visits/month

[financialjesus]

I am writing for your ideas and help on how to monetize a website that gets about 30 000 unique visits per month but only makes about 60-70 dollars/month.
It is my understanding that websites with similar traffic often make $300-$1000 monthly.

The blog in question is www.financialjesus.com - i post about 1-2 posts per week but it seems that a large problem for me is that 2 of my posts are getting most of my everyday traffic (67% of traffic during the last three months go to just 2 articles - See my Google Analytics report (PDF) - http://www.financialjesus.com/analytics.pdf )
Almost all of my traffic is coming from Google (organic).

Currently I am not using any affiliate products to monetize the website.
My only income for traffic is Google Adsense + 1 link that I am selling directly.

Does anyone have an idea about some affiliate products I could promote or other sources of income I am not yet using?

The posts getting most of my traffic are:
Top 10 richest countries in the world (49% of total traffic - about 500 unique visits per day)
http://www.financialjesus.com/how-to-get-rich/top-10-worlds-richest-countries

Top 10 happiest countries in the world (17% of total traffic - about 150 visits/day)
http://www.financialjesus.com/how-to-get-rich/top-10-happiest-countries

The rest of my traffic is more or less equally divided among other posts on the blog.

Does anyone have any monetizing ideas? Thanks in advance!

PS! I will let everyone know how a product is doing when you recommend something that I can try out.

[jpatrick85]

Affiliate marketing is pretty tough, especially for a niche like yours. You might try focusing on a travel theme for your site. A few hints to help out:

- Try placing affiliate product links embedded in your text
- Books might be a good item to promote with your niche
- Mention a product in your blog posts (product placement) and promote that product on your blog

Hope this helps.

[financialjesus]

I kind of agree on the books thing - otherwise I am still looking for monetization ideas!

Originally Posted by jpatrick85

Affiliate marketing is pretty tough, especially for a niche like yours. You might try focusing on a travel theme for your site. A few hints to help out:

- Try placing affiliate product links embedded in your text
- Books might be a good item to promote with your niche
- Mention a product in your blog posts (product placement) and promote that product on your blog

Hope this helps.

[youkula]

email offer /ppc

[financialjesus]

Can you recommend anyone?
I am willing to become a referral!

Originally Posted by Alexandr

You need find good Advertiser!!!

[Divyani]

Building an affiliate business is one of the easiest ways to start a business online. You don't need your own products, you don't have to provide customer service, and in fact, you don't even need a website. If you want to earn real profits from an affiliate business though, then you need real strategies for getting traffic and earning profits.

[financialjesus]

Wow, you just wasted 3 sentences and didn't say anything useful!

Originally Posted by Divyani

Building an affiliate business is one of the easiest ways to start a business online. You don't need your own products, you don't have to provide customer service, and in fact, you don't even need a website. If you want to earn real profits from an affiliate business though, then you need real strategies for getting traffic and earning profits.

[gwben]

There are a few things you can do:

1. Sign-up for affiliate networks (clickbank, cj, neverblue) Search out a program that relates material wise to your site.

2. You found a format thats working for you so once you pick out your program write a few articles that are tailored to you Affiliate product and follow the same format (Top 10)

3. Contact travel agencies directly a lot of your site has to do with locations (from a quick glance) and travel agencies pay well for referrals

4. Experiment with in text adsense/product ads there are plenty of widgets and modules for multiple platforms that will do this automatically for you.

5. Start doing a bi-weekly newsletter that pushes a product, build that list

6. Think of a special exclusives that add value, Maybe a top 12 top 10 calendar, a nice digital file with some well done and arranged content.

7. Build a community around your site, make a small forum "Ask FinancialJesus" building an interactive community around your site will add a lot of value which will = more $$

8. Scroll ins or exit pop-ups, people don't like them but they work.

Just a few ideas off the top of my head.

[bizhoop]

If none of the given advice works for you
then the best thing to do is to sell the site
and leverage the money to build 2 or more
sites.

Gama

[music legend]

go with cpalead you will make BANK with that kind of traffic

[wandry]

yes, with that traffic you can monetize your site with CPA, try to join azoogle, clixgalore or maxbounty. You can also place inline ads PPC ex. kontera and infolink and a little space for CPM also can monetize you website

[Divyani]

Originally Posted by financialjesus

Wow, you just wasted 3 sentences and didn't say anything useful!

Ohh really! you are more talented than me..... in a single line you said so much useful.....

Thnaks for your knowledge sharing... atleast i said something related about the thread...