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

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

email offer /ppc

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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...

 

This is very tempting... but 2-4 pages of survey is a little bit too much.
do you know any easier way?

 

You can join some CPA program or offer ads space in your site

 

i am also looking for the same answer

 

You might try getting rid of the crappy "ad" page forwarding...was sent to the whitepages site first then on a second return got sent to a "YOU HAVE SPYWARE" site. Just ruins your site..

 

that must have been someone else's website you were looking at, cause I don't have anything like that!

 

Well, I just went back to the site (www.financialjesus.com ) and it appears to not be happening. Though I give you my word (for what it maybe worth to you) this site was forwarding. Why would I lie...

 

Edit: I had a couple ad services hijack a site of mine once too...it happens.

Edit: Sorry for the edit fail.