How on Earth do I monetize my site which is valued at over $100,000???

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by coathanger007, Feb 17, 2012.

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    My site talkaboutnet.com is valued at $103,464 USD but I'm not earning anywhere near that much.

    How can I monetize this site further?

    Already using adsense, infolinks, textlinks and buysellads.
     
    coathanger007, Feb 17, 2012 IP
  2. forumhookers

    forumhookers Peon

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    So you have a good traffic site! You can earn more with adsense and BSA btw!

    If not try clicksor , they pay for CPM
     
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  3. Wulkanen

    Wulkanen Well-Known Member

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    Uh, who valued your site so hight?
     
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  4. wolflin

    wolflin Greenhorn

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    I suggest you place three different widgets: 1. Amazon carousel; 2. ClickBank/Commission Junction (related product a must-- physical products are better); 3. AdSense sidebar
     
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  5. coathanger007

    coathanger007 Well-Known Member

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  6. cameronpalte

    cameronpalte Active Member

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    I recommend not using text links and stick with adsense+infolinks+buysellads. For buy sell ads a great way to get a lot of money is sell 25*25 ads (very small) in your bottom right cornor as image ads for $10/month. You can have 30-40 spots available:). Here are ways to make a lot more money:

    *Aweber: Sign up for $19/month and start building an email list. Regularly send them emails and in your emails put Clicbank Links in them.

    *Clickbank: Go to clickbank.com and sign up. Choose 4-5 products you like and promote them on your website and choose 1-2 and start posting them in your emails in the emails you send in aweber and promote products in the email with clickbank and make money. You can also look into other affiliate programs but clickbank is the best.
     
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  7. wolflin

    wolflin Greenhorn

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    Actually, text links SEO much better...so it really depends on what you're trying to accomplish: revenue or visitors. If you want money, and have the visitors, yes...the above tactic is best; but f you need a happy medium of both revenue and increased visitors, text ads work best. If ya doubt, answer this question: which site is more popular Craigslist or ClickBank?
     
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    Affiliate networks like ClickBank/Commission Junction and also adsense would be best.
     
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    buy sell ads is the best imo. Constant money flow and it usually pretty consistant.
     
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    snakeair Notable Member

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    There are a lot of these website value sites out there online that produce fake stat's to make the website owner all happy and stuff.

    If your forum is getting a lot of unique's each day then sell banner advertising spots and stick up some adsense blocks on the forum.

    Create a premium membership on the forum like digital point has.
     
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  11. webdom

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    Have a great ideal. First if your website has great traffic then contact people in you nitche and sell them ad space. Second good ideal is try residual income (find places that with give you a % of membership). These 2 should help. Your welcome :)
     
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  12. cameronpalte

    cameronpalte Active Member

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    Math:

    My 'research' shows your site gets ~11,000 unique visitors a day and 110,000 page views. That is 330,000 unique visitors and 3,300,000 page views. I recommend using buysellads.com and selling ad space. You can make around 10 125*125 in one of your sidebars at around $150/month each starting of already making $13,000/year. Next go to twitter and start building up followers telling your visitors to follow you. Once you have 10,000 followers start selling tweets at $15/tweet which we can assume $1,500 more/year $15,000 year already. Clickbank promote 5 products lets assume 10 sales/day $20/sale= $200/day $6,000/month= $72,000/year now already $85,000/year. Next head over to aweber sign up $19/month and build email list lets assume 2,000 subscribers 1 mail/week 20 clickbank sales/week $20/sale $800/month $10,000/year $95,000 year already. Now go to adsense sign up and make 1 (728*90) which you put on the top of your website all pages. That is all. We can assume 75 clicks/day $40/day (average), $1200/month $15,000/year already $100,000/year. Now we can go to chitika.com and get 2 125*125 referral buttons to but around your site. Assume 3 referral/month $300/year/referral $1,000/year $101,000/year. Now go to buy sell ads and sell 468*90 on each post $100/month 30 spots.. another 40,000/year $140,000/year total. Theirs my math to my best accuracy. It may not be good but I hope you enjoy. And yes, your site is worth at least that much probably more:)
     
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    if you have plenty of traffic then go for adsense and sell ad space
     
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    Well, going through all your suggestions one by one, I've tried amazon and buysellads 125x125 spots. Not revenue for past 3 days.
    Next I'll try clickbank and aweber and what happens.

    Oh...if anyone has deep pockets and reckons they can monetize the site, I'm open to selling it :)
     
    coathanger007, Feb 21, 2012 IP
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    btw nothings beats adsense. The best way to monitize your website/blog is adsense. Windows8Mods.com
     
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    I just joined your site. Not bad, I think there is more potential. One reason I can think of is ad placement and layout. It can be an eyesore at times with all that text, especially in the 'tag cloud' underneath everything.

    You really have to think about the market that is using your forum and target each section with specific ads.

    Anyway, good luck, well done
     
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  17. coathanger007

    coathanger007 Well-Known Member

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    Well, I tried clickbank to promote the top SEO product sitewide in the footer and didn't get a single click. Do you have to create your own banner for clickbank?

    btw, the tag cloud at the bottom actually earns $$$

    Now I'm advertising 2 banner spots in the sitewide in the footer for only $15/mth:
    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2411130#post17371404

    If anyone reckons they can do better in monetizing the site I may sell at a fraction of the valuation price :)
     
    coathanger007, Feb 22, 2012 IP
  18. cameronpalte

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    Another good method to monetize is just buy selling a ton of 125*125 around the site with buysellads. Direct your visitors too them and have promotions. In the end this can really help you. With buysellads, I recommend having a certain payment per month rather than pay per impression:)
     
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    coathanger007 Well-Known Member

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    Well, I've now tried clicksor. It is by far the most invasive advertising system I've seen. Even on the most conservative setting it clobbers the site with banners, inline txt ads, pop-unders and Interstitial Ads. It's so intrusive that visitors find it hard to even view my site. Eventually this will destroy my traffic! And at the end of it all the revenue is a measley 5 cents per day. I earn much more from infolinks and adsense.

    So back to buysellads hoping for a buyer.
     
    coathanger007, Feb 25, 2012 IP