hi i run a gaming site ( a private world of warcraft server) we're an average sized server last month(aug) was our first month and and we got 514,000 uniques( not including forums) which get another 300,000 uniques, looking at current sept stats from 1st to 16th, we will easily cross that previous figure, i haven't tried any sort of ads yet, but i just sold a main page banner of the following size 500x60 which will be on top of the page along with 1 text link for $1600/month to a pvt firm. what i want to know is this payout good, will i do better with adsense/adbrite etc, im personally a network admin, i have no clue about adverts etc, so any help will be appreciated
There are many different options you can try for gaming sites. I do think that Adsese is very good because gaming sites are very keyword rich. You can also look into using something like CJ (Commission Junction) who offer advertisers like GameFly, etc. that sell/rent video games and equipment. Best of luck to you!
You most probably could get more than what you have charged via CPM. The CPM network in my sig will probably make that back with just using one banner format and I use 3 different banner formats per page on one of my sites.
looking into it but my current deal gives me $2cpm since imaking 1600 and get around 700-800k uniques or am i missing something here
cpm is based on page views, not unique vistors. And cpm ads cannot be used on forums, but adsense can. I had around 60-70k uniques last month and made over $1400 with a low-paying niche, using adsense, valueclickmedia, and commission junction. You should be doing 10x's that, imho.
Hi, I think your site is a hotcake with . I also think you should try signing up for Google Adsense , that ll do a huge good to u mate. best of luck for ur project, indyeah