Best Method For Monetizing A Directory

Discussion in 'Directories' started by Pacific Publishing, Feb 25, 2008.

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    I do pretty well with paid submissions on www.5business.net but I'm looking for other ways to monetize the very heavy traffic. I've received about 1,500 clicks on ClickBank ads throughout the site, without a single sale. Adsense and Bidvertiser only brought minimal revenue. Any other ideas? Thanks.
     
    Pacific Publishing, Feb 25, 2008 IP
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    mikey1090 Moderator Staff

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    Perhaps sell some private banner ads or text links. Go to the clickbank forum if you need advice on why it isn't working well for you.
     
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    Red_Virus Well-Known Member

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    The design of the site is really cool, I think that private link sales and banner ads can bring in some good money, If your site is getting good amount of traffic
     
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    sizzler_chetan Prominent Member

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    Try the <a href="http://www.drchetan.com/webmaster/affiliate-programs-of-web-directories/">affiliate programs for web directories</a> :)
    Anyways as others said, some private sales of banners may do good.
     
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    IMO that big widget at the bottom makes the site look bad, it breaks up the whole page. I was thinking of selling some footer links in my indexu directory so you might want to try that, I think you can set it per category.
     
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    Its a great site nice layout your right about the widget at the bottom though

    selling banner space should attract some interest :)
     
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    Heavy traffic ??? :eek:
    Are you sure what you're talking about?
    Or maybe you never seen a real traffic?

    And don't waste your time on text ads or banners, too dangerous, makes your site weaker. Profits not worth this game (until you do not live in country where with few $$ you're a big fish).
     
    dargre, Feb 26, 2008 IP