Best Way to monetize 7k blog!

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by stefffff, Apr 8, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hello,

    i have a celebrity blog with nearly 1900 articles and counting. My content is 100% original all written by me, it's no big deal to write on gossip and rumors

    i am ranking 61.000 in Alexa and i get about 7000 unique visitors a day and rising

    i am using adsense but would like to add some cpm networks as well:
    currently i am using xtend and redux media but they're really low : 0.08 cpm.

    i get 50% traffic from USA, and the rest from Europe and Asia.
    what are the best cpm networks you recommend? i would like at least a 0.5 cpm to see a difference from what i am using now.

    thanks
     
    stefffff, Apr 8, 2010 IP
  2. seawind

    seawind Active Member

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    #2
    how to get the traffic
     
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  3. scweb

    scweb Active Member

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    Check out Adbrite and Doubleclick, you could start selling your ads on your own at this point.
     
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    webcosmo Notable Member

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    try infolink, text-link-ads on the side.
     
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    anup.mahajan Peon

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    Look for CPA offers related to your niche and promote them through your blog. Here is a good site that can help you find the offers

    offervault.com

    (Not my site or affiliate link)
     
    anup.mahajan, Apr 9, 2010 IP
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    Sxperm Notable Member

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    You may consider CPA related to these niches.

    1. Online Dating (Pay per lead)
    2. Gift
    3. Fashion Cloth
    4. Community (Pay per lead)
    5. Diet Pills (Up to your visitor gender)

    There are plenty of quality CPA networks such as CJ, ShareAsale, etc.
     
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    nice site! I actually found myself browsing the stories and looking through.

    I would personally suggest looking for high value markets that feel your traffic is valuable. Clothing and fashion merchandise maybe and cold emailing a ton of places and seeing if they are interested in custom ad space. At this point you have the traffic to justify.
    A bit of an aside but have you considered placing celeb based or story based flash games with relevant links?
    feel free to pm maybe we can work something out in terms of developing some custom content for you on the cheap.

    -Jose
     
    jimenez3rd, Apr 9, 2010 IP
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    fusione Well-Known Member

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    With Gossip I had great results with Online Dating (CPA).
    Try that
     
    fusione, Apr 9, 2010 IP
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    A good way to choose CPA offers is to match demographics on your site with the CPA offers landing page. Quantcast is a free online tool that is great for matching demographics. I agree with Scweb, sell ad spaces! Have a look at Adbrite and BuySellAds.
     
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    Great site. Out of interest - where do you get the images?

    I would get as many people as possible to sign up to a "gossip" newsletter. Then send your headlines in an email with ads (CPA ads like people have mentioned)

    Let me know if you need any more information :)
     
    JamesTNoble, Apr 12, 2010 IP
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    CPA offers are your best bet.
     
    FilthyRich, Apr 12, 2010 IP
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    If you are looking to maximize the revenue on your website check out Altitude Digital Partners. They work with over 400 networks and optimize your traffic to get you the highest CPM across the board. They fill all US and International traffic and get you a 98% fill rate. Best of all they handle all billing and deliver one check! They can also monetize video, pop unders, dashboard ads, prestitials, in-banner video, contextual ads etc. Truly a one stop shop!
     
    jdog1, May 10, 2010 IP
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    Sounds like you'd probably do well with a CPM network. I've recently started using ValueClick Media and so far really like the eCPM I'm getting as well as the quality of the ads.
     
    Phooey, May 10, 2010 IP