I own 4 wedding related websites with around 2.5 million monthly pageviews. Our main source of income is Adsense + display advertising and unfortunately it totals around $2-2.50 CPM. We have tried some affiliate stuff but hasn't done much for us. We are looking for some suggestions on how we could possibly make more from our traffic. I know some of you say the money is in the mailing lists but I am sure how would could do it for our site. Thanks for your help and suggestions.
2.5 million monthly pageviews, that's quite a lot I think it's better to contact those wedding service providers directly. you can help them on internet marketing, which most of them need you can even run a special campaign on groupon.com
For indian visitors contact shaadi.com its great also Russian bride campaign for usa people is good to promote via your niche
yeah not sure if the russian bride campaigns will work since the sites are mostly used for people who are already married and are in wedding planning stages. (the sites have mostly US traffic)
Any interest in selling them if they aren't making that type of money? I have a client that runs a wedding business that is looking for a site. PM me if you are interested.
I'm sure a lot of wedding related companies would be happy to pay for advertising on sites with that much traffic
CaseyM - I would need a sales resource to do that. We are trying to avoid any kind of direct sales since not much work is being done on the sites in terms of maintenance. seovegas- I would keep you in mind if we decide to let go of the sites.