Hi, I run a blog for around 5 years now, it focuses on street MTB and BMX riding which is not the biggest niche out there. We create videos and content as well as posting news and videos from around the world. It gets around 4k unique visitors a month so far. Right now it has adsense ads generating about 20 cents a day, plus some advertisers that I charge a fix rate of 10$ a month, and we sell shirts. This blog is more of a hobby, but I am planning on making a new, more serious one for next year. My question is how much can I charge advertisers with this traffic, and what are the best ways to generate profits on this kind of blog? My blog is www.the-rise.com Thanks a lot
Try to use Social Media to generate and react with the audience like Youtube, Facebook and i am sure that you will double that traffic and convert for you.
If the-rise.com gets 4000 UV/day, you can insert bike products through affiliate programs such as CJ.com or ShareASale.com
Depends upon your blog you can check this link how you can set price for ads and how to attract advertisers or http://www.geekblogtips.com/how-to-blog/attract-advertisers/
I see you have some sponsors on your site already that make bike parts etc. Ask them for free tshits to give away to your readers. Ask them to promote the giveaway on their fan pages, do the same on yours. More people will tell their friends and go to your site. If it works well, save the results and approach your other sponsors and have them pay to do the same thing. Daily, weekly or monthly give aways. The brand gets more exposure, the winners tell their friends, you get more readers, everyone wins.
Check out advertising platforms like Buy/Sell ads and see what other website owners in your niche are charging for about the same amount of traffic.