There is a show called "Armed and Famous" in my local city and I setup a "Fan Site" for the show. The first day I was indexed in about the 7th position for "armed and famous" and now I stay between 1st and 3rd in google. The first day I was indexed I received 200 uniques and its climing by about 100 uniques a day. I am currently at 400 for the day and there are 3 hours left. My question is how should I monitize this site for best profits, should I use adsense or some other form of advertising? You can view the site at www.armedandfamous.net Thanks
I'd move your ads to the very top.. adsense is EXTREMELY difficult as it is and you need everything in the world in your favor to get people to click. so, definitely move your leaderboard ad to the TOP and in addition, I'd put a link unit above that.
I'd go above the fold, and in your face, if I wanted to make adsense money. Is adsense worth it? There is no need to guess. Try multiple ways, split test them, then let the results give you an answer. http://performancing.com/node/1073 btw, you were #1 when i just searched
i think you need to make the entire "join our forum" image at the top to be clickable.. if you goin for long run its fine to put that up there first to build member base.. i suggest a blog front end or news front end.. with adsense placed within those news... and having a top10 latest discussion on the frontpage too.. in the forum , place a leader board below the first "newtopic"/"reply" button have an adlink horizontal on the top.. also trow in adbrite at the bottom if you want..
Well the thing is the show starts Jan 10th and I am allready receiving anywhere from 300 - 450 uniques a day. I am hoping for that to triple once the shows starts. I do have a blog that is updated using wp-autoblog with a cron job. The site is absolutely ugly. I am a proffesional web-designer. I was NOT expecting to get hit this quick with traffic so I had to throw a site up very quickly. I went from oneday have absolutely no rank in google and very few uniques to getting almost 230 uniques the next day. From that day on its been going up about 100 - 150 uniques a day. The problem is my adsense is not going to be targeted to my sites content. Lets say I dont worry about Adsense, what are some other ways that I could help the site grow to its full potential? I have alot of people browsing my forums but it seems that no one wants to sign-up or post for that matter. Thanks everyone for the information.
Does anyone have any simple scripts for grabbing the last 10 forum discussions or the latest blog entries and displaying them on my main page?
Try affiliate programs -- see if your users want credit cards. Each sale (FREE to sign up) is good $$$ in your pocket.
Thats avery niche site hence you are getting a good amount of uniques very qucikly. As for the ads, I am not seeing any relevant ads.
Yea its very hard to get targeted advertisements because of the sites niche. I really wish I had a better way to monetize the traffic. I started out 5 days ago with about 200 uniques that day and every day after I am getting about 100 - 150 more uniques. On day 6 I received 450, and today I am heading for about 600 uniques. The thing is the show hasnt even started yet, it starts on Jan 10th and im sure then my traffic will double. Also, I am accepting 5 free links on the main page under "Advertise" to the first 5 who post their url and a three word description of their site. Wow I just realized I spelled climbing wrong in the main topic, lol. I must have been half asleep.
The problem with this kind of site is that traffic is likely to fade when the show ends. Thats same with any site related to a TV show or a game.
sign up for commission junction and tradedoubler etc and get high paying affiliate links like loans, credit cards, insurance etc. Good luck.
For the Adsense side of things I would move that 728x90 banner to top middle just between the title "Armed & Faomous Fan Site" and join our new forum text. Below the main navigation I would slip in a 160x600 tower so its just above the Chat Live Now link. The ads I am seeing at the moment are for making money online and Google Adsense is one of them. I am thinking the Adsense Guide - Make Money link you have on the left is what triggering those ads. To get your ads more targeted you will need more relevant content about the show. Maybe throw in 100-200 words about the actual show using some keywords and give the reader some info on what the show is about, start dates etc. As for other affiliates I would try out Amazon & Azoogle. You could target books, DVD's and even music related to the show. You said the show is only new? So it is unlikey there are dvd's out for it so aim towards other work each celebraty has done, remember its going to be their fans on your site. Azoogle have a mix of affiliates you could use such as DVD movie rentals. They have a good mix of different programs and provide good image banners. Stay away from unrelated or off topic affiliates and I would the same for the links you are selling.
400 uniques a day would be good for about $5/day with Adsense I guess, providing you put the banners on the right place (above the middle!).
Qwest, yea I agree that once the show ends the traffic will fade, thats why I would like to monitize the traffic right now while its steadily climbing. turfsniffer, I will have to try those different methods. I will try to implement them tonight as I am at work right now. Yes the ads deffinately look like ads. I run hundreds of sites and wasn't expecting this one to rank so well, so soon so I was not ready for the traffic. The site design is ugly, not to mention content is scattered everywhere. The site has been online less then 7 days and im allready at about 1500 unique visitors. Today so far I am at 450 uniques, with yesterdays high being 450. I will try to implement the ads into better spots so they don't look to much like ads but that will have to be done later tonight because I am currently at work.
I think you need to have the ads in more exposed. Since there does not appear to be ads related to the subject of the site, maybe you need to add a bit more content to the site that will lead to ads that people would be tempted to click.