Advertising Program for Popular Jokes Site

Discussion in 'Affiliate Programs' started by SEO-Expert, Apr 16, 2010.

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    My jokes site http://www.free-funny-jokes.com/ was doing OK in the AdSense program when it was banned, it's got racist jokes that are top 3 in Google for racist jokes SERPs, comments are open and they've gone racist to say the least (thousands of racist comments: I gave up moderating awhile back, never made enough money to spend a lot of time on it)!

    Before the AdSense ban was on around 7,000 unique visitors a day (8-10K AdSense impressions) and I was lucky to break $20 a day (awful AdSense niche). Got another site that's on the UK general election http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/ and currently making over £100 (~$150) a day now (I have good rankings for most of the top SERPs) and it only gets about 50% more traffic a day than the joke site (well did, jumped to over 20K visitors yesterday).

    Moved to Clicksor and Chitika. Included the Clicksor pop unders and overall was making a similar amount as AdSense, but it was really spammy and the AdSense like ads only made a few dollars a day. Had a pop under every second impression (minus those blocked by pop under blockers). Of the money around $10-$15 a day came from the pop unders, so the AdSense like ads did awful.

    Since I don't really care that much about the site (main traffic is racists) I was happy with that, Who can complain at over $15 a day for doing nothing) but a proportion of the pop unders was giving malicious code warnings (reported by Avast).

    Google penalised the site (22nd March) from it's organic search results and I guessed it was the pop unders (nothing else would cause a problem). At the time I'd had thousands of hits from Google IPs suggesting either employees of Google love racist jokes or there was a manual review underway.

    Completely removed all ads from the site and it recovered around the 5th April and now I'm seeing an increase in traffic (over 10K visitors yesterday).

    I added Bidvertiser ads, just a single AdSense like ad in a high click area, but despite reporting 17,721 impressions yesterday the ad had 1 click and made $0.13. For the 7 days I've had the ad the sites had 92,830 impressions with 5 clicks making just $0.39 or 8 cents a day. This is taking the piss, I suspect they are under reporting clicks (5 clicks from 90K+ impressions, NO WAY)!

    Have removed their ads and currently have no ads on the site.

    Any suggestions of which ad program to use on this site to make at least $15 a day without risking a penalty or doing a lot of work?

    I also tried Clickbank ads in the format of AdSense ads. Got a site running the same format of Clickbank ads at http://www.adultlingerieuk.com/ and they didn't do very well on that site either.

    I'm stumped how to make money from this site now.

    David
     
    SEO-Expert, Apr 16, 2010 IP