Hi all, I have a StarCraft 2 oriented website with lots of relevant content. Having pr2(pr4 forecasting), 18500 indexed pages, 2600 links to domain, 1700 unique visitors daily, avg time 3 min, 293k Alexa global, 151k Alexa US, top1 ranked for most valuable keywords in G. And just 70-80$/month from AdSense and 170-250$ from clickbank affiliate. --- Could you suggest how may i increase my monthly income? What am i doing wrong here or that's too narrow and specific niche i better get out? URL would PM'ed by demand.
Have you tried PPC yet to bring in some more traffic? One thing you might consider it getting rid of Clickbank and trying other affiliate products. How do you monetize the website in means of where ads are placed, etc. Look at these to see how you could improve. Look at what is most popular on the site, emphasize and increase the power it has.
Have you tried selling banner or text ad spots on your site manually? You can usually sell your own ads and make good money in niche categories (gaming being one of them).
Yes what site is it? add somethings that can give more spice on how your site goes. Try banners/ads or even manually promoting to social networks.
Adsense is paying horribly on some niches. I have a webmaster forums that gets 1-2 cents/click and an orthodontics blog, with 30 times less traffic, that gets 1 dollar clicks, so gaming does seem to offer little pay on adsense. As others said here, I'd try to sell advertising on my own too. I usually run Adsense, LinkWorth or BuySellAds campaigns on my sites, but also have sold ads to direct clients. And got WAY BETTER prices than these systems would give me. I'd focus on this now. Still keep some of the banners you have, maybe smaller, and also get some private advertising going on.
Thanks a lot, guys! Well, i am working at sc2rep.net. Now gonna try to find some clients for banners directly.
You might want to convert some of that content to the Kindle platform. Kindle users readily "snap-up" low-cost content. Best, --JR