Guys, I need your help. I have a website covering World of Warcraft guides: http://www.epic-warcraft.com It's getting around 1,1-1,3k unique visitors per day now and I have a lot of direct traffic or bookmark traffic, as shown in AWstats. I'm also ranking high on Google for some fairly competitiv keywords, getting around 60% of my traffic from Google and Google images. I've been only using AdSense to monetize it for a while, but I never got to make more than $150/month. The CTR is very low, around 0.20-0.30%. I'm suspecting it's because the content is useful and people actually just read the guides....sometimes I wish the content was crap and they'd just go away through my ads >.< I'm also trying CJ now, through a small banner at the top. 0.30% click through and no sales in around 100 clicks. Can you please help me in figuring out if there's a better way to monetize my traffic? I'm sure a site that has 1,3k uv's per day should be making more than that. I'd also like to ask if you have any tips to increase my CTR, both on AdSense and CJ. Thanks a lot! P.S. I'm from Romania and I can't use AzoogleAds or Clickbank here. I heard clickbank is a gold mine for World of Warcraft sites, which is more good news for me :-Z
clickbank would be the best choice have you considered selling ad space to people on a revenue share with clickbank products? send me a pm if your interested and we may be able to sort something out
sell adspace on your website..edit your sig to say that you are willing to sell ad space in your site..also try kontera..and also write reviews of some gaming stuffs related to warcraft..but the stuff must be from one your affiliate merchant..
The reason Adsense does not work on WoW sites is because every single ad is about buying gold. And the clicks are worth next to nothing. There are very few ads for WoW that are anything but "1000g for $30!!!" Definitely go into clickbank as there are tons of great sources there. Otherwise consider posting in the Buy/Sell/Trade section that you are selling ad space. You'll probably make more in ad sales than you will with adsense.
Thanks iitob. The affiliate program looks nice, but do you have a PayPal payout? And what are we rquired to write in the "Promotional method" field?
All Affiliate payments are made with PayPal and "Promotional Method" field should detail what you are going to do to bring traffic to MOGS. Best of luck
You can sell links. I would be interested in buying a link on your site. If interested, send me a PM.
Clickbank has a heap of WOW guides that give you 50% + of the profit if you sell them. That would be my first stop!
Richkid, like I said in the initial post, I can't use ClickBank in my country unfortunately. Brotherz, PM sent
By the Way are you the Chinese Tudi? The Beijingren? If you are do you remember me? My son is also setting up a Wow blog so I will be watching this thread with interest.
Hey, no I'm not, might be a name confusion. W3bmaster, I tried CJ but didn't really convert well.So far I've had some success with usfine.com. Got around 100$ last month, but they lowered their rates to 0.01/click now :-C. Going to try AdBrite soonish me thinks
Yeh, you could doing google search for "wow powerleveling" or "wow accounts" or "wow gold" and see what sites come up. Then simply contact first 20 and sell them some links. Could do pretty decent income quite quickly & with little work.
Thanks for the tips. What would you say would be a fair price to ask for for a sitewide do-follow link? I'm getting around 1-1.5k uniques per day and PR 2.