I've been focusing on building traffic for my site. I have a strong travel focus. I have 330 RSS Subscribers and about 500 visitors per day. I've also been nominated for several industry awards. Technorati Top 15k and a PR of 4. I've been waiting until I can get my traffic to a point where I can earn non-trivial amounts from the site. At what point do you think I should begin to try and monetize my site? I'm hoping to at least earn $1,000/month. I'd rather not start running ads until I can reasonably get to that level.
Why waste some money that's why i don't understand put the ads 1000$ with 500/day not posible that's for sure
Because I don't want to waste my time and junk up the site if I can only bring in $10/month. It isn't worth it. I'm not that hard up for cash. When I do run ads I want to do it right. This isn't an affiliate landing page I'm running. I'm trying to build a brand and an audience. When I start to run ads, I want to do it from a position of strength.
If that is the case then, why not just put a professional looking banner for another related website in the same niche at the top or side of your website. Skip the google adsense adverts and do not use these. Go straight for selling banner space. You want a client who has the related website who is prepared to pay a premium for the banner space. All you do is advertise the fact you are selling a banner space to your website which currently gets 500 targetted unqiue viewers per day. You could also offer the same space on a newsletter that you may send to the rss subscribers. Offer it for a price at which you think is realistic and worth the time and effort for you and that may bring you in a nice profit. You could offer more than one banner perhaps one on the top one on the bottom and one on the side. Monetizing a website can be as creative or boring as you want, you can make it look as professional or as cheap as you want. Will.