Finally, my 1 yr old site is bringing in traffic www.travel-rants.com. The purpose of the site is to provide news, articles, resources for both travellers and people working within the travel industry. Does anyone have any ideas for features to add to the website? I need some money making ideas if possible
To earn more money you may want to join a travel affiate program like orbitz or something. Since you get people viewing your site that seem to travel, getting a cookie set on different travel sites for your referral wouldnt be a bad idea.
Nicely designed site. Adsense should do rather well for a site like this. If you integrate it into your content you should see a nice CTR. I don't know how much travel related keywords pay, but there's definitely some money to be made.
Thanks everyone. I've started to add some adsense, and affiliate advertising on the site this evening, after I read your comments. I'm going to do the same with the news articles on the homepage, and the articles. Building content is a problem - I've tried getting people to submit travel articles, and press releases, and sites to the directory, but it's not going too well - any ideas how I can get more people interested? Thanks for your suggestions! p.s to the person who give me red rep - cheers, but come on atleast leave me some comments lol
cover the travel industry news...such as what is going on with airlines and info on how it will affect travels
I think you should primarily write your own content. It might be a lot of hard work in the long run, but in the end it will pay off. You'll own the copyright, and their won't be a chance of someone submitting copyrighted material to your site, which might get you sued. However, getting people to contribute is extremely tough. Most people just won't take the time. Perhaps you can offer a prize for the best article submitted in a month, or something like that. If people don't feel that they get something for their effort (being paid, prized etc), they won't bother.