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Payments to post articles on my article site

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by Sejler, May 7, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hello

    I'm getting a nice amount of live signups each day on my article site, and was wondering ways to monetize those as best as I can, right now I'm mainly using Adsense, but with limited traffic it's not working out too good for me.

    I've been thinking about charging a small amount to signup as an author, maybe 5 dollars or so, but was wondering if it'll just scare away everybody instead.

    Thanks for your comments.
     
    Sejler, May 7, 2010 IP
  2. Daedric

    Daedric Peon

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    That will definitely scare away everybody unless your directory has a high PR and has authority. You can try monetizing it by promoting some software from clickbank. Software that help article writing would appeal to your users.
     
    Daedric, May 8, 2010 IP
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    Yea, if you make your subscription paid, i think, the traffic would decrease. Instead, try getting some affiliates on your site to make some money. This could help you.

    Another way is, you can keep the free authors without a link or a link with no follow and paid members can get some facilities like number of links and do follow tag too. This way, the traffic would retain and you could make some money as well.
     
    Adria.John, May 8, 2010 IP
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    helroller Guest

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    What will I earn at least
     
    helroller, May 8, 2010 IP
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    You can consider selling banner spaces to those writers who contribute to your site.
     
    scheng1, May 8, 2010 IP
  6. Sejler

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    Thanks for the comments
     
    Sejler, May 9, 2010 IP
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    Obviously, your action will scare away everybody if you are planning to charge a small amount to signup as an author.
    You can sell banner ads on your site, or try other ads platforms.
    Besides, you can try a In-Content-Link-Market-Place named inLinks, which are static HTML advertisements located within content areas of websites. It is simply the most natural paid link on the market. Once you have installed their plugin on your site, then you can sell links within that content automatically.
     
    duia, May 9, 2010 IP
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    unless you have good amount of traffic and PR it is hard to get people for paid signup
     
    Tien, May 9, 2010 IP
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    You could limit the number of article submissions for free members, maybe 10 or so, then offer a paid upgrade option for extra submissions.
     
    derekh, May 9, 2010 IP
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    Yea, this is also a good idea. I have seen directories like this. I hope now you have so many ideas to monetize your directory as well as keep the traffic intact.
     
    Adria.John, May 13, 2010 IP
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    That could work if you had an extremely amount of visits/traffic on your blog
     
    Sunflyer, May 13, 2010 IP
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    Unless you are getting huge amounts of traffic nobody is going to pay to submit articles, of course if you were getting huge amounts of traffic you would be making lots of money off of adsense and wouldn't need to charge for submission. The best bet is to try to get more articles so that you get more traffic and your adsense should go up. It really is just a numbers game, more articles, leads to more traffic, which leads to more adsense money.
     
    rprost, May 13, 2010 IP
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    With so many great article directories offering their services for free, you may have a hard time charging. However, you might charge for submission services. In other words, offer to submit their article to 10 other directories for a small fee.
     
    cjmo75, May 14, 2010 IP
  14. theAdviserMe

    theAdviserMe Active Member

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    I am sure you are making some money on your blogs using this strategy...I will be implementing this same thing later on my coming blogs.
     
    theAdviserMe, May 15, 2010 IP
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    jen@youngadmins Peon

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    I guess adsense is the best option for new sites/blogs.
     
    jen@youngadmins, May 15, 2010 IP
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    the following website allows you to post articles plus adsense and affiliate banner

    postarticlesplus(dot)net
     
    alex629, May 29, 2010 IP