Hey Guys. Excellent forum by the way. I've been a guest here for about a year and learnt a lot. The main thing being that one only gains success on the web with hard hard hard work and don't I know that. I created my community some 6 months ago and have been building is slowly and doing regular SEO. - deadmanscrosszone.com After some 500 or so hours admin, quite a few $$$ and a good team behind me we now have some success. Rough stats are as follows: 5000-10000 Daily Unique Visits 1,000,000 Daily Page Views 250,000 - 500,000 daily impressions dependent on how many ad blocks i'm running. A lot of this is new to me and i'm now struggling to work out the best way forward with my ads. Adsense banned us and we are in the middle of an appeal. My guess is that following a sudden increase of traffic overnight (like 10,000% growth overnight) we got banned by adsense. The reason the traffic increased all of a sudden is that the IOS game that my site is based around was officially released and traffic went through the roof as people searched for a forum to support the game. Now. My problems lie with getting the right ad networks in place. Many of the bigger ones have presently declined us as independent metrics have not caught up with site traffic yet. We use a number of other networks chitika (waiting for gold approval), switchads, Q1Media, Qadabra I have tried about another 5-10 ad networks too that we're not suitable. At the moment we are making about $12 per day in total and am finding CPM's low in many cases, many are $0.01 - $0.05. One of them is paying about $0.25 but only at about 15% fill rate. I have spent hours on this forum trying to see what i'm doing wrong as from what i've read the site should be getting a better return that this. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks Chris DCZ
You should have gotten an e-mail from Adsense explaining the reason, no? Have you done direct advertising? Contact other websites that may be interested in your visitors. Selling directly has always brought in most money for me (except for high paying niches like insurances).
No, I haven't gone about direct advertising. My understanding is that I would maybe put a "Ad space for sale" banner on the page and maybe wait for contact from someone who would to buy that space for x amount of days. My site is based within the video gaming niche but my best guess is that the big game developers probably won't stumble across the site and see the for sale banner.
1 million pageviews a day with 10.000 visitors. You probably made a mistake. As for advertising networks, its very hard our days to get over 0.5CPMs. Try some popup/popunder banners or some kind of affiliate marketing
Thanks Bale. Due to the nature of the game the site is based around most visitors browse on average 100 pages giving rise to the high page view count. $0.50 CPM would be great. In fact i'd be happy with $0.30 but at the moment seem to get rates between 0.01 and 0.05 hence I am trying to get this to rise
since your website is blocked in adsense and they never unblock site again and appeal and all never works.
Someone else mentioned affiliate marketing, which could be very profitable for you. Check Clickbank, they have programs like gaming jobs online, that sort of thing. Also, you could try CPA marketing, put some banners on your site and earn that way.
Forums are renowned for being hard to monetize. Based on past forums I ran I made the most from direct ad sales.
Already mentioned used some of the suggested network, I think if you are not against adding pop specially smaller size windows like edomz offers now you will earn much more than what you may earn in cpm, specially network like chitika, Qadabra offers very poor cpm rate.
Hey there, you have very good user statistics. Do you know user's Geo's? As CPM network you can try "Fidelity Media". You also can make money from you app by putting small banners there.