hi dp members, If we talk about today's picture... Is there good earning potential launching a new wallpaper website...... if we plan to move with 25,000 wallpapers covering most of the categories......
There is a good potential in traffic, visitors, and downloads, but how do you plan on monetizing your site? IMHO, I think that will be the biggest problem.
if ads cant support, then how we are going to get the revenue... i am planning to offer very good quality wallpapers from various fields, we'll have a section "Real Life Celebrity Images", which would actually not be an wallpaper section, the images from PAPARAZIs.
Pay-Per Download might work for you. Even something as measily as .50 to 1 per download would bring in some good money. That would also drive a lot of users away because they dont want to do their credit info ect. Another way would be directing the users to a ad before they can download the image.
first suggestion looks fine. for the second one: directing the users to a ad before they can download the image; dont you think this may distance my users. I have noticed, user dont come to website taking time to download/display the stuff they are looking for. In simple words, USER AVOID THE ADS.... while downloading..
If you plan on having some sort of membership or registration in place for your site; why not set some sort of limit to how many wallpapers non-members can view before they start getting intersital ads? So for example, anyone without an account has 5-10 "credits", where they can check out wallpapers and browse like a regular member; once those expire, then they get an ad page before they see the wallpapers. This could encourage signups plus, if you're using CPM ads, help generate revenue from people who are either too lazy to sign up or don't mind seeing ads. If they don't want to see ads, and don't want to sign up, then they come back the next day... Win, Win, Win... you either get a new registered user, a handful of CPM impressions, or repeat traffic =)