What to do with increased traffic.

One of my sites has got fairly popular the last few days thanks mainly to stumbleupon although my natural search has been improving day on day.

Anyway, it wasn't a serious money making effort and I just threw up some Google Ads but obviously nobody clicks on them.

Traffic has gone, 31, 30, 29, 503, 284, 8721 [April to date] (7800 SU traffic) over the last six months from when it started and I was wondering what to do with my traffic to help pay for the bandwidth?

Any suggestions?

 

if you have interesting content, then adsense converts your increasing traffic into interesting $ that cover far more than bandwidth but also own server and a decent life and still leaves lots to share
but for now just enjoy the traffic
it traffic goes into hundred thousands per month then latest you need to act

traffic should never pay for bandwidth but for life and all its expenses - adsense does that for you IF done properly

 

StumbleUpon people are here one second and gone the next. That's tough traffic to convert.

 

i agree and backlink

 

that's goog idea

 

You won't have much luck with SU traffic for making money. It's more about building site awareness and quick spikes in traffic than anything else.

 

If you have good content, then wouldn't that keep some of those SU traffic coming back?

 

Hopefully they'll come back.

The worst part about all of this I don't have internet at home for the next three weeks! So it'll be very hard to keep the content updated.

 

thank you info

 

Try some affiliate programs that match with the content.

 

Well for sure take advantage of the traffic. Adsense, Yahoo ads, theres a tone of them out there. When you have good traffic, I say, don't pass up the opportunity.

 

What is the site about?

 

To help pay for the bandwidth??? It should be under $50, man.

 

I can't get traffic from SU but I submit my articles to submission sites and that's where my traffic comes from

 

Affiliate programs work best. Try finding products related to topic

 

Thanks for the information all & Egg noodles, real good Idea
This is a great Forum with lots of brilliant ideas and suggestions.
Karl

 

Monetize, monetize and keep monetizing the traffic...

However, SU and many other social sites provide "LOW QUALITY" traffic!

I find youtube, facebook nd myspace traffic to be best converting for me..

 

I would say monetizing SU traffic will not be a wise move. In fact, TS should think about how to retain the traffic. SU traffic comes because of your contents, if they see something good, thumbs up and move on. They will prefer their toolbar rather than your ads if they want to click in order to leave.

TS should really come up with some contents when the traffic keep coming in. Also, you can try to feature some of your best work by the sidebar to impress SU users.

 

I would say affiliate programs would be best. But first, maybe try keeping your audience in your website for a longer period of time (e.g. better design, a video on the front page, eye-catching words, etc).

What is the bounce rate of your site?

 

Go for affiliate programs related to your niche. Just Google "your niche + affiliate programs" and you will get some suggestions. A simple way is to use ClickBank