More ads man! I had a site that had 1 million page views per day and we generated about $1500-$3000/day off the ads. Placement of the ad is imperative.
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#142Just wanted to say love your post. It was fun and educating. ;)
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#143Question: what CPM are you getting for your ads? Depending on how much you're getting, I may know some people who would be interested in beating that price.
On average less than 10 cents.
What CPMs are you getting in the US? If 17% of your traffic is US, even with one ad per page, you should be getting ~4,760,000 pageviews per month.
have you ever tried to outsource your ad operations? that kind of inventory could be worth worth enough to live on comfortably.
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That's incredible, congratulations! Care to share what you're working on? Or at least what process led you to the new project?
http://distillerylab.com Sounds boring to most probably, but I love to play with data! And we have real clients!
I am currently playing in a very similar space - would you care to throw me a bone and give me some idea of how you landed your first clients?
I'm totally stuck in this regard. So much so that I've begun to hate myself.
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#145Thanks for this post, especially for all the details. Been building a site as a side project, mainly to get it out of my head and the incidental learnings. Reading about your strugle and the hardship of moneytisation was very enlightning.
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That's non-sense, people (and their pets) will continue to get cancer, even if a cure is found. The Nobel prize alone would be worth it.
Please note that "cure cancer" is in quotes. I am speaking from (bitter) firsthand experience about some other condition. I don't expect to ever get the Nobel Prize. I mostly get called crazy.
Well now you have to elaborate?
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#147My general anti-B2C bias may be showing, but unless you've discovered a new core interaction for people (Instagrammy) I'm betting the 6 million visits a month is basically just a function of having a lot of content about Justin Bieber (and a zillion other topics) which is beating Twitter because Twitter has relatively poor SEO (for a reason). This sort of suggests that the momentary attention of 6 million people is w…
what's the reason for poor twitter seo?
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please note that "cure cancer" is in quotes. I am speaking from (bitter) firsthand experience about some other condition. I don't expect to ever get the Nobel Prize. I mostly get called crazy.
Well now you have to elaborate?
No, not actually. But you can check my other comment, below, for a crumb more info. I have mostly walked away from this topic. I am getting myself and my son well. If the rest of the world wants to be openly assholish to me, hey, their health issues are not my problem. Paying my bills and getting off the street is my problem.
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How much money does Craigslist actually make, though? Also not every Bootstrap site has to look Boostrappy, people just almost never bother to change the colors at all. I agree with moving the ads though. Users who've shown enough interest to click into a page might be more amenable to target advertising.
Craigslist makes somewhere in the range of $100-150 million a year, they charge $25-75 for job ads in major markets and $10 for broker-listed apartments in NYC.
Oh, wow. I honestly thought it wasn't profitable for some reason... thanks.
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#150You have an awesome opportunity with your startup. I'm sure you'll turn something around with the lively discussion you kicked off.
Have you considered non-ad-network revenue sources? What about running affiliate offers?
I used to make 4 to 10 times more as a publisher with affiliate offers than adsense or other ad network placements. I don't affiliate (or publish) enough now to know if that would still happen or not.
A quick idea for an affiliate test, although you may have already tried this:
Given 6MM+ uniques/mo, and a somewhat adult-oriented audience, you may have a decent opportunity to push native ads with affiliate offers toward dating sites, event-themed sites (costumes for halloween trends), and more.
Native ads could be custom, animated banners you create and fill the first, second or x picture spot in your search or tag results. Does that make sense? Your banners would be 100px x 100px on your home page and fill a standard picture spot or two or five instead of the images that might ordinarily go in that space, 150x150 banner ads could fit in well in random places on your tag image pages, etc.
Also, advertisers might like to participate in native advertising on your website if the opportunity were available.
Good luck!