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Re: What to do with an ad-based site?

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Have you thought about bundling your tutorials into books, and selling them as a print on demand service. Take a look at http://www.lulu.com/.

Instead of selling ads for other sites, how about setting up an online store at Shopify.com and selling products that your viewers might be interested in. If you don't want to worry about order fulfillment, outsource that to Amazon.com.

Speaking of Amazon, have you looked at their affiliate network? You'd almost have to make more money than Ad Sense.

Re: What to do with an ad-based site?

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post #8

Thanks for your comments, guys. The site is www.inpics.net -- illustration-based software tutorials. Where are online site markets other than sitepoint.com? What's a FHWW? What alternative ad networks might be interested in this? I'm much obliged for your help!

google adplanner says that you get 36k unique users with 430k pageviews

Re: What to do with an ad-based site?

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post #8

Thanks for your comments, guys. The site is www.inpics.net -- illustration-based software tutorials. Where are online site markets other than sitepoint.com? What's a FHWW? What alternative ad networks might be interested in this? I'm much obliged for your help!

google adplanner says that you get 36k unique users with 430k pageviews

adplanner is definitely off the mark from my own experience with figures. Relative figures are probably ok, but it seems to grossly underestimate unique users and pageviews (and considering we're using analytics to calculate those also, it's rather ironic).

Re: What to do with an ad-based site?

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post #8

Thanks for your comments, guys. The site is www.inpics.net -- illustration-based software tutorials. Where are online site markets other than sitepoint.com? What's a FHWW? What alternative ad networks might be interested in this? I'm much obliged for your help!

FHWW = four hour work week

people have successfully sold sites using ebay before.

there are lots of alternative networks for small-to-mid-sized sites like yours. consider looking into companies like tribalfusion.

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