Have you tried to monetize your websites the best way you know how using Google adsense? Well - if you’re not making enough from google adsense and your sites continue to flourish in traffic, then why don’t you try to use other advertising companies alongside google adsense? If you’re not using any others yet, then be sure to try Kontera which is quite popular for its in-link advertising. So, if you’re generating around $25 - $50/day from adsense, then implement Kontera’s ads and you’re looking at least $100/day of income - if your sites have enough traffic, though.
CPM companies
CPM stands for cost per thousand or better yet, cost per impression. So you’re paid for every one thousand impression that your site generates - so if you own a few content-rich sites, or forums, that generate a ton of pageviews, then I’d recommend that you check out the following CPM companies - to help you increase your daily income:
Casale Media
Value click
Burst media
Tribal Fusion.
Valueclick and Burst media are the easiest CPM companies to get accepted into, but Casale and Tribal are the hardest - and you need to have a quality site in order to get accepted into CM and VCM - so be sure to apply once your site is generating at 10 million pageviews a month.
Sell in-house ads
Selling your ads to other webmasters isn’t like joining an ad network since you’re doing itself. Let’s say you charge $30 for 5 banner ads on your site (all in rotation), you’re looking at $150/month of revenue just from those 5 banners, but wait, there’s more. What if you sell 10 text links for $30 a piece - that’s another $300/month of revenue, but of course, text links are harder to sell these days unless your site is very popular. So, selling in-house ads is pretty profitable if you think about it, because the examples that we used you can easily generate $450 a month in revenue. Not bad, eh?
So, what companies are you using to supplement your adsense earnings?
1: Increase your friends list - this can be done via various methods, using search, friend bots, or whore trains; also known as “Friend trains”. They work by you add your friend ID, and post a bulletin to your myspace friends. You can also increase your friends list by adding everyone from the whore train. Ride the whore is a pretty good myspace train if you’re looking for one.
2: Send out bulletins, and comments. Bulletins are simple, but make them catchy so your friends will want to look at them - don’t make a stupid one that won’t catch the user’s attention, but make one that’ll make them want to come, such as: “OMG NEW MYSPACE”, something along those lines might help increase your chances of blowing up in the myspace industry.
3: Offer your users something unique - if you create a new feature, such as; generators, and/or layouts that no other myspace site offers, then you’re in a whole new league. Make sure to keep updating your myspace site, but do not open up until your myspace site is fully ready, and able to be launched and spread among all the myspace users!
4: Offer a ton of graphics, with a link back code that goes back to the page, or your homepage - with your focused link anchor. Good for SEO, as well as getting your myspace site out there!
That’s all I have for now, but if you have any other things to add to this, then feel free to do so!
Iamned brings up a good point on how Earners forum has been dieing and we have a few points to share.
The moderators and admins were also partially to blame. Lee and Tyler know how to make money online, without a doubt, but they failed to impart that knowledge on the forums to a sufficient degree. Posting vague advice about “Original content” and “Social bookmarking” and “Work hard” , and “blogging” generally doesn’t cut it. What members wanted were SPECIFICS such as how many links, how much PR, how to rank, etc. Instead of being fed pablum they wanted concrete knowledge about how to make money online. No amount of contests, hype, and mastery can compensate for drab, regurgitated, unoriginal content.
Earners forum had a few major contests, however; Lee Dodd failed to promote the community on other webmasters forums. Everyone and their brother were promoting earners forum when it first launched because how it was unique and provided webmasters with a better place to interact with others, however; since then Lee Dodd has stopped working on Earners forum - and hasn’t really posted new threads to help liven the place up, but if earners forum is to flourish once again then something needs to be done. They banned myspace marketers from posting - because they didn’t want their marketers to “bring down” the level of Earners forum, so to say, but that was a stupid move for them to do because it attracted users and kept the users active, however; one of their moderators have stated that “Lee dodd” knows what he’s doing and earners forum will continue to grow.
I don’t believe that crap because if Lee dodd knew what he was doing he wouldn’t ban the discussion of how to promote on myspace in the first place - because all the other webmaster communities allow it and they continue to flourish from it. One thing is for certain, though, Lee Dodd isn’t a forum guru and his success should be thanked to rex_b, who has managed to build all of Lee’s communities from scratch from it.