We all know Digital point and Sitepoint are the two largest webmasters communities on the net today, however; with being the largest brings change and Sitepoint used to dominate Digitalpoint’s traffic up until they introduced fees for their marketplace, where Digitalpoint continues to flourish since everything is free - and doesn’t require any money to post deals, or sell your websites.
So, the question reminds, what site has the better community? We all know Digitalpoint is a lot more active than Sitepoint - because it attracts more people, however, Sitepoint has always been a different webmaster community since it’s a community than focuses on web development, its book, and its blog, where Digitalpoint focuses on its tools, and its community. But what site is better for a new webmaster? Well, if you’re looking to learn about CSS and various other programming languages, then Sitepoint is for you, but if you’re looking to meet new people, make contacts, and learn how to network to flourish your web business, then Digitalpoint is for you.
Sites usually sell faster on Digitalpoint since its marketplace is more active than Sitepoint - and that’s because it doesn’t have any fees and all the webmasters - that were once active on Sitepoint have since flocked on over to Digitalpoint, but why has so many webmasters left Sitepoint in the dust? Does Sitepoint’s management suck - or do their servers? You tell us because both communities have their fair share of scammers, spammers, and servers problems.
But that’s not up to us, it’s up to you guys. What community do you think is the best for new and old webmasters, Digitalpoint or Sitepoint?
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!