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Ask HN: Whats the Best Advertising Program to Use With my Sites?

• andrewtbham 16y ago
  for a site like http://demotivatedposters.com http://demotivatedposters.com have you looked into an affiliate program where you sell real posters? or maybe selling other funny stuff... like an affiliate program for busted tees or some site like that... http://www.bustedtees.com/affiliates http://www.bustedtees.com/affiliates
  • spoiledtechie 16y ago
    Have you worked with Busted Tees? How do they pay out? Do they pay out after each purchase or each shirt or once a month?
    • andrewtbham 16y ago
      not really... i worked on a comedy/social site for a while and that was the plan, but it never really got traction :-( it just always seemed like that was going to be the way to make money... put other funny material in that was for sale. obviously comedy stuff is terrible for adsense... the keywords are not relevant to the material.
  • notahacker 16y ago
    or sell your own branded T-shirts based on the posters they want via a provider like this: http://www.zazzle.co.uk/api http://www.zazzle.co.uk/api
• byoung2 16y ago
  For high traffic sites that aren't targeting a specific niche, CPC ads aren't the way to go. Look for CPV ads, for companies looking for branding rather than selling a specific product. When I worked for Internet Brands, www.modelmayhem.com was our highest traffic site (for the scantily clad girls) but it didn't bring in much revenue. Compare that to something like www.steves-digicams.com where people are actively reading digital camera reviews. For the former, you would sell ads to someone like Groupon or Living Social on a cost per 1000 impressions basis, for the latter you would put CPC or affiliate links direct to Canon or Nikon.
  • spoiledtechie 16y ago
    Can you point me to a company that does this already? Someone to go through?
    • byoung2 16y ago
      You can direct sell your ads and get much better rates, but it is a hassle to manage. Lots of sites have a page that says "advertise here" usually with an email address to contact them. There are ad networks like buysellads that will take care of it for you too. For affiliate networks, look at commission junction, linkshare and google affiliate network.
  • corin_ 16y ago
    I assume by CPV you mean CPM
    • byoung2 16y ago
      You're right...I meant CPM
• cd34 16y ago
  google.com/adsense should be a first step. With 1m pageviews, you should be making much more than $5/day. chitika has some potential. I used them on another site, it didn't outperform google adsense even though I was passing terms that were somewhat related to campaigns they had. It was good, they do have ads that would work for a game site better than it worked for my sites. adbrite perhaps. With games, hit or miss, but, worth a try. ad4game. I haven't worked with them personally. Have heard good things about tribalfusion, have no experience with them. If you can convert those games over to Facebook, you open yourself up to SuperRewards/Offerpal, though, your game needs to have the hooks that require a virtual currency. As for your demotivatedposters.com, connectcommerce (google's affiliate arm) has quite a few business related advertisers like Daytimers, etc. and despair.com has an affiliate program.
  • spoiledtechie 16y ago
    Thanks for that. A lot of good information in there.
• andrewtbham 16y ago
  have you tried google adsense?
• revorad 16y ago
  Sell stuff on your most popular websites. Sell other games for a cut (Minecraft?). If you contact a 100 game owners, you are bound to get some on board. Ask your visitors which games they like and sell those. Don't be lazy and go with low paying ads. Be more proactive, you will create lots more value for game makers, gamers and yourself.