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First of all as you are new to online business, I hope your numbers are more than just looking at screenshots & videos. You should actually have your own traffi
by profitbaron 15y ago
First of all as you are new to online business, I hope your numbers are more than just looking at screenshots & videos. You should actually have your own traffic statistics installed on the website to see if the stats add up as well as, verify the third party ads (if its a network then join that network and have the site let you run your ads on there for a while) although, this still can be faked via buying traffic & getting them to click ads so thats just a little warning/piece of advice for you.
With regards to monetizing the site, I would look at how the site is currently monetized. Why? Well in my opnion ads are one of the best indicator of monetization because, if they are converting well (for instance if the third party is a CPC network) then you could find a similar company/the same one and replace those adverts with CPA adverts - instead of getting paid per click you would get paid per action (generally via a purchase - although this tends to be much higher than CPC earnings - hence affiliates doing Adsense/Adwords Arbitrage etc).
Secondly, you could easily roll out a membership area (if the site doesn't have one) and offer paid memberships with certain upgrades. Theres loads of stuff you can do with the membership area to monetize your users.
This leads onto point 3, which if the site isn't already you should send a weekly/monthly newsletter to the members (if you implement a membership area) or to people who are subscribed to the mailing list (you don't even need a membership area to do this - just offer a newsletter on your site - which you can sell advertising in, as well as offering products to them again using CPA networks or your own suppliers).
Fourthly, you could roll out an iPhone/Android App (infact you could make a few "parenting" apps) and have them either as paid apps or free apps (which unless the apps provide real value added service, I would opt for the free app option which can be monetized via ads within the app although this isn't your only option).
Additionally, I saw that you said 80% of the traffic is from Google. This is a double-edged sword - you're willing to lie and die by Google - If one day Google decides to re-rank your site or changes its algorithms your site could easily lose 80% of its traffic overnight. In order to combat this, you need to diversify the traffic to the site as well as, at the same time you still need to take advantage of the traffic Google commands which means, quite simply adding more content, doing on-page seo and then focusing on off-page seo. However, if you are focusing on diversifying your traffic streams via link exchanges/content exchanges etc this will already be helping your off-page seo strategy (to some extent) so you can rank for more long-tail keywords, as well as increase the rankings of your current positions which means more traffic to the site.
With all things considered, you have a lot of potential advertising/monetization options and I haven't even touched most of the options you could implement but you should focus on growing the revenue streams as well as, diversifying your traffic stream so that your site will continue to grow and provide a nice return from your investment.
- JfromSw 15y agoI've had a look at the Google Analytics profile together with the owner. The site is not flawless and there's a lot of room for improvement, but it does have significant traffic and I saw the statements from the third party showing clicks and revenue every month since January 2009. This sealed the deal for me. The third party is a CPC network, I had no idea that CPA tends to generate more revenue or how that even works. I'm not sure either what Adsense/Adwords Arbitrage means but I would like to know more! There is a membership area but no paid membership. Definitely something to consider. The newsletter has about 5000 subscribers, also a source of revenue there. The iPhone/Android app was my first thought when looking at the site. I have another company that makes apps and thought it would be a perfect fit. Yes a huge chunk of the traffic comes from Google. Diversifying the source of traffic is something I'd like to do but don't know exactly how. Which leads to a question: Do you know of a good company I can turn to for these kinds of services? The other company I have is called weApps Sweden, please feel free to get in touch with me at info@weapps.se Thanks for you reply! This is incredibly helpful.