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I make around $5 to $10 a day from my site http://tunes.io http://tunes.io I haven't put any effort into marketing it or trying to monetize it other than adsen

I make around $5 to $10 a day from my site http://tunes.io http://tunes.io I haven't put any effort into marketing it or trying to monetize it other than adsense. Maybe I should be trying harder!

iliiilliili 13y ago
Nice. I don't see any ads though.
- ThomPete 13y ago
  All the way in the top
asciimo 13y ago
I was about to post, "How do you make money on this?" And then I remembered that I use AdBlock. D'oh! I paused it and refreshed a couple times.
- jamesgagan 13y ago
  Yeah I use adblock too - even on my own site ;) I was thinking maybe I would make a tunes.io android app and sell it for a buck just to see what happens.
  - ashray 13y ago
    I'll tell you what will happen. I would pay for it! tunes.io is great!
    - jamesgagan 13y ago
      Thanks! Tell your friends ;)
cjstewart88 13y ago
How much traffic do you receive a day?
- jamesgagan 13y ago
  About 400 - 500 visitors a day. CPM is ok compared to other sites I've run adsense on. People seem to like the site.
  - cjstewart88 13y ago
    How are you attracting those visits, ads, word of mouth, etc? I run tubalr.com and have considered ads but am worried it will scare off the users I have. My traffic is a little more than what you're running... but its going down day by day.
    - jamesgagan 13y ago
      My traffic is pretty much direct/word of mouth. I haven't done any advertising, just a few links on places like HN. The problem with a YouTube video site like tubalr is you can't use adsense unless you have a lot of added content and you are competing with the ads in the videos anyways. And in my experience other ad networks have really bad CPM rates. So you probably have to find another way to monetize the site, which is tricky. The sad fact is that music/video sites while fun to build are a hard way to make money (having built a few myself).
      - cjstewart88 13y ago
        Sadly :(
    - Altaer 13y ago
      Instead of ads, I decided to try affiliated "buy this song on x site" buttons on my site (www.tunecrawl.com) under each song. It generates so low income, however, that I would have removed it a while ago if users didn't find it useful. Might be worth a try to see if you have the same result. If nothing else, it adds some additional functionality to the site and is easy to set up. I honestly think you could get away with some well placed ads on tubalr, though. Great redesign, btw!
h0ratio 13y ago
You could sign up to the iTunes and Amazon affiliate programs and then link to where users can purchase the songs. The nice thing with Amazon is once users click through to Amazon from your site they are cookied and you will get a commission from whatever they buy. They could come in on a 0.99 download but they end up buying some underwear and a book and you get a cut of it.

I make around $5 to $10 a day from my site http://tunes.io http://tunes.io I haven't put any effort into marketing it or trying to monetize it other than adsense. Maybe I should be trying harder!

iliiilliili 13y ago

Nice. I don't see any ads though.

ThomPete 13y ago
All the way in the top

asciimo 13y ago

I was about to post, "How do you make money on this?" And then I remembered that I use AdBlock. D'oh! I paused it and refreshed a couple times.

jamesgagan 13y ago
Yeah I use adblock too - even on my own site ;) I was thinking maybe I would make a tunes.io android app and sell it for a buck just to see what happens.
- ashray 13y ago
  I'll tell you what will happen. I would pay for it! tunes.io is great!
  - jamesgagan 13y ago
    Thanks! Tell your friends ;)

cjstewart88 13y ago

How much traffic do you receive a day?

jamesgagan 13y ago
About 400 - 500 visitors a day. CPM is ok compared to other sites I've run adsense on. People seem to like the site.
- cjstewart88 13y ago
  How are you attracting those visits, ads, word of mouth, etc? I run tubalr.com and have considered ads but am worried it will scare off the users I have. My traffic is a little more than what you're running... but its going down day by day.
  - jamesgagan 13y ago
    My traffic is pretty much direct/word of mouth. I haven't done any advertising, just a few links on places like HN. The problem with a YouTube video site like tubalr is you can't use adsense unless you have a lot of added content and you are competing with the ads in the videos anyways. And in my experience other ad networks have really bad CPM rates. So you probably have to find another way to monetize the site, which is tricky. The sad fact is that music/video sites while fun to build are a hard way to make money (having built a few myself).
    - cjstewart88 13y ago
      Sadly :(
  - Altaer 13y ago
    Instead of ads, I decided to try affiliated "buy this song on x site" buttons on my site (www.tunecrawl.com) under each song. It generates so low income, however, that I would have removed it a while ago if users didn't find it useful. Might be worth a try to see if you have the same result. If nothing else, it adds some additional functionality to the site and is easy to set up. I honestly think you could get away with some well placed ads on tubalr, though. Great redesign, btw!

h0ratio 13y ago

You could sign up to the iTunes and Amazon affiliate programs and then link to where users can purchase the songs. The nice thing with Amazon is once users click through to Amazon from your site they are cookied and you will get a commission from whatever they buy. They could come in on a 0.99 download but they end up buying some underwear and a book and you get a cut of it.