dickbaker - 10:19 pm on Apr 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

OK, some dumb questions.

How do you figure out which niches pay the best for advertising? Mortgage leads have been mentioned. How did anyone here find that out in advance? Or did you just try it and see?

I get a fair amount of traffic (175,000 to 200,000 visitors a month) and have 1269 pages available for advertising. (The other 300 or so are spoken for). But I have yet to find an advertiser in my niche that pays well.

So, I'm thinking that I should develop other sites in addition to the one I have now.

When some of you talk about how much time you have to devote to your work, are you spending that time creating new sites or pages, doing SEO, writing content, or all of the above?

I've been working on my site for three years now, and it's making about $15K US a year. For all of the time I've spent on creating the site and doing SEO (it ranks in the top five on Google for just about every term I want) I could have made more money flipping burgers. There has to be a better way.

Replies much appreciated.