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I have a website with free game downloads, about 10000 unique visitors/day - 50% US, 30% EU countries. I know that typical visitors are not "Mercedes buyers" and that the site of this kind is not a gold mine, but is there a chance to earn at least say $300/month (which would cover my hosting costs)?
Most advertising networks (paying per clicks) have refused my site because it doesn't suit their category needs. I'm using CJ but have no idea what advertisers to choose. In the past time I've chosen few advertisers with best EPC but found this strategy to be totally wrong.
Any ideas please?
If you are the only one offering free downloads of these, you might want to think about making part of your site subscription. If they can be mastered fairly fast, the number would have to be replenished frequently. Games sites can actually make quite a bit of money, but if yours is just one of many offering the same games for free it will be harder.
Welcome to WW.
One of my sites is in a similar postition. It was my first-born and I refuse to give up on it. Despite getting ever increasing traffic, it is essentially offering free information and thus the type of people hitting the site aren't in the spending mood.
This site too has been rejected from pillar to post from the mainstream sources of income, so what I've been doing, with some success so far, is to think outside the box with regard to the types of ads that I have on the site. At first I had content-similar ads that really weren't working (why should they when I was offering the information for free), so then I started to think hard about the kind of person coming to the site (young, male, technologically literate), and what might interest them.
End result is a bunch of affiliate ads that I wouldn't have dreamed of to start with, but seem to be getting the visitors' attention.
Sometimes the setbacks can put you on the right track.
Good luck,
2odd...
You should be able to make $300 a month off 300000 visitors. That's only ten bucks a day or $0.001 per visitor.
I assume that you have the demo or games hosted at your site. And also that they are big enough to offer them on a CD.
Tucows has a checkbox on each program download page which ads the software to a shopping cart and when you are done, you have all these programs burned into a cd and delivered to your home.
SwiftCd takes care of the payment processing, cd burning, shipment and everything. They charge you a fee for the cd and you add the amount you want to that price.
As far as I understand, it is the most widely used service because of payment processing, but perhaps there are others that can offer a similar service.
Hope this helps
Enrique
