Hey, I have recently been reading this forums, I am impressed with this website it seems to be very established. I have a few questions. I am not entirely new to this advertising business. I guess my first expierence started with I think either CJ/linkshare. I must have generated $600 in one month but what was odd is CJ never sent my check (this was probably 4 years ago). So I decided to stop advertising, as I was very upset at the time. Then about 6 months ago I started a tiny community and used adsense while I can not reveil how much I got it was only 3 figures. Anyway for the past couple of months I was planning on making this "entertainment site". This month I started executing this plan. It has gone well as the site is pretty much developed with a unique database. I am targeting that an estimated of between 500-800 users will be on it constantly decending to 400 at night. I have good expierence with adsense but I wanted to raise my profits so I signed up with AdBrite. (Are they a trustable company, as I gave them my SS# because I don't have an EIN). What would be better to get the most profit? Setting a price say per month I was expecting maybe $3700 for my site with adbrite. However how would this turn out for adsense? I wish I could consider CJ, actually I do, but I don't trust them since they never sent my check :(. Anyway what is another way to increase my traffic, or get me started. I tried buying advertising at paid 2 read email sites. I am just absolutely clueless as what to do next? How, where, do I get more users. I have already optimised my meta tags so they should be fine but... Starting out is hard. I knew where to advertise for my last site as it was a small community. But this time around it more entertainment where would I go about doing this? Forums, newsgroups, buying emails? Random advertisement?
Thanks so much. Your input is highly appreciated.
edit: What about affiliates? Would I make more profit with amazon or some affiliate program than adsense? Are there any adsense like programs that incorperate affiliate sales?
