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Watapid

7:03 am on Jan 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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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?

Watapid

9:49 pm on Jan 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Was this too lenghty :-(.

Rodney

9:59 pm on Jan 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Sounds like your questions sort of rambled together and were sort of numerous for one post.

You might try separating the questions or being more clear/succinct in the wording.

qwer

7:34 pm on Jan 20, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Try Linkshare.

Personally, I find the CJ interface very confusing.
I am waiting a check for about 200US$ to be sent today, but I doubt it, as my payout balance dropped from 75 to 5 US$, but I have steel a couple of sales made. I printed it, just in case.

rfung

9:13 pm on Jan 20, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



CJ has been pretty reliable to me, and they deposit the montly checks straight into my bank account.

Other than that, communities are hard to start up, because no one is going to go to a forum where there's no one else.

(if indeed it's a forum) I'd suggest going to the forum community building erm..forum at:

[webmasterworld.com...]

Other than that, yes, banner ads, adwords, link exchanges will all help.