Revenue from Sport Site?

cricket, sports

[Evis]

Hi
This is my first post in this forum.

I have a sport site(on cricket). In Past I have spend considerable time on its promotion and optimisation and because of these efforts, site is appearing in SERPS on some keywords. Now I am looking forward to get some Revenues from this site. I have applied Adsense on it but it hasn't proved successful either. What Else I can do to get significant revenue from my site? i.e. what are revenue earning opportunities for a Cricket Site?

Any kind of help will be very much appreciated.!

[tomda]

Elvis, welcome to WebmasterWorld

Is cricket a sport? :)

More seriously,

What Else I can do to get significant revenue from my site?

Good content, content and content...
Try to add at least one page a day or every two days.

what are revenue earning opportunities for a Cricket Site?

I can't tell you because I have never been interested by cricket. I guess that cricket may be a good niche keyword compared to football and other popular sport.

Are you planning to get revenue only from ads (if yes, than content is king) or do you have a long term objective (like launching an e-business, books)?

[LanaST]

I agree with above. If you are truely interested in your site and passionate about it then keep updating it with new and better content. Offer your visitors articles or things that will keep them coming back.

Keep them updated with newsletters and email alerts of new content. Have a sign up section...

Then once you create a content rich site the traffic will start to come in. Then you can make good money off affiliate marketing if you target your traffic properly.

Many people have high traffic but can't make money off aff marketing simply because they are not offering the right ads.

Focus first on increasing your traffic and then contact a good ad network with good aff manager support and they can help you set up some good campaigns.

[minnapple]

Evis,

Sticky me with the url.
I might be interested in advertising.

[aspdaddy]

There are good %ages (5-15) with the clothing retailers. Please sticky me the url too.

You could also integrate related amazon / ebay products.

[aschrage]

Maybe your site doesn't get enough traffic? My site (although its not similar to yours) didn't start to make any money consistently until I had around 500 unique visitors per day. Here is a helpful post by Brett Tabke on what it takes to build a site with (free) search optimization.

[webmasterworld.com...]

I think the earlier advice of creating a new page of good content every day or two is the main key to success. I would also strongly recommend reading the many free ebooks available at SiteSell.com.

I'm surprised you haven't had results with Adsense. For me, Google adsense has performed better than anything else. For my site it also seems to be a good way to find what other products might sell well (looking at what ads come up).

[aspdaddy]

I had a couple of sports sites when I was at uni that made good earnings with much less traffic than that.

The key IMO is getting your visitors returning (results, reviews) and selling them stuff they are interested in buying and giving them goood offers/deals on it.

Have you got a prominent search box and decent log analyser to capture there needs? If not how are you deciding what ads to place