What type of site earns you most?

adult sites earns me the most

 

Just because the traffic is poor quality doesn't mean the site doesn't earn anything. You just need more of it - and to be able to convert it.

The question was - what kind of site earns you the most?

 

Site related to make money from home, trading, dating .....

 

The biggest earner is a site with unique idea and unique audience! Once the niche gets populated, you have competition, and competition is not good for business. Thats why you come up with other unique ideas to outmarket, outrun and crush the competition. hehe

 

Very true. Competition can be a healthy thing though. It also tells you there's money in that niche (more then likely anyway)

 

I'm actually more inclined towards CPM sites. Small sites with large number of impressions/visitor. Make that visitors figure grow and 1 refreshable page will bring nice profits.

 

this is true..but i think that it's harder to make a page that has lots of visitors than making a niche site/directory..

 

.. which has none... True, true..

 

) funny...

 

Yeah, my highest earning clients all have some aspect to their business which is unique and that would be difficult to replicate. (Even if that aspect was creating their site in 1995. )

 

One large community site, 1.2MM pages in google, online for 7 years...

Then again, I had a 7 page site on the south beach diet that was making me $1K a day for a bit. *shrug*

 

Direct sales sites.

Can't get any better than that If anyone has academic sites and want to make $50 per sale, hit me up.

 

I prefer Dating site and classified site, but both need quite a lot of heavy developing and marketing and the initial stage.
I don't think forums perform well (except DP of coz )

 

Stupid question. how do you monetize through adult sites?
Advertising? Subscription? or Anything else?

 

Most likely affiliate commissions through PPS or RevSharing. AFF is just incredible when it comes to revshare. A buddy of mine has a network of adult sites that generate like 50 signups/day for AFF, and he gets 50% of all their subscription fees.

 

The site that gets me the most traffic is my martial arts portal, but the biggest revenue I got from my webmaster forums.

 

Great answer Nicod3mus. I tend to agree. I am already starting to move into this area more with good results so far. Although I also think the popularity of video is going to continue, especially with Adbrite betaing ads in video and the dropping prices of high speed connections. In fact, by far my biggest earner is a video site.

The problem with this is far less SE traffic. I am having to spend a little on advertising to attract traffic. But, over all profit is still the best.

 

I must say, this is certainly an interesting thread.

I have a community web site that I've been developing over several years. It gets pretty good traffic and pushes out about 2.2 million page views per month on a low average. I've tried various methods to monetize the size through either affiliate programs, Adsense, etc, but nothing seems to have worked very well at all.

I set up a market site using software that ties into Amazon and provides a private-labeled shopping cart, but it's only a month or two old so it hasn't done much yet.

I would love to hear any ideas that any of you have for my primary site:
http://www.tacticalgamer.com

I've been pondering throwing up a number of new Adsense ads for unregistered users.

 

Well, your current adsense at th bottom of that long page is practically worthless. With that many page views I would consider some type of CPM advertising rather than CPC. There is a large blank space to the right of your main logo in the header just screaming for a banner to be put there.

 

I did a recent redesign and shoved the banner down at the bottom just because it was pretty worthless to begin with. The only banner programs I found that seemed to be reputable were CPC, but I would much rather get involved in a CPM program.

There was one CPM offer that claimed to pay out $1 per 1000 impressions but our agreed-upon 468x60 banner that I was supposed to be displaying suddenly started producing pop-ups and pop-unders as well so I ceased that relationship immediately.

Any ideas for good sources for CPM?