I’ve read in Finch’s premium posts (excellent material, read the first one, then immediately bought the rest) that if you find a webmaster who’s making money purely via adsense, there’s a huge opportunity there to make a lot more money with the traffic on those pages.
I’ve also read that throughout the STM posts.
Sooo, while I don’t make my money purely with Adsense (I own a lot of my own products in the dating advice niche, promote a lot of CPS clickbank offers via email, as well as other offers from individual publishers I know) I do have several adsense pages that are doing well.
Last month I got 106,000 impressions with revenue of about $4800 on my Adsense pages. The RPM is $40.
Here are examples of two of them:
http://franktalkaboutattraction.com/...ating-site.htm
http://franktalkaboutattraction.com/...men-online.htm
But I also have a lot of pages that get a similar amount of traffic, pages I could never put Adsense on, because they are too “naughty.” (Adsense pages are on a completely different domain, and do not link to any of my other websites).
The demographic is male, 25 plus, interested in dating, they like women, and are from the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
So, I’m curious as to what all you professional AM’s would do with the same amount of traffic, same demographic as my adsense pages, landing on these pages (and pages like them):
http://www.womenapproachyou.com/ps/e...brina23-60.php
http://www.womenapproachyou.com/ps/e...-test22-59.php
I own the website, control everything in my business, and can put whatever offer/banner/advertisement I want on those pages, no holds barred. Currently the only monetization is a link to a relevant clickbank offer or one of my products. It occurs to me there is opportunity here for CPA dating offers, as well as other ads, and that I'm leaving a lot of money on the table.
Sooo, what would you smart guys and girls do with these pages to beat a $40 RPM?
Let me know your suggestions, I’ll implement them, and let you know the results!
Look at what your Adsense ads are promoting, and start from there. Pick one country at a time. From a Netherlands IP I see two Lexa.nl ads (they have an affiliate program).
Also...
- This might give you some ideas http://affexpert.com/pofsp1/index.php.
- This would be good as a all geo catch http://www.badassjv.com/
The benefit of Adsense is that it really requires very little work from your side.
The downside is that you pay Google for that privilege. There is sadly no free lunch.
If Google is paying you effective $40 per mille, then that means that their advertisers are paying Google around effective $70-per mille.
As for the sites where you can't run Adsense, this cuts both ways. There are advertisers that can't advertise on Google for the exact same reason.
So is there an opportunity for you to cut out the middleman altogether?
Yes.
But it will take work from your side, and if the scale of your operations are relatively small, it may end up being too much work for the return.
Thanks! Funny you should mention Tao of Badass, I actually mailed a lot for Tim Houston and Josh Pelliceur before Jon Benson wrote the VSL that shot up clickbank in 2011...I still promote it on occasion, and it still does decently. Josh has left, and Houston is running thing along with Tai Lopez, but the original video sales letter Benson wrote still works well. For anyone interested in copywriting, I highly recommend Jon's 3x VSL course....a lot of successful VSL's use his formula.
There are a lot of people on this forum who do dating offers. I am sure by reading some of their posts, you can find powerful ways to monetise your traffic much, much better.
You can take PlentyofFish as a model.
PlentyofFish was essentially (and in my view very foolishly) monetising their sites solely through Adsense for the first few years of their operations. Once they finally realised how much money they were leaving on the table, they pivoted their business model to not only serve as a direct buy traffic source for affiliates, but also to run affiliate offers themselves.
Needless the say, their revenues have grown massively since this move.