I've spent the past year building a fairly unique MetArt affiliate website that I'm just now trying to monetize (in addition to MetArt). My traffic is 100% organic at this point and amounts to about 250 users and 1,000 page views per day. Only 30% is American, though. The rest is mainly Chinese, Turkish and Russian.
What kind of adult promotions work well with lower tier geos? Should I try to run my own campaigns or should I sign up with an ad network?
I know the conventional wisdom is that you need thousands and thousands of viewers to run profitable adult campaigns but since this is free traffic, I'd like to see what kind of conversion rate I can get before buying any.
Hello, the best option to monetize such a mix would be with SOI dating campaigns, but since its such a mix, you will need to use a smartlink or your own ad server.
I think lospollos network has a dating smartlink, check it out.
As I mentioned, you could also use an adserver, and setup each GEO separately, but since it's really not a lot of traffic, it would be to much work with questionable results ... unless you actually run a network of similar smaller sites, in that case it would make more sense.
Then there are the other classic options that you are probably aware of ... you can sell banner space to exoclick for example, same with popunders or mobile redirect (redirect can affect SEO though). These option would bring in some more $, but a very low amount since its just 1000 impressions.
With such highly targeted traffic, selling the Metart memberships should bring the best results I think ... plus some additional revenue from dating.
Yeah LosPollos is one option. Rev-Force is good too since their smartlink lets you see what offers are converting.
Then again LP probably has the geos you are after.
There are also networks like bitterstrawberry, who can monetize the mobile clicks too ... and their smartlink is configurable, so you can chose what you want to promote ... check it out too.