What to do... 100,000 pageviews a day?

[Todd W]

So my image hosting site is breaking 100,000 pageviews a day now and has not dropped under 60,000 this month. I currently run AdBrite above and below the image and the earnings are in double digits per-day... What are some thoughts as to help improve my earnings.

Some stats about the site:
-50% INT. Traffic.
-75% Pictures contain some sort of adult material
-60,000 to over 100,000 pageviews a day

I was thinking of putting an AdultFrindFinder ad under the TOP adbrite ad if the user was from the U.S.A but I`m not sure if I want to risk the load the server will take for doing 60,000 - 100,000 queries per-day. Or if I should just show the ad to everyone from all countries..? What do you guys think?

I was also thinking of running my own CPA ads for exit popups every 12 or 24 hours.

How would you better monetize this traffic. My goal is to get it to $100/day, and I don't think this is asking to much.

Thanks :)

[ozgression]

Have you tried CPA offers like the "freebie" ones offered at Azoogleads?

[Todd W]

Have you tried CPA offers like the "freebie" ones offered at Azoogleads?

Yes & No. I`ve tried them under the bottom text links so they don't get much exposure. I would need to use a CPA offer that allows INT traffic and those normally pay a TON less so, thats why I was deciding about trying the goe-targeting for a day to see how server load is.


-Todd

[MarkB]

You could offer premium accounts.

[ozgression]

I would need to use a CPA offer that allows INT traffic and those normally pay a TON less so, thats why I was deciding about trying the goe-targeting for a day to see how server load is.

Yeah, if it was all US traffic you'd be laughing.

[Todd W]

You could offer premium accounts.

75% adult material = a few pics would use up an entire premium account, not to mention i`m competing with other 'free' image hosting providers that don't offer 'paid' accounts. I like the idea but I think it would send more ppl away then it would help.


ozgression- Yes, with USA Traffic and non-adult matarial my other image hosting site was doing ~$125 a month with only 1000 uniques and 4000 pageviews a day. (Give or take). For $125 a month I gave-up checking the pics and making sure they were non-adult, and that the sites linking were USA/UK/CA related... Hopefuly soon it will build into another 100k pageview a day site, if not I may sell it.

Keep the ideas coming
-Todd

[MarkB]

I'm not suggesting you charge people, but off an additional account type where they can manage their own upload space for a monthly fee. *shrug* Just trying to help dude.

[Chris]

I think adult friend finder would do quite well for you.

[Westech]

Yes & No. I`ve tried them under the bottom text links so they don't get much exposure. I would need to use a CPA offer that allows INT traffic and those normally pay a TON less so, thats why I was deciding about trying the goe-targeting for a day to see how server load is.


I think that Azoogle has some CPA offers that geotarget for you and send the visitor the the appropriate offer for their country. If it's an international visitor you'll get paid less, if it's a US/UK/Canadian visitor you'll get more. Since they're doing the geotargeting after you send them the visitor it won't put any extra load on your server. Email them to find out which of their offers do this. I think the free smiley offer is one of them.

[Todd W]

I'm not suggesting you charge people... [a] monthly fee. *shrug* Just trying to help dude. :confused:

[Cutter]

If they are adult images you might as well use an adult program. The down-side is that you probably have very low-quality traffic.

You could set it up so that when someone uploads an image they select adult or all-ages. Any "all-ages" content would not display adult ads. That way you don't isolate a segment of your users who are just uploading general pictures.

[MarkB]

Sorry, I meant not suggesting you charge ALL people. Whatever.

[Todd W]

644 visits 550 uniques 10 signups.

I`m wondering what % signup to be paying members, and also curious if I`ll have better signup ratio if I promote Asia Friend Finder since I get a decent amnt. of INT traffic.

I guess I could try this for a week then try Asia and compare.

AFF also allows me to run another network of theres (ASIA) as a popunder that may work too, or I could geo-target if I wanted to test my servers abilities on handling 1mill+ queries a day to check and show usa for usa and asia for asia.

The choices.

[ozgression]

Yeah, geo-targeting it with phpadsnew seems like the way to go. What do they pay per sign-up, btw?

[Todd W]

Yeah, geo-targeting it with phpadsnew seems like the way to go. What do they pay per sign-up, btw?

$30/signup I believe.

[Todd W]

10 Free signups again today but I noticed my AdBrite earnings are more than cut in half so unless these AFF ppl start signing up I`ll remove them... I may remove them after tomororw to see how long and waht % of the free accnts convrt to paying this way I get an idea of what I may earn.