I have a "hobby" website with a number of articles on it.. it's been around for about 4 years and gets about 10,000 unique visits a month. It's listed in many places, and is amazing to me that even after 2 years of no updates.. there are so many people visiting.

The articles are pretty much about nothing at all, and most people just come to the site, read the articles, have a laugh, and then never come back.

How can I make money off it? adwords? sell stuff? affilliate programs?

The people visiting are mostly (I think) people who are bored, have lots of time, and probably between 10 - 20 years old.

Any ideas? I can't give out the URL because it would be considered self-promotion and get me banned from these forums.

I would think 10-20 years old isn't a very good demographic, but you could always try Google's adsense.

If you have that many unique hits, you could probably make some decent extra cash with AdSense by all means.

Good grief.

Stop SPAMMING me with offers to buy this site. I'm NOT interested in selling. Did my post infer I was willing or interested to sell?

I've head no less then six people offer to buy this site, and I didn't even publish the domain or anything.

Go troll somewhere else, will you? If you don't have a response to my thread question, then please DO NOT SEND ME EMAIL!

:mad:


To everyone else who posted a response here, thanks for your post. I'll take a look at google adsense and see if maybe I can implement that on the site.

If you have any more suggestions/ideas on how to make $$ for a hobby site, then please let me know.

Cheers!

I have a fan site for a certain movie (:D) and recieve about 5,000 uniques a month and a lot of regulars.
I set up a affiliation shop with a site that sells this certain movie's fan stuff and I get about $50 dollars a month from that.

I think adsense and maybe trying to sell links/banner adds to people of other sites might be a good way to go.

Originally posted by jasong
I set up a affiliation shop with a site that sells this certain movie's fan stuff That's not a bad idea. With the age group I am receiving... movies might be a good topic to use for the adsense ads.

Heck, what else are 13 - 20 years olds interested in? Politics? :rolleyes:

Thanks!

I recommend you try google adsense.

GoogleAdsense is a good way.

movies might be a good topic to use for the adsense ads.Adsense picks the ads automatically based on the page's content. (Sorry if you already knew this and I got the wrong impression.)

Originally posted by ldcdc
Adsense picks the ads automatically based on the page's content. (Sorry if you already knew this and I got the wrong impression.) I did not know that. Thanks!

I'd do Adsense :)

Depending on what the articles are about, amazon.com might also be a good alternative.

What's the deal with these Google "Public Service Ads"? Is this something new or have I just not noticed them? They don't appear to be context-sensitive. Do they pay more/less than adsense, or do you get nothing I wonder?

Originally posted by MDJ2000
I would think 10-20 years old isn't a very good demographic...

The tobacco industry disagrees, and I'm quite sure would jump at the chance to pay big bucks to advertise to the 10-20 set if there were a way to not be blatant about it -- depends on your content I suppose. Not that I'm recommending that! But there are more wholesome examples.

adsense is the way to go

Originally posted by BigBison
What's the deal with these Google "Public Service Ads"? Is this something new or have I just not noticed them? They don't appear to be context-sensitive. Do they pay more/less than adsense, or do you get nothing I wonder?

https://www.google.com/adsense/faq#start5

"Until we are able to crawl your site, we may display public service ads or your specified Alternate Ads, for which you will not accrue any AdSense earnings."

Adsense works i get over 3000 unique hits a day on my site and i use adsense, pays just about all my bills.

Originally posted by JasonTRG
Adsense works i get over 3000 unique hits a day on my site and i use adsense, pays just about all my bills.

Thats great well done :)

Originally posted by JasonTRG
Adsense works i get over 3000 unique hits a day on my site and i use adsense, pays just about all my bills.

Hi,
JasonTRG
How many unique visits a month (or day) you have?
Thank you.

as stated above i get over 3000 a day unique hits around 20,000 total hits a day

Adsense works i get over 3000 unique hits a day on my site and i use adsense, pays just about all my bills.

What bills are they paying for, your hosting bills or all your bills?

they pay for my reseller hosting, this site is not on there though. I have a donated server for the site i use adsense on.

adsense is always a good way:)

I would say that adsense sounds like a good idea. 13 - 20 is a difficult age range to advertise too. They rarely buy anything, so it's pretty much useless trying to seel products to them. You would need to advertise something that wouldn't necessarily be a product to sell.

try clicksor? its pretty much the same as adsence, don't know if it pays more or less though...

You could also sell advertising space either $/per week or $/per x impressions. That could always work.