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Questions tagged [monetize]

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Ideas for making money off a website

I'm considering acquiring a website that traffics close to 20k a month. It's currently unprofitable, but obviously I would need to change that to justify the cost. It's a support site for a framework similar to CakePHP. A resource that allows people…
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How to pay for servers without ads?

I have a website whose goal is to provide a free educational service (like wikipedia does, not on the same scale obviously). I wonder how I will continue to pay for the servers when I reach high traffic. I don't want to use any ads or sponsor…
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Podcast Best Practices - Page Development & Monetization Considerations

Our current podcast page has show notes and a link to download an mp3 of our podcast. We were advised to add an audio player to stream the file live from our website. The thought being this would improve time spent on our site and allow for…
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Making profit from a social network

This follows similar questions but I'd like to see if anything particular comes out of it due to the nature of site. In short, I've taken up the role of webmaster for a small social network site and wish to make it profitable to at least cover the…
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Why is RPM for mobile is much less than RPM for desktop in Google Adsense?

I have about 50% of my website's traffic on mobile devices (iOS and Android.) The RPM for mobile is much worse than RPM for desktop. Is there any way I should do to increase the RPM? Data here: PV | Click | CTR | CPC | RPM…
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Google Adsense threshold estimation

I've an electronic music blog with traffic mainly from the North American continent, Western Europe and Russia. Daily I get about 100 unique visitors with 150-200 pageviews. Should I start Adsense or I need to work to increase the traffic stats. Can…
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AdSense vs personal advertising system

I have a website that gets +10,000 hits a month. I currently have AdSense running on it but I am finding that I am barely getting any clicks or ad revenue at all. I was wondering if I would do any better if I started my own advertising system, where…
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Reasonable payment providers to allow African countries to pay a UK Business

One of my sites has a fairly large following in Uganda and Mauritius (although in actual percentage terms African nations would rank quite low). We currently do most of our processing through Paypal for memberships and donations but they do not…
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Using Google Adsense on Hidden Sections of Domain

I got a verified google Adsense account a few years ago when I was running my own little blog, which related to my web design business. I was able to use the same registered account to set up ads on a music website that I created, under a new…
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Are multiple pop-under advertisements from different ad networks possible to use on a single site?

I was wondering is it possible to place multiple pop-under adverts on the same website? I am currently using Popcash for a single popunder which works fine and pays a small amount per day but i wanted to multiple that by maybe 2-3 pop-unders to…
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Monetise website via Amazon affiliate? Or other means

I have an idea for an information based website that would potentially drive a large amount of traffic to a particular destination. Initially I wanted to drive traffic to the products own website but a colleague suggested potentially driving it to…
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Why do tools estimate my AdSense earnings to be much greater than actuallity?

I use Google AdSense at a site with about 15000 page views monthly. If I use some tools the check my website's values then it says that it has a certain value and that I should be able to earn much more than I'm actually doing (I use solely google…
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How to Join Yahoo! Right Media Exchange as a Publisher?

I'm trying to get involved in Right Media as a publisher as an alterntive to adsense and other ad networks. However, there doesn't seem to be a way to signup. I've tried contacting them with no avail. Has anyone else got any idea how to get in as a…
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At what traffic point is it worth it to start looking to put ads on a website?

My Google Analytics have slowly been climbing over time and I'm wondering how many unique visitors I need to make it worth my time to look into monetizing that traffic with advertising on the site? Thanks.
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Can i use "Adsense search" in a facebook app?

I have a Facebook app and I would like to monetize it with Adsense search, which means that people could use a "Google Adsense search box" within Facebook page. Is it allowed?
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