Digg Traffic Monetization Idea

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Well we all know digg traffic doesn't do shit with CPC ads. So what about some CPM ads? You get around 10,000 page impressions on the first day you hit front page (before your shared hosting account crashes). So thats around $9-$10 on your first day if your server holds up (I think). And for a small site like mine where I'm not trying to make a shit load of money yet, all of that can add up.

I'm confident that I can reach front page 2 to 3 times a month if I really tried. So after the initial front page digg you get a couple thousand more visits before it trickles down to your average amount of traffic. And I read somewhere that after each digg your average amount of traffic increases than what is use to be. Something like this:

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So over time you'll earn more and more with CPM. Possibly $30 to $40 a month for a blog in its first month of production along with the occasional click or two of your adsense. Also you'll be receiving a shit load of traffic, and you may be able to sell some private advertising. Then you could go over to Sitepoint and sell it for 10x its monthly profit, or $400.

What do you think? For CPM I'm going to be using Clicksor, as I already have an account there and they pay via paypal so its really convenient. I'm going to try and get 3 diggs in 30 days, and see how much money I can make. I'm going to be using the hosting over at SurviveDigg so I'll never crash. Anybody interested in this experiment, or is it worseless and you can tell me whats going to happen already because its been done?
 


JamesH said:
Well we all know digg traffic doesn't do shit with CPC ads. So what about some CPM ads? You get around 10,000 page impressions on the first day you hit front page (before your shared hosting account crashes). So thats around $9-$10 on your first day if your server holds up (I think). And for a small site like mine where I'm not trying to make a shit load of money yet, all of that can add up.

I'm confident that I can reach front page 2 to 3 times a month if I really tried. So after the initial front page digg you get a couple thousand more visits before it trickles down to your average amount of traffic. And I read somewhere that after each digg your average amount of traffic increases than what is use to be. Something like this:

200612091300.jpg


So over time you'll earn more and more with CPM. Possibly $30 to $40 a month for a blog in its first month of production along with the occasional click or two of your adsense. Also you'll be receiving a shit load of traffic, and you may be able to sell some private advertising. Then you could go over to Sitepoint and sell it for 10x its monthly profit, or $400.

What do you think? For CPM I'm going to be using Clicksor, as I already have an account there and they pay via paypal so its really convenient. I'm going to try and get 3 diggs in 30 days, and see how much money I can make. I'm going to be using the hosting over at SurviveDigg so I'll never crash. Anybody interested in this experiment, or is it worseless and you can tell me whats going to happen already because its been done?
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Digg isn't really all that bad with CPC ads. I've made frontpage 3 times this month (isn't hard, you shouldn't have trouble), and I made about $25-30 off each one, and the ads that show on my site are completely irrelevent; for example, I run a web design blog and during the second digg the only ads that were showing were for school books, yet I made ~$25. Once I figure out how to show relevent ads I can't wait to see what I can make.

I'm making $3-4 daily off these crappy ads, with less than 1k uniques daily. Not too shabby.
 
Awesome. One of the problems when I hit front page was that I only had a small ad block that wasn't anywhere near the content. Now I have better optimized ads, and I want to see what the return will be when I have both CPC and CPM ads. Which brings me to a question, what is a really good CPM provider?
 
hahah yo i got a sweet idea. How about you put the CPM ads on and get an impression and after like 10 seconds or like 1 minute or whatever do a redirect to a website that pays per visitor such as adult friend finder ($1.00 each visitor). Just a thought.
 
Sounds like a ton of work for a very little reward. Does the site have things that people actually want to see? Can you get them to subscribe to some sort of email newsletter? To make this worthwhile it sounds like you need to build in some sort of retention offer so you build a list and can email people that come to visit about updates and shiza like that.

I really feel you're not taking nearly enough opportunity to market all these people you're seeing. For example if you are writing an article about the top 10 most exoctic vacation spots in the world. Make a spot of people to sign up for the the monthly Dream Vaction Update newsletter or something like that. Newsletter includes a sweet ass background pic you can stare at all month wishing you were there at your pitiful job, a short blurb on what makes the place so great and a whatever...whatever...whatever.... So sign up today and go to paradise once a month :D

you get the point. But once you have this list built then start sending them monthly emails and once in a while ad a vacation package that goes along with it. now this is all in addition to what you're already doing.... retention and repeat business is where it's at which is == email lists, subscribers to your rss, etc
 
sp111 said:
hahah yo i got a sweet idea. How about you put the CPM ads on and get an impression and after like 10 seconds or like 1 minute or whatever do a redirect to a website that pays per visitor such as adult friend finder ($1.00 each visitor). Just a thought.
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I'm not so sure the CPM company would like that very much...
 
Its really not that much work. I really enjoy working on the site, and writing about the subject (which is cars by the way, link is in the signature). Of course its a horrible ROI, as I've only made $1.63 on the site with adsense after 14,798 ad impressions.

I currently have a feedburner plugin installed, and I'm getting ready to install some sort of newsletter system, but I have no idea what to use. I tried Mail Chimp but couldn't figure it out. If I were to do a newsletter, it would be a weekly publication with a review of the posts that went up, a preview of next weeks posts, some cool links and downloads, and maybe a unique article or two.

I've been a freelance designer and I would make sites and flip them; I would never develop them and try and make a profit with ads. Thats why I'm having such a hard time making some cash out of this site. I think it has awesome potential, seeing as I've updated at least once a day. I just need to come up with some better methods of converting the visitors into money. Damn, this is hard...
 
TylerL said:
Digg isn't really all that bad with CPC ads. I've made frontpage 3 times this month (isn't hard, you shouldn't have trouble), and I made about $25-30 off each one, and the ads that show on my site are completely irrelevent; for example, I run a web design blog and during the second digg the only ads that were showing were for school books, yet I made ~$25. Once I figure out how to show relevent ads I can't wait to see what I can make.

I'm making $3-4 daily off these crappy ads, with less than 1k uniques daily. Not too shabby.
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Yeh, I second what Tyler says.

Two YPN ads on my blog post yesterday, made digg homepage today, I hit over a hundred bucks from one post. Still beats CPM even if my CTR was shit today.
 
I hope you don't mind me asking ltn1dr, but did you have the 2 YPN blocks right next to each other right before the content?
 
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