Ideas for revenue model on PC Gaming News Blog?

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Pharn

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Hi,

following WF for long time, but now I came to "full stop" on one of my sites, and just cant figure out how to make it work. I have a PC Gaming blog, (modernfictum(dot)com),

26k uniques a month, 70% US, pages per visit 1.3., average stay 40 secs. All unique content.

I ve tried multiple options of monetization ranging from PC gaming related products (amazon affil, clickbank) to not so much related - dating affil, loans, cards etc. For now have adsense hanging there. All in all nothing really worked, all the affil programs I ve tired failed, adsense is not helping. (so desperate with that site that I am actually trying to sell it on flippa, though with 0 revenue numbers I do not think ti will lead anywhere)

Maybe some of You were trying something similar, or know what could work on such site/have some suggestions.

Any advice is warmly welcomed.

Thank you for your time.

Pharn
 


Have you considered putting an actual game on the site? Or somehow tying up with game developers and using your site as a "first use" sort of site? That gets feedback?

Target those who are trying to design their games without big corp backing. That might help!
 
try collecting emails for some sort of opt in and then ewhoring....gamers are horny :) lol
 
Pharn said:
26k uniques a month, 70% US, pages per visit 1.3., average stay 40 secs. All unique content.
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Looks like very short attention spans... Are your visitors REALLY finding what they're looking for on your blog? What are your search traffic KWs? What about your social medias visitors?

Your content seems to be more than fine but maybe your overall "look and feel" is a bit dull and clinical... Think first WHY people SHOULD read your blog... what's your added value comparing to your competition?

I guess you have all the ingredients in your writing to make someone interested, but nobody wants to dig out why they should love your blog.

Monetization will come after that work is done I think... and it will become easier for you.
 
Ericb said:
Looks like very short attention spans... Are your visitors REALLY finding what they're looking for on your blog? What are your search traffic KWs? What about your social medias visitors?

Your content seems to be more than fine but maybe your overall "look and feel" is a bit dull and clinical... Think first WHY people SHOULD read your blog... what's your added value comparing to your competition?

I guess you have all the ingredients in your writing to make someone interested, but nobody wants to dig out why they should love your blog.

Monetization will come after that work is done I think... and it will become easier for you.
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^^ this and...

1. Your monetization is basically hidden. On your pages you have one banner above the fold, but it's in classic banner blindness territory. And one tiny sidebar ad.

You need to put your ads front and center. For example, all visitors to Gamespot go to a splash page with a full page ad. Not saying you need to do that but you should be more aggressive considering this isn't buyer traffic. If your content is good people will stay as long as you don't go overboard.

2. You may need to accept that this traffic isn't going easy to monetize or worth your time. I once had a site ranked #1 for a dating keyword and was getting 3k+ visitors per day. I had good content so I had a low bounce rate, lots of time spent on site etc.

But I tried lots of stuff and nothing worked especially well. Even Adsense placed in the same theme with the same placements of another site in a difference niche had a 3x lower CTR than my average.

All traffic is not created equal and this sort of traffic isn't particularly easy to monetize.
 
Pharn said:
26k uniques a month, 70% US,
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o rly?

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why not put a real game on there with ads on it? So people will actually want to stay. They will play the game and probably click on some of your ads while doing so.
 
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