Monetizing a swine flu blog?

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I have a swine flu blog that is just over a week old and is getting 500-800 uniques per day. I haven't found a way to monetize this yet but I have made reg fee back through adsense.

I have adsense above the posts on all pages, and below the first post on the homepage. I also have an Amazon banner with n95 fulu masks but have yet to sale any.

Was told by a couple people to cookie stuff but I REFUSE to go that route. Was also told to fill the blog full of ads but I'd rather not as I fear it'll chase folks away.

I'm getting what I think is decent traffic but shitty earnings. Not sure what else I can do at the moment besides the obvious get more traffic.
 


Fill the blog with more useful information on the flu (accurate information) and display CPA ad banners on top and right side of your page(general offers like credit check etc..). Don't make it look spammy, find out what kind of people look for swine flu info and give them the answer to other problems they might be having(if they're in their 20's give them a date, if they're 50 get them viagra.. etc.. You're wasting your time with swine flu masks, especially if you're advertising to USA/CA/UK..
 
zimok said:
Fill the blog with more useful information on the flu (accurate information) and display CPA ad banners on top and right side of your page(general offers like credit check etc..). Don't make it look spammy, find out what kind of people look for swine flu info and give them the answer to other problems they might be having(if they're in their 20's give them a date, if they're 50 get them viagra.. etc.. You're wasting your time with swine flu masks, especially if you're advertising to USA/CA/UK..
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I just assumed swine flu masks was a god way to go. I'll look through everblue and maxbounty and see what good offers they have and try them. thanks for the reply:music06:
 
If your users are afraid of swine flu, they're likely going to be afraid of a lot of other things. Consider your demographic, be a bit more general about what you're marketing to them. As someone else said, if they're in their 20s, put up some dating ads. Try Biz ops, grants, weight loss, etc. If you can somehow split your demographics and target them individually, then do it and market different things to each of them (not sure how you're getting your traffic so I don't know how you'll do that.)
 
I tried this, too; had a swine flu news site with tracking map and such. I went with zip submits... I also used MSN AdLabs demographic analysis tools on my keywords, and upon finding that the searchers were mostly middle-aged women, put in appropriate CPA affiliate ads down the side.

Unfortunately, wasn't profitable -- I spent more on ads than I made from the offers.
 
Has anyone had any luck with the swine domains? I am sitting on one now but haven't done anything with it cause I am focused on another domain. But if it is worth it I might try to do something with it in the next couple days.
 
Only thing I can really see happening is getting into some shit legally if you do not have a lot of proper disclaimers and be careful what you give advice on. If you do not have your medical license and are giving advice it can make it easy for some sue-happy people to try to slap you with a lawsuit. I know a few people who went out and bought the whole mask deal (which don't do anything for you) but now it seems the media wanted to stop pushing this.
 
bad thing is all the people interested in learning about the swine flu keep ending up dead
 
Buy a box of masks for $20 and sell them for $6.99 a pair. If they sell, buy some more.
 
In Europe we sell Tamiflu on Swine Flu blogs. (€ 79 a package) At least I do. Made a few K with this.
 
Collect email addresses and use it for any pop culture crises to come up in the future - the type of people making a big deal about swine flu are the same people who freak out about ANYTHING CNN tells them to.
 
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