Thread: Making money from an informative site

When you have low volume of traffic, you need to sell products (which can be ebooks, amazon hard goods, etc, so each sale can bring you $20-$30 of revenue) and you work on list building, bringing in more traffic and creating more depth and width to your site with good content. As traffic builds you can start looking at monetizing more people on your site via mobile apps, paid content, contextual advertising, cpc and cpa. Once you hit a critical mass and have enough pageviews and visitors per month, you can launch into the cpm networks and selling ad space. Without much effort in the health market you can make $3.50 to $6.00/thousand ad views (put 3-6 ads on a page), with more effort and the right niches you can make as much as $20/thousand. There are also opportunities for companies or products to sponsor a section or all of your site, content placement, selling links, selling advertising on your newsletter emails, and more, just depends on your time, effort and ability to run your team.

Originally Posted by Gold777

Anyone purchasing Ad space wouldn't be dumb enough to purchase it from a site that's not receiving considerable amounts of traffic, so that's out of the question.

All models assume traffic.

I have to agree with healthstatus on here. I appreciate gold's thoughts, but I do not think his/her advice is taking the whole picture into account. Ranking for keywords and doing seo is a portion of a site making money. There are plenty of ways to make money as long as you have a product to offer. It would help to have a better knowledge of what the OP is putting together, but at the very least you can make free giveaway report, software, webinar, etc where people optin and you build a list of prospects.
Then find a mailing list that fits your target. Usually people charge about .30 to .50 per unique click. So you can probably buy like 75 clicks for $20. After a person opts in to get your freebie, they can be directed to an upsell offer either you make or an affiliate product. You should be able to make money just from that while you are building your list. Just reinvest back into your business. Eventually if you see you have it dialed in and see you are making say 50% ROI, you can scale to bigger buys (these are called solo ads btw). Here is the biggest thing though, you are building a list of people you can market similar products too forever. If you are giving value and they trust you, you can make a living just doing this and grow. Start adding SEO and ranking and you are well on your way.
You can do other forms of paid traffic, but for bang for your buck this is the way I recommend. Then you can start selling ad space (healthstatus number of $7/cpm sounds right. Remember you can sell multiple spots at that too). Also you can charge others to send solo ads to your list.
Honestly I would reach out to healthstatus with a PM and ask for some tips. People are cooler than you think.

Originally Posted by healthstatus

more than enough to support my style of living.

Are you up to Millionaire status from the site?

Originally Posted by Cavking

Are you up to Millionaire status from the site?

How does that information really help you? Of all the information I have provided in the thread, the amount of money I make would be the most useless. You figure it out, with all the numbers I have provided, is a website that gets 1 million+ visitors a month all from natural seo, in the evergreen health market give me an asset worth more than a million?

Most likely - that's awesome.

I like success stories.

Originally Posted by Cavking

Most likely - that's awesome.

I like success stories.

I like success.