So I've recently started two content driven sites. One is strictly a blog and the other has a blog, and a series of recipes and I'm considering adding premium content. My question is, does anyone have experience with an inexpensive method of driving traffic to a content driven site?
My first thought was to use PPC advertising, but this doesn't seem to be cost effective. Only a certain percentage of the clicks that I pay to arrive at my site will convert to click on the AdSense advertisements on my site. (Incidentally, are there better money making ads?) I discussed this with my friend and he said that AdSense doesn't really make much money unless your site has 100,000+ page views, which is something that right now seems entirely unfeasible. I don't need to make a huge amount of money off of these websites. I have come up with an idea for premium content for one of the sites, but for the other I'd like to continue writing the blogs and eventually compile them into a book. However, until I do that I'd like to at least have that website in the black. Any ideas or criticisms?
thanks,
Sheldon
My first thought was to use PPC advertising, but this doesn't seem to be cost effective. Only a certain percentage of the clicks that I pay to arrive at my site will convert to click on the AdSense advertisements on my site. (Incidentally, are there better money making ads?) I discussed this with my friend and he said that AdSense doesn't really make much money unless your site has 100,000+ page views, which is something that right now seems entirely unfeasible. I don't need to make a huge amount of money off of these websites. I have come up with an idea for premium content for one of the sites, but for the other I'd like to continue writing the blogs and eventually compile them into a book. However, until I do that I'd like to at least have that website in the black. Any ideas or criticisms?
thanks,
Sheldon
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