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I have a game related site that I started that caters mostly toward kids. I get a lot of traffic and UV: 55,640 visits 41,081 UV and only $275 per month. I use adsense. I also have CJ but have yet to make a sale after 130,000 impressions. What can I do to make more money with this?
AdSense pays very little for a gaming site. Since you cater to kids, don't expect a lot of sales. Try a CPM affiliate program like ValueClick or Casale.
Give us an idea as to your (approximate since G doesn't allow specific numbers) ctr as well as how many clicks you get and a link so we can review the site and give you at least educated feedback.
Lets suppose the ctr was around 1.5% with around 8,400 clicks per month. What would you suggest for a site like this? I have some related sites with less traffic. Around 10,000 per month. Some of these only have ctr around .5%
"Do you like this game? Then you might also like (insert name of a game that is similar too the one they are playing.) Click here to learn more" (show a link to an internal page of a review of YOUR UNIQUELY WRITTEN article describing said game, but built/based around primarily showing adsense ads. (AKA MFA PAGES within your quality, unique site and content.)
This "should" get Adsense to show game ads that are relevant to your site (hence, the white hat methodology) but that will generally pay more than the MFA sites that are apparently currently being shown.
the trick is to get the highest paying keywords in your genre using white hat methods. This would be one way, but I do hope others here can contribute other methods.
I think you guys are correct CJ is not going to pay for a kids site. The white method described above will not work here either because they don't have much money to spend, if any online. But I have related game sites with an older demographic that I might try it on. They don't have this volume yet.
I have both text and image ads up currently. I just applied a Casale and filled out the contact me form at Valueclick.
I really have no idea what the current per impression pay out is.
MY site hits around 2K Views, 1K Uniques per day but becoz low amount of clicks makes max 10 cent perday,, Arr,, frustrated,,I am a beginner about PPC programs.. Any masters out there that can help to fix this welcomed...
Trampy. I suggest you implement CPM as CharlieA suggested. You would get 1$ + for 1000 views. And implement video ads from adsense or adtoll as kids are more distracted by video ads..
Oops I forgot.. Affilate marketing.. Market games.. I havent used affilates so look around for a deent one.
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Why don't you sign up to some other CPA networks and look into some email/zip submit forms that can be incentivized? There are plenty of white hat ways to implent this to have people submit their email. Offer something extra and lead people through the email submit form first.
Why dont you sell ad spots on your site like Namepros and other sites do. You would make way more than you are making now. You can even have rotating ads/multiple sponsors. Also selling text links, you can easily get 30$ per link per month.
55,640 visits 41,081 UV and only $275 per month 
with around 8,400 clicks per month. What would you suggest for a site like this? I have some related sites with less traffic. Around 10,000 per month. Some of these only have ctr around .5%
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