Hey guys - I hope I've posted this to the right forum. I looked first for a help wanted or similar forum that might match my request better, but I didn't see the right fit. I'm sure the admins will let me know if it doesn't belong here. 
At any rate, a few months ago I acquired a domain that has been in service since 2004 and already has a good number of external links. I put up a fairly simple site with relevant content (it's a person-specific site with a good number of photos) and some Google ad units to see what sort of traffic I could realistically expect. Here are the numbers for my first few months:
http://www.slor.net/traffic.gif
To me, the traffic numbers look pretty good, especially since none of it is coming from any advertising effort on my end - everything comes from what I would consider "real" referrals (no traffic exchanges or the like), and the numbers are going up (February looks like a decrease only because the snapshot is taken a 4AM, so the daily averages are low in the first few days of the month).
My problem here, though, is that I'm getting a very low conversion rate and generating very little income - along the lines of $25/month. I guess what I'm wondering is whether or not there's an expert around here who might be willing to help me further develop things and implement whatever is necessary to improve the clickthru from the site, perhaps for a large percentage of continuing revenue. Then again, perhaps it's just not a good site for income production. If anyone happens to be willing to take a look and maybe work with me, please drop me a line and I'll get you more details on the actual domain and such. If you can't already tell, I'm fairly new at really trying to get much bang out of monetization efforts, but I'd sure like to get better!
thanks
James
At any rate, a few months ago I acquired a domain that has been in service since 2004 and already has a good number of external links. I put up a fairly simple site with relevant content (it's a person-specific site with a good number of photos) and some Google ad units to see what sort of traffic I could realistically expect. Here are the numbers for my first few months:
http://www.slor.net/traffic.gif
To me, the traffic numbers look pretty good, especially since none of it is coming from any advertising effort on my end - everything comes from what I would consider "real" referrals (no traffic exchanges or the like), and the numbers are going up (February looks like a decrease only because the snapshot is taken a 4AM, so the daily averages are low in the first few days of the month).
My problem here, though, is that I'm getting a very low conversion rate and generating very little income - along the lines of $25/month. I guess what I'm wondering is whether or not there's an expert around here who might be willing to help me further develop things and implement whatever is necessary to improve the clickthru from the site, perhaps for a large percentage of continuing revenue. Then again, perhaps it's just not a good site for income production. If anyone happens to be willing to take a look and maybe work with me, please drop me a line and I'll get you more details on the actual domain and such. If you can't already tell, I'm fairly new at really trying to get much bang out of monetization efforts, but I'd sure like to get better!
thanks
James
