Yeah, I was considering this. One of the selling points I was thinking for this was "sponsoring this page will keep your competitor's ads off of it." Any other ideas?
Excellent thoughts -- I'll plan to include placeholders for simple ad placements that can be sold directly, and will definitely have contact info in the footer.
The Facebook page is also a great idea; I'll get it created and try to auto-post user creations to the page.
I came up with a similar idea a few years ago -- Who Wants First? -- which featured a giant, billboard-type text ad space at the top, in the first position. You could place your ad text there for $1, bumping down all the previous ads into smaller-sized ad spots. Fun idea, but never really took off. Hope yours has better luck!
Still, I'd really recommend ditching the ad at the bottom and focusing on perhaps a single call-to-action, like following on Twitter or liking on Facebook. I know it's tempting to try and monetize something like this but overall the ads and share buttons just kind of junk it up.
Wow, I'm speechless about your contribution! Thank you very much!
I'm the founder of VisualizeUs (http://visualizeus.com), a social bookmarking site for images, and we're in the same situation as endlessvoid94, so the information in your posts is extremely valuable. Right now we aren't monetizing all our traffic properly (900K unique visitors last month, 10M pageviews last month, 51% of the traffic is from US, and you'd laughed about the total revenues!). We have adsense and direct sale to small sponsors, but without any special work on selling the spots (two people just to run all the site).
We're looking for an ad network to monetize our traffic. As you can see our public is creative young people that loves pictures and visual culture, and thus not any graphical ad could fit on there. In fact, to prove that point, the two sponsors we have right now on the small spots, they have a huuge difference on clicks just because of the creativity and theme.
We've just applied to IndieClick, and I'll explore some of the options you mention in your post, including the adnetwork you're working at, as I think it fits into our public ;) I'd appreciate any tip or special suggestion from you, as your opinion is very valuable! Truth is, as a hacker, I'm so new to all this ad world, and feel kind of lost sometimes ;)
Also I'm open to share any info that can be helpful of course!
Seriously? You can't think of the possibilities for a business to utilize this?
Think about a company you would "Like". Imagine they offer a new product or have a sale. This ad would appear, and their already-fans would flock to it.
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