Ask HN: Best way to monetize 'decent traffic' site?

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marcamillion

11 years ago

I run a site that gets a moderate amount of traffic, see images below from last 3 weeks (Jan 27 - Feb 15):

http://imgur.com/4KKTr7y

http://imgur.com/kmbvjHE

http://imgur.com/cEGwbDh

http://imgur.com/1Usyjpv

Traffic: 50K - 120K uniques, 250K - 800K pageviews (depending on month).

We have been using AdSense & BuySellAds for monetization, but quite frankly the income sucks from both. We would like to explore selling more direct advertising.

It seems that BSA is the AdSense for any site in our range of traffic. But due to the lacklustre results I would love to explore other options.

The site is a news site.

A) Any marketers have clients that may be interested in this type of traffic?

B) Do you have any suggestions for how we can monetize this traffic? E.g. alternative ad networks.

Thanks.

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