Ask HN: Monetise a blog in 2016

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11043541

by 10dpd • 10 years ago

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I have a minecraft Wordpress site that I bought on flippa a year ago that has 70k sessions a month and earns about $80 a month from Adsense.

How can I increase the revenue on this site in 2016?

loumf• 10 years ago

I would normally say that niche blogs are better off having members-only features, but worried that your sessions might be kids.

If that's so, making sure you are very mobile-friendly and looking at app-install ad networks might be better than adsense.

bazillion• 10 years ago

Check out my plugin http://pleenq.com/ -- for a minecraft blog, it might be neat to link images on your blog to where people can buy things like thoe J!NX replicas, t-shirts, etc.

Here's an example of the effect it creates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GfKBvs53Ss

When users click through and buy something, you'd get a percentage of the sale. It could also be a lot more beneficial to users than just showing banner ads.

If you combine it with actually providing a benefit (i.e. a diamond block linking to the wiki page on diamond blocks), your users might very much appreciate the functionality.

herbst• 10 years ago

It is still simply not working for me on chrome.

iSloth2• 10 years ago

If it was mine, I'd be offering Minecraft hosting and using that blog base as lead generation...

thenomad2• 10 years ago

Or find a Minecraft host that has an affiliate program. Considerably less work than hosting yourself.

iSloth2• 10 years ago

True, but generally affiliate programs are a one off commission at point of sale, where as the hosting is a reoccurring revenue that builds a business. Depends on what kind of time/effort your willing to put in, and if your trying to build a business or just some low effort income.

jordansmith• 10 years ago

Reach out to minecraft servers to buy advertising.

BuySellAds.com

Minecraft hosting affiliate program. Bonus if they have a recurring cost per sale model

Ask HN: Monetise a blog in 2016

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