Need help from affiliate with "celebrity traffic" experience

[Knup]

Have any of you ever had a celebrity site? I currently have a few of these "fan sites" and a couple of them are just blowing up traffic wise. This certain one is getting around 1000 visits a day and has like 2500+ email list. Growing by 50 every day.

Ok, so I make like $80 a month from adsense. Woopee... I need someone to take my hand, guide me, and show me how to increase that. Or maybe someone to simply confirm to me that it's not possible to make more than this off of this type of traffic. (kids following celebrities)

I have no idea how much to repay any of you but if you can show me how to increase earnings I'm more than willing to compensate something back (money, content, links, etc...)

The main site in question is:
Selena Gomez Club (Don't laugh or even ask how it got started - lol)

All I have is adsense on it. These are probably not "buying" type people. Advice from someone that has been here with celeb traffic?

[Gydian]

I would strongly urge you to signup for some Survey sites (CPALead used to be pretty good. Haven't used it in a while).

These types of sites do VERY well with 2 types of monetization:

1. Interesting Graphical banners to games (Dress-up games to cater to your fairly young female audience and aggressive games for your hormone-driven boys)
2. Surveys with the chance to win free stuff.

I can almost guarantee that if you search Ebay and invest in some cheap Selena Gomez items and put them up on the site as a "Do a survey get a chance to win this item" deal you will make a seriously decent killing. On this alone I'd estimate on 1000 unique users per day (I'm assuming mostly from US/CA/AU/UK) you should make at least $25 - $45/day possibly more)

For the banner ads, you're looking to use something that has a fairly standard CPC. There's a few options out there for this.

Since you're also running google ads, I'd suggest placing a text link category list type placement under your main nav links. Kids like to click stuff without actually reading or realizing what it is and the text link block ads (The ones that're just headings like this: Ads By Google LINK1 LINK2 LINK3) do amazingly well and have a high CTR when I did sites like these.


Anyway, this is what I was going to do with those ones you were selling before but I totally got sidetracked. -_-

[KevinMcC]

First thing I'd do is have a big adsense banner under the header there above the fold that fits right in with the looks of the site.

[Knup]

Thanks for the input guys. I'll give both a try. Yeah probably a little better placement and thought on the adsense ads is needed. And then I'll look into CPALead as well Gydian. I'll let you guys know how things progress.

Feel free to chime in anyone... This is why this place rocks!

[Scott]

If you go the content locker route you can also check out BlamAds.com

[BishamonMedia]

check out this guys guide to maximizing emails. you should be making a hefty chunk of change with those and even doubling the amount joined - Cloud Blueprint

When you have the opt in emails its like a license to print money.