Monetize hiphop traffic?

Sg4

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Nov 18, 2006
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I have a blog that is getting around 10,000 UVs a month on general hiphop keywords.

Looking for ideas for monetization, beyond adsense. Anyone seen any good offers out there that might passively convert?
 


Good hiphop or shit hiphop?

If shit hiphop you could probably get away with selling 'bling' and other stuff 15 year old white kids would buy. If its real hiphop then you probably won't have much luck, maybe ebay listings of rare tapes or something
 
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I think jamster has some good hiphop banners. .
If its in the tos and you dont give a shit about your visitors I would get one of those timed overlay pop-ups that basicly whites out the screen and slams the offer in their face.

set it to never show up if the traffic is refereed direct from the search engine (cause this may kill your SERP)s. but on the next page they click to, then slam up and don't let them go...
 
I had a sorta hip hop site.

How you monetize really depends on the overall content of the site and what individual pages are being landed on for what keywords.

Music is one of the shittiest sites to monetize. Can be to some success don't expect like $5k or anything a month.

Here are some ideas -

Linkshare has Itunes. I know most people hate rev share but I like itunes for one reason. THEY HAVE A 120 DAY COOKIE. Also they have a shitload of banners that will work good for virtually any artist. If the CMS is wordpress and you can easily place specific banners on each post that gets hits. With something relevant.

Copeac and some others have Music Oasis Free Living Marine Screensaver
could do ok

Here is another one they have
Free Living Marine Screensaver
this is a video download toolbar.

Ringtones could do well did not for me.

The "bling" idea could go over well, I suggest just using EPN for it though rather than some networks,\


*edit - funny how they say marine screensaver for the links.