What to do with this site?

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alexb

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This site is my little experiment with community-driven blogs. The initial premise was that members could sign up to contribute and get paid after every third article published, and that worked pretty well for awhile, but then I got threatened with a lawsuit and had to move to a new domain. Since then, search traffic has pretty much dried up, so the site isn't growing much anymore.

Also, after sinking over $1,000 into article payments, my funds for the site dried up. Because I'm not getting much search traffic, nobody new is coming in, and thus I'm not making anything off of advertising.

Most of my writers said they'd keep writing with or without pay, but incoming new articles have pretty much vanished, so I'm down to just the shitty unpublished stuff that I never planned on using.

The site has almost 400 articles published and I've been publishing 4 per day. What should I do with it?
 


Personally, I think you two made the mistake in the beginning before even writing the articles. How much time did you spend in Keyword Research? It seems either your articles aren't targeted to long tail keywords or the keywords your articles are targeted are to saturated.
 
Forgot to mention - I didn't spend any money on mine besides server costs :) free user generated content hehe
 
Not sure if you'd be able to do this, but if you've technically 'paid' for the articles and they are yours, perhaps match them up to 3-4 CPS/CPA offers (and here is where it gets sticky). Make domain landers, submit those articles to ezine with minor changes and add your lander.com to them.

Instead of trying to monetize on the ad zones on your site, monetize the content itself. $1000 for 400 quality keyword researched ready to submit articles? I'd buy 'em. Only bitch is worrying about duped content or having to change it enough.

Are you shooting for adsense ads beside the content or CPA/CPS banners and links? Small volume traffic might be better suited for CPS on higher ticket items. Might make much less conversions but you'll probably pull more $ out of it this way than adsense...

Cheers,
N.
 
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