Optimizing my tv show based website

[JahRuhle]

I recently came into an exact match domain name of a new television show that I think is going to be potentially huge. I bought the domain and put up a couple streams of the last 2 episodes, and did some simple backlinking and I am already getting like 300 visitors a day and I am not even on the 1st page yet. Anyways I've got adsense up so far, but not really making any money from it so far.

I don't want my site to be spammy with those stupid scripts that have a pop-up come up saying "complete this survey before you can watch the episode" I know that shit pisses me off, and I don't want to piss off my visitors.

Anyways, anybody have any ideas?

 

[italianbull]

You could try to set up an Affiliate, and sell these dvd's or relative shows, while writing reviews for these shows.

 

[Makavelimob]

I used to have a TV show site, its tough to monetize but doable, see what other competitors in your niche are doing first. A few options besides adsense you may want to look into, Amazon (low commission but a ton of products), Prosperent, or CPA (mobile, email submits)

Chances are if your audience is interested in TV shows (enough to check out the website), they are probably also interested in music, movies, magazines, other tv shows more than a normal person should be. Its in your best interest to get them signed up for a mailing list (use mailchimp its free up to 1k contacts), promise free reviews on the site and updates of when a new stream is put up. Build this list, send out your Amazon link with DVD's, Music, Clothing, CPA offers, etc.

Dont limit yourself to one show, you could essentially build out an entire network of shows related to the niche rather quickly (i.e True Blood, Vampire Diaries, Twilight, etc) Link each site to eachother in the footer.

Utilize social media (duh), when I had my TV site it had about 4000 twitter followers for just one show, 2000 for another. I used Socialoomph to automate those accounts but I hear tweetattacks is solid. Create a Facebook fan page and let it go viral if its an up and coming show. Constantly barrage them with updates, site links, show news, sprinkle in your affiliate links from time to time. Get traffic high enough and do the survey thing, your users will find it inconvenient but in the end, they'll take the survey to watch the stream.

I hope this rant helps. It won't be easy to make loot but you have options.

 

[bauss]

It's a steep mountain with stuff like that, hence why there is often some decent exact matches in relation to.

But it isn't impossible to make a buck if you're willing to put in excessive amounts of effort to get it off the ground.