Expected Revenue per click? I think we need a better affiliate.

[topgeek]

Hi Everyone,

Quick question about revenue to be expected...

Background:

We have a website that is dedicated to video gaming.
We launched the site in April, all marketing has been word of mouth at this point.
We are currently at 38,000 unique visitors and approaching a million page views.

The site has been declined by google adsense as there is "not enough text" - which is ridiculous as the site is a graphic based site with a huge amount of pertinent/related data - but it is what it is (their robot crawls it and declines us before a human ever gets to look at the quality of our content).

Our advertising had just over 2200 click throughs last week - just under 2000 clicks the week before.

I'm not impressed with our current affiliate network where 2.2K click throughs generated less than $8 revenue (and another week 1400 click throughs generated $3).

Does anyone have any recommendations on affiliate networks?
We would like to generate some ad revenue so we can actually start promoting the site and really drive some traffic to it - chicken'n'egg syndrome.

cheers and thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Ed

 

[inflameous]

Have you tried Facebook Ads? They have cheaper prices and much more optimizing options. Also you mentioned that you have a video gaming websites, you could give reddit ads a try if you target specifically a gaming sub-reddit. Best of luck.

 

[topgeek]

I guess I should clarify: we are looking to increase revenue from the ads that we display on our site.

 

[inflameous]

Have you tried reaching out people that would be interested to display their banner on your website, rather than use an affiliate network.

 

[servandosilva]

Try Ad4game. Their CPM is really good ($5-20 per 1k impressions), but they have some high traffic requirements.