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Old 11-28-2007, 08:39 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I have built a social networking website that really falls in a specific niche. It has grown popular in recent months with a about 300,000 visitors a month and over 2 million page views. I am forcasting to get to 1m visitors and 7m pageviews by end of 1q 2008.

What I would like to know is roughly how much I could profit from using Google/DoubleClick or other advertising company.
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Old 11-28-2007, 09:28 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Congrats. But do tell, what is your site exactly. You're leaving us in suspense.
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Old 11-28-2007, 10:13 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Congrats. But do tell, what is your site exactly. You're leaving us in suspense.
I would love to, but I am considering seeking private capital to grow the site rapidly and dont want the VC people to be able to come back later and track my research to this forum.

I really am looking to get an idea that I might be able to start and focus my business plan around...
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Old 11-29-2007, 07:48 AM   #4 (permalink)
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I would love to, but I am considering seeking private capital to grow the site rapidly and dont want the VC people to be able to come back later and track my research to this forum.

I really am looking to get an idea that I might be able to start and focus my business plan around...
Come on man. If your company is truly as good as you think the VCs are not going to give two shits that you were asking questions on this forum about google ads etc - if they even bother to look. Why give up the opportunity to attract some of us to your site by not giving the name?!? I smell something fishy...
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Old 11-29-2007, 04:24 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Come on man. If your company is truly as good as you think the VCs are not going to give two shits that you were asking questions on this forum about google ads etc - if they even bother to look. Why give up the opportunity to attract some of us to your site by not giving the name?!? I smell something fishy...
s0bercircle.c0m

replace 0's with o's. I may be paranoid, I dont know....
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Old 11-29-2007, 05:37 PM   #6 (permalink)
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well..not a fan of myspace clones, but it looks like a good market. as far as monetizing goes, of course there is the adwords, sponsors, maybe premium membership upgrades.

how have you advertised this site?
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Old 11-29-2007, 05:44 PM   #7 (permalink)
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replace 0's with o's. I may be paranoid, I dont know....
ha! that's soooo my kind of community
just joined!
ok...you'll need to fix up ur alexa and compete.com rankings (467k and 133k respectively) because at first look they're at odds with the traffic results you're reporting. these are just the first two numbers people look at, and they've gotta be much lower to match your traffic stats. 1st impressions count.

plus, there's the members database. the search of the database shows that you have about 12k registered members. out of those 0.5% will be active in the community (i.e. 60 people)...it's unusual for the participation rate to be over 0.5% (unless you're facebook). anyway, with 60 active members, again the stats won't stack up

i'm not being difficult..i'm just telling you how other people will diligence the information you're giving them

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Old 11-29-2007, 06:04 PM   #8 (permalink)
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What I would like to know is roughly how much I could profit from using Google/DoubleClick or other advertising company.
i dunno..what's the cpm for your kind of keywords?
it'd be $2-3
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Old 11-29-2007, 07:00 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Yes, I think google and some other resources will help you get more traffic
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Old 11-29-2007, 07:49 PM   #10 (permalink)
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ha! that's soooo my kind of community
just joined!

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