The-Quota

[Nathan-]

I have had a site up at The-Quota.com since ~2008. The domain was aged well and had over 500 domains liking in, several thousand backlinks. The site ranked high in serps for a lot of keywords.

The problem I ran into is that it was a humor/guy/adult site. So it was hard to monetize with the adult content and was running into issues where users would post copyrighted material ect....so I ended up shutting it down. It received quite a bit of traffic as well.

So my question is I hate to let all the traffic/serp traffic go to waste. I should put up another site in it's place to capture all that and monetize it this time. Any ideas for a good site that would work with that domain?

 

[Ghost]

The Quota...
-Business techniques, advice, discussion
-Life goals, time management
-Product distribution techniques / tactics
-Blog about world resources and how we need to protect them
-Turn it into a user submitted content site with a strict policy that bans pornography and very mature based content
-Traffic & budget management site for webmasters

 

[Fergal]

Good suggestions from Ghost.

If you enjoyed the niche you originally had on the site, you could consider setting it up again with the same niche and monetizing it with dating affiliate programs.

 

[Ghost]

Good suggestions from Ghost.

If you enjoyed the niche you originally had on the site, you could consider setting it up again with the same niche and monetizing it with dating affiliate programs.

Thanks and I agree.

I would definitely recommend going with your previous niche. Simply because that is why you were so successful with backlinks and ratings.

Just control your content and get your content submitted to other content sites (with a link back of course, or a The-Quota branding image on any images).

If you have a high amount of traffic definitely look into dating affiliate programs, and also networks such as Google AdSense (just follow the ToS though!).
Some other good ways to monetize: Give out VIP accounts if your site is account based that allow for:
-Quicker uploading
-Less/No human verification forms (captcha)
-Private areas for VIP only
-No/Less ads shown
-Discount on any thing you create and sell on your site (minus affiliate sales) for a high rate of content submission.
-Allow VIP members to download image/video albums in a .zip form instead of them having to drag each image to their desktop or download each individual video.
-Allow VIP members to monetize on their articles/content. If they submit a comedic article about the current elections and they get your site 50,000 unique visitors because of that specific article then they should earn some $$ (you obviously take a cut too though).

Also, a good way to get your visitors to stay is give them things that they can earn- awards, etc.
Add a reputation or credit system: Users that can simply leave your site and upload their content elsewhere have no incentive to stay. Users that have racked up a high amount of reputation, or credit will stay because they have gained stats/awards and recognition.

Just ban anyone that posts copyrighted material or inappropriate adult content. Or simply remove them.
Also: HackForums.net had a high amount of fraud/credit card related topics back in the day. They didn't want it (or at least Omni, the owner did not). A person came along and offered a lot of money $$ for Omni and the staff to delete any highly illegal topics, and refer the member to their own site. So instead of highly illegal content showing up on HF it went on Carderprofit.cc < the owner (who offered Omni $$) was actually a government agent and over 20 people got arrested.
> The point being: If you don't want adult content on your main site that you hope to monetize from then you should create a separate website for adult content that you simply want to have for fun. > Send all posters of adult content over that way.
For any copyrighted material, just get rid of that > You don't need any court battles!

 

[Acorn]

You aren't responsible if someone else posts copyrighted content. Just make sure it's in your TOS that you will remove copyrighted content if you are made aware of it. That's what most sites do, it's what I do. I don't sweat it unless someone complains and points out copyrighted material, then we take it down if it's copyrighted.