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mindcry · #1 08-04-2006, 12:56 AM

I have been running my site for almost 2 years now and it has grown a lot. I am up to 9,977 members as of right now. However, I cannot seem to make money off of the site, or get advertisers. I have tried various CPM networks with not much success. Currently I am using CJ and YPM and making some, but not much. I have tried taking donations but I have very few at the moment. Also, I have tried having merch made, which did ok. I am about even with that with still some more to sell. Maybe it is just unrealistic for me to make money. So, either I am not big enough, or I am doing something wrong. It is a snowboarding community website. Anyway, I posted my stats below from the past 2 months. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

June Stats
Total Sessions 62,331.00
Total Pageviews 1,435,734.00
Total Hits 4,485,734.00
Total Bytes Transferred 22.04 GB

July Stats
Total Sessions 60,149.00
Total Pageviews 2,149,547.00
Total Hits 6,191,176.00
Total Bytes Transferred 29.89 GB

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