{"id":221,"date":"2010-04-30T11:44:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogseye.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2010-04-30T11:44:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:44:43","slug":"time-for-a-redesign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogseye\/2010\/04\/time-for-a-redesign.html","title":{"rendered":"Time for a Redesign"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a fairly high volume site. It gets about 65,000 uniques and 220,000 page views a month, but it makes no money ($83 in click through ads in April). This site used to make 5 times this before the economy tanked.<\/p>\n

I need to do a major redesign on the site. You can see it at HarpTab.com<\/a>. The website design is at least 7 years old. Many of the layouts are broken or not displaying well. Google’s webmaster tools has lots of problems with the site.<\/p>\n

Originally, I took a bunch of phone song snippets and converted them to harmonica tab. I then made a little flash thingy that plays the snippets. Harmonica players are a huge demographic.<\/p>\n

The most popular part of the site is the area where I personally made some harmonica tab of riffs and songs. These hand crafted pages get the lion’s share of the hits.<\/p>\n

I need to place ads on the pages in a way to maximize the clicks. I need alternatives to Google. The eBay ads pay about $50 a month and I need a way to make them pay better. My eBay income dropped by 2\/3 when they changed the way they calculate earnings.<\/p>\n

I am thinking of bringing some of the pages back to a higher page rank (JT30.com<\/a>)\u00a0 site and leveraging the other sites higher place in the search engines.<\/p>\n

Anyone have an idea how to monetize a very focused site with good traffic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a fairly high volume site. It gets about 65,000 uniques and 220,000 page views a month, but it makes no money ($83 in click through ads in April). This site used to make 5 times this before the economy tanked. I need to do a major redesign on the site. You can see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}