Hello, Hopefully this hasn’t been done to death. I have an Ecommerce, Australian based site selling IT products. The above title represents my traffic every month. I have no idea if that figure is good or bad. (High or low)
My question is how could I possibly monetize it without jeopardizing my sites integrity or main business focus? I don’t want to sneak goggle adds in there or some other way. I have tried affiliate marketing, with no luck (as in Clix galore banners etc). I put a banner to another site of mine, just a shopping comparison site that I am working on (i.e. a beta site) and made $30usd of goggle ad words of just 1000 hits.
Basically any extra ads are going to lose the focus you have on your product. The only thing you might consider is related products/marketing. You could try exit popups, but as you say that could also lose the integrity/annoy people.
5000 unique a month is.. a decent little start, it is by no means huge though. But that may be huge for your target market, none could really say without specifics.
I'd be more into capturing that audience of yours, getting their email address, finding out what they like, what the extra's are that you can sell to them as well and going there.
I would not add ads for 5k unique per month, that's not really very much and you'll probably just end annoying your customers and earning under a lot less than $100 per month.