It purports to be the hardest online riddle and has attracted quite a user base. Open since only early September it has broken the top 100,000 Alexa rankings and is currently hovering around 80,000. We consistently receive upwards of 500 unique and 100 returning visitors per day. Each user brings an average of 5+ page views.
We recently suffered a setback due to my stupidity when I signed up for deltis.com, thinking the offer was too good to miss. Racked up $400 and supposed to get a check sometime in mid-November. Probably not going to happen. We currently rely solely on revenue from Adsense and Google Search and make around $1 per day. This number has fluctuated up to $25 when it made the front page of digg.com.
I have two questions: 1) Is it possible to make more per day off of this, what I would deem considerable, user base? 2) What are my alternatives in terms of banners? (please, no pop-ups)
Thank you very much! Any criticism or comments are welcome.
I didn't poke around too much on the site, but if it's supposed to be particularly difficult, what about offering a prize if they complete it? Not only might more people be interested, but others might stay on the site longer trying to solve it, which could up ad clicks too.
That's an idea we've already given much thought to. The main benefit we see from that is that we might increase traffic. On the other hand, it might also destroy the sense of working together to accomplish something. The problem that we're experiencing though isn't a shortage of traffic, but rather how to make money off of the traffic we are currently receiving. Any ideas?