I think that would work really well. But you could still build income streams into it.

You just have to look at the success of the likes of elance.com , guru.com or rentacoder.com to see that people are prepared to pay to post their jobs.

You could keep your site free to attract plenty of listings and then offer people the chance to purchase a Featured Listing, where their ad appears at the top of each page in their category. Or even a Homepage Listing.

If you've ever bought/sold a domain on Sedo.com you'll realize that they do exactly that. You can list your domains for free, or purchase a category listing or a featured listing for a month.

-Mark.

Hey everyone!

I know its been a while since I have been on here. I took Mark's advice and completely re-vamped my whole page. As Mark sugested I made my job list free. I also made listing jobs free for now, but like he said if anyone should have to pay it should be the employers.

I talked with a lot of people about the ad situation, because frankly I was just happy they didn't turn me off. I believe the issue was that because when you first loaded the page all you could see was the ad until you scrolled down. I think this was in voilation of the tos since you can't basically trick people into clicking your ad hoping they think it is a regular link. It is hard sometimes when you build a site to think past what you think is a good idea to what will be good in the long run.

Since then our highest day has been in the $20 range but it is slowly rising which I feel good about. Our ctr is in the 2% range every day and from what I hear that is pretty good.

Anyways I just wanted to say thanks to Mark for the advice and to let everyone know that success is possible just be willing to learn and work hard. If it happened overnight everyone would do it.

If anyone would like to see the new site and give me some feedback that would be great. My signature should still take you there.

Hi Jenny,

Congratulations on your continued growth and success. You are doing very well with your Adsense income. As your traffic increases, it will just keep getting better and better.

Out of curiosity, how old is this site, and about how many visitors a day do you average?

Also, apart from forums, what other methods of promotion are you using to generate traffic? These kinds of tips can be helpful to others who read this thread in the future. (Besides, I'm just plain nosy!)

Wow that's Awesome! It is true, anything you make is never too little. It's more than you had before you made it, lol. Congrats.

Andrea

Kathy,

Recently sent you a pm fyi.

Thx, Leland

Kathy,

recently sent you a pm.

Thx, Leland