> Look for ways to make the link between someone reading your content and someone buying something a connection, instead of merely a random, uncorrelated activity.
What do you think targeted advertising is?
> Or consider selling byproducts and content collections such as physical and ebooks (for blogs, for example).
Revenues from this sort of thing won't even cover operational costs for someone of Destructiod's size, let alone provide recurring revenue.
"Premium" services that just remove ads are generally a non-starter because...AdBlock does that for free. Subscriptions are awesome, but you have to find a way to implement a paywall where some content or value is withheld from free consumers, and that's a problem that has proved very difficult for content providers like Destructoid to solve on an internet where people expect to get their content for free.
What do you think targeted advertising is?
> Or consider selling byproducts and content collections such as physical and ebooks (for blogs, for example).
Revenues from this sort of thing won't even cover operational costs for someone of Destructiod's size, let alone provide recurring revenue.
"Premium" services that just remove ads are generally a non-starter because...AdBlock does that for free. Subscriptions are awesome, but you have to find a way to implement a paywall where some content or value is withheld from free consumers, and that's a problem that has proved very difficult for content providers like Destructoid to solve on an internet where people expect to get their content for free.