@hitmanblood We are running Adsense on our site since the April.. Last month we got a little bit over what is required for our first paycheck.. It`s pretty slow and really don`t know how to force adsense to show more relevant ads.. It`s pretty hard because my site is in croatian and we get crappy ads which aren`t related to music. I m looking for a better way to force the adsense to read our content and not to focus on our language. Any tips? @mahesh2k Our portal has a traffic rank of: 37,052 in Alexa, and it`s dropping month by month.. I think this is pretty good for a 8 months old portal. It could be better, but i`m not a greedy person.

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Ok, here`s an update!

Since this was in January, we decided to put this on hold until our old hosting expires.
So couple a weeks ago, I started asking other webmasters about their hosting providers, and after a a long talk, I decided to take a shot with hostingcentar.com

I asked them for a sponsorship, and after few days, I got response from them that they`ll sponsor 48,6% of hosting pack that we choose!

Everything is now done, I had problems with Russian hackers who tried to harm the site, but luckily our new provider was smart enough to shut down the site for a half an hour, so they stopped raising our server load..


I want to thank you all for giving me tips on how to do this, and I suggest anyone who is in similar situation like I was: Don`t be afraid! You can`t loose anything by asking them, you can loose something if you don`t ask them!

Cheers!

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very nice advise and congrates to u for ur success

 

 

 

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me again!

well, i haven't been on T17 for a quite long time.. lots of people i don't know... great to see trap growing..

so a little update from me..

we now have 4 active sponsors and 3 on hold (waiting for their payment and banner).. if i add adsense earnings and xclaim earnings(similar to kontera, only it's croatian company, huuuge PPC, every click is around $.20) i think we're doing pretty fine..

we're close to 7000 members and what's great is that i hear people talking about our site.. in music shops, bars..
everything is going so much easier - people ask us to interview them, our marketing mail is filled with partnership offers, members aren't afraid of adding content..

globally, our site isn't big, but 7000 members for a specific niche, in one year.. i'm more than satisfied..

i expect a big boom in way of member registration in 3 months, cause we're planning something that will kill our competitors in a slick and loud way.. i'll release this "top secret" information when we start adding..

cheers!

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