Many of you know my main business is Think411.com my web hosting company, the same servers that PagedLife resides. I have decided to try and monetize some additional services and have opened up several free services.
I have recently opened up IMG.gd a Free Image Host and Host.gd a Free Web Host. IMG.gd is currently monetized with only ads on the first page and Host.gd is not monetized at all, I decided I did not want to force ads on the free hosting clients.
I did however find a way to monetize Host.gd without producing ads on any clients pages, and without ads on the site at all. This method could be deployed in either a White Hat, Grey Hat or Black Hat method and so far is doing quite well.
I opened Host.gd about a week ago, and with very little promotion (only promoted on DP and WebHostingTalk) I have only gained 19 clients, some from search engines. Even if I decided I wanted to force ads, with this little amount of free hosting clients I would not be making anything at all.
Originally I was going to sell Host.gd on Digital Point, however I recently found found a new way to monetize the site, and the first day I made $1.20 and today, the second day of monetizing the site I made $2.16!
I am currently doing this in a White Hat way using adsense and it is working very good, I am going to continue testing this and if all goes well I may write an eBook on this method and sell it as I have not seen this idea anywhere. This method could easily be used in a White Hat, Grey Hat or Black Hat method and I think would do very good in all three ways for free webhosts.
This method is so simple and so perfect I can not believe no one has tried this. It does not affect the clients at all and does not break any adsense rules.
I may give more details in the coming days, currently I want to test this for some time and see if the results stay constant.
Has anyone else come across incredible ways to monetize there sites without affecting the end users in anyway?
