[endlessvoid94]

I started the site with my friend and my girlfriend back in February while I was still in college. It took off.

Like I said below, I only got direct advertisers in July, so it took awhile to grow. I was making about $1200 / month from Adsense in May/June, and some of the space has been sold to direct advertisers and I still make about $900 / month just from adsense, plus more from the advertisers.

I'm still looking for more, but the project has taken a backseat to my new project: Djangy.com

[rwhitman]

Did most of the direct advertisers come to you, or did you actively look for them?

I've seen the link shared by friends before, is most of your traffic just organic/viral link sharing?

[endlessvoid94]

I basically went and bought a High Times magazine and contacted every. single. company. that advertised in the issue I had.

I got a handful of responses, and one of them took a chance and gave me $X to try it out. I'm still waiting to hear if he wants to continue advertising.

The other one took longer to get, but I'm sending a significant amount of traffic their away and they're seeing revenue from the traffic, so it will likely continue.

RE: traffic -- My visitors are by FAR mostly coming directly. Which is a great position to be in. The other misc. Facebook was an early source, but not very high (no pun intended). Once I added "like" buttons to each story, facebook skyrocketed to the number 2 traffic referrer. Then there is traffic from StumbleUpon, twitter, a few blogs, and lastly organic search. But the search keywords are mostly just "that high", nothing outside the name of the site.

I'm sure there is a TON I could do to get more visitors. I would like to focus on it more and turn it into something that makes alot more money than it currently does. I know if I put some more time into it, it could make a ton of money, I just have to grow it, and that takes time.

[patrickaljord]

How much traffic do you get monthly +/-?

[endlessvoid94]

It varies between 900k - 1.3M page views per month. Fluctuates between 90k and 110k visitors. Like I said, I haven't touched it in quite some time, as I'm focusing literally all of my energy on Djangy

[patrickaljord]

wow, that's a very high pages/visit rate, congrats.