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I own a semi-popular fake Facebook thread maker. How should i monetize it?

7 points by ptm ↗ HN
Some time back I started a fake Facebook thread tool. It quickly hit reddit and other sites and got popular. I thought the traffic will die out soon, but more than a year later i'm still getting 50K-150K pageviews/month.

Is there any easy way to make 50-100$/month from this site ?

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dotcoma
plaster it with adsense - what else? - and see how much it makes.
ptm
I tried that some time back. It did not work. I also the got the feeling that this was dragging my other sites' adsense earnings.

So I took it off.

slig
I've had that experience too: a site with low quality for AdSense that would drag down the entire account.
fakelvis
Micropayments to remove a small watermark?

Some people would never pay, so making the watermark huge and ugly wouldn't be a good idea as you would lose a large amount of new users coming to you through WoM from pleased, existing users.

… but a small yet visible watermark, removed for $1?

I'm not sure about the possible ROI, but it's a thought.

petervandijck
Don't think there's an easy way to monetize this, no. Paid links to other, monetizable Facebook-related services?