Bulding a monetising a music website

timter51 · Oct 20, 2015

I have a domain with very strong backlinks in the music industry, since parking the domain to taste traffic (with just a holding page), it's receiving around 400 uv a day.

I'm planning to build out the domain into a music website, quite specifically how or what though is still to be decided. Does anyone have any thoughts or experience on what kind websites are good earners in the music sector? Blog + adsense? Merch? Spotify (or other) discount codes?

dazc · Oct 20, 2015

timter51 said:
I have a domain with very strong backlinks in the music industry, since parking the domain to taste traffic (with just a holding page), it's receiving around 400 uv a day.

I'm planning to build out the domain into a music website, quite specifically how or what though is still to be decided. Does anyone have any thoughts or experience on what kind websites are good earners in the music sector? Blog + adsense? Merch? Spotify (or other) discount codes?

If the demographic is 30 plus I'd say amazon would be your best bet. For lower ages I think you are going to struggle to find anything paying more than pennies?

Edwin · Oct 20, 2015

Concert tickets?

jasman · Oct 20, 2015

What did the site used to be i.e. why does it have the backlinks? Whatever the site used to be - what the traffic you are receiving expects it to be - I would pursue that initially, then add more sections with other revenue streams afterwards. On the other hand, if for example it had been a music download site or a ticket sales site, and you make the new site into a blog, surely most of the traffic would see that the site is not what they thought it was and leave.

accelerator · Oct 20, 2015

"Does anyone have any thoughts or experience on what kind websites are good earners in the music sector?"

Fan sites.

Soundcloud.

Spotify.

Kerrang.

timter51 · Oct 21, 2015

Thanks everyone, the more I look into it the more I'm realising it's not a good sector to try and break in to. Can't even find a Spotify affiliate programme! The domain is a defunct band website, so that could also be a risk running an affiliate site in the music sector. I think I'm going to just end up using the link juice for SEO!