Monetizing a Single Page Application

[Cubanpete]

Hey peeps. I've had a website (Single Page Application built with React) for about a year now and it started getting heavy traffic all of a sudden (10-15k page views a month).

It is a site where you can search for stock photos and videos for free using different APIs.

My question is: how do I monetize a SPA? I've been told that ad companies won't accept my site because it only has it doesn't have any children pages. Also, it would be silly trying to do affiliate stuff on a website like this.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[jeff1985]

yes its very diffcult to do that ...you need to add more pages to your site to full it out and u can earn from it or just used pop under ads to earn from it

 

[OccultKingdoms]

Limit the usage of the app for free users. Make it possible to search 5 photos for free (or any number that seems reasonable) and charge as much as you want once they break the limit. If you are front-end only it might be time to switch to full stack. Set the limit per IP. Do not give a damn about what people tell you. Do not ask questions whether they want it or not. Of course, they will say NO. Even $1 might be a good starting point. It all depends on how much comfort into their lives your app brings and how hard it is to replicate the search you provided. Do not ask for card details directly or you will scare people away. Make payments as easy as possible. Add something your userbase is familiar with. If you know they use bitcoin, add bitcoin payments. If you know they are comfortable with stripe, integrate with stripe.

 

[912lab]

there are fiver gigs for 15$, they add a Blog to your site temporarily and after you are Adsense approved you can remove the blog

 

[OccultKingdoms]

Let's wait for someone who is more experienced in creating freemium plans for their apps. You won't know what's best until you try different models. Don't forget subscription, so your users will forget and get charged a few bucks every month.

 

[afidegnum]

What JS framework are you using for your CPA? Some have hard time with SEO

 

[OccultKingdoms]

What JS framework are you using for your CPA? Some have hard time with SEO

Of course those which allow me to create content super fast and even automatically. Server side rendering is the topmost priority.