How to decided how to monetize a site?

Hi!,

I'm pretty new to IM, and I do hope this is the right forum to post this.

I'm planning to build a niche site for a few keywords which I think can get a good amount of traffic.

But I dunno how I should monetize it (adsense, amazon, CJ ...).

So I wanted to ask, how do u decided how to monetize u'r sites? are there some general rules that's good for one thing better than the other?
Is it ok to use both adsense + affiliate programs on the same site? I heard that google can ban u'r adsense account if u do that, is that true?

Thanks!

It usually depends on quality of traffic and keywords.

If you're going to get junk traffic that will have a low CTR etc. then PPM ads may be the way forward ... similarly, if you've got high quality traffic, then you're probably better if putting PPC ads on there.

I usually advise against content locking as it hasn't worked for me personally, but again for this you need high quality traffic.

In some cases, zip/postcode submits etc. may not be a bad way to go, however, again, you need decent quality traffic to get the numbers through.

In short; low quality traffic = impressions / time based ads. High quality traffic = PPC and affiliate based methods.

(Why is this in forum feedback?)

Niche is a huge factor - and depending on that try adsense or amazon