O.T. to ombowstring,
If your target audience is the 30 or so people reading this board, your marketing ploy has already failed. Not only are you unfamiliar with our religious preferences, but most of us here are broke due to our cor investment. In cyberspace you need to target and attempt to capture a mass and curious audience, whether you are after tree huggers, a Jerry Garcia look alike contest, tie-dyed t-shirt shoppers, or keep-the-faith messengers, your audience is available...you need to concentrate on marketing. I'm certain there are a million religious websites that exist with religious connotations, including a religious facebook of sorts where people get to display there art, photos, music appreciations, offering messages of faith, armagedon, jesus will return etc, etc,. That would be a good place to test market. If you want to make money at this, you have to determine your angle and aggresively market your site through search engine queing. When someone searches Jerry Garcia look alikes or tie-dyed t-shirts, you want your website to que in the top 10 of that list, if that is your angle. That requires an investment, no different than advertising in you local newspaper. Remember it takes money to make money, word of mouth traffic on the internet only seems to occur if you've gotten lucky enough to have been caught on video singing a naked rendition in your backyard of Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On", when by chance a squirrel runs up your leg and bites you in the nuts, thus allowing you to hit that high note you're attempting, this seemingly creating an uncanny resemblance of your voice to Ms Dion herself. Now that will get you traffic and a million plus hits. Once you create readership you can then sell your site space to advertisers, they are going to want to know your traffic and demographics of the visitors to your site, so getting personal information using surveys or sign ins and such is helpful there. If my advice doesn't help, I am sure there are thousands of free marketing tools available on the interent that will help you get started. It's either that or you need to sell something that you can mass produce and market, otherwise my friend it would appear your website is no more than just a hobby and you will probably never see much of a profit. I wish you luck, your efforts here seem a bit desperate and misdirected is all.
