If I put up 50 pages on a website that includes good fishing content, and use adsense. And sell affiliate products should i be able to make some money?
It's all about traffic. The first question should be, will it generate good traffic? Well, it depends on other factors. What are you doing to market it? Are you targetting good keywords? Is it optomized for search engines?... etc. If it has traffic, you'll be successful.
Yes, definatly... You need to promote your site with forum & blog posts... Also try submitting artcles to Digg.com See my signature if you want further advertising...
Of course you can make money with a site about fishing. But you can't just put up a site an expect the traffic to come pouring in. You need to spend time building backlinks, promoting it, using social bookmarking, writing articles... whatever it takes. Simply putting up a 50 page site with ads isn't going to be enough unless you get incredibly lucky.
Yes, you could do very well with something like that eventually. Quality content is very important, but you will also need to do some work promoting it and developing a good traffic flow. If you are serious about this idea it is a good one, just don't expect overnight success or to get rich quick.
hey why not try this idea: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=10367776&posted=1#post10367776
of course you can. If your really passionate about fishing and got a lot to write about then you should be able to make some money. Getting your site noticed is the hardest part but if you build it they will come... If you want to add some cool fishing games to your site then check out my site I have a few Fishing Games you can add to your site. Just copy the source code and paste into your html pages... Good luck with your site if you decide to build it.. Waza
I have owned fishing and outdoors websites for almost 10 years. The only thing that has been most successful is search engine traffic. Forums and message boards are on a downward spiral for participants, but search engines always crawl. Regular visitors don't click ads. The big box retailers offer affiliate programs for products, but I (and everyone else) can just enter basspro.com and get what I need. I use the affiliate programs, but do very poorly. This is maybe the hardest niche to make money with, to be honest. That's why they call it fishing....it takes place outdoors, not on a computer monitor.
I have read the responses in this thread and I have some questions please. When you say 50 pages of "good fishing content", what are you talking about? Are you going to hire a professional writer or are you capable of writing that much good readable content yourself? I'm curious to know whether people still believe they can fill up 1 to 50 web pages with affiliate marketing advertisements, chat forums and other miscellaneous bs, load the thing to the Internet and actually make money from it. Do people still believe that? I'm asking because I know for a fact that if a 50 page website contains really good readable content, Google will move it up in the search engine rankings and assign it a higher PR. I know this because I've done it many times. If people are interested in seeing any of the Southern city websites that I've moved up the Google ladder of PR, take a look at Shreveport.com (I can't put links in these messages yet, I'm a new member). It is not my website and the website design is not mine either. The point I'm trying to make in this post is that the amount of good text on the website is what Google recognized and rewarded with a PR-5 and I'm just asking whether other people here are able to accomplish the same thing without having a similar kind of content.
It must be good and unique content. If it is not unique, you will not have many visitors, so not have good profit.
hmmm. well I was thinking of using plr content. or other free content I could find on the web like from eboooks and stuff. Do you think I would absolutely have to rewrite and make my own changes in order for Google to see it as unique?
If you can send quality, targeted buying traffic to it then you should definitely be able to make some money.
This probably will defeat the purpose of what he's trying to do, unless he can manage to sell some affiliate products and make some decent commissions. If he's just going for Adsense earnings, then buying traffic will cost you more than you end up making.
The amount of money is directly related to the amount of traffic you get. The amount of traffic is directly related to your marketing strategy and quality of the content.
Understood. That's a really good point actually. If you're offering some kind of product for sale on this hypothetical site, there's a big difference between "Traffic" & "Ready to Buy Traffic". This is where going after some long tail keywords on your individual article pages will work to your advantage because you can get more specific to an audience that is more likely in the mode to buy a product. Instead of having an article that is about "fishing feels" you would be better targeting something like "inexpensive fishing reels" as it will most likely have visitors that are getting ready to purchase. It's these subtle keyword targeting methods that will determine the type of visitor. That being said, since you're going for a fishing site that has lots of various fishing information on it, you'll still want to work on getting a broad fishing related audience to your main page. Do some keyword research and see what some of the more searched "fishing" related terms are, and pick those for your homepage. Start building backlinks to your site using those main keywords, but also don't forget to build backlinks to your internal pages using the long-tail keywords you picked for the pages with your products. Just my 2 cents.