I've never had much success with affiliate programs, mainly I think because my sites are educational/reference and until quite recently a significant part of my traffic was non-US. I would like to succeed with this income stream however, as it's become something of a challenge. If I had the chance to make a brand-new site with quality-content combined with strong affiliate revenues, what niches would be best? Thx, Jeremy
I did a diabetes supply datafeed website, and I did not expected it to do good, and beleive me, it's doing the best
Hi Will, Thanks for the response, Amazon sounds a good place to start although I heard that payouts are very low. Is that correct? Also I'm interested in starting a new site with the topic related to a high-performing affiliate niche. WHat would you suggest? Many thanks, Jeremy
Thanks honey, What's "doing the best" and how does diabetes compare with other affiliate programs? There are sites combining strong content with strong affiliate sales that earn $50,000 a month, while I don't envisage those earnings immediately I would like to target a market that has that potential. Many thanks, Jeremy
If you're asking for specific "niche" markets that are very lucrative and will make the easiest money, I highly doubt anyone is going to blab one out. Consider what possible reason they would want to disclose that? To make more competition for themselves and work harder for the same profit This is why some affiliates make thousands and thousands and others struggle to make a buck. when you find something that works you keep it secret..
Just out of interest do you have any links these stats or the types of websites running these programs? I want to get some understanding of how strong the content has to be to provide users with a useful experience but at the same time get them to click the links that pay or make the purchases etc I had a quick look for websites talking about ways of making money on the Internet but they either have too many success stories for my liking or seem like they where made back in the 90s and look like the typical scam sites from back in the day, does anyone know of an honest enough place to start so I can get up to stratch on schemes that are available. I should be doin my bloody dissertation for University but can't stop thinkin about ways of making money on the Internet...
Well I assume that you know a fair amount about optimizing your site. I thought I knew alot until I picked up SEO for Dummies and was completely floored by what I didn't know. Too late for me because my site is already in the search engines with a low rank . Also it is time consuming changing all of my pages and I am not even half way thru as of yet. Anyway I suggest you have a page for the product instead of just a link for people searching from the web and that you have as many products as you can make pages Like this Title: Study SKills - Speed Reading, Title: Study Skills - SQ3 etc. According to SEO for Dummies the more pages you have like that the higher your rank in the keyword Study Skills and thus the better chance someone will stumble upon your prodcut page ready to buy. You might have to pay some kid to put up pages formatted the way you specify. There is alot more to it like your sites link structure and how people link back to you which I won't go into Another problem I have is my salesmanship and presentation. Even with the few hits I get I should be doing better than I am currently. No soup for me.
wrong, it's not too late, seo is an ongoing process. I have just added a San Diego Book Store to one of my sites and will see how it goes. You need content and good sites to link to you and my emphasis is good and if possible related sites. Sites that have been established for a while without getting penalized. Stick around Smeagul and you will move up!