What if anything am I doing wrong?

Hmmm - that's a ton of variables. Couple things jump out at me... lots of niches and lots of monetization methods. That might be your problem right there.

But - back up a minute - maybe present a more complete picture of ONE of your (perceived) failures. Maybe knowing some specifics, we can help you make something out of it...

Well i don't know if I'd consider it a failure, I've made... Roughly $300 in the last two years from Amazon, CB, & AdSense. So making money online isn't a failure, not much but I have made money so I know it's not some fake pie in the sky fairy tale about making money online.

I've created one site, one niche, couple different options to monetize it, couple different products on the site. Then bought & built a new site, new nich, etc & just kept building..
I mean these people boasting $1,000's a day with 3 mouse clicks magic software, stuff I've just tuned out now, but $100-$200 a day can't be out of reach, if you put in the work, I'd think.

For example, the Chicken coop site, there are CB products for it & products on Amazon, which I have sold chicken coop products from both CB & Amazon, so know there are no failures there either. There are real products, I have sold them through my site. To me that works.

I'm just not understanding the 10,000+ visitors a month & 5,000 click throughs to Amazon with little to no sales.

Maybe I'm under the wrong assumption that with that much traffic & clicks I should be getting more sales. Maybe somehow the traffic isn't targeted enough, who knows...

Hmmmm I remember writing something about this a while ago, bear with me on it because I don't have it to hand.

This is one possibility: Your site is too generic, I remember using the watches niche. If you are targeting "Watches" and you send through traffic to Amazon based on that keyword then the buyer is much less likely to buy as they are at the start of the buying process, researching watches. Now say you targeted "Rolex Watches" your visitors are more targeted, but even now, they are not at the buying stage (or much less likely to be).

Now if you targeted "Rolex Oyster Perpetual Milgauss" then you can be a lot more sure that the visitor has researched the watch they want and is very close to buying. This is a much more targeted visitor and much more likely to convert.

Long-tailed is the way to convert through Amazon.

Of course this might not apply in your case, but it might.

I wonder whether you're attracting floods of traffic and losing it all because you're not building lists, and because of this, you have no sales process but are chasing after about only 10% of the money that your sites could bring you, and ignoring the other 90%?

I'm wondering if your sites may look confusing, to some visitors, with lots of different options? (I make a full-time living promoting mostly ClickBank-type products, and wouldn't dream of having AdSense on my sites).

Very difficult to comment on that startling revelation without seeing your sites and knowing what the traffic sources are. But Amazon conversion-rates are typically pretty high, IF the traffic's targeted ...

How well targeted/qualified is your traffic?

Is this search-engine traffic?

I think your problem may be in the interpretation of your statistics. Take a look at this -


If you look under monthly total for January you'll see 24619 visits and a daily average of 794.

This is taken straight from the hosting stats, which is where you mentioned you're getting yours from. The problem is that only around 5% of those stats are REAL people, yep, around 23000 'hits' a month are generated by scripts and bots.

So you need to get better tracking of your visitors so you can see what's going on. Use Google analytics and you'll see who the real visitors are and what search term they used to land on your site etc.

If you have real visitors, you can then start to implement changes to your landing pages to steer them in whatever direction you want.

Knowing that someone landing on a page looking for 'washing machines' allows you to setup that specific page to get a response - perhaps a click to another page or joining your list for 'washing machine people'.

[QUOTE=smitty7534;5655941]Hello everyone,

I've been creating websites for a couple years now, mainly for extra income, Adsense, Amazon & CB, & recently just added CJ.

Hi there

It is always best to look to create a website to help someone !!!!!

It will come back to you in time, but look to help instead of having the mindset of looking to make extra income

All the best
Steven

Ok I have been posting replies to this thread just fine and now I just tried to reply again and it tells me I don't have enough posts? ??????

OK so let me try and reply to rooze again without the quote option...

Yes that's about exactly what my stats look like too... Honestly almost thought you had a snapshot of one of my sites.. lol 20,000 Visits a month isn't real people? That could be my problem, reading 20,000 visits as real people. Bummer, we it's always good to learn new stuff anyway.

But that doesn't explain the 5,000 clicks through to Amazon each month.
Bots & scripts too?

I had Google Analytics setup for some of my sites a while back but read somewhere that Google Analytics was a joke and to forget using it. Maybe I followed some bad advice.

Post up a link so we can at least see what were talking about.

Focus in the long-tail keywords because they have a high Online Commercial Intention (OCI). for example suppose that you want to sell "cameras"; there are millions of people type "cameras" this generic word but a very of very small percent that end up buying.

Let suggest that you want to be more specific, you try to narrow your niche to the "sony" brand keyword but people don't have a big intention to buy. Because "Sony" is also a generic word and people may type "sony" to create a review about the company or browse their website or others. This end up not buying.

At the end you decide to narrow your niche to sell some models of sony cameras and attract people that type the model of the camera directly such as "Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX10" or "Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W570" or type "productname buy" "productname features" "productname review" this people that type this keywords have highest rate of buying what you sell in your website. This kind of people called "window shoppers"

I hope this info help you guys. Thank me if you find this helpful

Good Luck everybody.

I guess since everyone is asking to post a site on here as a reference for people to check out I'll post two of the sites

discount-camera-products dot com

yourdatinghq dot com

Thanks again for all the tips / advice