1st Real Affiliate Sale!
I've been around for a while, jumping from this to that, here and there. I've done website flipping from $50 - $150 earnings and just recently had a $250 sale last month. I have also had some adsense sites online, earning me almost nothing. It takes me about 8 - 10 months to earn the $100 that I need for a Google Adsense payment.
The only affiliate earnings I've had were from building an incentive site that brought me about $50 or so.
Most of my money is earned from freelance programming, which is good for seed money but not good if you want to earn more than a few thousand each month.
Anyway, I recently bought a WSO that helped me decide how to build my business. Until then, I would get an idea, try to start it out, then clean house a little and try to focus on 2 or 3 things instead of the 5+. Every few months this would happen again. Well, I can't say that I have stopped doing this entirely, but I have successfully been able to focus on one site and start earning from it.
I did it almost exactly like everybody says, which is the real kicker. This stuff has been said over and over for free through this forum, and in multiple WSO's. Build a site that people will be interested in, add content on a regular basis, and add relevant affiliate products in there when you can. My site's been online for a little over a month, and hasn't really earned much. I have one adsense block that has earned me about $4 for only 6 clicks. I get about 10 - 20 unique hits per weekday, and 5 - 10 on the weekend days. 90% of my hits are from the Search Engines, with all kinds of different keyword searches. Overall, not bad for being online for a month. I've done some backlinking, but I'm still only at a PR0.
This isn't anything to brag about, but things finally turned around when I noticed a $45 commission in my CJ account today. This was from just one product, too. I was a little disappointed that the clickbank product I've been promoting hasn't sold yet, but this is just as good.
What have I learned so far?
-Focus, focus, focus. Stick with one or two sites and get them earning. It's much easier to spend your time on one site, then to spend your time on several sites.
-Adsense is nice to give you a good feeling about your site, but the real money is earned through affiliate programs.
-Social Bookmarking can provide a lot of traffic in a short time, but not everybody (including me) will be able to properly monetize on that traffic. I think you should focus more on getting the backlinks from social bookmarking, rather than the traffic.
The only affiliate earnings I've had were from building an incentive site that brought me about $50 or so.
Most of my money is earned from freelance programming, which is good for seed money but not good if you want to earn more than a few thousand each month.
Anyway, I recently bought a WSO that helped me decide how to build my business. Until then, I would get an idea, try to start it out, then clean house a little and try to focus on 2 or 3 things instead of the 5+. Every few months this would happen again. Well, I can't say that I have stopped doing this entirely, but I have successfully been able to focus on one site and start earning from it.
I did it almost exactly like everybody says, which is the real kicker. This stuff has been said over and over for free through this forum, and in multiple WSO's. Build a site that people will be interested in, add content on a regular basis, and add relevant affiliate products in there when you can. My site's been online for a little over a month, and hasn't really earned much. I have one adsense block that has earned me about $4 for only 6 clicks. I get about 10 - 20 unique hits per weekday, and 5 - 10 on the weekend days. 90% of my hits are from the Search Engines, with all kinds of different keyword searches. Overall, not bad for being online for a month. I've done some backlinking, but I'm still only at a PR0.
This isn't anything to brag about, but things finally turned around when I noticed a $45 commission in my CJ account today. This was from just one product, too. I was a little disappointed that the clickbank product I've been promoting hasn't sold yet, but this is just as good.
What have I learned so far?
-Focus, focus, focus. Stick with one or two sites and get them earning. It's much easier to spend your time on one site, then to spend your time on several sites.
-Adsense is nice to give you a good feeling about your site, but the real money is earned through affiliate programs.
-Social Bookmarking can provide a lot of traffic in a short time, but not everybody (including me) will be able to properly monetize on that traffic. I think you should focus more on getting the backlinks from social bookmarking, rather than the traffic.
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