500 visitors per day... How Much Can You Expect To Make?

Nothing!!!

Money is NOT all about how much traffic you get.

I know that might comes as a shock but it's like saying "if I stand in the street offering candy - how many people will buy?"

The answer will ALWAYS be - It Depends!!!

Depends on the traffic, your offer, the presell etc...

I know how much I expect to make because it's based on years of careful analysis.

But there's no point in me telling you those numbers because they're simply not relevant to your situation. There are so many factors:

- quality of traffic
- quality of product
- quality of offer
- price
- perceived value

...and literally dozens of others.

In a nutshell, all you can do is find out your own numbers and use them as benchmarks to drive improvement.

Cheers,

Neil

The traffic will mean nothing if it doesn't convert. Traffic without conversion is just wasted money & effort. As the warriors above said, it depends. Identify the major elements of your site, then analyse them to see what sort of results you get. You can use Google Analytics to assist you with that.
After you've got some results to work with, you yourself can determine the areas which need work.
Hope that helps

I agree with Neil, it really does just depend on your market, product, page, etc. What you can do is try some split-testing and start sending visitors to a newly redesigned page. Analytics' or metrics are important otherwise you wont be able to tell how your new page is converting versus your original page.

Thing is, not everyone will purchase the product. 500 viewers isn't really a lot. If you can get a few sales from it, than that's great, but don't expect a lot.

Its all about conversion to me.Getting one sale from 50 visitor is better than getting 1 sale from 500 visitors to me.

If you are selling widgets, you can expect to sell six of them. If you are selling dinbots, then you can expect to sell 12. If you are selling whatchamacallits, then you will probably break the bank.

If I had a website about Farmville offering advice and had a Clickbank guide listed I'd thrilled with that conversion rate. Most of those people are not interested in spending money, they are interested in free info.

If I had a website about organic methods of getting rid of cockroaches and had a Clickbank guide targeted to the market, I'd think the conversions were HORRIBLE. These people have a painful problem they want to solve fast. They are motivated and a few dollars is an easier choice. Especially when you properly "motivate" them about those filthy, disease carrying, pooping insects which are everywhere in your home. You teach them about the dangers of those pesticides which can endanger their pets and children. You get them riled up about the environmental impact of those dangerous chemicals.

This is why you want a hungry/desperate niche, not an entertainment seeking niche.

Barry

traffic converts to money with CPM, but with CPA, we cant tell

Traffic x Conversion Rate x Commission = Profit

If the person who gets 833 makes 2 sales, that's great! I get 900 uniques a day and have not made any sales in 2 months.

I have the same prob with one of my niches.. 5000 visitors a day and 4 dales it depends on niche and also on the way you promote it.. I need to learn a lot in this arena

I have to agree with Neil about the pricing, perceived value, quality of product, offer and traffic. Sometimes we used keywords that many people are searching but only few people targeted it, so you could be in the first page but is it actually related to your offer? Do they expect a product that is really what they want or what they need? Is your sales page really converting? Did you test it?

In real estate it's location. In IM it's copy, copy, copy. If your copy don't convert it don't matter how much traffic you get.

Well, even though it's impossible to answers as others have said, a good conversion ratio should be 1 to 3%.. of course the more the better.

So if you just say around 1.5% will convert, that's 7.5 sales a day. Since a human being cant be cut in half, just round down and say 7. Take off 2 or 3 for refunds or the unexpected, and just say about 3 to 4 sales a day.


And again, of course it all depends greatly.. But I know you were looking for some type of answer, so that's what I tried to give you.

I really think it depends on the niche and what you're promoting to them. I have a website that gets about 800 uniques a day, makes less than $1 a day from Adsense and, if I'm lucky, gets 1 Commission Junction sale a month. I know why though. 1.) The niche is not profitable Adsense wise 2.)The demographics of people who visit the site typically aren't buyers (people ages 12-21). It's a hobby site, what can I say.

On the other hand, I have 1 website that only gets about 30 visitors a day, makes decent money from Adsense and gets about 15 Amazon sales a month.

Behold the power of picking profitable niches and doing proper keyword research. lol

This is such a complex question with so many variables involved. Let's remove some of them to make it easier. Let's assume we're sending all the traffic to a reasonably well designed sales page that converts fairly well.

Just because you have 500 visitors to your page does NOT mean that you'll get a high number of sales (assuming a good product with a decent converting sales page). You have to examine the quality of the traffic, whether it is through SEO or paid traffic.

What terms are you optimizing for in the case of SEO? Are these buying keywords, and do they have proper relevance to what you're selling?

With paid traffic, are you targeting the right/relevant keywords if you're using PPC? Are you targeting the right demographics if you're using media buys? Obviously these factors will depend on what type of paid traffic that you're using, but I hope you get my drift here. You could send a whole load of untargeted traffic using paid methods and have it end up being a total waste of money, if you don't know what you're doing. Just because you're using paid traffic does not mean it's guaranteed to be good or targeted, as you still need to do the proper testing and tweaking to make that traffic profitable.

Just one thing keeps popping into my mind about this. Its converting copy once the clients get there. Without the converting copy no matter how much traffic you will not get the sales.

Zeus66 John Schwartz wrote an extremely good article about focusing too much on traffic. You may not know him but he has a way of cutting to the core of the problem the OP asked about.

Ken

Conversion rates are always an area that concern me. Without knowing what "everyone else is getting" Im often left wondering if my conversion rates suck. I have some sites that do .25, whilst others do close to 1%.

I was always encouraged to aim for 1%, but Im yet to achieve that consistently.

Anyone else?

$4 Million easy.

Traffic doesn't mean anything considered in isolation of all the other factors.

I can show you a page where I get 9,000 unique visitors a month for a particular keyword from the search engines and convert 2 or 4 sales a month.

I can also point you to a page where I get 3,000 unique visitors a month and convert 300 sales.

It's NOT just about conversion. As both pages utilize all the direct response fundamentalsand answers the query's question to the tee.

It's also about KEYWORD INTENT (informational? transactional? and how far on the continuum are they situated in the BUYING scale?), and even more importantly who's the typical person sitting behind that keyboard? does he have access to a credit card in the first place? how urgent is his problem?

And then, you have to think about creating a landing page that answers that keyword INTENT.

Even if you do this correctly, it may not work. Because he may be too far from the buying cycle, or doesn't have access to a credit card.

I'm going to throw an obvious one here. (and I'm going to exaggerate to make a point here) If' you're ranking for terms like

"how do i kiss a girl in my elementary class"

You could get 10,000 uniques a day, I don't give a donut's ass, you're not gonna make a lot of sales!

In which case just slap some adsense to it! It's the best way to make money when you don't know how to do search marketing properly.

Rhen

One sure way you can enhance the conversion of your website visitors is to insert an opt-in form on your website, so that you can collect their email contact information and follow up with them later to make multiple sales down the road. If you didn't do that, you'd lose your non-buying visitors the moment they clicked away from your website.

Paul

Impossible to tell with this much stats. Personally I have pages that make $500 per 500 visitors, as well as websites (meant to be not-so-profitable ones because it is built upon one of my passion areas) that make $0.50 per 500 perfectly targeted visitors. Wikipedia does not make a single cent for any chunk of 500 visitors. So, there is no single answer in a box.

You can have all the traffic in the world but if u have no sales, what's the point? Merry Christmas everyone!