Amazon Associates!!!

I would say that's about right. My lower income sites average about $150 a month.

My best Amazon site makes about $500 a month. Still not great compared to my other affiliate sites (Clickbank, Markethealth etc), but I haven't been doing Amazon that long and the commissions are low.

A few of my sites are geared towards Christmas (toys, gifts etc) so I'm expecting an increase in income over the Christmas period.

Probably $100.

But it's very specific, so it's understandable.

So far, one of my Amazon site still produce min $50/mth

I have one site that has been averaging $700 - $800 a month since Jan of this year.

it depends on 3 things

you and your ability to convert
the niche and how hungry buyers are
your ability to drive traffic

there really is no average

Your right about most Amazon sites looking rubbish. I've had some banners designed on Fiverr and they are very professional. Makes a world of difference to the look of the site.

I was going to have 50 sites built this year, but then I realised how much time and effort has to go into promoting the sites, then keeping the plugins up-to-date, etc.. so I decided to opt only for 25 sites instead.

My favourite site makes about an average of $50 per month.

Doesn't sound like much, but the thing is I spent probably 4 hours in total on it (not counting some minor SEO.) Not a bad hourly rate.

Someone reporting how much their websites make doesn't really tell you a lot. There are a lot of underlying factors: how good you are at finding keywords, how much work you're willing to (and DO) put into the site, how good you are at promoting the site, etc.

Not to insult Jan Roos, but I've noticed a LOT of people using (or copying) his technique, almost verbatim right down to the meta tags. I feel like these types of sites don't add much value and are probably a ticking timebomb that will go the way of old-style xfactor sites. I haven't seen a single one in this style that has been anything but an ultra-thin affiliate site, which Google is actively trying to eliminate from their search results.

A goal of creating 100 of those websites in 6 months (end of the year) makes it very obvious that they are going to be garbage quality. Not to mention that if you're a newbie to SEO, you're simply not going to be able to SEO 100 websites properly.

My 2 cents would be this: instead of creating 100 crappy websites, take the time to learn SEO and create 10 really good, quality ones.

Up to you, though.

I went to bigger and better things.. Just not my passion to slap up blogs for adsense/amazon. Good luck to you!

Try to gain the reader's trust. Don't try to sell the product. Just be completely honest. If the product isn't good or there is something wrong with let people know.

Isn't this a little like asking how long is a piece of string? I would say the range is $0 to a hell of a lot.

I was just sitting here reading this thread. I don't understand why we don't figure out how to do a coup and pool our resources together(we all have talents and know how to do stuff that others don't and vice versa). I've thought about this for a while. I have 12 Amazon review sites, 2 have made sales here and there. But being one person and trying to mange, content, backlinking, keyword research, forum marketing, even trying to find outsourcers and manage that process etc., is bound to drive one insane and I imagine we all face the same challenges. Even though I have 12 up. I still only am able to focus on 1 to 2 per week or even for the month just to make sure those to produce.

What a group of 5 people came together here, that a working in this space, and for 1 day we all use our different skill sets to 1 of those 5 site. Maybe someone enjoys

writing content, while another is good at
forum marketing, while another knows what works well for
backlinking - maybe some provides article marketing while another enjoys building web 2.0
on and on..

just an idea.. but those 5 people working would get their own site worked on once per week.. for lets say a month, in a concentrated focus effort to help that site pop. Your site would get worked on each week for 4 weeks.. new content added(review), new backlinks added, expanded forum presence etc.,

So what's the pay-off, for those 4 weeks, once per week your site is getting much more focused efforts applied toward it or on it to help that site increase it's ranking and earning potential.

maybe this a ridiculous idea? I am interested to hear others opinions. Why this would or wouldn't work etc.,

cheers,

ej

I've found that with over 20 sites, my range has fallen around $100-$200 per site per month. Summertime tends to be on the lower end and holiday shopping time tends to be on the higher end.

Clearly I need to change the way I been doing things lately. I haven't had the success I am reading here on some of these post reply!