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Which Type of Site is Easier to Make Money on Affiliate Marketing

by KeithH
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Hi. i am very new to trying to making money on the internet. I was thinking I would try to make a little money on affiliate selling and ads. So i am asking for everyone's advice on which would be easier for me to learn to make money with: either 1) having my own site, which is like a personal ministry site, and trying to make it get a lot of traffic, and then placing affiliate ads on it to make the money; or 2) making an affiliate site (or sites) where the whole site would try to sell one particular affiliate's product and making the money that way.

Again this would be my first try at making money with a site, so what would be easiest for me to learn.

A little background of myself might help for giving me the right advice. I have a little personal site at this time that i just started but it is new and doesn't get much traffic at all, so I am learning everything at this time. I do have a lot of sales experience though, about twenty years worth, but it is all in face to face and phone sales. So, I do know how to do sales presentations and pitches, but I have never tried to apply it to websites.

My last question: On affiliate sites, do most people make their money by having one or two very successful money-making sites, or do they have many, many sites that make a little each and , which add together to make their money.

Thanks for any and all advice you can give.

--KeithH
#affiliates #easier #learn #making #site #type
  • Profile picture of the author Nick Kringas
    In my experience I started by building a large review site that DOES make me passive, monthly income but if I were to do it over again (and what I'm doing now)....

    I would create individual sites to sell one product each.

    Here's my reasoning -
    my first site took me 30 days until the first sale but then took a ton of work backlinking and adding content in order to get the traffic levels (and sales) up to where they are now.

    With individual product review sites, they can rank for individual buyer keywords much quicker, with less content and with less backlinks so that in a week or two you can be on page one of Google with multiple sites and see which products convert, which don't and quickly adjust course.

    The latter is quicker, easier and gives you better feedback quicker.

    I talk a lot about what I do and the success that I've had on the site in my signature link.

    Hope that was helpful, I tried to keep it short and sweet.
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  • Profile picture of the author michaelplies
    Amazon products review site does well if it's done right. The most important thing is to find niches and products with not a lot of competition and try to rank for them in google. If you go with amazon. the best is to do reviews for products over $200, so you can get a nice commission.
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  • Profile picture of the author headmaster211
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    Small review sites that are targeted for just one product do well for me. You can easily setup them up with 10-15 articles, get some backlinking done, rank them and they can easily bring you a passive income of $300-500/month. Even if you don't get huge traffic, if your reviews are good and product is fine they converts good.

    Another is to make review vidoes they are faster to rank. It might take me 10 articles, lots of backlinking and time to get to page 1, I can do the same with 1 video, few backlinks and days to rank in Google Page 1 and also in Youtube.
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  • Profile picture of the author Trev81
    When you are doing the reviews, do you actually review the product or do you just copy-write the review from the internet somewhere?

    I would be interested to know.
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    • Profile picture of the author Nick Kringas
      Originally Posted by Trev81 View Post

      When you are doing the reviews, do you actually review the product or do you just copy-write the review from the internet somewhere?

      I would be interested to know.

      Not only do I actually review the product but I try to go in as much depth as possible from a real user's experience with the product.

      I'm not sure anyone will by from a website (or very little) where the person is just stating what the product is about with no real connection.

      I try to put the product to use in my own life and then show my website visitor what the product did for me and what it failed to do for me.

      Not exactly sure what you meant by "just copy-write the review from the internet somewhere." I took it as copying information about the product onto the review site in an attempt to sell the person on buying that product?

      That doesn't sound very exciting or valuable for anyone.
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  • Profile picture of the author 4sitenow
    with your sales background, you might want to check out offline marketing and/or helping local businesses with their marketing, websites, etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author ExRat
    Hi KeithH,

    Originally Posted by KeithH View Post

    having my own site, which is like a personal ministry site
    What do you mean by 'personal ministry' site? Your answer to this affects the answer to the main question.
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    • Profile picture of the author KeithH
      Thanks for all the help everyone. I have learned a lot about what might be best from your answers. It seems that many of you believe that a single product review site would the the best choice, and easiest; i will also look into the video thing too.


      Originally Posted by ExRat View Post

      Hi KeithH,



      What do you mean by 'personal ministry' site? Your answer to this affects the answer to the main question.

      By personal ministry site, I meant the following: I have a little personal ministry site now that I don't have any ads on at this time (it's my first site). It is mainly a site I use to try to help people. I currently have my own personal, original Christian writings, including theological writings on it. I want to add directories, a forum, and a online Bible to it in the future. I have a lot of ideas for it. However, I have a vision for what it could be in order to help people. But I do not know how to use it to make money with it. I have my writings on it where they can be read for free. And I would like everything that is on it to be free for people to use (by that I mean all the features of the site now and in the future) because I want it to help as many people as possible. But again that's where I don't know how I could make money from it.

      I was thinking that I could do like some people do with blogs (or at least what I think people do with them to make money). I think some people with blogs get a lot of traffic to their site and then put ads on the high traffic pages. I guess some of that traffic clicks on the ads sometimes and helps the site owner make money.

      I just don't know how easy or hard this is to accomplish; and I do not know if this would be easier or harder to make money with than the one product review site that others have talked about.

      I would like your feedback and advice on this now that you have more info on the personal ministry site. And again thanks for everyone's help.

      --KeithH
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      • Profile picture of the author ExRat
        Hi KeithH,

        OK, that's what I thought you meant, but I wanted to be sure. In that case I think it complicates things a little more (in terms of using the ministry site), which leads me to suggest avoiding using that site for earning money (for now at least) and learning how to do affiliate marketing.

        My advice would be identical to what Nick said in the first reply (post#2) above. It's easier to learn using multiple, smaller, more disposable sites - so that you can employ trial and error.

        Nick said -

        With individual product review sites, they can rank for individual buyer keywords much quicker, with less content and with less backlinks so that in a week or two you can be on page one of Google with multiple sites and see which products convert, which don't and quickly adjust course.

        The latter is quicker, easier and gives you better feedback quicker.
        Sorry to duplicate someone elses advice, but that's because I think that the advice is right!
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