How To Guide To Make Money With Coupon Sites
I have been running a coupon website in India for a while now and I have been getting frequent queries from other webmasters that how do I make money with coupon website. So I think this forum would be the best place to talk about it.
Note - Since I have an experience in Indian Market only, so I will talk only about the Indian market here.
So How Do Coupon Sites in India make money?
All coupon sites in India makes money majorly through Affiliate Marketing. Some sites works directly with merchant and some works through an Ad Network in between (I fall in the latter category)
So How Does it Work?
1. You need to have a coupon website, which is easy to create. If you are a wordpress user then you can use the Couponpress theme or else yoy should opt for Couponscript.org
2. Once you have coupon site live with the coupon codes, then you can contact Various Ad Networks in India to get registered on their network and start getting advertisers.
Top Affiliate Networks in India are -
- Tyroo Media Pvt Ltd
- OMG India
- Vcommission
- DGM Pro
- Troo Trac
- Ibibo Ad Network
3. Once you are approved on these networks, start putting your deals and coupons with appropriate affiliate links provided by these networks.
We are done with the simple task of creating the site and joining networks, now what next? Well, you got to run the website and get visitors on your site.
How To Attract Visitors To A Coupon Site?
1. Search Engine Optimization
2. Email Marketing (Use Double Opt In Only)
3. Social Media Marketing such as Facebook Page, Twitter Handles, Pinterest Board and Google Plus Page
4. Pay Per Click Advertising like Google Adwords, Facebook Ads
Though the guide written may look very short and easy, just a word of caution, its a very competitive market and you need to be updated always and its not an easy game. So start working with dedication to get good results!
Preferred Campaigns For Promotion in India
Travel - Goibibo, Yatra and Makemytrip
Online Shopping - Myntra, Jabong, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Homeshop18 (there are 100+ more advertisers in this space)
Others - Dominos, Foodpanda
To give you a sample view, you can check our list of Myntra Coupons to see how we list coupons
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