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Affiliate Strategies for Newbies

Published
by
KevinKarter
on November 2, 2008
in Advertising Networks, Making Money and internet marketing
. 0 Comments

Many times I get asked a simple question from newbies:

I am a newbie to affiliate marketing and PPC, can you let me know few tips and tricks to getting started?

Well, I don’t have any tricks up my sleeve, but yes, there are some tips.

I think the easiest way to learn affiliate marketing and PPC is to try it yourself. What is the simplest place to start? In my opinion, many online marketers have started and having good success with clickbank, and is a good place to start. I recommend it.

For newbies in this field, its is difficult to make websites (or landing pages) as it involves a lots of different stuff. So, the simplest way is to send the traffic directly to advertiser’s website. It is not the best way, but it is the simplest way to start. Remember to do a little bit of research and try to choose a non-saturated clickbank niche for your campaigns. Here is a list of good campaigns and advertisers, I would advise that you try some yourself to see how they work:

  1. Commission Blueprint - huge commissions and easy conversions makes good money for affiliates marketers.
  2. Make Money Flipping Websites - a video series teaches anyone how to earn money from home flipping websites.
  3. 12 Month Millionaire - amazing money making secrets of a 28 year old who made $100 million in two years!
  4. Web 2.0 Wealth - learn how to make multiple incomes from custom Wordpress blog with multiple income options.
  5. Flipping Domain Names - learn how to make $1,000 a month simply buying and selling domain names.
  6. Recession Rescue System - 3 giants of the internet marketing world show you how to make money in a recession.
  7. Blogging to the Bank - the best blogging advice on the net. Highly recommended.
  8. Secret Affiliate Code - send traffic and make money, great promotional tools are here

So what are you waiting for, get started today and soon you’ll be earning good money.

Affiliate or Adsense ?

Published
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KevinKarter
on February 10, 2008
in Advertising Networks, Making Money and internet marketing
. 11 Comments

I have a website in the health niche. This site is about 2 years old and makes around $500/month consistently with adsense since last year. This site has a top 5 ranking on most search engines for some very good keywords and gets around 1,000 unique visitors a day. So, with those 30,000 uniques and $500 in adsense, I was happy with $16 eCPM. Who wouldn’t be? That is a pretty good eCPM. So, I was very happy with this site. Until a couple of days ago.

So what happened two days ago?

I got an email from one of my competitors, saying that he is willing to buy my site (they had seen the search engine rankings for it). I told them that the site is not for sale. Then, they gave me an offer which was very difficult to refuse. An offer of $20,000 for the site. I was shocked. Is my site that worth? How he is going to monetize the site making that much money? All these questions came to my mind.

At first, with the amazing offer price, I was just about to sell it. But then I thought, wait, why not try and see what he is going to do with the site. I can do that myself and see if my earnings can be increased. So I started researching the related sites and found that most of my competitors are not running Adsense but running some affiliate links which have some very big payouts.

I put those affiliate links on my site 48 hours ago and here are the stats I see for those 48 hours:

So in 48 hours, that’s a total of $652.60. So if I keep earning that sort of money every day, that would be around $9,789.00 per month from this site alone! Even if I average the figures down a bit to $200 per day (instead of current $326.30), I will be making at least $6,000 per month from this site, which was only making me $500 per month through Adsense until now.

So, Adsense is not always the best way to monetize your website. If you can the right type of affiliate programs which pay well and suit your niche, you can earn more, a LOT more!

Later on this month I will update you all on how the month went.

So, whats next?
As of now I have kept adsense on the site. I will keep them for next 5 days (total of seven days). Then I will remove them for next 7 days and will compare my affiliate earnings from these two weeks. That will decide whether I should remove adsense completely from the site or not.

What do you think? Have any of you had similar experience with changing from adsense to affiliate, or even the other way around?