Month: February 2015

Money Earned with Articles is Sustainable

The amount of money which can be made from placing articles and affiliate links on your website differs from person to person, mainly because the amount of money you are able to make will depend largely on how successful your site is, based primarily on the number of visitors it attracts; and in order to attract a large number of visitors to your site a few things must be in order.

Your site must be getting good search engine rankings through your SEO efforts, and your site must also be enjoyable for your visitors to read and it must also be informative through engaging content built around a great niche (specialized) topic. Some experts contend that the size of your website (number of pages), and the number of sites you own are also important factors in determining your success, but no one desputes the importance of great original content and SEO.

As far as earnings go, some webmasters (website owners/publishers) have made claims of earnings as much as $10,000 per month ($120,000 per year) through building and promoting niche sites. However, these claims are not considered average earnings; furthermore most beginning webmasters (and even those with some experience) should not expect this kind of success, as such success is achieved only by seasoned and highly skilled webmasters.

A reasonable income to expect from a niche site, after you have worked for months to gain traffic and have have acquired good affiliates, reliable supporters and reputable vendors (merchants) may be $500-$1,000 per month. However this is recurring income, so you will make that much monthly from the efforts you put into that one site, it is not a one shot deal.

After you have a successful site, you could choose to continue building niche sites as many others do, since you can a reasonably assume that the more sites you build, the better an income you can generate. You can choose to build very fast sites with a limited number of pages, instead of sites which consist of larger volume of content articles that are slightly longer in length.

If you approach site building with the thought that the longer visitors stay on your site the greater a chance they will click on one of your promotional banners, then you will probably accept the premise that the larger each of your sites are, the more income you will likely generate off of them, and therefore create larger sites, but the choice is yours to make once you get going.

When starting out, it is important to remember that your first site will always be your most difficult task, since you are just learning the ropes of a new business; and that not everyone is cut out to market and promote niche sites.

You should also be prepared that in the event it does not work out, it could result in the loss of your money used to launch such a venture, but that is a risk everyone in this affiliate marketing business has to take, and hopefully you will be able to stick it out and weather the early storms that you are bound to encounter.

The important thing is that you don’t give up without a good fight, because if this is really what you want to it deserves your best “hard-fought” efforts. Your first site may take a long time, the work may be tedious, and you may feel like throwing in the towel; but if you give up too early, you will never know what could have been, and who knows, you may be the next great affiliate marketer.

Quickly Boosting Your Affiliate Commissions


In an ideal affiliate marketing world affiliates having their own website is really not a requirement; nor are they required to deal directly with customers, issue refunds, or handle product development and maintenance. Affiliate marketing is truly one of the easiest ways to launch an online business and earn profits by promoting and selling other people’s products/services.

Assuming you are already in an affiliate program, however, what would be the next thing you would want to do? Double or even triple your commissions, right? So the question is how exactly do you accomplish this? In an effort to address these questions in the best possible way, we’ve put together what we believe to be a few proven and powerful techniques on how affiliates who utilize them can boost their commissions almost overnight.

1. Seek out the best programs and products to promote. Obviously you would want to promote a program that will enable you to achieve maximum profits in the shortest period of time. However, there are several factors to consider in selecting such a program; factors such as choosing those which offer generous commission structure.

Your ideal program should also have products that fit in with your target audience, and can demonstrate a solid track record of paying their affiliate forthrightly and on time. If you join an affiliate program and find there is no prospects of increasing your investments, then you should simply dump that program and keep looking until you find better ones.

There are thousands of affiliate programs online which allows an affiliate to be choosy – or even more importantly – to be selective; and when you select the best affiliate program(s), you’ll find that you can also conserve your own advertising dollars because conversions are easier to come by.

Write free reports or short eBooks to distribute from your site. It’s entirely possible that you will be competing with other affiliates who are promoting the same program, so if you start writing short reports related to the product you are promoting, you will be able to distinguish yourself from other affiliates.

In your reports, you could provide some valuable information for free. If possible include a few recommendations on best uses of a particular product, its unique features and – in some cases – your own personal use of that product. With eBooks you get credibility, and customers will realize that you provide value via such reports and recommendations and will therefore be enticed to try what you are offering.

2. Collect and save the email addresses of those who download your free eBooks. It is a known fact that people do not make a purchase on the first solicitation, so you may want to send out your message more than six times (at least seven times) to make a sale.

This is the simple reason why you should collect and save the contact information of those who downloaded your reports and ebooks. You can make follow-ups on these contacts to remind them to make a purchase from you.

Make sure to get the contact information of your prospects before sending them to the vendor’s website. Keep in mind that you are providing free advertisement for the product owners, and you get paid only when you make a sale; so if you send prospects directly to the websites of your vendors/merchants, chances are they would be lost to you forever.

Of course, when you get their names and contact information, you can always send other promotional email messages to them and as such you’ll be giving yourself an opportunity to earn ongoing commissions instead of just a one-time sale.

Another tool you can employ is to publish an online newsletter or Ezine, since it is usually better to recommend a product to someone you know than to sell to a stranger, which explains the purpose behind publishing your own newsletter, a tool that allows you to develop a relationship based on trust with your subscribers.


This strategy of providing useful information without giving the impression that you are making a sales pitch is a delicate balance; but if you continue to write informative editorials you will be able to build a degree of reciprocity with your readers that might lead them to support you by buying the products you promote.

3. Ask for higher than normal commission from merchants. If you are already successful with a particular promotion, you should try to approach the merchant and negotiate the commission percentage that best represent you, your efforts and your sales.

If the merchant is smart, s/he will likely grant your request rather than lose a valuable asset in you. Keep in mind that you are a zero-risk investment to your merchant; so do not be shy about requesting an additional bonus or a boost in your commissions as long as you are reasonable with your request and in your negotiations.

Write strong pay Per Click ads. PPC search engine is the most effective method of advertising online. As an affiliate you can make a small income just by managing PPC campaigns such as Google AdWords and Overture. Then you should try and monitor them to see which ads are more effective and which ones to dispose of.

Try out these strategies and see the difference they can make to your commission checks in the short term; but you must remember to constantly enhance and update your affiliate toolkit, since your competition will be doing the same; and you obviously don’t want to out maneuvered due to your use of out-dated or ineffective marketing tools.