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.
