Affiliate marketig
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My wife runs the Affiliate marketing for her employer, they are very successful IMO and it represents 20% of the business now!
They will be at LAC, if you are interested in the area apparently its the place to go (I however know very little but I hear about it Constantly...)
http://www.igbaffiliate.com/events/londonaffiliate...
They will be at LAC, if you are interested in the area apparently its the place to go (I however know very little but I hear about it Constantly...)
http://www.igbaffiliate.com/events/londonaffiliate...
I posted a similar topic but didn't get a reply unfortunately so I don't think anyone here does it.
I have a couple of niche domains that I want to set up as sites as "proper" businesses but haven't got round to them yet so I wanted to create the site, add loads of amazon products and start the ball rolling then see how it goes and either buy stock when the site gets a bit established or possibly just leave it as an affiliate site.
There are a lot of micro niche sites doing this and I assume some of them are making some money, maybe not thousands but I'm sure there are plenty of people making a few hundred a month across a few sites.
I try to ignore the big "make millions" stories as I doubt it's really possible.
I'm baffled by how people do review sites though, I doubt they buy all the products then review them?!?! I guess there is a lot of make believe going on mixed with a bit of experience.
I have a couple of niche domains that I want to set up as sites as "proper" businesses but haven't got round to them yet so I wanted to create the site, add loads of amazon products and start the ball rolling then see how it goes and either buy stock when the site gets a bit established or possibly just leave it as an affiliate site.
There are a lot of micro niche sites doing this and I assume some of them are making some money, maybe not thousands but I'm sure there are plenty of people making a few hundred a month across a few sites.
I try to ignore the big "make millions" stories as I doubt it's really possible.
I'm baffled by how people do review sites though, I doubt they buy all the products then review them?!?! I guess there is a lot of make believe going on mixed with a bit of experience.
Andrew[MG] said:
To make more sales for your business or as an income stream? I've done both but the area is 98% dominated by voucher/cashback sites.
I am part of the development of a new piece of software to help affiliate marketeers drive traffic to sites and wanted to at some point soon get a couple of people to test it and get their thoughts ...Affiliate marketing is where I first started making decent money online & 5 - 6 years ago making 5k a week was pretty easy but the days of simple landing pages with flashing CTAs "thin pages" are well gone and it takes serious commitment and ability to make any sort of decent income now.
If you are serious about trying to scale quickly PPC is the way to go but you will need some decent starter capital as its not uncommon to spend 10k on PPC to make £500 and then you need to wait on your payout.
Sites like this tore up the rule book on aff marketing and knew when to exit ( 55 mill sale a few months ago ) http://www.myvouchercodes.co.uk/
If you are serious about trying to scale quickly PPC is the way to go but you will need some decent starter capital as its not uncommon to spend 10k on PPC to make £500 and then you need to wait on your payout.
Sites like this tore up the rule book on aff marketing and knew when to exit ( 55 mill sale a few months ago ) http://www.myvouchercodes.co.uk/
uber said:
Affiliate marketing is where I first started making decent money online & 5 - 6 years ago making 5k a week was pretty easy but the days of simple landing pages with flashing CTAs "thin pages" are well gone and it takes serious commitment and ability to make any sort of decent income now.
If you are serious about trying to scale quickly PPC is the way to go but you will need some decent starter capital as its not uncommon to spend 10k on PPC to make £500 and then you need to wait on your payout.
Sites like this tore up the rule book on aff marketing and knew when to exit ( 55 mill sale a few months ago ) http://www.myvouchercodes.co.uk/
uber - Could I pm you and run something by you ?If you are serious about trying to scale quickly PPC is the way to go but you will need some decent starter capital as its not uncommon to spend 10k on PPC to make £500 and then you need to wait on your payout.
Sites like this tore up the rule book on aff marketing and knew when to exit ( 55 mill sale a few months ago ) http://www.myvouchercodes.co.uk/
uber said:
Affiliate marketing is where I first started making decent money online & 5 - 6 years
I suppose the obvious (and cheeky!) question has to be Where are you making the money online these days?
I know my way around online but looking for a move away from SEOing other people's biz and looks like I missed the boat on AM!
Pot Bellied Fool said:
uber said:
Affiliate marketing is where I first started making decent money online & 5 - 6 years
I suppose the obvious (and cheeky!) question has to be Where are you making the money online these days?I know my way around online but looking for a move away from SEOing other people's biz and looks like I missed the boat on AM!
We have just started running a programme with one of the networks and are making a few £k in sales a week, mainly via the cashback and discount sites. Our sector is reasonably well established in the affiliate sector, and I expect this to grow significantly.
I would be interested to hear about your idea, and happy to share thoughts / experiences.
I would be interested to hear about your idea, and happy to share thoughts / experiences.
So are you doing that with blog sites or with shopping sites?
If the latter, what software are you using to import products from Amazon?
I've tried expensive Opencart modules, and Wordpress modules but none of them import products properly, waste of money so far. I just want to open a basic store, set my categories then import a load of products from Amazon into those categories so it looks like a standard shop and when they add to cart and checkout they go off to Amazon. Ive seen it done loads but haven't come across the right software to achieve it!
If the latter, what software are you using to import products from Amazon?
I've tried expensive Opencart modules, and Wordpress modules but none of them import products properly, waste of money so far. I just want to open a basic store, set my categories then import a load of products from Amazon into those categories so it looks like a standard shop and when they add to cart and checkout they go off to Amazon. Ive seen it done loads but haven't come across the right software to achieve it!
MrSparks said:
I posted a similar topic but didn't get a reply unfortunately so I don't think anyone here does it.
I have a couple of niche domains that I want to set up as sites as "proper" businesses but haven't got round to them yet so I wanted to create the site, add loads of amazon products and start the ball rolling then see how it goes and either buy stock when the site gets a bit established or possibly just leave it as an affiliate site.
There are a lot of micro niche sites doing this and I assume some of them are making some money, maybe not thousands but I'm sure there are plenty of people making a few hundred a month across a few sites.
I try to ignore the big "make millions" stories as I doubt it's really possible.
I'm baffled by how people do review sites though, I doubt they buy all the products then review them?!?! I guess there is a lot of make believe going on mixed with a bit of experience.
I went the other way - from selling physical products to setting up an affiliate site.I have a couple of niche domains that I want to set up as sites as "proper" businesses but haven't got round to them yet so I wanted to create the site, add loads of amazon products and start the ball rolling then see how it goes and either buy stock when the site gets a bit established or possibly just leave it as an affiliate site.
There are a lot of micro niche sites doing this and I assume some of them are making some money, maybe not thousands but I'm sure there are plenty of people making a few hundred a month across a few sites.
I try to ignore the big "make millions" stories as I doubt it's really possible.
I'm baffled by how people do review sites though, I doubt they buy all the products then review them?!?! I guess there is a lot of make believe going on mixed with a bit of experience.
From my own experience, the smaller niche sites don't do very well in organic search, and to drive enough traffic to get decent results you need a bigger site that offers more than just a few product reviews.
This tactic may have worked in the past, but with recent Google algorithm updates you really need a quality site with unique and relevant content. You need to ask yourself why users would visit your site rather than just go to Amazon directly, and provide something that makes them want to come to you for a reason.
ehasler said:
went the other way - from selling physical products to setting up an affiliate site.
From my own experience, the smaller niche sites don't do very well in organic search, and to drive enough traffic to get decent results you need a bigger site that offers more than just a few product reviews.
This tactic may have worked in the past, but with recent Google algorithm updates you really need a quality site with unique and relevant content. You need to ask yourself why users would visit your site rather than just go to Amazon directly, and provide something that makes them want to come to you for a reason.
For the niche site I'm thinking of I can provide enough content i.e reviews, how to guides, picture gallerys, info etc to start building on. I've just not found a decent way to import products from Amazon into my own store (be it opencart, wordpress, anything really). There are quite a few out there that talk the talk but I've not had any real success with them. For the site to work I think it needs to have all the relevant categories, lots of products to choose from and then the info pages, blog, guides etc. A simple info/reviews site I don't think is going to work.From my own experience, the smaller niche sites don't do very well in organic search, and to drive enough traffic to get decent results you need a bigger site that offers more than just a few product reviews.
This tactic may have worked in the past, but with recent Google algorithm updates you really need a quality site with unique and relevant content. You need to ask yourself why users would visit your site rather than just go to Amazon directly, and provide something that makes them want to come to you for a reason.
I can't see that it'll make a fortune but in theory it should be fairly easy to build and grow over a few years then if it does get some decent traffic I can buy all the products myself and turn it into a proper store. Just seems a cheap way to start building something and testing feasibility.
I'm quite intrigued by all this as have a client who does it and I have personally just made £370 in Topcashback kickbacks since Dec!
I don't claim to understand it all but I have met many of the people featured here http://www.superlistmethod.com/ and this is all about building relevant (and sellable?) email lists of people to market to?
Anyway as I said I'm no expert but its an interesting subject that I'd like to know more about and understand better.
I don't claim to understand it all but I have met many of the people featured here http://www.superlistmethod.com/ and this is all about building relevant (and sellable?) email lists of people to market to?
Anyway as I said I'm no expert but its an interesting subject that I'd like to know more about and understand better.
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