Affiliates...

Hi all. I'm considering starting to use affilates on my site (such as Amazon) and I wonder if anyone can give me an idea of how much I can expect to make with (say) 5 affilates running and how many hits a day I will need to achieve this? I'm in the UK but quotes in dollars will be fine. Thanks.

Nick

Hey Nick,

Your questions are almost so broad that it makes it difficult to answer them, there are many varibles to consider, and just placing afffliate links on a site doesn't mean you will make any money. It depends on how you market those affiliates to the visitors that come to your site that matters. Not one affiliate company fits all, you can make the mistake of promoting something that doesn't interest your visitors at all. Hence no income. Regarding the amount of visitors it takes to generate some good revenue depends again on how you convert those visitors to buyers, clickers, or just plain surfers. Take a look at your content, your chosen affiliates, place them in strategic places on your sites, watch what happens as visitors come to your site and encounter those affiliates companies, if nothing is happening then it means you need to change what you are doing. Look at other websites that are promoting similar affiliate programs, see what they are doing in order to be successful. But be careful of who you watch as well, cause not everything you see nor read on the internet is going to be correct. Count your advertising dollars and spend them well, SEO your site, take a look at your content, if you have none, then work on that first. Read, research, and rank well in the engines and you should begin just fine.

Hi,

I do know that some people claim that they make a few thousand a month with Amazon, using the mod rewrite.

They claim that they make hundreds of pages optimized for the major search engines using mod rewrite, which in return, gives them thousands of listings within the major search engines, like Google!

Thanks for the replies. I'll give it a go and see what happens but I don't expect to make a huge amount of money - just a bit would be nice.

Nick

Well I hope you do well and make some money from Amazon.

Lets hope it makes you enough money so that you can re-invest a percentage of it back into advertising or somthing.

Hope it all goes well!

So do I! Thanks John.

Nick

No problem Nick and have a great day!

It depends on your site, the program and your visitors. I run some affiliate on my sparetime, and if you combine free quality content with products that apeal to your target group. On one of my sites almost 8% of the total visitors ended up buying a specific product. It was the right product at the right time for the right target group. Remeber that your job is not to sell products, but to presell. Leave the actual selling to the site that makes the sale, you just have to get them in a good mood and make them click that link/ad/banner/etc.

Most begining affiliate sites never meets the minimum sales quota, be prepared to fail, but never give up.

Hi requiem. Thanks for the reply. Excellent advice. 8% sounds good - the best I have heard of so far is 5%. I'll give it a go and see what happens. Thanks again.

Nick

8% also sounds good to me. If I had 8% of my visitors purchasing goods from my site, I would be quite successful by now.

Great work requiem!