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I am pretty easy to please as far as revenue goes. If I could do $50 a day or so I'd be okay until I got with the plan better somewhere along the way.
I just don't know enough about ppc or advertising or whatever to be able to get started. My site was originally designed to cater to a select group of people, not make money. So I've tried to get some things on there that'll keep them coming back.
Now, I'm wanting to cover my bill somehow and don't know where to begin. If anyone would like to PM me with ideas I'd be very appreciative. Any words of advice otherwise are equally appreciated.
Thanks
Mabour, you are getting $300 a month just from 100 visitors a day - thats amazing!? As I mentioned I am getting only single figures, yet getting over 3000 visitors a day. It's those 2-5c clicks! =(
Obviously I'm in the wrong area, maybe I should expand or create some new sites in a more profitable area.
I would LOVE to get $100 a day - that would be fantastic! Yet, quite a few people seem unhappy making this a day.
It's not being unhappy - it's shooting for the next level. $100 a day is $3k/month, a nice figure, but hardly something you can count on (specially with fluctuations) to live with. Now $200/day$6k/month, then we're talkin :)
just from 100 visitors a day
It's all about the type of traffic. 100 visitors a day can make a LOT of cash. Think about getting traffic on buy widget, cheap widgets, etc. ;)
Procyon.
Being able to buy my first car in Dec 2005 while still holding a lot of pocketmoney ;)
i will try,,,, not $100 but $20
Sometimes the biggest payoffs come with the biggest (calculated) risks. If you can afford it try and raise a couple thousand and see what you can do. This is the same thing VCs do at a much larger scale (millions). To make a lot you usually have to risk something. Now minimizing your risk is your task to get the best and safest return.
Example: If you're selling $1,000 items and want to spend $2,000 advertising using kanoodle or findwhat might be pretty risky, while with AdWords or Overture it might pay off.
That is just a real basic risk analysis, but hopefully you get the point.
what sort of site was it that you advertised with i.e content with affliates embedded or a pure affliate page/site? I'm assuming PPC and not banners/media/newspaper advertising?
what sort of site was it that you advertised with i.e content with affliates embedded or a pure affliate page/site? I'm assuming PPC and not banners/media/newspaper advertising?
My site(s) are by no means pure affiliate sites.
Maybe we should start a "lets get $20 a day club!".
I'd join you, but I've already surpassed that. Woohoo!
Last year around this time, I was averaging about $17/day. It was pretty much that way for the year.
To date so far this year, really starting in about mid-January, I'm averaging about $35/day.
It's starting to drop off a bit, but I'm working on fresh content which should (hopefully) spark things up again.
What affiliate programs do you guys use? I have a site up since last year and its hooked up with CJ. Just basically sell stuff, simple catalog site. The site's earning $200 a month. If I want to learn how to do a PPC or Adsense where do I go?
Personally I do not believe in paying for advertising.
Imagine Nike or Budweiser or Coors or eBAY or any other big company saying this? That is why you're stuck at $85/day.
Fairla, you could make $5000 a day from free traffic alone, but it is nice to round out your strategy.
All the Best,
C.K.
Imagine Nike or Budweiser or Coors or eBAY or any other big company saying this?
Yes, but they have more competition than I do (and they also have a bigger potential audience). I don't think I'd get a very big return on my money if I advertised; I don't have that kind of site. I get free links from other sites without even asking, and that's the best form of advertising, if you can get it.
(PS Regrettably, I am not a shrewd businessperson, but is is possible to make money from a website without a killer business instinct -- notice I didn't say you'll get rich, but for those who want $100 a day, I can tell you, it is possible. Easy, no; possible, yes.)
What is the point of entering a niche like that (assuming you want to make money)? I mean I could enter the Britney Spears niche and get 50 million page views per day, but I'm going to make $10.
I think the first step people can go wrong is entering the wrong niche. If you're looking to make money it may not always be in something you love or enjoy or your hobby. It may be something you never thought of or have no interest in. But in reality, you do have an interest in it, it will make you money. And if you treat your web sites as a business and you want to maximize the profit of your business, you'll enter any niche where the profit outweighs the costs by a certain margin.
If I'm entering a niche where I have to solely rely on free links to make money and hope I appear in the SERPs it is one that probably isn't viable, at least not at the moment.
I hope you get what I am saying and that is, if you’re looking to make money on line do the research and find out if there is even good money in the ideas you are exploring.
What is the point of entering a niche like that (assuming you want to make money)? I mean I could enter the Britney Spears niche and get 50 million page views per day, but I'm going to make $10.
It's a trade-off. You can make money in either. With 50 million page views per day, even if you can get $0.10 CPM, that's $5000 per day. (I know you were exaggerating with the 50 million, but the point is the same--there's money to be made in volume, too.)
It seems like the highest volume sites get a low EPV (earning per visitor) and the highest EPV sites get a low volume. It would be great to find a niche where you could get both high volume and high EPV. If such a niche exists, I haven't found it yet.
You need a niche?
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Some questions?
