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So you see all these affiliate programmes around - I did once sign up for one, but it never did anything at all, I now have adsense - but my website is not well used as yet. I wanted it to look good before I really promoted it, and it is very specialised.$4 in 6 months converted to £ is hardly going to break the bank!
So, tell me, has anyone on here ever made any money with these things APART from of course, the person who starts the affiliate programme, and Adsense/Google themselves?
Iwrite
If you spend just one hour looking around this forum and the AdSense group, you'll find amazing answers.
Just do a little work -- it won't hurt.
Thank you for the two last replies!
I disagree. There a couple of very well respected people here who started with just free advertising coupons for adwords.
Although, I guess they may have payed for the conference [pubcon.com] to get them, or maybe their employer did.
I have several dozen site that average about $11/month in fees if you include domain registration. These sites make many, many times that $11 after hundreds of hours of hard work developing quality content. So I would say it takes hard work and dedication more than it takes money. Be willing to start slow and accept the fact that you won't see any profit for months. If you keep at it and pour yourself into the job you will start to see results and that can make you work even harder and the income increases and so on and so on...
Also since I am not a writer and my first language is not english I have to hire one to write for me so I can put contents on my website.
Not only that but if you are just starting out you are bound to make mistakes and if you are spending a lot of money these mistakes can be costly.
Where the real money was spent was in my time and effort to turn the free site into a money making enterprise.
£8 for £10k recurring and sustained - 3 years and counting and increase of 10% this year so far.
Making money on the internet ligitimally does not have to cost you more than a pub lunch if your prepared to think outside the box and put some hours in.
Mal
I also have spent too much time on an idea that didn't pan out. Sometimes I think a person can be too patient. Thee's also not paying closer attention to the overall program and investigating all aspects of it. The commission might be great but tyheir landing page might be horrible and you might never get any sale. So what's the use? I'm sure there are more but those three are biggies.
Making money on the internet ligitimally does not have to cost you more than a pub lunch if your prepared to think outside the box and put some hours in.
Yes. AdWords coupons help, hosting can be had a on a shoestring. The cost is time.
It's doesn't take any tech skills whatsoever if you just play the PPC game.
If you have no real tech skills outside of Dreamweaver and some basic HTML/style sheets & basic graphics and can write fairly well you can make quite a bit.
If you have the above skills, good tech skills and really GROK the net, you can really mint money.
If you don't have a good understanding of marketing and online buying habits and some basic math skills, you can start out with lots of cash, be the best programmer/designer/DB developer/ in the world and not make a cent.
On one of the past conference websites, it was mentioned that one of the speakers who made as much as $2,000,000 in one year. Another speaker at one of the conferences, said they paid more in taxes on affiliate marketing income than ever being paid at a job. You can bet there are lots of other people on this board making a few bucks a month to at least 5 figures a month; some working solo, others maybe small companies.
You usually have to work your a$$ off getting started unless you get lucky, you have to test all kinds of different things but after a while you find patterns in the way people buy, in the way they search, in the way search engines rank sites, in ways to squeeze the most out of PPC campaigns - 30%, 40% click through rates on money keywords that convert (you get the guts to be the top bidder on expensive keywords as an affiliate), which types of sites pull a CPM of hundreds of dollars and which ones are lucky to pull a $0.50 CPM.
Then there's AdSense. Lots of people make lots of money from that as well.
It may take a year or two to start the traffic rolling in which is one reason why it may seem unbelievable that people really do make money at this stuff. There are setbacks, sometimes expensive experimentation in PPC but if you really want to succeed and give it everything you've got you can make it work. A little luck is always good too.
This was published a while ago, but some things never change:
I don't know if it was connected to reading this site or not, and for me, the fact people read what I write is important, as I am a writer, but I found that the number of page views has shot up.
Nobody clicked on adsense adverts, but any self promotion ( which obviously, I can't do on here,) is great for me. I set up a blog to link, but as far as I can see the only person who has as yet seen the blog is me! What I noticed on the blogs was how many times people got messages from someone saying 'see my blog I sell..." I wonder if those guys ever make anything from that though, as my immediate reaction was to feel a bit annoyed - espescially when someone signed my guest book on my web site with a link to a motorcycle firm, and then posted a whole lot of other things they have to sell!
What I have decided to do, being the only person in my church who has any idea what to do at all, is to really work on that church website with all the info I have got here. It might be worth sigining us up for something to bring in revenue - though as yet, what is a thing to be researched for.
What you guys have convinced me of is that it is worth seeing what I can do.
Now, off to sort out free sites as I already pay for a hosted one.....Ok so the challenge for us newbies is can we post back here we have made more than £1000 in 2 years!
Of course, then we can write an ebook.........
Iwrite
That is very true. There is no easy or quick money. It required hard work and patience. If that was easy and quick, then it would only last just for a short few days ... :)
