Posts Tagged Affiliate Marketing

The bigger the universe of crappy, make-money-fast "gurus" gets, the more Aaron Wall (and now his wife Giovanna) stand out for preaching the right way to do things.  Giovanna's new post on Google AdWords Affiliate Marketing Strategies is the same gospel message -- create real value, and you don't have to worry about your business disappearing overnight  -- but centered specifically around The Great AdWords Affiliate Massacre of 2009.  Absolutely worth a read.

Chris Guthrie gives you 7 ways how, based on extensive testing throughout all of last year.  Definitely worth a read.

Yesterday Alan over at Affiliate Confession reported that he had his first five-figure month in March.  The post is an inspiring one if you're struggling to get to the next step.

When you're trying to make enough money online to quit your day job, few things are as helpful as spending some time talking with someone who's done it.  Alan LeStourgeon from Affiliate Confession is one of those guys -- and one of the good ones.  He was kind enough to take some time right in the middle of packing for his vacation to let me interview him about ... Keep reading »

Last month I wrote about how important it is to learn from others who are already successful. Well, this month I decided to make that a little easier for you to do. Here is a roundup of all the posts I've found so far where bloggers listed their earnings for October. Click the dollar figure to see their details. Shoemoney (~$30,000) Direct Ad Sales: 50% Affiliate: 30% Other: 20% John Chow ($23,448.59) Direct Ad Sales: ... Keep reading »

If you rely largely on advertising for your revenue -- whether direct, affiliate or contextual -- you're making money by encouraging your visitors to buy or do something elsewhere. There's an important concept there that we often never think about: If the advertiser is willing to pay you $0.10 per visitor that you send them, then that visitor must be worth noticeably more than $0.10 to them. Otherwise, they wouldn't be willing to pay you that, right? (In other ... Keep reading »

I track everything. Success for my sites is always a math problem. "If I move this AdSense ad here, what happens to my overall revenue per visitor." Things like that. I'll write more about that later, but this post from Scott is worth a read simply to see how a successful affiliate makes business decisions.

Back in February, I wrote about "The Top 3 Ways to Generate Revenue from Your Blog" -- number one being advertisers: Dedicated advertisers are usually your best source of revenue. They pay a much better rate, they’re a guaranteed revenue stream every month, and they tend to stick around. The only downside is that you usually need to have really healthy traffic levels to make it worthwhile for advertisers to work with you directly. I noted later in the comments that what constituted a "healthy traffic level" really varied from nice to niche -- some sites may be able to attract advertisers with a tenth of the traffic of others; it's just so dependent on what type of readers you're attracting. Additionally, you definitely want to avoid monetizing too soon. Very few things can kill a site quicker than letting your advertising overwhelm everything else. Let's suppose, though, that you do have healthy traffic levels for your niche and are indeed ready for advertisers. How do you go about finding them? Keep reading »

We'll get into all of these in much more detail over the next few months, but I wanted to go ahead and give you a quick run-down of the top 3 money-makers for your blog. Keep in mind, though, not to let monetization become your focus. Advertisers Dedicated advertisers are usually your best source of revenue. They pay a much better rate, they're a guaranteed revenue stream every month, and they tend to stick around. The only downside ... Keep reading »