affiliate website

theguvnor

Hi,

Read quite a bit about people making some money with affiliate sites with adsense and so on.

I've had a quick look through and a lot of sites look like a scam.

Does anyone here have one? How do I start?

Thanks in advance

HappyMJ

Look at Google Adsense. You can make money if your website is popular. How much money? Not very much...but it should be enough to keep your website running.

What sort of website do you currently have? Is it popular?

Once you get Adsense then you can look at affiliate marketing websites such as tradedoubler...

Leo2020

I have a site with Google ads, currently it is making about £30 a month - but it is a very large site. You need a popular site to make any real returns.

Leo2020

To add, it's not the site mentioned in my sig.

Hoody

The main thing you need to make money with affiliate marketing is traffic. So you will need something that will draw the punters in so to speak. As far as starting, go and set up a free blogger site and play. add google analytics to it (it's free) so you can see where the traffic is coming from and what keywords they are looking for etc.

shmeeko69

theguvnor wrote: »

Hi,

Read quite a bit about people making some money with affiliate sites with adsense and so on.

I've had a quick look through and a lot of sites look like a scam.

Does anyone here have one? How do I start?

Thanks in advance

I don't personally use Google Ads and the like, as I think it's a bit of a distraction to potential customers, but having a review site is normally a good idea and use the free Google keyword tool for your review items.

You can review things like technology or fitness products and choose one's which are new or have low competition for the relevant keyword phrases. This will enable you to compete reasonably well for items and with that, you'll get a bucket load of new traffic and probably a fair amount of clicks on the ads.

All the Best

Arfa__

I have a few affiliate sites, each performing with varying success. I agree there are lot of naff affiliate sites out there, that don't really offer much more than a thin layer product catalogue to sit in front of a real store. However recent Google changes gave most of these type of sites a good smack down. These days, you need a site that actually offers something useful and/or interesting to visitors. Be it a decent reviews, or a useful service like product comparison, wedding list manager, voucher search etc.

Either way, bury any illusions you can make a quick buck. You need to be in it for the long haul, it can take a long time to get a site established, build up a good audience and achieve high enough traffic levels to really bring much money. Think a couple of years, not a couple of months.

My most successful site provides a highly specialised custom search engine for a niche audience. It's called 'Hi-Fi Hunter' - Google it.

InsideInsurance

shmeeko69 wrote: »

I don't personally use Google Ads and the like, as I think it's a bit of a distraction to potential customers

If you are the sort of site that has "customers", rather than "visitors", then you almost certainly shouldnt have AdSense running on your site. If you make more money from PPC advertising than selling your product/ service then there is something seriously wrong with your site/ business

If you have Administration controlled content but dont actually sell a product or service then you should be looking at Affiliate marketing wherever possible with a small amount of AdSense for a few areas where you dont have an affiliate lined up.

Adsense only makes sense on a large scale where you have user generated content and thus Google's ability to place appropriate ads based on what the users are doing/ saying makes sense but assuming you have themes of activity (eg sub forums) then again affiliate marketing may still be the better option

Rach_0101

I run a lifestyle and beauty blog and have just been accepted by adsense I also have a youtube account but they are on different google accounts does this matter at all?

Hoody

Not sure how you do it? but i believe you can link them together?