Easy Affiliate Niche Marketing $76.31 From 415 Unique

I want to show you how just one small semi static site I made earned $76.31 from a brand new website in just 5 weeks on just 415 Unique visits.

$57.40 of this came from a clickbank affiliate product and $18.91 came from adsense clicks.  It did not take many clicks to bring that either.

I should also mention this site landed #1 on MSN in just 3 weeks and it now rests at #3 for the main keywords and I have barely worked on this site.

Here is the website… http://www.video-game-tester.org

Here is the screen shot of the sales

*Names and other vitals have been blocked out to protect the innocent.

The only 2 to look at there are the ones highlighted in red.

Screenshot of the 415 unique visits….

Let me show you exactly what i did so you can duplicate or beat my results…

1st – I did some research for the term video game tester in Google Adwords Tool. 

I used exact match to find how many searches per month.

I noticed while doing my search that there were several good words for this niche that I could use.  So i copy and pasted each word I was interested in into notepad and saved it so I could go on to the next step.

2nd- I loaded up Niche Research Commando and looked at each word. 

This took me just a few minutes since it instantly gave me all the top 10 competitors on google and shows me how many backlinks each site has.  I simply did this for each keyword to determine if it was worth going after.

From here I checked out my competitors sites to see which affiliate programs they were promoting.  If I would have found them to not be promoting affiliate products I would have simply search clickbank or any other affiliate network to find something to promote.

3rd – I decided on 5 keywords I wanted to base my site around including the main words video game tester.

Seeing there were alot of other marketers marketing Video Game Tester style sites I figuered landing a top 10 for the main words would take some time.  So I wanted supporting pages to help land sales for words that were being searched but less marketed or perhaps even overlooked by other marketers.

I actually only ended up making 3 pages to the site based on my keywords.  I still have the others to add I just got busy and never went back to it.  I’ll add these later on to give google something FRESH to look at.  The big G likes fresh content in all of my experiences with it.

4th -  I built the outline of the site and then had my content writer write 5 – 200-250 word content articles.  This was done much in the style of what I use from Niche Profit Gold.  You just modify , plug the content in and go.

I bought the domain name I wanted and installed wordpress.  It took me about 20 minutes since I use Bluehost I don’t have to wait for the site to propegate as it features an all in one domain registar and hosting for $6.99/month.

These were designed to simply plug into my site based on my keywords.  Although I never added some of the content I still have it ready to go for when I decide to update the site.  I modified each one slightly to fit exactly what I wanted for the site which took me just a couple minutes per content article.

At this point I had to stop working due to other obligations.  It would take me 10 days to get back to the project.  However, the results would have still came out the same since I hadn’t added content yet.

I added my affiliate products onto the site with a picture and made the pictures clickable with my affiliate links embedded into them.

5th- I then submitted the site to google with a sitemap as well.

The sitemap will help you get indexed faster.  It will also allow you to update your content for google later on with ease.  Since you’re not building giant mega sites a sitemap won’t do much else for you here.  Although I avoid building the gigantic sites myself and actually think it’s very hard to keep on topic the bigger the site gets.

6th -   I contacted my writer again and had her design 5- 500 word articles.

I then submitted them with this service, however submitting to several top article directories would be fine to.  Some of the top directories are Ezine Articles, Go Articles and Article Factory.  I only ended up submitting 3 of the articles and still have the other 2 to submit when I get back into the swing of it.

If you don’t have an article writer you can hire one at places like need an article and find someone who will do the writing for you.  Usually this is pretty cheap but for good 500 word articles it can cost as much as $15 each so just makes sure you get the best price possible and sorry my writer is not available for hire, haha she’s all mine

You could also write them yourself which isn’t a bad way to get started.  Next, I plugged the site into linkserp for some automated link building… just the way i like it.  Since I already had several sites in their program I knew the system worked well.

1 Week later I submitted the site to a few mid range PR directories.  All of them were free to use.

Overall I spent about about 4 hours total on the project and maybe a little less.  I could have spent a little more time and made the site more presentable and profitable by adding a couple more pages, an opt in form (to collect emails to make future sales and of course I could have submitted the other 2 articles.

I could also test and put adsense in better locations on the site.  This is also a niche that gets a lot of younger kids looking at it so it loses some potential conversions due to that.

I can imagine the conversation… "Mom, Can I have $50 to Buy a Guide on Making My Career as a Video Game Tester?"  Ugh…. No

In time I will do more with the site.  But I can’t complain because the site pulled $76.31 in 5 weeks.. which is nearly $1000 a year doing very little work from this one site.

The site now has about 10 keywordsd in the top 10 on google and again the main keywords are #3 in MSN at the time of writing this.

The programs I used to do this all cost a small amount of money but doing this with multiple sites can add up to a substantial income yearly.  Most affiliate sites I build make alot more than $76.31 a month but this demo was put together to show you how easy you can start making some reoccuring affiliate income.

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