Amazon Niche Sites Or Adsense Niche Sites Or CPA Niche Sites for 2000$/month ?
-
Hello Seo Moz guys,
I'm new in SEOMOZ Comunity but I have about 2 years experience in internet marketing. I build 5 websites with google adsense, all of them with about 50 articles, 1k+ backlinks, about 1$-1,5$ cpc, and in average 300 visitors per day. I monetize these sites only with google adsense. ( A LOT OF WORK I can say in manual way, I don't have automate or semi-automate tools for SEO-Link Building )
I didn't make more than 200$ per month and I want to make 2000$/month from online to be really happy.
Can anyone suggest me a resource, a course, ANYTHING to improve my earnings? also, I want to change the business model from advertisements to affiliate marketing. I am in clickbank team and amazon asociates from 1 month and I didn't even make more than 30$ yet :))
Please please please, I want a good response, a respectable person to answer me
Thank you so much!
-
There is nothing about adsense in particular, or creating sites with that as a model of monetisation that means it is spam. Yes - lots of spammy sites do use adsense or amazon affiliate. However so do lots of good sites and plenty of other things in between. I would though agree that your focus on articles & backlinks does sound more like the sort of discussion I hear at that end of the market.
We run a couple of mid-sized adsense sites and do pretty well out of the - enough to have regular face to face meet-ups with an Adsense account manager. You can imagine that I wouldn't be too keen to walk in to Google's office to discuss those sites if they were spam!
Increasing adsense earnings is complex. The obvious things can be counter productive in the long term. For instance trying to push the click through rate through the ceiling on key landing pages seems like a no-brainer way to increase earnings. Longer terms though that sends some questionable signals (both back to search quanlity and in terms of the ad quality) and you can seen both traffic and CPC decrease.
What will work is going to differ from site to site. One thing that is working well across the board is to serve the adverts through DFP (doubleclick for publishers) rather than directly with the usual adsense code.
Using DFP not only makes is easier for advertisers to specifically target your site, but means that you can sell ads directly. Adsense is an auction, so selling ads directly in fuels that auction and can help drive click prices up. Direct selling also usually commands a far higher price - so we're quite keen on this!
Using DFP also means that you can use other networks to compete against adsense.
My other tip would be to try not to focus too much on the earnings per visit. The logical end-point of that thinking it just to immediately bounce people out of the site by the quickest and highest paying means possible. If you are getting your traffic from google then immediately sending them back out to Google your site has no value. If you want to sustain the sites long term (which as sites are expensive and timeconsuming to build, you probably do), then you need to build on the site and keep adding value in to it. Repeat visits is one of the best ways to measure if you are doing that well.
-
I'm not aware of any guides specifically discussing what you are looking for, I'm sorry.
However, I am a little concerned about the approach you are taking with your sites. Of course everyone wants to make money from their site with quick turn around, but Moz and the majority of the Moz community are focused on creating audiences and gratifying, consumable content that keeps people coming back for more. I guess you could say we're less Transaction focused and more Lifetime Customer focused. At Distilled, we call this "Making the Internet Awesome".
Regarding your last question concerning the types of tactics people here use, we design and implement strategies that will build relationships with our customer base. The majority of people here are representing their company and their company's services, so they are most likely selling a product. It doesn't sound like your site has a service or product, so it may be difficult to glean the type of information you are seeking.
I would suggest you have a look through the YouMoz & Moz blogs as well as look through the already answered questions here in the topic area that you are interested in researching.
-
Hy man,
Look....
I don't know where I said the word spam in my question.
All my 5 websites are with original content on them. The problem is:
Adsense isn't the right type of business for me, so little money....and yeah...I need some help in traffic part.
All I need is a traffic resource or a course about amazon and CPA leads
Did you understand? something like this
You say that semi automate link building isn't the right thing now in 2013?
is more about link earning right?
Please tell me more!
I know is very hard for someone else do this and that and then you will make 2000$ per month but....I just ask what type of monetization tactics seomoz guys are using
-
Yikes..
Look, don't take this the wrong way, but from my understanding your site is pretty much the type of site Google wants to rid the net of. And I think many of us would say, "rightfully so." There may be a few here who disagree with me... maybe. And I'm sure we will all have the utmost respect for you as a person.
But to come on here and ask how you can make $2000 per month by boosting your spam site is pretty much against everything we are doing here. I doubt anybody will tell you "oh just go ahead and do this and you'll be making 2 grand per no problem.."
I mean... really?
In short, I'm thinking this is the wrong place for this.
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
I'm routating keywords to find my website and to get better ranking; I know i want to use the most keywords that are prevelant in my site; iss that the only keywords I want to use for ranking purposes; if not what keywords were do i find them?
I want better page ranking for my website; keywords that work and backlinks;
Affiliate Marketing | | prostene13590 -
Sub domains or micro sites
Hi All I am setting up a series of affiliate sites; each site will focus on 1 category of product and there will be no cross over (i.e. no 2 sites will promote the same type of product). I'm setting up approximately 40 and they will all share the same domain: product followed by brand name.co.uk. Because of the numbers I intend to get a dedicated server and create a 'parent' website which I was going to use as a blog to promote the individual sites. My question is: should I set them up as micro sites, or should I set them up as sub domains? Wanted to know which is the best method from an SEO point of view as all sites will be hosted and owned collectively so I appreciate that the link building between each site will be limited. Thanks!
Affiliate Marketing | | danielparry0 -
Using follow links on client and resellers site
Hi, i have a backup software product that I sell to business. I would like to create a badge that says something like "powered by x backups". This would be an image with a href url pointing back to my company site. I would intend to give the client a discount if they were to place the small logo in the footer section of their website. I would also like to offer this to resellers. For example "Authorised reseller of x backups" badge that could be placed on the resellers website. I would like to do this for two reasons: To promote my company to the visitors of the clients website To build link juice Would this be effective in building quality links? It this type of link building allowed by google? If not, how strict are they? Is there any variation of my intended promotion strategy that would be more effective? Thanks
Affiliate Marketing | | blakadz0 -
Shopping comparison site referral traffic growth
Over the last 12 months we have been working with affiliates and seen excellent traffic and revenue growth from this channel (golf market). Over the same period we have seen a massive (60%) drop in organic traffic and 40% drop in organic revenue. Our rankings are comparable to last year. However we are seeing growth in Googlebase traffic and direct traffic Is it the case that consumers are using comparison sites more that organic search queries. Is there any evidence to support this view if true? Having content on affiliate sites, could it be harming us organically (but as I say or rankings are comparable to last year - maybe a little worse since Panda updates). Confused? I am...
Affiliate Marketing | | cpdigital10 -
My new site experienced a sudden drop in Google rankings
We launched a new affiliate site at the beginning of April this year dealing in reviews, vouchers and price comparison for a niche product. We had a pretty good start, with some of our target keywords ranking #8 #10 #7 but this week they have suddenly dropped off dramatically - like 36 or 42 places. We haven't made any changes to the site apart from publishing new content pieces, such as news posts and reviews - does anyone know why this would suddenly happen? Thanks
Affiliate Marketing | | JohnHillman0 -
Specialized on a Niche.
Here is a question,
Affiliate Marketing | | stakouman
if i have a keyword that have over 150.000 searches/Month and the competitors are very low, but if i give the keyword on google search, the site that are listed at top 10 have a Page Rank from 2 to 5, or even 8.
How can i know if the Page Rank from this sites, have to do with the keyword i wont to optimized? Does the Page Rank have effect to the top 10 Ranking, even if this sites are not specially optimized for this keyword.
A example:
www.amazon.de has a PR 8, they sell Books. If i wont to Optimized for a specially book Category, do i can compare to the amazon? or because the Central Page has a PR8, it does have effect on all the under-sites by Amazon, and it will be to difficult to Optimized for this? even if the Searches for the special category are a lot and google keyword says the competitors are low? How can i see if the PR has to do with the keyword, or the site just have this kind of PR without being specialized for the keyword i look after? thanks for all
stavros0 -
Hosting a Niche Directory on your Site
I'm keen to hear feedback from anyone who has installed a directory onto their e-commerce site. By directory, I mean that - subject to human review and possibly a small fee - a relevant site owner in my niche can create a listing that is effectively a page on my site where they control the main content, links & images.
Affiliate Marketing | | jdeb
People using our site would enter the directory section from our resources / advice top level category and browse the index of the directory to reach a listed site's dedicated page. The idea for it came up when we were discussing ways to get more backlinks. Offering people a whole page directory listing seems like a good way of negotiating a link in return that isn't just from the other site's link page. I'm looking for everyone's stories on this: your reasons for doing it, how you went about it and the tools you used and what your results where, in particular: was it worth it? We aren't thinking about starting a new site for the directory, it would be added onto our main site (which is old and has good PR etc etc). However, it would still be good to hear from both sides of the fence on that issue. Over to you. J0