Comments on: Ask Kirsty – I’ve Got 50 Sites and I’m Not Making Any Money – Help!!

By: Stephane

Stephane — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:58:28 +0000

Oh and another tip: when doing SEO, a thing that works for me is to focus on brand names. People looking for a particular brand are often in “buying mode”.

My favorite SEO tool is IBP / Arelis.

By: Stephane

Stephane — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:55:32 +0000

I can relate to that. I used to start a gazillion websites and I barely made $500 a month.

Then I started building an authority site back in september 2007. From there:

- I posted 5 useful articles per week for about 7 or 8 months. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a total pain!

- I learned about social networking and got a lot of traffic (and sales) out of it.

- I used a lot of SEO too but I didn’t have to learn about it since I already knew a lot in this field.

- I kept asking my affiliates managers for tips and tricks and they did give me a lot of valuable information.

- When I started making money (about $1000 – $2000 a month) I started buying some better keyword tools (like keywordspy.com and keycompete.com)

- I’ve did some more SEO, based on the keyword research I’ve done.

- When I started making more money ($10,000+ per month), I’ve tried my hand at PPC.

And this is where I am right now. A year ago, I wasn’t making any money at affiliate marketing and now I consistently make between $10k and $20k per month.

So now when I start another website in a niche close to my first website, I can easily hit the $1000 within the first month by replicating what I’ve done.

The next step: outsourcing and building a team.

I’ve subscribed to ppcclassroom.com, I’ve bought The Ultimate Guide To Adwords by Perry Marshall and now I’m actually spending about $200 a day on PPC.

If you plan on getting into PPC, I strongly recommend the book “Tested Method of Advertising” by John Caples. Don’t make me think was also a pretty good read although the second half of the book was useless to me.

So that said, my advice to you is “focus on one niche / website” until you can make it work!

Good luck!

By: LucyP

LucyP — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:20:17 +0000

50 sites, that is a lot of sites to maintain initially – impressive, I would suggest also that you concentrate on understanding what works by only trying to make a few rank, rather than all 50 at once the affiliate world is competitive and it is worth knowing your market.

By: Brussells

Brussells — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:48:54 +0000

As I was reading this thread I thought for a minute I had somehow stepped into the 6th dimension, and it was written about my current experience of Affiliate Marketing. A very informative and thought-provoking reply and something I need to inwardly digest, to bump start my AM road to success!

Thanks for the links to your guides, both niche related and wordpress (the latter being something I am dabbling in at the moment). Fingers crossed I can start make the success of this I know is possible.

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:47:37 +0000

Hello Nicola, it’s really very easy. You just have to treat it like any other adwords campaign, but use your own affiliate link instead of the link to the appropriate page on the merchant site. You then just pop the merchant URL in as the display URL and off you go (so long as merchant Ts & Cs allow it).

There’s an adwords for beginners guide in the “Popular Posts” section above – give that a wee read and see if it helps!

By: Chic Nicola

Chic Nicola — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:38:04 +0000

Hurrah, Ask Kirsty’s back!

You mention straight to merchant PPC – how do you do that? And can you recommend a gppd guide to PPC as I’m just starting to dabble and havent got a clue what I’m doing.