Some final questions before I dive in!

[RemyThePitBull]

Ok, I have been reading everything I can this week about Affiliate Marekting. I think I am ready to take the plunge into the world of AM.

So far I have been reading a lot on WF and looking for potential niches to try to market to

here are some questions I have

1. Lets say I create a website related to my niche and am trying to sell whatever product I choose. Can my website be a 5 page site with information regarding the niche and be successful? Or should I plan on creating websites that have lots of content and is updated regularly?

2. If I am slow at making a website and getting content added will that penalize my possibility of getting the site visible?

3. Is there another way to make revenue off the launched site other than trying to sell the product? What happens if the website reaches a lot of views but no one clicks through to buy anything? Is putting other banners on your site which will pay every time someone clicks it a smart idea?

4. I have joined clickbank to search some products, what other services are recommended?


thanks for your time, please feel free to share any thoughts or wisdom you may have as I give this a shot!

 

[AdamC]

1) pretty obvious
2) no, but if it does rank initially, it'll fall without work
3) if you CPA ads arent working, then what makes you think 3rd party click networks will help

 

[RemyThePitBull]

1) pretty obvious

So I make a site with tons of content. Do you feel this slows down work on other projects? If I launch the site ininitially with 5 pages and let it grow from there, how often should I be updating it? Every day, every week?

2) no, but if it does rank initially, it'll fall without work

that's what I was thinking, thanks

3) if you CPA ads arent working, then what makes you think 3rd party click networks will help

I meant if people were clicking on my ad and not buying the product it couldn't hurt to have other ads that could give a little income?

thanks for your responses.

 

[Ericb]

Have a look at what your direct or indirect competition is doing in term or value they offer to their users/readers/customers. Then what they do technically: type of site, how they monetize, what content format do they bring on the table....
The list can be long... But get as many infos about what your niche is populated by before jumping.

Then ...and only then... Plan how you can do better... Then do it... Then analyse what happens.. Then adapt ... And so on...

 

[RemyThePitBull]

Have a look at what your direct or indirect competition is doing in term or value they offer to their users/readers/customers. Then what they do technically: type of site, how they monetize, what content format do they bring on the table....
The list can be long... But get as many infos about what your niche is populated by before jumping.

Then ...and only then... Plan how you can do better... Then do it... Then analyse what happens.. Then adapt ... And so on...

I have been trying to look at some sites related to my niche. One of the niche's in particular seems to have very little competition and searching for the product itself only brings up an old blog attempt with someone who had the same idea as me but never followed through.

I look at this and see positives that I could possibly be ranked high in that niche. But maybe I should see red flags and notice that no one else is in that niche so maybe I should back away?

Also, when researching key words how many global monthly searches should I be looking for? I read someones post saying it should be between 1k-30k monthly searches. That seems low to me, but maybe it isn't?

 

[Ericb]

If you don't try you'll never know...

If numbers start to bother you too much, try to compare with more generalistic KW in your market...

It also depend on how you monetize... Ad based monetization needs big traffic... Targeted CPA offers don't need that much.

Do you have a vague idea about what is your customer lifecycle value?

 

[paperboy]

Ok, I have been reading everything I can this week about Affiliate Marekting. I think I am ready to take the plunge into the world of AM.

world of AM? Anger Management? Well this is a course you need to study in a university and you can't do Anger Management courses in just a week

1. Lets say I create a website related to my niche and am trying to sell whatever product I choose. Can my website be a 5 page site with information regarding the niche and be successful? Or should I plan on creating websites that have lots of content and is updated regularly?

Start with something small..
1st page > where your content will be located... Update this page regularly or use Wordpress and automate post every 10-15 days.. That will get you going and will let google and your visitors know that you are updating.

other pages (a must)
About me
Privacy Policy
Extra's for interlinking backlinks to 1st page
Disclosure

2. If I am slow at making a website and getting content added will that penalize my possibility of getting the site visible?

Visible in terms of?
Visible in google or indexing.. NO you won't get penalized. If your site has been indexed by google stick to that part of the site.. Don't target post to rank cause its not a newbie thing. Pages should be ranked and not the post.
Visible in your customer?
Get the traffic in PPC while still waiting for your sites to rank. That will get you going

3. Is there another way to make revenue off the launched site other than trying to sell the product? What happens if the website reaches a lot of views but no one clicks through to buy anything? Is putting other banners on your site which will pay every time someone clicks it a smart idea?

Yes, Advertise. Adsense and stuff will get you a small chunk.
It's quite normal. Normal pages get's 10-30 customers out of 1k unique traffic. That's normal though more people are targeting and doing higher rates of 1-3% you should focus on getting traffic first than converting... There's nothing to convert and nothing to analyze for now if your traffic is not there.

4. I have joined clickbank to search some products, what other services are recommended?

CPA will be great for starters. But I recommend this...
If you don't have the budget to pay for advertisement then don't sell anything now. Rank first before selling

If you have money for PPC advertisement then you can choose CB or CPA Marketing.