Product reviews with affiliate links sounds perfect – you’re certainly on the right path!

I’ve heard some affiliate marketers building niche website with online store style, like 10 pages web, building subscriber list, branding themself as an expert in that field. They don’t even have a blog, they gain their customer mostly from community.

May I ask you if i build a sub-niche website (let’s say digitalcamerareview.com) using wordpress, do I need to promote myself as digicam review expert? I’m not sure if I can build subscribers too coz english is not my primary language, it will be not easy for me to write/communicate with them.

I want to do blogging about niche that I’m targetting, maybe like product review with affiliate link if the readers want to buy the product, use article submission, social bookmarking…based on your experience, am I going to the right path or am I going straight to failure?

Thank you in advance for taking the time to reply me

Personally I prefer content sites around one particular theme – forget ebooks, weight-loss, software, courses though.. That’s not what Affiliate Marketing is really about – it’s about products.. everyday products that are bought in their thousands.. erm.. every day!

It always helps if you’re passionate about the subject matter too – as that’s how you stay motivated to keep the site going when Google ignores you or doesn’t give you the coverage you deserve right away.

Have a look at this post (and the corresponding thread) for everything you need to know about building your first niche site.

Anyway, I was doing ok with adsense but I hate the idea of having to depend my income just from Google alone. Google can kick you anytime for any reason they can come up with, so … I decided I want to learn about affiliate marketing which has a lot of vendors and I can earn much more compare to adsense (that’s what most people say).

Working with adsense, I use blog style content and daily update, little bit seo, little bit social network. But when it comes to affiliate, I don’t have a clue where to start. I hope you can give me some clue here, if you don’t mind.

Which do you prefer:
- Online retail store (thegreenhead.com)
- Blog style content (but focus on 1 niche, e.g. selling e-book about “how to lose weight”)
- 1 Affiliate Product Page (such as selling keyword elite software, membership forum, education course, etc)

Thank you for answering my question, I would love to hearing from you.

IMO the only feeling better than seeing the very first natural sale coming in from a new site/idea is returning home/to your desk after some “me-time” to see you’ve earned more money than you would working the day job..

I remember once sending out an email for a campaign that worked really, really well.. and then going out for a cigarette, refreshing the stats and seeing that in the 5-10 mins I’d been out, the mailing had earnt another £30 – Earning £30 whilst having a smoke break was brilliant (but I still gave up smoking.. 3 and a half years now – woo hoo!)

It’s not just about taking loads of breaks though – It’s about the breaks refreshing and motivating you enough to do the business when it’s work time!

Right, best crack on so I can take the dog out for a trek later this afternoon!

It’s so strange to have read this today. I work shift work so knowing I have Monday-Thursday this week to do AM I was just going to muck in and start doing jobs as they popped into my head, but I sat at my desk and thought no! So I printed Kirty M’s task manager off and spread my jobs out over the week, and by 2pm this afternoon I found myself playing Dirt 2 as I’d finished my tasks for today.

Very happy to hear someone say it’s ok though. I too suffer with the guilt and I think to myself ‘well if I can’t get on a do the work, I’m never going to make it’. I’m sure with time as I see the results, those thoughts will turn to ‘I’m getting paid to play Xbox, woo hoo!’

Thanks Lammers

There’s really only 2 factors to SEO – on site (content + site structure) and off-site (links), so spend your 20 mins (or whatever you can afford) writing some content, tweaking page titles, link building, or asking questions from those who know what they’re talking about.

The important thing is that you keep at it, even if at first it doen’t seem to be working – one day the Google gods will shine on you, and you’ll realise that was the plan all along!