Today you graduate from "Affiliate Marketing University"
It seems like short a time ago that I started you on the road to learning the ropes in affiliate marketing. Today I'm going to point you to the last chapter of the course.
But first ...
Things change quickly in the Internet world. New techniques and tools are invented almost on a weekly basis. Those who are serious about making a good second or first income from affiliate marketing like to keep on top of things. I know I do, I'm subscribed to so many ezines I can't count them, it's a struggle some weeks reading everything that comes into my mailbox. Sometimes I get a bit behind.
I'll try to inform you about the best new tools and courses available through this blog. Most that I recommend will be things I've purchased myself. Those that I haven't purchased will be items available from marketers that I am familiar with and can put my reputation on the line by recommending.
I've always felt that investing in your own education and tools of the trade is the best investment you can ever make. That fact came to mind today as I put together some new groups of web pages. I have a product that I bought several months ago that makes it easy to clone pages that are similar, and it has keyword insertion capability so that the parts that change from one page to the next are easily inserted by a template. I'll probably talk about this tool in a future blog entry, but it isn't one of those spammy tools that lets you create thousands of pages on the fly and gets you banned from the search engines. So it probably isn't what you think.
Anyway, I'm doing a project that I have calculated will earn me an income of approximately a nickle a page. Now that doesn't sound like much, but it's actually a nickle a day. Forever, once the pages get indexed and decent search engine rankings. This afternoon I uploaded about 60 new pages to my site. When I'm done with the project, I hope to have around 6-10,000 different pages on my site with good content, each making a nickel. A day. Forever.
So today I made 60 pages, which in a few months will be bringing me $3.00 a day, $90.00 a month, $1,000.00 a year. I know I won't get $3.00 from them tomorrow. I can wait.
The point is, with affiliate marketing, you can't think about how much work getting a typical 100 page site set up is. You have to look at the big picture. I mentioned James Martell a few days back, and I believe I mentioned that in his experience a typical site makes him $500 a month. Obviously you can't quit your day job if you're making $500 a month, at least not in the U.S., but if you do one of those sites every month, even every 2 months if you're short on time, at the end of the year you have at least 6 sites done, and that could be $3,000 a month. Keep on adding those pages and those sites and pretty soon you have a full time income on virtual autopilot.
One of those 100 page sites might take you 100 hours to put together. If you make $500 from it a month, you're making $5.00 per hour per month. Or $60.00 per hour on a yearly basis. Or if you look at the 5-year picture, you're making $300.00 per hour for that site.
Believe me, if you start seeing the results from the first site (it takes a few months for a typical site to make it into the search engines and get ranked), once you start seeing the results you'll certainly be motivated to work a bit longer and harder.
In any event, let's send you over to the last day of our course, the "Affiliate Marketing Wrap Up".
But don't worry, I won't stop writing now that this particular course is done, there's so much more to talk about and learn together. I hope some of you start giving me some feedback and tips by leaving comments for everyone to read (again I reserve the right to edit any comments in case there are some inappropriate remarks made).
Some of the upcoming topics are sure to be ways to generate traffic, more AdWords and AdSense tips, stories about successes and failures, and lots more. I hope you'll stick around.
