You need to understand something very basic in affiliate marketing.Â
You don’t make all your money from one source/program/offer/site.
It’s common sense, but I see people every time whining that they don’t make enough from adsense, or from their parked domain portfolio, or from a ppc campaign etc.
Not only that bolded text above is true, doing the opposite is a dumb thing. Like the saying “don’t put all your eggs in one basket”, you cannot rely on a single monetizing avenue.
Instead, create many smaller income streams. Not only is this safer, its also the way you can actually make some money from internet marketing.
Do you think that 1000$/month passive income is something impossible for you? Think again. Lets discuss how you can create revenue streams of 100$/month each, adding up to 1000$. This is more of a checklist, but you can learn something I hope.
Do you have a profitable and stable ppc campaign that brings in 100$/month? Cool, Leave it as is, work on something else. Trust me, its not worth tweaking it for hours to squeeze in another 5$. That is, of course, after you have actually optimized the campaign. Bidding on low competition keywords sending traffic to an offer that converts normally, is an easy thing to do. Just monitor the campaign, tweak it so its profitable, and as soon as the profit hits a certain stability, leave it alone.
Do you have 5-10 referrals to networks that bring you 50-100$/month? No? What are you waiting for? Practically every network has referral links. I am sure you browse through fora. There are people there asking all the time, where can I find this, which is the best network for that etc. Give some good advice, and send him your referral link via pm politely. If he wants to, he will sign up under you. If not, no big deal. Find others.
Maybe a bunch of splogs? How do you monetize them? Just ppc ads? How about cookie stuffing them? Or selling links on them?
Any single splog can easily make 10$/month from ppc alone, and that is the bare minimum. So lets say we already have 10 splogs, with ppc ads on them, each making 10$. Throw text links on them, and you get another 5$ from each. Cookie stuffing? It depends on the niche, but you can easily get another 5$ stuffing ebay, on practically any niche.
Total up to now is 400$/month.
Lets dabble in domaining for a while. Browse through the moniker and sedo marketplace, and find domains that cost 50$, and have revenue. You can find deals that give you 30-50% ROI. Yes, that is small time investing. Sometimes you can find steals that yield in 100% or 200% ROI.
Or just scour for misstypes and opportunities to buy brand new domains, and park them. Invest what money you can spare, at least 200$, and try to find some gems among the trash. At first, you need to be very picky, because your budget is small. Later, when your portfolio rakes in enough, you will afford to be more risky.
A great way to find misstypes is to go to Alexa, check the top 100 sites by country, note down all the non trademark ones, and try to find misstypes for them.
There is no formula here, but you can easily invest in domains that bring you 100$/month through parking with a small capital and half a brain.
So, we are at a total of 500$/month. This is it, we are done.
“Oh, no, you said 1000$, this is half of what you promised!”
Seriously. No, seriously, what the fuck prevents you from going all over the list again from the top? What?
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