Affiliate-I'm new, hard working & lost in chaos. Any serious help really appreciated.

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Affiliate-I'm new, hard working & lost in chaos. Any serious help really appreciated.

CCarter where art thou?

Greetings all, I have been a close follower of wf, it's actually one of the very few places to pick up any information around affiliate marketing. A lot of the subjects are still blurry for me, even some of the most crucial ones.

Cuttin to the chase, I have now 3 websites. 2 of them started 4 months ago give or take, and 1 more I have made 3 days ago.

I am facing hard decisions against me, since for personal reasons I will have to at least make a monthly income to pay the bills by August. I quit my job, have some savings till then, and working daily at least 10 hours.

Since I don't know shit except my judgment and what is available for me to read, Im fairly un-decisive around everything, and can't really stick with one thing. I'm trying and testing several different techniques in order to find some traffic sources that I could tap even further, with no luck.

What I need is some coaching on which niche to follow and stick with, that will be able to make me that low income in a few months.

My choices are:

1) smartphone devices, cases and accessories. I have "good" content in terms of devices specs etc., then only around 250 products in a good variety of categories, and the general feel of the store is not (I think) too amateur. I'm getting around 5 crappy uv every day, made 1£. I have just bought some fb & twitter followers to test if I actually have an "audience" what would work best in terms of social marketing. What Im thinking is adding some 500 more products, writing some good uncompetitive articles and spamming them in the "squidoo and hubpages related sites" whole list.

2) black metal music directory with biographies, lyrics, merchandise etc. etc. tumblr works good because the niche is user friendly as well, my few keywords are all second position or so in google, and I get a steady 40-60 uv every day, even though the site is quite froze and theres not any amount of content. I guess I could work with raising much more traffic that way, the good thing is that half of the visitors can become steady fans, and later convert. Im also thinking of letting users run their own auctions of items instead of ebay, since that could work good in the future. The problem is its a niche Ive loved since I was born, but I m not quite sure it would convert in the near futures, but only with massive content and in a few years.

3) weed accessories,seeds etc etc just started, I think I will be able to start some fair promotion with tumblr etc as well, but I got scared when I just signed up for wordtracker ( I was using "jaaxy", yes please murder me), and looked at some results after deep researching.

So some help here? what do you guys think is the best niche to stick with and make convert soon?

Is there any way the whole add to cart checkout process can happen on my website, no matter what is the actual company im affiliating with ? Silly question as well but didnt manage to work that around all these months .. Or is it like "dropshipping" that they do? I mean getting the orders, then eg ordering from ebay that item for x customer?

Thanks for every bit of enlightenment that you can give me, I guess I should devote more time reading, but my inner self wont let me stop "updating" my websites and nothing more since there s so many tons of work...

Thanks fellow brothers.

Glad to link you up by PM if someone feels helpful and kind.
 


From what you've said, you'll do a lot better if you focus all of your attention on 1 of these sites, and I don't think it really matters which one, at this point.

If you're really working 10 hours a day, you can break your day into parts. Do SEO in the morning, Social after lunch, and spend your evenings writing and publishing content and eating ramen noodles.

In the end, focusing your attention and action on 1 site will yield infinitely better results for a newbie than trying to scale, or play around in different niches, or divide your focus in any way.

Don't overthink it, just pick the site you think you can get into the most, and go from there.

Spend a few months living, breathing, and dreaming about that one site, and you'll be amazed where you can get in 120 days.

fwiw, this is advice I wish I'd been smart enough to take when I got started, and if I had taken it, it would have saved me a lot of time, trouble, and money.
 
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Take ICE's advice, break up your daily time into chunks and focus on one project. For example, I'm working on one project and am dedicating this whole year just to this one project till it takes off. It's the fastest way to get to success.​
 
I'm finding that there is a ton to learn and the overwhelm can lead to a lot of getting sidetracked. But the above advice is critical: build up one site at a time until you get it rolling before moving on to the next.
 
Totally agree with IceToEskimos :)

You need to focus 100% on one project BUT make it a niche you are passionate about. And if you currently have knowledge, skills and or experience in that topic that's an added bonus.

Whatever niche you go into, it takes time to build an audience and see success with your site. And just like an offline business, you'll be putting in a LOT of hours in the early days to build your niche site into an online business with long-term profit potential.

Meaning, you're going to have to live, eat, sleep and breath your chosen topic and if you're NOT passionate about it, you'll lose interest and find yourself jumping from one project to the next.

Hope that helps!
Kerry
 
IF you dont know dont know what to do and how to do it, take a look at flippa, what they are doing and how they are doing, you know how much you could be making from similar site. You don't have to be next Steve Jobs, replicate what others do and profit from it. Pick keywords, add few more, make it a bit bigger and better. Take Ahrefs and steall most of their links,take competitors,steall of of their best links you can and buy some from bst. Work on one niche and one site. I love one quote from Guerilla: "if anything looks to complicated, I run away from it". Find something that is easy for you to do and do it.
 
What if one only has 4 hours a day? I am working on getting my schedule nailed down to be the most efficient possible - and I know the limitations, but I keep (stupidly) chasing the thing I think will work the fastest with such a small amount of time.
 
if you build a blog or site and want to pay the rent from it, make sure it will be an "authority" site and not a "grey" site only... that way you will get branded, more noticed.
 
crazyjane said:
What if one only has 4 hours a day? I am working on getting my schedule nailed down to be the most efficient possible - and I know the limitations, but I keep (stupidly) chasing the thing I think will work the fastest with such a small amount of time.
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If you have limited time, concentrate on things that make you direct money. For example website designs don't matter when you have no traffic. So the first thing to work on is to drive direct traffic. Get paid traffic going, free traffic with traffic leaks - my personal favorite, or do offline advertisement to get faster traffic than SEO can do. Once you have enough capital for a long term SEO plan, use it, but continue driving that traffic through multiple methods.​
 
that helps - I have been working on some churn and burn but have some languishing authority sites as well. I've made a checklist from CCarter's posts about branded site, and was working my way down the list - it's clear that's where the bigger return is.
 
I think I posted same time as CCarter - so working on the direct traffic drive would be better? It's sure teaching me about LPs...
 
crazyjane said:
I think I posted same time as CCarter - so working on the direct traffic drive would be better? It's sure teaching me about LPs...
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Anyone can make websites and all the other elements. But the person that can drive traffic is king/queen. Once you get traffic, it's just about converting it. Traffic generating exercises will always out beat anything else, especially if you have limited time.​
 
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