How much have you made with affiliate site and is it worth having it?

I have a web site that sometimes has cheaper stuff even than bensbargains.net and slickdeals.net . . . now these web sites are giants comparing towards me and they are well more organized because my site is only 2 months old. I want to know what do other people with affiliate sites usually make?

 

I checked your website. You might try to work on your design to make your site more attractive.
I think you can make quite some money if you get decent traffic. The problem with such sites is that they take quite a considerable amount of work to keep updating them with the latest deals.
If you have the time, it is definitly worth it.

 

I haven't looked at your site, but I used to maintain www.offerguru.com. While there we would develope emails for each specific page and send those our to our memberlist as well as other emails collected by other properties which are owned by the same company as OfferGuru. As far as ROI from all that work, it was most likely decent/good for a solo person, but for full marketing team not very.

Also I heard years ago (when I worked with the site) that search engines many give you a lower ranking in the SERPs if they see lots of affiliate links. With that in mind, you may want to try and mask your affiliate links.

 

I make $xxx monthly from my affiliate programs that I promote on one of my sites, I'm working with CJ

 

Deal sites can earn an enormous income but you really need to spend some money up front setting up a database or a forum and you will probably need help keeping up to date with the offers since they change so frequently, and need full time moderators as thr forums get active.

In addition, the sucessful sites of that niche get a large user base over time and generally wind up investing heavily into servers and programming support.

I remember reading a WSJ article that briefly mentioned flamingoweb and fatwallet.com -- this was about 3 years ago- and both earned well over a million a year back then...

That sort of constantly changing data is labor intensive. The verticle market in that niche is pretty saturated already so competing is going to take a lot of money & hard work, but could be more than worthwhile if you have the drive & means to do it with the intention of winning and invest adequate time, labor, and capital into doing it right.

 

Thank you i deffinatly hvae the drive and inspiration but not the time . . i am waiting to graduate from school so i can get my hands on some intensive investing and everything else but just to let you know i will keep your post as a checklist of things to do to succeed in this business thank you

 

very good advice..

Good luck

 

I've been interested in doing exactly that sort of site for years now but already had a successful site in a different niche so didn't have the time to do a deal site, but I looked into them seriously and still follow hot deals and the finance forums at Fatwallet on a daily basis.

I may be interested in co-developing such a site with partners in the future however - especially since I may be selling my present sites