The Affiliate Experiment
07-27-09
You hear about people making obscene amounts of money online all day long on the web these days, the Shoemoney’s and the John Chow’s of this world seem to effortlessly rake in the cash selling other peoples wares. But is it really that easy to become a super affiliate?
I aim to find out.
I have no illusions of grandeur myself but it would be nice to make enough passive income a month to pay for some bills, or maybe even my mortgage payment one day. With a bit of effort I think aiming for something like that is more than achievable and so thats where I’m setting my goal for my affiliate experiment - I aim to make around 650GBP a month by this time next year.
It’s not hard to see that talking about making money online seems to be the real cash spinner here, but you dont get to settle into that niche until you become a god-like guru to the minions and thats why only a few people ever manage to kick back and make mad wedge off of their blogs and e-books. For me, it’s going to be a bit of effort and a bit of savvy that will pull off any successes I have - any and all of which I’ll be reporting on once a month right here on my blog.
I have around 200 domains that I’ve picked up over the years, many of which have been in my portfolio for 4-5 years or more so, as any SEO knows, thats a great start for the foundations of any kind of content rich site. I don’t really want to pump much money into this experiment so I’ll be working in my downtime (evenings & weekends) and maybe paying for a bit of content to be written. My main goal is to achieve free organic traffic to convert. Further down the line, when I have a bit of profit built up, I may dabble in some PPC but that’s not something I’ll be utilising straight off the bat.
So, that’s the plan - wish me luck!
