People make money from websites using a variety of different methods. There is a golden rule that you must follow if you are to be successful at generating revenue from your website. I call is the VV rule:
VV stands for value and volume. These are the two fundamental requirements for your website. You can make lots of mistakes but so long as you remember these two core principals you'll be ok! Lets start with Value:
In this context, value means how useful the website is to a surfer. If you provide a site that is unique, features interesting and stimulating content, is user friendly and looks nice then that site is a high value site. This means that the surfer will have an enjoyable experience when they visit your site and are therefore more likely to click through to your affiliate links or your AdSense links.
The second V was volume. You can have a great site with lots of useful content but if nobody knows about it then its completely useless. You need to direct high volumes of traffic to your site. The average conversion rate for an affiliate link is about 1-2%/. So for every 100 visitors that you get to your site approx 1 or 2 of them will actually click through and buy one of the products that you promote or recommend. Lets say the average commission earned on a product is $10 dollars and you want to earn $3000 a month. Working on a 1% conversion rate we can calculate that you need 30,000 visitors a month to make this $3000. That's just over 1000 a day. Quite a bit but certainly not impossible.
There are a variety of different ways you can improve your VV rating. To improve value you could hire a web designer or graphic designer to make a really impressive looking site. You could focus a lot more time on writing blog posts or articles. You could devise clever and interesting ways of presenting information. Increasing traffic volume is a massive subject and there is a lot of information available on the web. Some methods that people use to drive traffic to their site include article submissions, search engine optimisation, commenting on forums, link trading, you tube videos, social media like Facebook and twitter. You should use all these methods and more if your are serious about driving lots and lots of traffic to your site. You need to spread the word out across the web!
Whatever you do, no matter how much of a novice you are, as long as you focus on building the two V's, Value and Volume then you will be creating a solid foundation for success and you should start making some money soon! Check out the link below for some advice from the guru's of affiliate marketing!
Here is a link to a review of the top 3 affiliate markting experts: [
http://expertscompared.com/?p=42]ExpertsCompared.com. They have each published their own guide to help newbies into this industry.
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