I Want a £50 a Day Site!
There was a thread started recently on the affiliates 4 u forum where someone was asking advice about their site which they claim is currently making £50 a day profit [ click to view thread ].
No offence to the owner but the site doesn’t look that amazing and doesn’t have tons of content so seems like something most of us could pull off quite easily. But as with most things that earn good money it is all about the idea rather than the execution. Although the trademark domain is a risky strategy.
Anyways, it got me thinking, £50 a day is about £1500 a month which is an amount I would be very happy to be bringing in and would allow me to live comfortably out here in Thailand. So why haven’t I got a £50 a day site? There are many reasons and the main being because I haven’t had an idea good enough. This can be seen from the 40 or so sites I have at the moment that just about bring in £400 a month combined. Imagine if five of them were £50 a day sites…
Do you know of any sites that bring in this kind of money?
Are they massive sites with lots of products or has someone just come up with the right idea at the right time?
Oh I thought that he mentioned about £50 a month but to be honest (no offense) it seems to be making way too much from what it seem to be worth. I mean the content value, on page SEO, structure of the website etc isn’t that good to be making £50 a day. Now don’t tell me if people think that if the website is too good wrt design, display etc hence the products will be expensive too where in case of such websites they expect a good/cheap deal.
Anyways, all the very best to the owner of the site if he is really doing it this good.
Tell me one thing, how easy/difficult it is to manage the ECU units?? I mean, what if the product does’t exist anymore on the merchants website of if there is a change in price? Will it be changed automatically or do we have to put a new ECU unit in place??
Cheers,
Mike…
Also, isnt that a seasonal kinda website that may die off soon? Dont know much about this “Twilight” stuff. Isn’t that a movie?
I think it is a tv-series and movies so will probably drag on for a while.
As for ECUs if a product goes out of stock or is no longer sold it is automatically removed from the ECU. Prices changes are updated automatically too. Not sure if it is real time or not, probably once or twice a day.
“As for ECUs if a product goes out of stock or is no longer sold it is automatically removed from the ECU.”
But does that mean that the empty space will be occupied by the other merchants deal or will there just be a blank space. Sorry but I haven’t really tried them yet.
Can’t seem to get on with ECUs at the moment, great idea but way too fiddly for someone like me. I have to admit it’s a lot easier than having to manually update prices which is what I have to do on a regular basis!
I reckon that site does bring in £50 a day. Twilight is massive, everyone I know won’t shut up about it and the girls all love the main character. But give it a few months etc I’m sure the traffic will die off.
Joe – I need a £50 a day site too, my full-time job comes to an end just before Xmas and I have nothing lined up at the moment!
I think you have just been really unlucky because lets face it you have put in the blood, sweat and tears to make this work for you. You just need that one niche and you’re sorted! It’s easy to make money with trademarked domains but it’s simply not worth the hassle because of the legal implications.
I have seen a load of your sites and I think you do have some which could make some very good money but they just aren’t ranking for you. From experience, getting to number 1 on Google makes a MASSIVE difference in your traffic. Even jumping from number 3 to number 1 can make you some very good money (obviously for certain niches etc).
Keep up the good work and don’t forget to update your old sites from time to time!
A £50 a day site is not that hard to achieve provided you pick the right topic and it is scalable, a small niche site is going to struggle to get to that level due to the number of visitors. Your 40 or so sites seems a lot to work on at any one time. Granted if you can work on a site to get it to number 1 then move on, 40 sites may work. I would struggle to keep focus with that many sites on the go.
I have one such site that I focus on at the moment and although its not the best looking site it converts reasonably well.
Also I like ECU’s from the point of view of keeping price data up to date, they are not ideal from the point of view that they need maintaining when products go out of stock etc. but they work better than my attempts of using feeds, which is something I intend to learn to use next.
From where I’m coming from (10 pound a day site with roughly the same size of site and amount of work), that’s one hell of a site from someone who is probably doing a day job also. The trick is to pick the right market; its got to be big enough. My No. 1 competitor attracts probably 50 times more traffic than me – but there isn’t 50 times the quality between the two sites. The differences are 1. place on google and 2. a bit more ambition. Think big!
Thanks for the comment Baz. To be honest I’d be happy with a 10 pound a day website. I make just over 10 a day from ALL my many websites. Sucks really.
Do you think you could repeat your 10 pound a day website and have maybe 3 or 4 on the go or is it too much work?
How big should we be thinking?
I run 2 reasonably large sites and I am lucky if I make £2 a day (most days none) – I couldn’t personally cope with 40 sites – i’d keep getting distracted and not really do anything!
Hi Jesse, thanks for the comment.
£2 a day? Are those affiliate sites or just content sites with a few links/ads on? Just asking as £2 a day does seem quite low for two large sites.
Cheers.
admin – “As for ECUs if a product goes out of stock or is no longer sold it is automatically removed from the ECU.”
Unless you do what I do and set it up so the products stay on the page when they go out of stock, and the “shop now” is automaticaly replaced with a “no stock” (or whatever you want to use) button. So you don’t have an empty space and it may help to put a bit of pressure into making a purchase from the merchants that do have stock.
One of them could be classed as in the middle as it has a roughly equal amount of affiliate content and newsy content. The other is about 90% affiliate content – I think I have the problem of picking rubbish niche’s.
£2 is quite low. I too am rubbish at picking niches. Its so hard to know what is good and what is not. But that is the key to this game.
Ah my site…, yup the structure is crappy and needs a complete design overhaul. TBH it was once of my first sites, and my Wordpress knowledge has increased somewhat. Twilight is massive globally just like say Buffy was a few years ago and fans seem to want to buy related merchandise. Joe, have you got adsense up on your sites? Maybe an idea for some more cash on a daily basis? Also are you using Amazon? That’s working really well for me at moment! Well hope you are having fun in Thailand, it’s dark and miserable here!
Hi Andrea, thanks for stopping by, hope you don’t mind me ‘featuring’ your site here.
I’ve been trying to think of a show that has the same appeal and also has a large range of merchandise to go with it.
I’ve not used Adsense no, maybe I should give it a shot on some of my higher traffic sites.
Speaking of Twilight, I just looked at my Amazon stats and I sold a Twilight book boxset which brought me in £2.22 of commission.
I can see how it could be a profitable niche.
Hi again, make sure you do it about something you really enjoy, with your new one try to review the DVD etc if you can or maybe find some other reviews. As you know DVD payouts are pretty crappy so be sure to add books or anything else that fits too
. People love vampires – I wrote my dissertation on Vampire films! LOL
Some of the biggest earning sites I’ve ever seen have looked awful. A wise man once said “ugly sells”, and let me tell you, he’s worth a lot more than everyone on this site ever will be, collectively (and that includes me).
Really the trick is to work out how to push people out of your site through paid method, whatever that is. Another guy I know paid off his mortgage via AdSense spam in 5 years with sites that made my eyes bleed. Another spammer of my acquaintance had a whole program based around red-on-green sites that made about £20k – £30k month. Quality is overrated.
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