How I Got Rich

1000 hits per month = how much £££?

I’ve just been going over some of my stats and I’ve got a couple of sites that are getting 1000-1300 visitors per month. Nearly all the traffic is from people searching for the main keyword, sometimes on its own and sometimes with other words around it like ‘best red widgets’, ‘cheap red widgets’ or sometimes with a brand for example ‘Sony red widgets’ or ‘Nike red widgets’. So it’s pretty targeted stuff.

But when it comes to sales they are seriously lacking. The main site that caught my attention is promoting one type of product in typical niche fashion. The products range in price from £20 to £100. I compare the prices for each product and most times amazon.co.uk is the cheapest merchant so on a £20 I am likely to earn £1 but could earn up to £5 for the higher priced items.

But this month with 1,333 hits so far I’ve only made about £22 from 20 sales. That looks like a conversion rate of 1.5%. The same story is repeated on a few of my other site (but not all of them thankfully).

Would you be happy with that level of conversion?

To build a site that gets 50 hits a day is quite hard for me as even when I get to number one in a niche I don’t always see hits of 50 a day.

I guess if I was making £10 per sale and making 20 sales a month I wouldn’t be complaining at £200 a month from one site. As it is though, £20 a month from one site is pants (although I do have lots of sites doing worse than this).

I guess if there is anything to take away from this thread it is to go after the big ticket items.

First Decent Payout

Today I received my first proper payment from affiliate marketing.  £255 was deposited into by bank account from Amazon Associates.  As Amazon pay two months in arrears this was the commission I earned in June 2009.  It was nice to see it in my account and I am looking forward to next months payment already!