Make Money with Dedicated Affiliate Sites

I often get asked which kind of sites make the most money & which ones I focus most of my energy on creating. Obviously this depends on the product, market & a number of different factors.

The most consistent method for generating revenue for me has been Dedicated Affiliate Sites. These are sites made for & completely tailored to a specific product or service.

There’s a few reasons why these sites perform quite well:

1. Very, very targeted
2. No leakage to other affiliates or advertising
3. I generally spend more time on SEO for a dedicated site rather than SEOing a particular page for my exisiting site.
4. You can become an industry leader with new niches very quickly if your content is good.
5. Domains can be submitted to directories whereas individual pages can’t.
6. If you’ve got a good domain name you can sometimes leverage typein traffic.

Firstly you need to find the product or service you’re going to promote. I suggest doing plenty of research into this, I blogged about researching saturated markets a few weeks back. If you can get on a product early, perhaps even before it’s launched then this is when Dedicated Affiliate Sites really come into their own league. Having the site ranking before a product generates a hype is one of the things Power Affiliates do better than anyone else.

Once you’ve chosen the product or service that you’re going to promote you now need to pick a domain name. This is where you can reap HUGE benefits if you get in early too.

Say for example I created a site to market my product about Supreme Blogging Tips & I created the domain:

http://www.supremebloggingtips.net

If you were on the ball & fast I would naturally go & register http://www.supremebloggingtips.com. Chances are you’ll get a HEAP of type in traffic piggybacking off the original domain.

Obviously that sort of scenario doesn’t popup too often, so I’d normally at least go & buy a domain with the product title in it as a keyword. So if you’re promoting Keyword Elite you may choose http://www.keywordelitereviews.com or something similar.

Now you have a few choices, this normally depends on the type of product. If i’m promoting a product that is going to get type in traffic I’ll normally fill the whole screen with an Iframe which redirects via my affiliate link to the merchant page.

If not I’ll normally fire up a wordpress blog. Create a custom template & write a few articles about the product. Write some reviews & other linkbait type articles. I’ll slowly release these articles over the course of a few weeks whilst building links in various places.

Normal link building steps include:

1. Creating a Squidoo Page
2. Submitting Articles to Digg
3. Submitting to a few select Directories
4. Sneaking links into Wikipedia
5. Leaving comments on blogs related to the topic
6. Signing up to related forums & having a signature

There’s some more stuff in there that I do but I’ll leave that for some future posts on link building. It’s important to try & choose the right anchor text to rank for. You ideally want to rank for the product name, you also want to rank for buy, order, purchase & reviews of that particular product.

Try to deep link to inner pages of the blog also not just the homepage in order to stop any pages going supplemental. I normally don’t recommend link exchanges.
I will use the plugin sh autolink to link certain trigger keywords to my affiliate ID for the product. As usual I redirect the affiliate link through a PHP Script in the hope it may rank for the keywords too.

Track the progress of your rankings with the Digitalpoint Keyword Tracker & if you’re not ranking well enough then work harder on your link building & link baiting.

Wash, Rinse & Repeat.

If you have the patience to do this you can bang out a new site everyday. Lets say you do 5 sites a week for a whole year & each site on average makes you $50 a month. At the end of the year you’ll have 261 sites making you $50 a month each. Which can work out to an impressive $13,000 a month.

Obviously these are just rough estimates, you may have sites that make you $500 a month, some may do $25. The more you push at it the more month you will make & the better you will become at sourcing out new & exciting affiliate offers.