Two weeks ago, my wife put up a niche web site showing a number of comparative products within that niche.
She used the automated Vendiva Price Comparison Service to show regularly updated prices for a number of different merchants, and she also put links to Amazon and highlighted that they offer free delivery too. It’s a fact that in most cases Amazon offer the lowest price and in any case anything over £5.00 is now free delivery.
She spent at most 3 part-time days working on the site, probably about 15-18 hours in total – “if that” she’s just said to me.
Last night we sat down to check traffic to our sites and saw that the site she built 2 weeks ago had received a jump in traffic and received 18 unique visitors yesterday. More importantly, 2 of them had used links that took them to Amazon.
She checked Amazon this morning and saw that one of those visitors had ordered the item that they had searched for and found on her site, earning her approximately £13.12 ($18.70). She won’t know the exact amount until Amazon dispatch it and it turns into earnings in her affiliate panel.
I think that’s probably a lot more than most people earn with AdSense every month…
The wonderful thing about all this is that other than add more products to the site – which she’ll do when she finds a few moments each day (and which will generate even more traffic) – she won’t have to do anything with the existing products that are on there. People will continue to find the site using the same search terms they’ve done over the last few days.
As traffic to the site increases, so will her earnings. All passively. All done on autopilot.
We put the conversion solely down to the fact that she shows a range of prices and merchants for each product she’s promoting.
All prices are clickable and take the visitors through to the merchant site using her cloaked affiliate link.
All prices are auto-updated several times a day using direct feeds from the affiliate networks.
This is a dynamite method of instantly gaining your visitors trust. And more importantly from your point of view, their gratitude.
After all, you’ve just saved them a lot of searching around for the best price available, and if they click the links through to the merchants sites they can see for themselves that the prices are accurate and up to date.
Getting the traffic is easy enough, getting people to click your affiliate links is harder.
You can make it much easier using the same methods as my wife does.
Here’s a picture of the gradual increase in traffic over the last few days. My wife has done nothing to promote the site other than create it and give it a backlink from two other sites to get it indexed naturally which we think helps. (Ignore todays traffic of 2 visitors as it was still quite early when I took that snapshot.)
You can do exactly the same thing as she is. What are you waiting for?
-Frank Haywood
