Creating an AMAZON AFFILIATE NICHE Site that Makes money per month
I'm gonna tell you about the four steps you need to know about Amazon affiliate niche sites if you're an experienced niche site person and you know the four steps already but you are having a hard time explaining what you do or what you're interested in to people that don't know anything about affiliate marketing these are the four steps that you can easily explain to your friends your parents maybe your spouse who doesn't quite understand.
the niche site concept or if you're brand new toaffiliate marketing and the Amazon affiliate ecosystem this is the videothat will introduce you to the high level four step so let's get into thesteps right now what's up my name is Doug Cunnington from a niche siteproject I talk about Amazon affiliate marketing internet marketing in generaland project management so have a look at some of the videos and if you like whatyou see please consider subscribing so I'm going to talk about the four stepsthese are high level steps to create an Amazon affiliate niche site this willsort of apply to other niche site ideas but I focus on Amazon affiliatemarketing so we'll go over the steps at a high level and then I'll go a littlebit deeper into each one and in fact there's a few playlists that I have I'lllink them up in the description below so you can go deeper on each one of thefour major phases so quick note I'm a project manager by trade I did softwareproject management I'm a PMP that's a project management professional and Idid that for about 10 years or so before I got laid off so when I mention thesephases it's very much in a framework of project management now I don't go toodeep into the lingo and.
the corporate jargon of project management but just keep in mind this is a well-thought-out process and I'm just dividing it up into short of the major areas so you can have a better idea on what to focus on incertain phases so number one you have to pick a niche number two you have to set up a site so this is sort of in fish your type stuff number three you'll be posting and publishing content on a website and the fourth step is to get traffic and promote your site now let's dive into each one of.
the steps a littlebit more deeply so first off you do need to pick a niche there's a few thingsthat you do have to focus on in picking a niche it's one of the most importantthings it's sort of the foundation of your site so if you pick the wrong nicheyou're sort of cursed to not be successful even if you do everythingafter that right if you have the wrong niche you're in trouble so the firstthing you have to think about with niche is are people searching for it sobasically we're getting traffic we're aiming to get traffic from Google freeorganic search traffic from Google so that means people need to be searchingfor it on Google and you want them to sort of be in the buyers mindset and youneed to make sure enough people are searching for it now that brings us tokeyword research now that's a whole topic for a whole other day but thereare tools out there like keyword KAG longtail Pro I think there's somethingcalled the keyword revealer there's other tools out there and most of theseif not all our paid tools however most of the time I do find it only necessaryto pay for the tools for like a month or two you can do a lot of keyword researchin a month or two and that's kind of all you need for like six or 12 months thepoint is you do have to use a tool to find out how many times people aresearching for those terms on average per month so there's a whole theory behindhow many searches you want to go for but I kind of like a blend of terms wherepeople are not searching too often like say under 500 times a month or athousand times a month and then sort of you know target some higher.
volumesearch terms like people are searching for 2,000 or 5,000 or 8,000 times butthe thing is the more times people search for terms the more valuable theyare and that means there's more competition so if there'smore value if there's more money behind a certain set of keywords that meansyou're gonna have more competition it may take longer to rank for these termsand just be a little more difficult because people are making money on itand that means they're reinvesting into sites that are already established theother thing to add about keyword research is you can take an approachthat is basically the supply and demand of keywords this is called the keywordgolden ratio it's a concept that I developed with you know information fromothers so you know I didn't make up the each of the pieces but the keywordgolden ratio is something that you know I developed over time I tested it Irefined it I asked other people to test it and it's something that does work ifyou just you know do some searches check out the videos on the keyword goldenratio you'll find not only is a simple concept but it does work people arehaving great success with it the other part of picking a niche is your interestlevel now I'm not gonna say you have to be passionate about it or you know youcould find some obscure tiny thing be you're obsessed with and.
just make a lotof money from that just because you're passionate about itthere does need to be a balance of you know what people are searching for thatit's quite important one of the most important things but it is good if youhave a light amount of interest if you're kind of interested in the topicor keyword or set of products that are really good you know for example I love beautiful Brewer a brewed beer at home and I'm just into beer I like it does that mean I should create some sort of beer brewing blog or something like that well maybe I'm sure there's some specific areas where creating a blog around beer or home brewing could be profitable but a lot of.
the information around home brewing beer is in forums or YouTube videos so it may not be the perfect combination the point is it's good to have a little bit of interest but you don't necessarily have to be a word of caution would be you know you don't want to necessarily target your passion go hard and not pay attention to the keyword research there must be balance once you pick your niche you're ready to set up the site this is phase two so again this is sort of the infrastructure of your site so you need to set up hosting I normally recommend people use WordPress you don't have to use WordPress but it is very popular and there are many tools and plug-ins for WordPress it just makes it easier if you've never set up a website before WordPress is very easy to set up and you could use just about any hosting that you want to normally the cheapest package is good enough.
I recommend one of the bigger companies so I use personally Bluehost SiteGrounda smaller company called MDD hosting you know other people use Hostgator there are dozens and dozens of other hosting companies but for your first site I would recommend just use one of the larger companies you're probably going to be paying about you know roughly three to seven dollars per month and like most things do you get what you pay for so if you find a company where you can get hosting for you know one dollar a month or two dollars a month it's probably not going to be the best service you're gonna have you know uptime issues and most likely they are just a reseller from one of these other companies so perhaps they've purchased a you know a server package and they'rejust reselling it and you know marking it up and you're sharing a server with abunch of other people so if it's too cheap I'd stay away from it work withbig companies other considerations around your infrastructure and settingup the site would be a theme so you know I'm gonna assume.
WordPress so we'll justassume WordPress but this generally applies to other types of contentmanagement systems as well but you'll need a themeyou can't get some free themes if you are going to use a free theme I highlyrecommend using one from the company called automatic which is the parentcompany of WordPress because you're using a theme from the parent companyyou know it's going to be secure it'll be updated while high quality it'sgoing to look beautiful in fact my very first Amazon affiliate site was createdusing a free like the standard default WordPress 2012 theme with a whitebackground black text totally clean totally simple that was my first siteand it did very well so you don't necessarily need something fancy and I'mpersonally a minimalist I try to apply that to most areas of my life not allbut most and basically the more options the more choices you have in a theme themore complicated it is the more decisions you're going to have to makeand it turns out if you just use something simple you're much better offnow there are some themes that are oriented towards Amazon affiliate sitesand those could be a good choice a couple of those of which I'm anaffiliate for are the ultimate Azon theme and authority so those are greatthemes they look nice right out of the box and they integrate directly with theAmazon API which is a nice thing to have a couple other things that you have tothink about with.
the site are your domain name so the domain name isimportant but you shouldn't spend too much time trying to figure out yourdomain name you want it to be clear so people understand what the site's aboutyou don't want to be too clever you don't want to have dashes or too manynumbers like if you put a number in your domain name then you're gonna have tothink about you know were they gonna type it in right well they put in thenumeral or are they gonna write out the number so I would avoid numbers most ofthe time and just keep it simple so most of the time I recommend you you make ita brandable type name so you're not like painted in a corner you know you don'twant to have a site like best ballpoint pen 20:18 you can't really go anywherefrom there so make it more general like you know the best office supplies foryour home office com something like that right it's a little more general youcould add a lot more products into it and last thing to note when you areusing WordPress or you know one of the other content management systems you dohave the ability to put in plugins which is greatplugins can do almost everything however the word of caution is there are so manyplugins that you may be tempted to just put plugins in for anything that you canthink of there's probably a plug-in for almost anything you could think ofanyway the problem is plugins will slow down your site it's just a thing thathappens when you load more things onto your site it'll just get slower andslower so I usually try to keep the plugins to a minimum again I try tominimize you know extra stuff as much as possible so if you don't necessarilyhave to have the plug-in in there don't install it so there are a few pluginsthat are helpful you know things that help you reduce comment spam things tokeep your site secure backing up your site those sort of thingsgood do those there's no substitute for those right you have to do that kind ofthing to keep your site secure and reduce spam right those are a no-brainerbut if you want to say add tables or you want to have just some special kind ofwidget to do a special kind of thing it turns out you probably don't need thosethings and.
I would encourage you to you know reduce as much as you can once youhave your site set up you need to publish content my kind of sites havereviews of products and you may be thinking do I have to buy all theproducts to review them no you don't most of the time you can get greatinformation from the product detail page on Amazon you can read other reviewsonline you may be able to check out forums that have informationon products it depends on the niche right but there are some very activeforums on the Internet you can watch youtube videos to seepeople that actually did purchase the product and they are reviewing it and ofcourse you can go to Amazon and read the reviews that are on there now you can'tcopy those kind of reviews exactly you can't quote them or anything like thatbut you can get a lot of good information and summarize it in fact Irecommend you go to all the sources I mentioned in addition the manufacturercan provide a lot of information too through their user manuals and just ontheir website so if you compile that information and curate it and yousummarize information you can gather from all the sources that are availableto you you end up with a pretty good amount of information you can write areview about now a lot of people worry about how much content they shouldlaunch their site with I say start small this is a project management idea andframework that I brought over to the internet marketing area because here'ssome of the advice you often see you know launch your site with a hundredpieces of content or 200 pieces of content you want to make a big site thatis bad advice especially for beginner because if you try to publish that muchcontent you're gonna get overwhelmed and most likely you're gonna quit before youget close to accomplishing it in fact even if you had unlimited resourcesaka money probably would have a hard time publishing a hundred pieces ofcontent if it's your first time starting the site you won't know exactly what toput in the content you may not be skilled and hiring freelance writers youmay not know how to you know set up systems so you can publish a lot ofcontent in you know small amount of time those are skills that you can developbut the point is if you try and launch a site with too much content you're gonnaget in trouble so what do I recommend you should launch a site with just tenpieces of content five pieces of that content should be sort of informationalhow-to content something that will be helpful for the visitors the other fivepieces of content will be around product reviews now the how-to content theinformational stuff is not necessarily going to be money-making content you canput affiliate links in the how-to content but it's not there to convertvisitors into buyers now the affiliate review content the other five piecesthat is directly related to you know.
converting a visitor into a buyer thegoal is to have that person read the review understand the choice thatthey're about to make they head over to Amazon and they make the purchase that'sthe best way to launch a site one of the huge benefits is ten pieces of contentis totally doable so let's say you have to write it yourself because you're justgetting started and your budget small that's what I did I wrote basically allthe content on my very first site nowadays I don't write reviews too oftenbecause well it's not the most fun thing to do in the worldso I usually hire a writer and I could provide them with a template and otherinformation that helps them write it in that make you just edit it it's a littlebit faster to edit and to write from scratch at least for me so the point isten pieces of content is doable if you have to write it yourself or youprobably can put together a budget it's probably going to you know cost betweena hundred to two hundred dollars give or take to hire a few writers to write tenarticles so it's a decent chunk of money but depending on where you're startingyou should be able to pull together that amount of money now the other part isten post is quite manageable so not only can you put together the budget but youcould probably hire a couple writers to work with you for a few weeksand you can end up with ten pieces of content you can see the finish line withten articles right if you're thinking of a hundred 150 articles that's gonna takeyou like six months and it's overwhelming so start small start withten and that's plenty to launch with and then you can move on to step four stepfour is getting traffic and promoting your site this is one of the morecomplicated things that you're gonna have to work on the easiest way and thefirst thing you should do is to tell your family and friends so you know letthem know go on Facebook on Instagram wherever you sort of communicate withyour friends email maybe you send them a letter in the mail.
I have no ideahowever you get in touch with that let them know you're launching a site havethem go check it out they are going to be interested in what you're working onthey they like you and they want to help you out so have them check out the siteyou may not necessarily you know want to ask them for tips because you know theymay not know what they're talking about keep that in mind but they do want tohelp you so always accept feedback get the site out there start gettingfeedback and then you can always go back and improve it the content that you knowthe written word you can improve the design and graphics whenever you havetime in the future you can go back and do that stuff our main goal to gettraffic to the site is through Google you want someone to search for a term inGoogle they'll see the results hopefully your website will be one of thoseresults they'll click on it head to your website and they you know see they readthe information on the site they get a better idea about the product that theywant and then they click your affiliate link over to Amazon and they make apurchase if you're lucky they buy a few things I know when I buy something onAmazon I almost always you know check with my wife to see if she wants to putsomething in the order and we usually order three or four things whenever weattempt to order just one so hopefully that sort of thing is going to happenfor you and that's the ultimate right that's the way you can get huge amountsof traffic to your site and basically you'll be able to scale in that wayif you can you know give it a few more keywords that your ranking a little bithigher for over time you're able to get tons of traffic to your site the maintask in getting your site to rank better is link building now that's a huge topicin fact.
I will put a playlist in the description for SEO and link buildingand doing outreach but I like to keep things simple right again going back tothe project management idea and being effective the thing is you can dohundreds of different tasks that could potentially help with your ranking butthe biggest thing you could do is get more backlinks so I like to keep itsimple with a two step process where you go out and you look for related blogsand you comment on those blogs two things happens when you do that so thefirst thing that happens is you probably will get a link to your main domain mostof the time when you comment on a blog you type in your name in the name fieldand then for your website you put in the URL for your main domain don't try andbe cute don't try and get a link directly to your post just put in yourmain domain name okay and then you leave a comment it does need to be anauthentic genuine comment you want to add value I recommend you read theirposts or at least skim it and make a intelligent comment it's great to ask aquestion it's great to provide a compliment in there it's great tointeract with some of the other readers and commenters on that blog and theother benefit so the first thing is you get a link on your name right to maindomain name the other thing is you actually start networking within theniche if you're lucky the blogger will go check out your site and then know whoyou are this comes into play for the second part of the link building whichis guest posting so eventually you do want to build a relationship throughfurther blog commenting with that specific blogger potentially sendingemails and just corresponding with them so that you're sort of an internetfriend with them right you want them to know who you are and at some point inthe future I would between say two weeks and two months youcan ask them if you can guest post on their site now you could imagine thatthey get a lot of inquiries people are just asking them hey can I guest post onyour site can you put a link on my site all that kind of stuff it comes off verypushy and a little spammy if you do that right so if you come in and you startasking for stuff right away it's not cool right nobody wants to sort of beput in that position so a better way to do it is through developing arelationship so when you comment on their blog they're gonna remember thatif.
you email them or sign up for their email list they'll remember that too andpeople really like it when you comment on their blogs and further to take it alittle bit deeper you can't connect with them on social mediafind out what channel they're most active on maybe it's Instagram maybeit's Facebook maybe it's Twitter but connect with them there see where they spend their time and then interact with them there if you do that you're gonna stand out so much more than your competition again people are just sending out emails these days and just asking for stuff again just not cool so quick recap and this is what I call high touch outreach where there are a lot of oftouch points it takes time and it really separates you from your competition who are trying to get links as well so those are the four main steps.
you need to pick your niche number two you're going to have to set up your site this where you pick out your domain name probably set up WordPress and set up the third part is around publishing content I recommend you publish you know ten pieces of content to start out with where 50% of it is affiliate reviews and the other 50% is helpful content think about how to content just informational content the fourth step is the promotion and link building and after that, you're really just doing sort of the same thing you rinse and repeat right you end up adding more content and then doing more link building and that's sort of the way to do it to grow your site if you found this helpful please click the like button if you want more please subscribe to the channel again I talked about a lot.
of internet marketing stuff productivity project management stuff if you have any questions about the process leave a comment below really interested to hear your to know what areas you want to learn more about additionally check out the playlist in the description there's a lot more I mean I do basically hour tour and a half long presentations on each one of the tiny little my new subtopics you can go so deep so I'll put some links in the description so you can check those out if you're interested the question of the day do you have a niche site if so let us know in the comments below let us know how long you've been doing it and if you have any tips things that you've learned with your niche site let us know in the comments - so again I'm Doug Pennington from niche site project thanks for checking it out
the niche site concept or if you're brand new toaffiliate marketing and the Amazon affiliate ecosystem this is the videothat will introduce you to the high level four step so let's get into thesteps right now what's up my name is Doug Cunnington from a niche siteproject I talk about Amazon affiliate marketing internet marketing in generaland project management so have a look at some of the videos and if you like whatyou see please consider subscribing so I'm going to talk about the four stepsthese are high level steps to create an Amazon affiliate niche site this willsort of apply to other niche site ideas but I focus on Amazon affiliatemarketing so we'll go over the steps at a high level and then I'll go a littlebit deeper into each one and in fact there's a few playlists that I have I'lllink them up in the description below so you can go deeper on each one of thefour major phases so quick note I'm a project manager by trade I did softwareproject management I'm a PMP that's a project management professional and Idid that for about 10 years or so before I got laid off so when I mention thesephases it's very much in a framework of project management now I don't go toodeep into the lingo and.
the corporate jargon of project management but just keep in mind this is a well-thought-out process and I'm just dividing it up into short of the major areas so you can have a better idea on what to focus on incertain phases so number one you have to pick a niche number two you have to set up a site so this is sort of in fish your type stuff number three you'll be posting and publishing content on a website and the fourth step is to get traffic and promote your site now let's dive into each one of.
the steps a littlebit more deeply so first off you do need to pick a niche there's a few thingsthat you do have to focus on in picking a niche it's one of the most importantthings it's sort of the foundation of your site so if you pick the wrong nicheyou're sort of cursed to not be successful even if you do everythingafter that right if you have the wrong niche you're in trouble so the firstthing you have to think about with niche is are people searching for it sobasically we're getting traffic we're aiming to get traffic from Google freeorganic search traffic from Google so that means people need to be searchingfor it on Google and you want them to sort of be in the buyers mindset and youneed to make sure enough people are searching for it now that brings us tokeyword research now that's a whole topic for a whole other day but thereare tools out there like keyword KAG longtail Pro I think there's somethingcalled the keyword revealer there's other tools out there and most of theseif not all our paid tools however most of the time I do find it only necessaryto pay for the tools for like a month or two you can do a lot of keyword researchin a month or two and that's kind of all you need for like six or 12 months thepoint is you do have to use a tool to find out how many times people aresearching for those terms on average per month so there's a whole theory behindhow many searches you want to go for but I kind of like a blend of terms wherepeople are not searching too often like say under 500 times a month or athousand times a month and then sort of you know target some higher.
volumesearch terms like people are searching for 2,000 or 5,000 or 8,000 times butthe thing is the more times people search for terms the more valuable theyare and that means there's more competition so if there'smore value if there's more money behind a certain set of keywords that meansyou're gonna have more competition it may take longer to rank for these termsand just be a little more difficult because people are making money on itand that means they're reinvesting into sites that are already established theother thing to add about keyword research is you can take an approachthat is basically the supply and demand of keywords this is called the keywordgolden ratio it's a concept that I developed with you know information fromothers so you know I didn't make up the each of the pieces but the keywordgolden ratio is something that you know I developed over time I tested it Irefined it I asked other people to test it and it's something that does work ifyou just you know do some searches check out the videos on the keyword goldenratio you'll find not only is a simple concept but it does work people arehaving great success with it the other part of picking a niche is your interestlevel now I'm not gonna say you have to be passionate about it or you know youcould find some obscure tiny thing be you're obsessed with and.
just make a lotof money from that just because you're passionate about itthere does need to be a balance of you know what people are searching for thatit's quite important one of the most important things but it is good if youhave a light amount of interest if you're kind of interested in the topicor keyword or set of products that are really good you know for example I love beautiful Brewer a brewed beer at home and I'm just into beer I like it does that mean I should create some sort of beer brewing blog or something like that well maybe I'm sure there's some specific areas where creating a blog around beer or home brewing could be profitable but a lot of.
the information around home brewing beer is in forums or YouTube videos so it may not be the perfect combination the point is it's good to have a little bit of interest but you don't necessarily have to be a word of caution would be you know you don't want to necessarily target your passion go hard and not pay attention to the keyword research there must be balance once you pick your niche you're ready to set up the site this is phase two so again this is sort of the infrastructure of your site so you need to set up hosting I normally recommend people use WordPress you don't have to use WordPress but it is very popular and there are many tools and plug-ins for WordPress it just makes it easier if you've never set up a website before WordPress is very easy to set up and you could use just about any hosting that you want to normally the cheapest package is good enough.
I recommend one of the bigger companies so I use personally Bluehost SiteGrounda smaller company called MDD hosting you know other people use Hostgator there are dozens and dozens of other hosting companies but for your first site I would recommend just use one of the larger companies you're probably going to be paying about you know roughly three to seven dollars per month and like most things do you get what you pay for so if you find a company where you can get hosting for you know one dollar a month or two dollars a month it's probably not going to be the best service you're gonna have you know uptime issues and most likely they are just a reseller from one of these other companies so perhaps they've purchased a you know a server package and they'rejust reselling it and you know marking it up and you're sharing a server with abunch of other people so if it's too cheap I'd stay away from it work withbig companies other considerations around your infrastructure and settingup the site would be a theme so you know I'm gonna assume.
WordPress so we'll justassume WordPress but this generally applies to other types of contentmanagement systems as well but you'll need a themeyou can't get some free themes if you are going to use a free theme I highlyrecommend using one from the company called automatic which is the parentcompany of WordPress because you're using a theme from the parent companyyou know it's going to be secure it'll be updated while high quality it'sgoing to look beautiful in fact my very first Amazon affiliate site was createdusing a free like the standard default WordPress 2012 theme with a whitebackground black text totally clean totally simple that was my first siteand it did very well so you don't necessarily need something fancy and I'mpersonally a minimalist I try to apply that to most areas of my life not allbut most and basically the more options the more choices you have in a theme themore complicated it is the more decisions you're going to have to makeand it turns out if you just use something simple you're much better offnow there are some themes that are oriented towards Amazon affiliate sitesand those could be a good choice a couple of those of which I'm anaffiliate for are the ultimate Azon theme and authority so those are greatthemes they look nice right out of the box and they integrate directly with theAmazon API which is a nice thing to have a couple other things that you have tothink about with.
the site are your domain name so the domain name isimportant but you shouldn't spend too much time trying to figure out yourdomain name you want it to be clear so people understand what the site's aboutyou don't want to be too clever you don't want to have dashes or too manynumbers like if you put a number in your domain name then you're gonna have tothink about you know were they gonna type it in right well they put in thenumeral or are they gonna write out the number so I would avoid numbers most ofthe time and just keep it simple so most of the time I recommend you you make ita brandable type name so you're not like painted in a corner you know you don'twant to have a site like best ballpoint pen 20:18 you can't really go anywherefrom there so make it more general like you know the best office supplies foryour home office com something like that right it's a little more general youcould add a lot more products into it and last thing to note when you areusing WordPress or you know one of the other content management systems you dohave the ability to put in plugins which is greatplugins can do almost everything however the word of caution is there are so manyplugins that you may be tempted to just put plugins in for anything that you canthink of there's probably a plug-in for almost anything you could think ofanyway the problem is plugins will slow down your site it's just a thing thathappens when you load more things onto your site it'll just get slower andslower so I usually try to keep the plugins to a minimum again I try tominimize you know extra stuff as much as possible so if you don't necessarilyhave to have the plug-in in there don't install it so there are a few pluginsthat are helpful you know things that help you reduce comment spam things tokeep your site secure backing up your site those sort of thingsgood do those there's no substitute for those right you have to do that kind ofthing to keep your site secure and reduce spam right those are a no-brainerbut if you want to say add tables or you want to have just some special kind ofwidget to do a special kind of thing it turns out you probably don't need thosethings and.
I would encourage you to you know reduce as much as you can once youhave your site set up you need to publish content my kind of sites havereviews of products and you may be thinking do I have to buy all theproducts to review them no you don't most of the time you can get greatinformation from the product detail page on Amazon you can read other reviewsonline you may be able to check out forums that have informationon products it depends on the niche right but there are some very activeforums on the Internet you can watch youtube videos to seepeople that actually did purchase the product and they are reviewing it and ofcourse you can go to Amazon and read the reviews that are on there now you can'tcopy those kind of reviews exactly you can't quote them or anything like thatbut you can get a lot of good information and summarize it in fact Irecommend you go to all the sources I mentioned in addition the manufacturercan provide a lot of information too through their user manuals and just ontheir website so if you compile that information and curate it and yousummarize information you can gather from all the sources that are availableto you you end up with a pretty good amount of information you can write areview about now a lot of people worry about how much content they shouldlaunch their site with I say start small this is a project management idea andframework that I brought over to the internet marketing area because here'ssome of the advice you often see you know launch your site with a hundredpieces of content or 200 pieces of content you want to make a big site thatis bad advice especially for beginner because if you try to publish that muchcontent you're gonna get overwhelmed and most likely you're gonna quit before youget close to accomplishing it in fact even if you had unlimited resourcesaka money probably would have a hard time publishing a hundred pieces ofcontent if it's your first time starting the site you won't know exactly what toput in the content you may not be skilled and hiring freelance writers youmay not know how to you know set up systems so you can publish a lot ofcontent in you know small amount of time those are skills that you can developbut the point is if you try and launch a site with too much content you're gonnaget in trouble so what do I recommend you should launch a site with just tenpieces of content five pieces of that content should be sort of informationalhow-to content something that will be helpful for the visitors the other fivepieces of content will be around product reviews now the how-to content theinformational stuff is not necessarily going to be money-making content you canput affiliate links in the how-to content but it's not there to convertvisitors into buyers now the affiliate review content the other five piecesthat is directly related to you know.
converting a visitor into a buyer thegoal is to have that person read the review understand the choice thatthey're about to make they head over to Amazon and they make the purchase that'sthe best way to launch a site one of the huge benefits is ten pieces of contentis totally doable so let's say you have to write it yourself because you're justgetting started and your budget small that's what I did I wrote basically allthe content on my very first site nowadays I don't write reviews too oftenbecause well it's not the most fun thing to do in the worldso I usually hire a writer and I could provide them with a template and otherinformation that helps them write it in that make you just edit it it's a littlebit faster to edit and to write from scratch at least for me so the point isten pieces of content is doable if you have to write it yourself or youprobably can put together a budget it's probably going to you know cost betweena hundred to two hundred dollars give or take to hire a few writers to write tenarticles so it's a decent chunk of money but depending on where you're startingyou should be able to pull together that amount of money now the other part isten post is quite manageable so not only can you put together the budget but youcould probably hire a couple writers to work with you for a few weeksand you can end up with ten pieces of content you can see the finish line withten articles right if you're thinking of a hundred 150 articles that's gonna takeyou like six months and it's overwhelming so start small start withten and that's plenty to launch with and then you can move on to step four stepfour is getting traffic and promoting your site this is one of the morecomplicated things that you're gonna have to work on the easiest way and thefirst thing you should do is to tell your family and friends so you know letthem know go on Facebook on Instagram wherever you sort of communicate withyour friends email maybe you send them a letter in the mail.
I have no ideahowever you get in touch with that let them know you're launching a site havethem go check it out they are going to be interested in what you're working onthey they like you and they want to help you out so have them check out the siteyou may not necessarily you know want to ask them for tips because you know theymay not know what they're talking about keep that in mind but they do want tohelp you so always accept feedback get the site out there start gettingfeedback and then you can always go back and improve it the content that you knowthe written word you can improve the design and graphics whenever you havetime in the future you can go back and do that stuff our main goal to gettraffic to the site is through Google you want someone to search for a term inGoogle they'll see the results hopefully your website will be one of thoseresults they'll click on it head to your website and they you know see they readthe information on the site they get a better idea about the product that theywant and then they click your affiliate link over to Amazon and they make apurchase if you're lucky they buy a few things I know when I buy something onAmazon I almost always you know check with my wife to see if she wants to putsomething in the order and we usually order three or four things whenever weattempt to order just one so hopefully that sort of thing is going to happenfor you and that's the ultimate right that's the way you can get huge amountsof traffic to your site and basically you'll be able to scale in that wayif you can you know give it a few more keywords that your ranking a little bithigher for over time you're able to get tons of traffic to your site the maintask in getting your site to rank better is link building now that's a huge topicin fact.
I will put a playlist in the description for SEO and link buildingand doing outreach but I like to keep things simple right again going back tothe project management idea and being effective the thing is you can dohundreds of different tasks that could potentially help with your ranking butthe biggest thing you could do is get more backlinks so I like to keep itsimple with a two step process where you go out and you look for related blogsand you comment on those blogs two things happens when you do that so thefirst thing that happens is you probably will get a link to your main domain mostof the time when you comment on a blog you type in your name in the name fieldand then for your website you put in the URL for your main domain don't try andbe cute don't try and get a link directly to your post just put in yourmain domain name okay and then you leave a comment it does need to be anauthentic genuine comment you want to add value I recommend you read theirposts or at least skim it and make a intelligent comment it's great to ask aquestion it's great to provide a compliment in there it's great tointeract with some of the other readers and commenters on that blog and theother benefit so the first thing is you get a link on your name right to maindomain name the other thing is you actually start networking within theniche if you're lucky the blogger will go check out your site and then know whoyou are this comes into play for the second part of the link building whichis guest posting so eventually you do want to build a relationship throughfurther blog commenting with that specific blogger potentially sendingemails and just corresponding with them so that you're sort of an internetfriend with them right you want them to know who you are and at some point inthe future I would between say two weeks and two months youcan ask them if you can guest post on their site now you could imagine thatthey get a lot of inquiries people are just asking them hey can I guest post onyour site can you put a link on my site all that kind of stuff it comes off verypushy and a little spammy if you do that right so if you come in and you startasking for stuff right away it's not cool right nobody wants to sort of beput in that position so a better way to do it is through developing arelationship so when you comment on their blog they're gonna remember thatif.
you email them or sign up for their email list they'll remember that too andpeople really like it when you comment on their blogs and further to take it alittle bit deeper you can't connect with them on social mediafind out what channel they're most active on maybe it's Instagram maybeit's Facebook maybe it's Twitter but connect with them there see where they spend their time and then interact with them there if you do that you're gonna stand out so much more than your competition again people are just sending out emails these days and just asking for stuff again just not cool so quick recap and this is what I call high touch outreach where there are a lot of oftouch points it takes time and it really separates you from your competition who are trying to get links as well so those are the four main steps.
you need to pick your niche number two you're going to have to set up your site this where you pick out your domain name probably set up WordPress and set up the third part is around publishing content I recommend you publish you know ten pieces of content to start out with where 50% of it is affiliate reviews and the other 50% is helpful content think about how to content just informational content the fourth step is the promotion and link building and after that, you're really just doing sort of the same thing you rinse and repeat right you end up adding more content and then doing more link building and that's sort of the way to do it to grow your site if you found this helpful please click the like button if you want more please subscribe to the channel again I talked about a lot.
of internet marketing stuff productivity project management stuff if you have any questions about the process leave a comment below really interested to hear your to know what areas you want to learn more about additionally check out the playlist in the description there's a lot more I mean I do basically hour tour and a half long presentations on each one of the tiny little my new subtopics you can go so deep so I'll put some links in the description so you can check those out if you're interested the question of the day do you have a niche site if so let us know in the comments below let us know how long you've been doing it and if you have any tips things that you've learned with your niche site let us know in the comments - so again I'm Doug Pennington from niche site project thanks for checking it out
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