How much you can make from placing articles and affiliate links on your website?

How much you can make from placing articles and affiliate links on your website differs from person to person. How much you are able to make will depend mostly on how successful your site is. This means getting good search engine rankings through SEO efforts, making your site enjoyable and informative to read through engaging content, building your site around a great niche subject, how big your site is, and how many sites you have.

Some people claim to make as much as $10,000 per month ($120,000 per year) through building and promoting niche sites, however, most people should not expect this kind of success, especially if you are very new, as that kind of success usually only comes with experience and acquired skill. A reasonable income to expect from a niche site, after you have worked for months to gain traffic and are hooked up with good affiliates, may be $500-$1,000 per month. However this is recurring income, so you will make that much monthly off of the efforts you put into that one site, it is not a one shot deal.

After you have a successful site, most choose to continue to build niche sites. The more sites that you build, the better an income you can generate. Some also choose to build very fast and very short sites over sites that are slightly longer in length. It should be noted that the larger each of your sites are, the more income you will likely generate off of them.

When starting out, it is important to remember that your first site will always be your hardest, since you are just learning the ropes of the business, and that not everyone is cut out to market and promote niche sites. It may not work out for you and you may end up losing a little bit of money, but that is a risk that everyone in this business has to take.

The important thing is that you don’t give up without a good shot at it, if this is really what you want to do. Your first site may take a long time, the work may be tedious, and you may feel like throwing in the towel. However, if you give up too early, you will never know what could have been. And who knows, you may be the next great website marketer!

Write Articles for traffic and back links to your website

Submitting articles to free article websites are an excellent way to generate traffic and back links to your website. In this article I will show you some recommended article directories and some free article submitter software. Submitting articles works because every webmaster that reprints your article is required to publish your biography along with the article. In the biography or “about the author” section you write a little about yourself along with your website URL. First, you will need to write an original article about 300-600 words that is related to the subject of your website. Then submit your article to an article site for free traffic. Sounds easy? It is!

Here are some free article websites you can submit to that get a good amount of traffic:


1) http://www.zongoo.com/
2) http://www.articlehub.com/
3) http://www.articlewarehouse.com/
4) http://www.authorconnection.com/
5) http://www.contentdesk.com/
6) http://www.ezinearticles.com/
7) http://www.goarticles.com/
8) http://www.ideamarketers.com/
9) http://www.isnare.com/


Each free article website will have different rules regarding formatting and length of article so check with the author guidelines on each site. Submitting articles to various directories is certainly a good way to get free back links and traffic to your website. If your article is really good, it is possible to get millions of views. If you are only planning on writing a few articles, you may want to submit everything manually. If you would like to submit to many places, I would recommend using article submitter software. If you would like to start out without investing is the software, I have managed to find a few submitters that are free. I have listed the free article submitters below:

1) http://www.articlesender.com
2) http://www.buildvre.com/Recommends/articlesubmitter.html

An additional resource to promote your articles is Yahoo Groups. This can help to achieve more traffic and back links as well. Join a yahoo group specifically for writers to post articles. Many people will want to read the articles because it answers a question and is interesting. In addition, many webmasters use the groups to find articles that they can publish on there own websites. When they publish your article, they will also publish your bio or signature with your website link in it. Here is a listing of Yahoo groups that are interested in writers posting there articles:
http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=article+submission&submit=Search

With article promotion, you will never need to worry about purchasing traffic again. The articles you submit will bring in traffic directly from the links on your articles. In addition, the back links you create will result in a higher position in the search engines increasing traffic as well.