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$700 a month - Hell yeah!
How big did your site wind up being to generate $700 a month in aff income?
What neighborhood price-wise did it sell for if you don't mind me asking?
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$700 a month - Hell yeah!
How big did your site wind up being to generate $700 a month in aff income?
What neighborhood price-wise did it sell for if you don't mind me asking?
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Good luck with your journey !
Following this !
Following this !
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The site had 100+ product reviews, 30+ pages of content, a few buyers guide for different topics within the same niche and a blog with over 50 posts.
The site was sold for just under $17,000.
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Thank You!
kweiss
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@LuckyGirl9334 following your journey and all the best. I have a question.
Are you targeting single category like "baby trollers" or multiple categories?
If single category How did you choose your category like how many monthly searches good to choose?
Are you targeting single category like "baby trollers" or multiple categories?
If single category How did you choose your category like how many monthly searches good to choose?
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It is that simple to take action, Keep going OP.
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I definitely have a very tight niche, one single category of product.
When I was looking for a niche I looked at monthly searches for sure. This particular niche really isn't the best as far as sales and searches & sales price, roughly 46,000 searches per month with an average sale of about $150 and competition is pretty stiff Google puts it in the 60-70 range, but I am interested in the niche so I decided to go for it. My thought being, if I could take the stuff I learned in the 30-day course and make sales with this tough of competition then I would be able to succeed in almost any niche Amazon has on offer.
The course covered researching the niches, site structure, content writing, setting everything up with Google, BING etc., and what to do when as far as indexing and stuff like that. The promise made and kept is that building a site in that manner with proper SEO would get the site making money (and be worth all the work) and that using sound SEO practices would never have a problem with Google and traffic.
My next Amazon site will be on higher-priced products now that I know the method works. I think the amount of work would be the same regardless of the product cost.
So if you are looking to do an AMA, for the first one, pick a niche you know something about regardless of what the payout is, just to see if your method is sound AND figure out whether or not you like doing the proper work to get it making money. If you do, then I would advise picking a niche you think you could love and hopefully, it's a high ticket niche, then go BALLS OUT on it. You can always sell a well-built site for some cash, even if it's just making a few $$ a month. Check out @MicroLeaf reply above. Obviously, a well built, SEO site and he sold it for 24 times monthly earnings, which actually is 2 times yearly earnings plus a little. So def give it some thought, a proper site is worth money when its earning, even just a little.
If anyone is really interested, I may be able to write a guide about how I researched niches. Honestly, though, it's been covered many times already on this forum.
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I didn't mention this before so I'll post it here since it may help others thinking about AMA sites.
When I was researching niches, yes NICHES more than 1 or 2, I looked at about 20 that I had in interest in some fashion or other.
Either products I had personally purchased, or was fascinated with and thought maybe I myself might buy. That helped me a lot when I started all this for 2 reasons:
I actually made a google sheet and popped all the niches in there with the average sale price of the category, how many searches per month the category got, what the commission rate from Amazon is on that niche, and with a target goal of $XX per week - how many sales of the actual products I would have to have in order to get to that $XX goal per week.
Then I took it a little further and looked at the average searches per month, then spitballed how much of that traffic I would have to have to hit my site by calculating an average CTR from search engines to the site then CTR from the site to Amazon then the Conversion Rate for the clicks to turn to sales.
I estimated everything at shitty CTR/Conversion rates so that I would have a worst-case scenario all lined out for how much traffic I was going to have to get from organic searches in order to make that $XX goal.
So, it looks something like this:
niche x - average sale price - % aff com - $ avg comm - visits per month assuming 1% CTR - # of sales req per week to meet $ monthly goal - weekly goal (monthly/4.3) - $ monthly goal
The last 2 columns are handy just in case I have more than 1 site in development or figure I need more sites in order to reach the monthly goal. The lower the average sale is in the niche - more sales required to meet the $ goal per week. I know that makes total sense but sometimes it really helps me when I can see it all in front of me in a visual way.
The results were staggering BUT, now I had my eyes open as to what may have to happen, how much content I'm going to have to write, etc.
QUICK TIP: You can use Ubbersuggest to spy on your niche competition traffic to their articles. The tool pulls up the most highly ranked content for the keywords you will use to find your niche. Take a look at what pages are driving the traffic for those keywords and take a look at the numbers. That will give you a ballpark idea of the % of the total traffic they are getting for those keywords and niche. It will also give you an idea of what their aff income is of that article. Nifty stuff to know.
When I was researching niches, yes NICHES more than 1 or 2, I looked at about 20 that I had in interest in some fashion or other.
Either products I had personally purchased, or was fascinated with and thought maybe I myself might buy. That helped me a lot when I started all this for 2 reasons:
- It's something I was already interested in.
- I figure I can't be the lone ranger, if someone else (or a lot of someone elses) wanted to buy these type of products then there's a market.
I actually made a google sheet and popped all the niches in there with the average sale price of the category, how many searches per month the category got, what the commission rate from Amazon is on that niche, and with a target goal of $XX per week - how many sales of the actual products I would have to have in order to get to that $XX goal per week.
Then I took it a little further and looked at the average searches per month, then spitballed how much of that traffic I would have to have to hit my site by calculating an average CTR from search engines to the site then CTR from the site to Amazon then the Conversion Rate for the clicks to turn to sales.
I estimated everything at shitty CTR/Conversion rates so that I would have a worst-case scenario all lined out for how much traffic I was going to have to get from organic searches in order to make that $XX goal.
So, it looks something like this:
niche x - average sale price - % aff com - $ avg comm - visits per month assuming 1% CTR - # of sales req per week to meet $ monthly goal - weekly goal (monthly/4.3) - $ monthly goal
The last 2 columns are handy just in case I have more than 1 site in development or figure I need more sites in order to reach the monthly goal. The lower the average sale is in the niche - more sales required to meet the $ goal per week. I know that makes total sense but sometimes it really helps me when I can see it all in front of me in a visual way.
**Now I can go in & put my average CTR & Conversion Rates for the last 3 months or so into that sheet and update the traffic numbers to get a more realistic understanding of what percentage of that monthly search volume I need to grab in order to make X sales per week to make that $XX goal. I know that may not be a big thing that people think about when they are making sites, but I thought it was important for me to know.**
The results were staggering BUT, now I had my eyes open as to what may have to happen, how much content I'm going to have to write, etc.
QUICK TIP: You can use Ubbersuggest to spy on your niche competition traffic to their articles. The tool pulls up the most highly ranked content for the keywords you will use to find your niche. Take a look at what pages are driving the traffic for those keywords and take a look at the numbers. That will give you a ballpark idea of the % of the total traffic they are getting for those keywords and niche. It will also give you an idea of what their aff income is of that article. Nifty stuff to know.
kweiss
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Do you plan to make an authority site or something else?
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I'm thinking authority site. There is still a lot of work to do at this stage though, so just focusing on that for now.
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M4DM4X
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Hi bro , for how many times your site generates 700 per months? Did you sell it on flippa auctions?
I have a 2 years old Amazon website generating around 800-1500 consistently and I thought I could sell it at 10k, but your sale let me think I can ask way more
OP sorry for off topic, and congrats!
MicroLeaf
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Hi bro , for how many times your site generates 700 per months? Did you sell it on flippa auctions?
I have a 2 years old Amazon website generating around 800-1500 consistently and I thought I could sell it at 10k, but your sale let me think I can ask way more
OP sorry for off topic, and congrats!
It averaged out to $700 per month. Some months it'd tank to $500 per month, and sometimes on seasonal holidays, it'd go up to $1,000+ per month.
Your site could definitely sell for $15,000+ depending on whether it makes $800 per month or $1500 per month since there's massive differences between the selling points for these 2 monthly revenue.
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I like how detailed you are, keep up with the good work mate.
Good luck with the journey, I hope you'll reach that $250/week sooner than you think
Thanks!