[Method] Monitizing Your Tier 1 Links

This is a method I haven't seen on the forum before (that's not to say it's not already on here but I just can't find anywhere!). With the majority of people using the link pyramid method of ranking sites, those who are building the tier 1 links manually may be leaving some money on the table.

If you have ever tracked traffic to the tier 1 properties you have built you have probably noticed that they pick up a bit of long tail search traffic. This is especially true if you're blasting these pages with web 2.0, article and blog comment links, as they will begin to rank for a ton of things you would never think of.

So for those building the tier 1 pages manually, try sticking some relevant affiliate links in the content and you should find you start to get some clicks after a few days. I've heard this method called ? monetizing the cloud?, and while it won't make you any serious money (unless you're building an insane amount of tier 1 pages), it's usually enough to cover your money site hosting every month. It's like taking the Squidoo concept and doing it on other web 2.0 platforms.

Obviously you need to mix up which affiliate programs/accounts you use to avoid leaving too much of a footprint. Has anyone else had much success with monetizing their tier 1 content?

Great idea
I would suggest PPC more than affiliate.
But not AdSense but you can use other PPC systems

Great tip! At times some of my tier 1's actually get up to 20% of my traffic, so why not make money from that?! From my experience my CPA type of niches actually get 2-5 leads a day through my tier 1 links, generating around $5-$15 a day, which isnt too bad at all. Also if your going to put affiliate links, make sure they are NO FOLLOW! You don't want to pass link juice to the affiliate sites.

Great ideas. Good think about CPA/PPC stuff in tier 1 sites is that it doesn't really matter if they get slapped - Just build more and move on!