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RE: Back at it again. 'Affiliate Marketing!'
A niche site can be a great source of passive income, but creating enough good content and optimizing the site surely takes some time.. I have a niche site in German that now ranks quite well in Google, but I wasn't able to make significant profits of it yet. Steemit posts rank much better in Google than most niche sites, so there might be some potential there! I have been using Amazon affiliate links in my Steemit posts for a while, but never had any sales coming through - have you had any luck with your affiliate links?
Do you mind telling what's the site exactly?? Leave the link if you could.. I would love to have a look. I have no luck with affiliate links thus far. All commission I got from Travelpayout is from myself LOLOLOLOLOLOL (They allow me to use the link so) and yes, I actually agree with @adetorrent here. Steem is real quiet at the moment.
It would also take time and a lot of effort (and when most of Steemians really try to create something real so the world trust the site enough to click when it's ranked on Google.. - Something like, pinterest or reddit.. Make sense? When you wanna search for something and then go on google, type in 'where to eat in turkey steemit' LOLOLOL) Then, the affiliate links might also work well on your steemit posts!
I will just put them affiliate links on my every post anyways. Nothing I would lose, really.. Thanks for your thought and looking forward to seeing your site!
My niche site is https://xn--musenews-0za.de, an old project about gerbils that I used to be very passionate about, but since my own gerbils died years ago and I'm now allergic, I haven't produced any new content in 5 years, just updated the template a bit and optimized one post and placed the affiliate links.
Probably the best way to use affiliate links is when people click on them with the intent to actually buy the product, I have used affiliate links in my recent post about stock photography and get a per-sale referral reward for two years if new contributors sign up through it and sell photos and in the next parts I will make sure that they have all the resources to get some sales. I'm not writing the guide primarily for the affiliate income, but if I can make some money from it the better.
Although traffic is getting less, steemit.com is still in the Top 2000 websites on Alexa, that's much higher than any personal blog could ever get. On the traveller's discord we get new people almost daily who have found us through Google since our Steemit post comes up as the first result when searching for "travellers discord". If for example my stock photo post would rank well in Google and many people would start selling their photos through my affiliate link, this would be much more profitable than what I could get from my personal blog.
Awesome! Good to know and I will sure try harder and OMG!! Your site looks professional!!!!!!
Thanks, I wrote the template myself but it's far from perfect, when I find some time I will optimize the site more and rethink the placement of affiliate links, I will see if that can bring any notable income..
Btw, I heard from @eoj that you are in Bangkok; I'm here as well until Monday!
Omg!!!!!!!!!!! I'm back in my hometown for the family reunion oh noooo!!! I would totally love to meet otherwise! :/
Too bad, maybe next time, I might come back to Bangkok in March - if you are in Taipeh during the next months let me know, I will be studying there until January!
I just came back from there so totally not going again so soon haha! Do let me know if you need some recommendation. I got so many places I love!
I saw your posts, can't wait to try the street food in Taiwan myself! I'm flying to Taipeh tonight, I would love some recommendations :)
There's is basically no traffic at all on Steemit at the moment. Even the most popular posts get few than 100 people looking at them usually, compared to well established sites like Wordpress or Facebook where you get hundreds of thousands of viewers/readers.
Well, as I just wrote to @waybeyondpadthai, steemit is still in the Alexa top 2000 sites which gives it way more traffic from Google than any new personal wordpress blog, although followers have been less active recently..