Making Your Video Website A Success Through Affiliates
Monetizing Options
Monetizing is simply a method inwhich to profit from or make money from your website. Along with the popular choices of monetizing a video website - usually adsense or yahoo ads we will also be introducing and discussing some additional methods inwhich will skyrocket your earnings if done correctly.
While contextual advertising (text adverts that relate to content - Google Adsense, Yahoo ads and Adbrite) proves successful on large traffic website with great returning visitors however if you are running a niche website then your not going to get the large traffic that makes contextual advertising convert so well and if your trying to imitate youtube in the mainstream ‘general’ market then contextual advertising will only be worth it if you get the traffic something thats even harder to do!
In this article we will discuss the possible monetizing options including contextual advertising as i know some people will read this section and just stick google adsense on it anyway without doing the hard work that follows - thats fine if you want to earn pennies but to earn $10+ a day then i suggest you take everything into account.
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing proves time and time again to be the best monetizing options for niche websites because the products being advertised are usually in th einterest of the users. If we take a look back at our previous article Choosing The Correct Domain and keypoint the place where we tried to discover a good searched keyword for our domain name you will notice the large list inwhich provided the higest amount of searches per month.
For a quick recap here is the keyword list;
bird watching
bird watching magazine
bird watching binoculars
bird watching tours
bird watching equipment
bird watching guide
bird watching holidays
binoculars for bird watching
bird watching book
bird watching tour
bird watching clubs
backyard bird watching
bird watching supplies
bird watching books
bird watching trips
bird watching club
bird watching in lion country
bird watching vacation
bird watching gifts
bird watching uk
Amazingly we have already discovered eighteen products that if you where launching a video website on birdwatching would be potential money makers for you. Further analysis would confidently allow you to come to the conclusion that the following keywords would prove to be the best earners and i will tell you why,
Bird Watching Magazine
Magazine subscription is big business on the internet and a quick search around for “bird watching magazine subscription” will flood your screen with all types of offers from search engines but also affiliate marketers - see google’s sponsored results. The fact that there are alot of adverts being displayed for this term in google tells us that it is a very profitable market and we come to this conclusion because no one is going to bid on keywords that simply don’t convert to sales.
If your confused about what search engine results has to do with us it only provides an indication of the level of competition, the more competition there is we can conclude that people are buying items and in this case, Bird Watching Magazine Subscriptions.
Bird Watching Binoculars
Bird Watching Book
Bird Watching Gifts
The same analysis for the following items will also yield similar results. Remember we are going to be selling items through your video websites not through search engines and i would not advise anyone to jump straight into PPC (Pay per click search engine marketing) unless they know how this method works. If you would like to get into Affiliate Marketing through google adwords then please visit here.
Merchants and Affiliate Networks
Once you have established a niche and now discovered some products to sell we are going to find merchants or affiliate networks inwhich provide the products we want to sell. There is little point in selling a product or promoting a product that we you not get paid for promoting, affilite networks allow websites to sell products through them and that allows you to be rewarded for your efforts.
To find a subscription magazine affiliate for bird watching you could simply add in the search term, ‘birdwatching magazine affiliate’ or find a product on birdwatching that has an affiliate or ‘webmasters’ link to it this should allow you to signup and start promoting other companies products.
Here’s a list of crediable affiliate networks;
www.clickbank.com
www.shareasale.com
www.linkshare.com
www.azoogle.com
Clickbank usually have a wide variety of self help ebooks and digital products that will be easy to promote, i believe they even have a birdwatching ebook.
Part2 Will Discuss Contextual Advertising and AuctionAd’s
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