Who's making money online and how?

Who's making money online and how?

Rosalind Gardner - Super Affiliate Sage-Hearts.com.

Rosalind Gardner makes an extraordinary amount of money online, utilising affiliate programs with a 40% - 50% commission, she earns $30k - $50 each month. This amounts to $435,000+ a year.

Rosalind's main site is focused on the online dating scene and it revolves around the reviewing and recommending of online dating sites.

Currently the site promotes 24 different affiliate programs some of which pay between 40% - 50% commission.

The site has been online since 98 and when first conceived it was heavily promoted in the search engines but less so now although still important the bulk of new traffic generated comes from carefully setup PPC campaigns on Google, Overture, 7search and Findwhat.

Totalling 1.6 million hits per month at 4500 hits per day the site see's a phenomenal amount of traffic.

This traffic is carefully primed with affiliate product reviews resulting in a higher than average conversion rate for her affiliate programs.

You can find the details of how Rosalind reached super affiliate status and what she does day to day to stay there, in her just released eBook documenting her successful techniques and strategies. www.superaffiliatehandbook.com - 250+ pages of workable knowledge built up over the last five years. This is one of the better eBooks out there and could quiet easily be published offline such is the quality of the writing and information.

Phil Davies - Affiliate marketer Exercise-Equipment-Review.com

20-something Phil Davies from Liverpool illustrates what can be done with any site with the right techniques and strategies in place.

Set apart from the usual fare of Internet marketing sites selling you info on Internet marketing. Phil's site utilises the fundamental Internet marketing principles that anyone can follow to develop and run a successful Internet business.

Notice the domain name above for one. Although unwieldy and not very attractive its straight to the point on telling you what it is and the hyphens separate the words out allowing the search engines to read them and so rank the site better.

The site provides reviews of different types and models of exercise equipment. At the end of each review there's an affiliate link to a suppliers site. That's it really.

Not to disparage Phil's efforts, but I'm sure he would agree, his site is very basic and in fact it doesn't even carry any product images. Plus the navigation is not as intuitive as it could be. But despite that, the site works well and brings in $5000 - $7000 a month exclusively through affiliate programs.

All the traffic comes from the search engines no other types of advertising have been used. Phil spent a lot of time otimising the site and always optimises new content. Again it's the reviews that pre-qualify the visitor before they click on the affiliate link to make a purchase.

The main aim of the site is to catch visitors that are already in the buying cycle and then guide them, via reviews, to the purchase they want to make.

Jim Tarabocchia - Drop shipping Just-Binoculars.com

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The name says it all. The site focuses on binoculars, spotting scopes and rangefinders. But.. it brakes it down to the different uses a pair of binoculars can be put to and so focuses on the niche markets within this market. e.g. hunting, travelling, stadium sports, night vision etc. 200 different types of binoculars so this is a fairly large site, but, tightly focused.

Again there's the hyphen in the domain name and the focused choice of domain name.

90% of site traffic comes from the search engines with paid for listings in the region of $1000 helping to speed up the Search engine listing and ranking process in Yahoo, Inktomi, Ask Jeeves etc.

Jim designed andbuilt the site himself over a few months and eight months after going live its turn over is $104,000. The forecast is for $200,000 - $250,000 over the next year. A phenomenal conversion rate of 1 in every 75 visitors to a paying customer will almost definitely see this goal reached.

There's also a monthly newsletter that's focused on pinpointing the benefits of different kinds of binoculars and promotions linked to seasonal use e.g. hunting.

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