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Web affiliate programs experiment 2

By Rupert Farrow | Published 04/5/2003 | Site building , Success stories , Building a website |

Where does the affiliate money come from?

Now I had a topic or theme for my web site I had to find an affiliate program that would provide me with all the different product links.

I was looking for an online store (with an affiliate program) that I would feel comfortable buying from. When I looked there were quite a few online stores that had over-priced products.

In the end I decided to go with TigerDirect.com. They have a massive range of products and you can earn up to 4% commission if you make over $10,000 a month in sales.

This wasn't the highest commission I'd seen but if you take into account the competitive prices and wide range of products choosing this affiliate merchant made sense.

Why not have a look at TigerDirect and see for yourself what a wide selection of cheap computer products thay have?

I can't stress enough the importance of partnering with a good merchant.


Site Build It! search engine optimization works

My site ranks very well with Google. Take a look at my rankings for the following popular and competitive keywords. I took these screenshots on the 3rd of April 2003.

For the keyword "cheap computers" - ranking number 1...

SBI keywords


For the keyword "cheap computer parts" - ranking number 3 and 4...

SBI keywords


For the keyword "cheap computer systems" - ranking number 1 and 2...

SBI keywords


For the keyword "cheap computer cases" - ranking number 1 and 2...

SBI keywords


There are many other keywords that I have number one rankings for but instead of showing them all to you I'll just show you my traffic stats.

The table below shows my traffic statistics for the last 12 months. The domain was registered on the 24th March 2002 so this is pretty much a record of my traffic stats since the site began.

 

 

Summary by Month

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Month

Daily Avg

Monthly Totals

Visits

Visitors

Pages

Visits

Visitors

Pages

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 2002

57

48

216

1792

1493

6704

Jun 2002

166

131

453

4998

3940

13617

Jul 2002

453

362

1016

14064

11227

31525

Aug 2002

506

396

1080

15692

12303

33502

Sep 2002

598

457

1267

17956

13730

38024

Oct 2002

716

545

1663

22209

16911

51557

Nov 2002

803

613

1881

24110

18410

56436

Dec 2002

861

651

2127

26704

20195

65943

Jan 2003

1089

844

2421

33762

26167

75057

Feb 2003

1273

976

2358

35666

27333

66045

Mar 2003

1139

868

2222

35315

26927

68910

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see, there has been a fairly steady increase in traffic since the site's inception. I've added more pages as time goes by optimizing them to be found for new search phrases.

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Comments

Comment #1 (Posted by kaiser) |
I can't even find the name of your DJ tips site much less its URL. Would like to see the site for myself thanks. Oh btw great article.

[Thanks. Rupert did mention the domain name in the article. It's dj-tips-and-tricks.com . Allan.]
Comment #2 (Posted by Graham) |
Rupert mentioned getting a Domain but nothing was mentioned about Hosting, or am i missing something? Also when building new sites is a different Domain needed or do you have Sub Domains? Sorry if these are silly questions, but i am a newbie just reading up.
Regards Graham

[Web hosting is included in each Site Build It! package. When using the SBI system, a new domain name and a new subscription to SBI is needed for each new website. Allan.]
Comment #3 (Posted by Steve Blackmore) |
Great article. I have started an SBI site, great to know that it works! Not yet built enough pages to submit to directories but nearly there. By reading the article I now have an insight into what can be done. Having read loads of ebooks and trawled the net I really can recommend SBI highly. Thanks.
Comment #4 (Posted by Priya) |
Not able to see most of the images in this case study..."image not found".

[Thanks very much for the alert! You should be able to see the graphics now. Allan.]

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