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Hey, so! I have been learning a lot from you guys! So, I thought I should share my experience of **how I went from scratch to creating 6 different Amazon Affiliate Websites that make anywhere from $1000 to $8000 USD per month "**EACH!"
Moreover, each site can be sold for approximately 30x its monthly profit. For example, I sold a site for $77,000 in 18 months once it was making $3000 a month.
So, I will try to make the process as brief as possible but since there was a lot of work involved, there is a lot of information that needs to be communicated! :)
So, still tight while I try to explain how I did it!
Idea: Create a high quality, high traffic, niche, review website that provides helpful information to the readers, as well as recommends products to them while making money through Amazon affiliate program.
HOW TO DO IT?
Following steps are involved:
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**Niche selection (you identify an area which is good to work with)**Criteria:- Has products to promote on Amazon (these products have reviews and ratings). Note that, there is a whole criteria to select products on Amazon- Has a lot of rankable keywords (modifiers: best, review, reviews, etc.)- You can beat the competition (competition analysis)
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Keyword ResearchYou make a list of keywords- with the modifiers: best, review, reviews, comparison, vs. etc.- note their search volume (anything above 500 in US)- note their competition (using AHREFs)- create the article outline (we have devised an outline that yields over 50% CTR to Amazon and ranks the article pretty well)- Assign them to different categories (based on grouping)
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Plan for Link BuildingIdentify articles in your niche which have high number of backlinks. Note them down (these are content ideas), write a better article and then reach out to the backlinks and ask them for links. This is called Skyscraper shotgun method and it has worked out pretty well for us. We get links with a conversion of 5%. For example: we reach out to 1000 prospects, we will get 50 high quality, super relevant, white hat links to our website.
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Planning the whole SiteIn this portion, we combine the keyword research plan and plan for link building to have a mind map of our site that consists of:- money making keywords grouped into 2 - 4 categories properly- a list of content ideas, lists of their backlinks and their outline to get links
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Content Strategy and OutsourceHere you finalize the outlines for all the articles. The outlines are dependent on how to get the articles ranked (onsite) and also to provide value to the readers. You have to fulfill the user intent as Brian Dean says! Give them what they need. And do it quick! (This is one of the recent developments in SEO, well, not so recent :P). After that, you outsource the content via finding writers on Upwork mostly. For me, I have a personal team of writers who work on my 6 ventures and that has worked out pretty well for me. They also write content for my clients as well.
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Website Development and Uploading ContentI use WordPress for projects like these and based on the site structure we defined in the aforementioned steps, we make the website. The theme I use is basic ASTRA and the plugin for website building is Elementor. We usually use the premium version. Initially, we were using Thrive but it's not good now and I won't recommend it due to issues.The important pages that need to be added to the website are: Homepage, About Us, Privacy Policy and don't forget to add cookies disclaimer. Also, for Amazon Associates program it is important that you add an Affiliate Disclaimer to make sure Amazon approves your site and Amazon account. While uploading content, focus A LOT ON ONSITE SEO AND I CANNOT STRESS MORE ON HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS!
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Actually building linksAs I mentioned, we use Skyscraper method to build links and it works for us!
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**MONITORING AND STAYING CONSISTENT!**Note that, the process of adding content, building links and optimizing current content is CRUCIAL. Do not stop and keep your site growing! Google likes sites that keep adding fresh content. So, be likable to Google! Keep monitoring the progress and modify whenever required.
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EXITSell the site or keep growing it. It depends on you. Usually the site sells for 25x to 30x depending on how you did it.
For me, I am at a point, where my goal is to make each site make around at least 10,000 USD per month. Alongside of that, I will keep making more and more sites to add to my portfolio.
Getting here took me time and I had to learn from a lot of resources. I am not quite there yet but I am trying. But, those of you who are just starting out or most importantly people who want to invest in a lucrative, long term, internet business that you can later sell - I would love to help!
ASK ME ANYTHING! AMA
Cheers! :)