There are many reasons for building a niche website. The main one being
the reduced competition. This has many advantages: there is a far better
chance of ranking in the top four on the search engines. Ranking in the top
four is crucial if you look at a Google search for chocolate we see the
searcher sees the top four without scrolling down.
First of all let’s understand what affiliate marketing is: Affiliate marketing is promoting other people’s products in return for a commission. You get this commission in a number of ways. The most common is to be paid a percentage of any sale that you make for the affiliate program but a new form that is becoming more popular is PPC (pay per click). Pay per click is used by some of biggest affiliate programs in the world such as Google Adsense and eBay Partner Network. You can expect to be paid somewhere in the region of 10-20% from a sale but some affiliate programs such as Amazon Affiliate pay less (4-15%) and many electronic products that you could find at Clickbank offer up to 80% commission. With pay per click there are wide variations in price and it depends on what your site is about, what you are promoting and the conversion rate from there.
Another popular way to get traffic and to increase your inbound links is blogging and the social media like Twitter and Facebook. The use of social media is becoming very popular but I still think that blogging has a bigger impact
Wow this is a really powerful tool that will get you followers, build a brand and have relevant inbound links into your site. Article writing is when you write an article on something you are an expert on and submit it to article sites such as Article Base.
There are two times in which I use PPC, they are when I have launched a new site and I want to get some traffic.