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Originally Posted by rei  thanks Vanessa and Curtis for your responses.
Curtis, wouldn't the route Steve has taken only be feasible if or once a person has built a sizable reputation/brand?
for those who aren't being pursued to review a product, wouldn't Adsense be the main option?
i don't know how affiliate marketing works... business and finance are not really my thing... if anyone has a link or wants to explain the basics of this process i'm listening and will appreciate it. |
The thing about Adsense is that out of every 100 visitors per day, anywhere from 1-3% will click an ad. That can be $0.01 to $1.00+ per click. Usually around $0.40 per click (on average) in my experience.
The only way to make a sizable income with Adsense is by getting massive traffic. Once you set up your website, its design will consistently get the same % clickthrough rate on your Adsense ads per month, almost 100% consistent. After you discover your clickthrough rate, there are only two clear ways to increase your income:
1) Increase your traffic.
2) Tweak your website to increase the average % clickthrough rate. But be careful: Even things you think make it better could make it worse! (so always keep a copy of your web design and its % clickthrough rate for comparison. I overhauled my website, thinking it would improve the % rate, and the rate went down by about 0.6%).
If you are going to go to the work of building content that gets massive traffic, you might as well do it on your own website rather than someone else's (ie a free wordpress blog).