6 Months On My Website - $2,200 in commissions and 500 sales
Month 6 is in the books and I'm happy with the way things are going. I had over 500 sales and $2200 in commissions from Amazon in January. That came from 14,000 clicks.
I wrote a ton of content to reach these numbers (about 75 articles since August, 1500 words or more each). I focus on best of lists with the year in them. I'm excited because it just turned to 2017 so that means a whole bunch of new keywords and articles to write.
In case anyone is wondering here's what I made in previous months:
1st month (August): $1
2nd month (September): $20
3rd month (October): $60
4th month (November): $120
5th month (December): $1350
6th month (January) $2200
As you can see things just kind of took off at the 5th month mark. I really hope you take my "2017 keyword" strategy - I gurantee you won't regret it. If you want to read more about these keywords read these articles (they changed my life and how I look at seo):
http://www.viperchill.com/google-traffic-2016/
https://gaps.com/google-affiliate/
I'm hoping by the summer to be up to 5k a month so we'll see if it happens!
Recent Comments
39
Lol no I don't think so.. a lot of my keywords were winter focused.. I'm hoping for 10k this November or December
Incredible story, great success. Many thanks for sharing it. I wonder how is your ranking in general.
You mean where I rank in Google? I go after low competition keywords so most are on page 1.. when you focus on best of lists with the year in them it's really easy to rank.
It is! Sometimes they rank without the year too. That's why they're so easy to rank because they're very low competition but they convert well.
For example, best affiliate programs and best affiliate programs 2017 have different results on page one. If you want to see if best affiliate programs 2017 will get traffic punch in best affiliate programs 2016 into the keyword research tool..It gets around 136 searches a month so you can figure it will get the same or more in 2017
I typically write more than people too, so that helps with rankings. If everyone else is doing top 10 I try to do top 15 or more. I always try to have the most products - it's good for CTR
Many thanks again. All you show in your story makes sense to me and I suspect this was missing in search results when people see my snippets on the top page in Google, they will rather click the one with the time stamp.
My statistics is great once people come to the site, but very poor in the stage before. This could be the reason.
But not many keyword appear with the year. Nevertheless, this will be my priority for sure.
I need to start writing more articles with high traffic keywords. Thanks for sharing and giving us hope.
The keywords I target aren't all that high traffic but I get them all on page 1.. you just have to learn which will rank and which won't
Hey Dylan, wow, congrats and thank you for sharing! I read your article and its really interesting! Hard work certainly pays...
Keep up the great work and I look forward to see more of your success!
See more comments
That's amazing Dylan, congratulations :-)
Thanks Gaylene!