that's the gist of how u made money with that site but how much did you make with that site and if it was substantial for the work you put in how did you go about reaching enough of yor targeted group to create a substantial gain in commissions?

i figured it out.

In case someone else is wondering how that works, it's through the cookie process. When someone clicks through from your site to the merchant's site, a cookie is dropped on their computer. When they complete any purchase, that triggers the merchant's pixel to fire, reporting the sale to the affiliate network or merchant, and including your cookie information to credit the sale to you. It all happens on the check-out page which is where all sales funnel through, and it's all done automatically.

You want to focus small and target a specific group but you don't need to pick a single product.

Hi Mark and welcome to Wealthy Affiliate! I believe you can monetize your site. You can build it as a place to come and visit with some beautiful images and videos to invite your audience--they'll be on the next flight to meet you there!

I can tell you this as the owner of an offline business-- I would LOVE to see someone local build a website where, for instance, I could network with other businesses and offer "combo" deals. As an example--I'd love to see a site where I could partner with a local pizza place and do a joint coupon--1.00 off a bag of kettle corn if the person purchases a pizza.

And if the site also included an app for smartphones, so that people would get offered my coupon on their phone when they purchased from a partnered business, I would be more than willing to pay a decent monthly subscription fee to list my business. There's a company out there that has an app program--ICanget2 (I think that's the name)-- that could be used for such a site.

You would think that in a city the size of Tucson there would be a dozen "buy local" sites of this type, or local review sites, networking sites, etc-- but there aren't. All we have is the hit or miss connections on Craigslist in rants and raves, and the rather pitiful offerings from the old Arizona Daily Star, and one or 2 free publications with badly designed online sections....And nobody is offering anything close to an all around "TUCSON STUFF" site for locals, never mind tourists.

I'd say this is not only a niche, but it's one well worth filling, because it's one that everyone in town can get invested in, and be a part of in one way or another-- and the more people it involves, the more it will grow. Even a very small town can generate a surprising amount of wealth if everyone gets excited.

Chrystalia - thanks for taking the time to write this thoughtful and detailed reply... it'll definitely help guide my decision.
Another thought I've had about this particular niche is that it'll be more time consuming relative to a typical affiliate marketing site that steers visitors to product recommendations (and commissions). I say this because because content will have a shorter shelf life... community events will expire and new events will appear on radar daily, and there'll be a responsibility to keep up. failing to do so will deter repeat visitors and sponsors/advertisers. On the plus side it's really a labor of love and the potential to fill a valuable public service is a strong motivator.
Again, thanks for your meaningful feedback.
Mark

I've worked with dozens of local content sites, and there are many ways to monetize them. Look at hotel affiliate programs for guests coming to town. If fishing is popular, add a fishing gear affiliate program, or cycling gear affiliate program, or camping gear. Link to a ticket program for tickets to events either in town or nearby, Perhaps a clothing affiliate program for seasonal wear - jackets in the winter, swimwear in the summer. Some of your content can be evergreen - the basics about the town, the museums, restaurants and other attractions, annual events, favorite unique shops, etc. Your labor of love can definitely be profitable as well.

I have seen affiliates with that type of site include a "help support us by shopping on our gift guide page", with that page containing a selection of affiliate links. it's a big different than the WA training on how to do things, but if that's your passion, then .....

Thank you. It's a lot of information to process
I have learned since I became a part of WA I have learned how great it is to get feedback and that anybody who says you'll bemami.g thousands in a week are definitely scamming.

There are some people who focus on that and do eventually succeed in that goal. Then there are the people who only sell courses claiming to teach you how to do that. Do stay away from those people! The training here is solid.

The other part, though, is that the success can depend on the niche you choose. The niche you are choosing isn't necessarily one where it's easy to make money, but as I said, if that's your passion, then you may be willing to trade the income in order to help others. If money matters more (and that's perfectly okay, cause you have bills to pay too), consider starting with a different niche site, make that profitable, then create a second site to follow your passion.

Hi Josh,

I first suggest you go through the main lessons in the GREEN button first before going into this but I can answer your questions:

1. The ad block let's google show the ads on your site.
2. Not really but you can by telling google what sites (domains) you don't want shown.
3. No, it works with any site, you don't have to be premium, but it needs to be a developed site before you get approved. You should have at least 20 posts on your site before applying with Google Adsense.

Hope this helps,
Grace

Hey Josh,

1) Not sure what you mean by this, no need to have ad block on to take advantage of the adsense program.
2) You have no control other than turning off/on gambling/adult ads. You put HTML code on your site and adsense fills the ad spots with ads of their choosing.
3) Adsense is completely separate from wealthy affiliate (so are all affiliate programs except the one here at WA) meaning you do not have to be a premium member here to join Adsense or affiliate programs related to your niche

Hope this helps

Brok

Hello Brok, thank you so much for answering my question and helping me out.
I don't understand the Adsense part where you can join Adsense without premium because in the blog verionca says"If you apply for a new Adsense account you will need your own domain. You can not apply for an Adsense account using a subdomain like siterubix". can you clarify this, please?
one more thing, about the fact that I have no control of the ads that show up on my website: I want to make sure that everything on my website is 100% legit, so how to stop scams from showing up?

Thanks!

I guess if you want your website hosted here that is a true statement. I was meaning if you already have a website hosted somewhere else you can apply without being a premium member here so sorry about that confusion.

As others have mentioned you can exclude ads from certain sites but to make sure everything is 100% you'd have to wait for ads to show up, check them out, and then exclude them. Really there's not an easy way to only have 100% legitimate sites that you'd recommend when it comes to adsense.

That's why a lot of people skip ads and use affiliate marketing, where you can choose what sites/programs you link to and avoid linking to ones that are crap.

Brok

Your list should reflect your customer base, how else will you attract people to your list? They should have an interest on the niche of your website.

Thank you that is what I thought however I felt I needed to ask this I'm new here

No worries. Sometimes the obvious is not so obvious. :)

Good info.

well stated and broken down easily for the lay NEWBIE to understand completely ..... kudos !!!

Welcome on board, Symone2016

It is an autoresponder and email marketing system.

No time to waste then get started with the green tab on your left.

I'm going lesson crazy right now. A lot of it I have learned before but not going to skip anything.

It is a great website. it honestly is complet to go live with a website within a month i think! As you stated, educating yourself through all their information is the foundation to get into this and not look back! Great Luck!

Maybe it's a typo like you say. I'm not sure where is the line you are talking about. Anyway, this training is not part of WA official training course and you don't have to follow it. It's up to you to learn from it or not. If you show me exactly that line I will try to help.

Research the heck out of it get as knowledgeable as you can to give competing sites in this niche a run for their money. Pick the brains of doctors and fellow RNs in this area

Search those diseases on Google and see what companies show up in adsense. Some may have affiliate programs. Other ideas may be companies selling products which comfort victims of those diseases - soothing balms, medical equipment, special socks, etc.

Unfortunately, no you need your own domain to apply for Adsense, weirdly once you've got approved, you can add additional sites including ones built on siterubix subdomains!!

thank you for answering! ok so how would I go about making said domain?

I'm afraid you need to be premium here at WA to register your own domains, which cost c. $14 per annum each.

You can then move your siterubix site over to your own domain when you're ready with one click. How to Transfer a SiteRubix Website to Your Own Domain

thank you!

No probs. you're most welcome! :)

Hi, Phildora

There's tons of information here at WA to look through. So as a new member, I recommend getting started with Kyle's training here: Online Entrepreneur Certification - Getting Started Level 1 He will walk you through the process of how affiliate marketing and making money online works as well as how to set up and build out your own website.

Neil :)

Dear phildora,

Good Day!
One way to think of the sequence is that you are the host site.
You host the advertiser on your site. The customer buys from the advertiser on your site and you get a commission as the host marketer to where the customer comes and clicks on the advertisers ad.

DRL

Thank you, thank you, and thank you. Now it's clear about advertiser ads. Another great way to profit!!

Its ok Marita. It is a little intimidating at times. But, the key is the training. Everything is covered in the Getting Started training. I would like to suggest that you not get too anxious and give up because you can do this, trust me. You can build a successful website according to your niche!!

You have already done a great thing here by asking a question. That's what we all have to do at times. Online Entrepreneur Certification - Getting Started Level 1 Blessings your way

Mike

Thanks Mike,

I think I've gotten a little off track somehow.

Its okay and that's what is so great here. You can learn at your own speed. You can rewind and backup as many times as you need to until you get it!

All the best your way!!

I'm so glad you replied. You put back on track. One wouldn't think that a small simple tip can mean so much, but I've actually achieved a lot today. One of the other links at the beginning that I thought I had to do before I continued onward, had me going far past what I was capable of, so I backtracked away from that and continued on with the rest of "getting started".
It has been a good productive day. So thank you very much

Oh you're so welcome!

It is okay Martha it is a good training and useful I will go through it
save this training for now and come back to it later

yes right

i feel very overwhelmed with setting up a website... So I feel you!..

Most likely Google AdSense approves your site.

However, a big part of affiliate marketers don't use Google AdSense at all because they rely only on affiliate programs.

same questions here???

what lesson are you on? this will all become easy when you take it step by step, start at lesson one and work your way up to that

just make sure you have cancelled with get response until you are ready, so you don't lose payments when you are not using it

Also see that pen icon up beside your rank number on the top right of the page - put your questions in there and then everyone will see it better and you'll get lots of answers

adsense too, you just need more lessons under your belt before trying these then they will all be easy and lots of people will share their experience - if we skip lessons then it is all very confusing

Hi, Isidra. Welcome to Wealthy Affiliate. I suggest yo start the training by clicking on the green Get Started Here button on the left column. As you work through the lessons, many of your questions will be answered..

Thanks sir glen

Don't worry, I'm not very tech savvy either but still learned to make money online. I'm using still a low quality laptop and my phone is actually much expensive than my old laptop. So yes, you're able to create websites with a Chromebook and you don't need a high tech computer. Of course, a faster computer helps but it's not necessary. I'm planning to buy a faster computer as well at some point :)

follow back please

Greetings, Hitesh,

I came across your question and thought I'd leave you a quick comment.

I glanced at your post and it doesn't indicate that you completed any of the certification courses. I'm not sure which lesson Google Adsense is covered, but it's definitely in the certification. I would encourage you to make sure to go through each of the lessons without skipping anything.

All the best to you.

Hello Hits,
I agree with Veronica... Make sure to go through each lesson without skipping anything. The same training will give you the most of answers.

Hello Vesna
Surely, I am going through the lessons one by one and will complete all of them with practicals.

Regards
Hits

Hello Veronica,
Thanks for going through my posts.
Surely, I am going through the lessons one by one and will complete all of them with practicals. I will be back to you if I need any help in future.

Regards
Hits

good advice. :-)

I feel exactly the same!! Im on day 2 training and i got it. I am excited to see what the next few days are going to bring me with my website.. Keep up with me (:
Vi (:

It is SO overwhelming in the beginning but just take each lesson and do what's needed. Once you feel more comfortable you can start getting creative and you will know what you are doing. Good luck to you :)

I agree. It's the 'handle holding' that I need as a new business owner.

Ask the administrator to do it for you.

I just checked with the tech support of the company and they say it can't be done :(

Basically your role is to give people advise about your product. Advise on how to use the product, the benefits of using this product and where to get it.

You need to write this as content through your pages and posts. Then you complement your content with pictures and videos.

Also, go through all lessons here at WA. They give you a step by step guide. Everything will become clearer as you progress.

Best wishes

From what I'm seeing

A domain name is your web address. (ex: amazon bought that domain name so you type in amazon.com) The siterubix.com is a free website, if amazon did not buy their domain name it would
look like "amazon.siterubix.com". But you can buy a domain name like "AshtonK" or whatever you want your web address to be.

The note part means you have to own your domain name.
Does that help?

I am completely on the same side with you, 0 computer and technology illiterate so this is all new territory for me but I'm kind of excited about the new challenge in life.

So the website that we get with wealthy affiliate, we will not own that domain name? And yes thank you for taking the time to help!

The "www. SiteRubix.yourname.com" is yours and free through WA. To get a domain name of your own like www.yourname.com then you have to purchase it through WA. It think it's something around $30 per year... hope this clarifies things a bit... :)

Say my friend...
At least you HAVE a niche. My blog is a friggin diary of sorts. Even has traffic, I know not from where. All ya need now is the "how to", mechanics of everything and things should work themselves out. Incidentally, I'm needing the same things. Message me if you come across any good info sources, eh? Thanks & best wishes!

Dear ggee,

It can be frustrating without the "Secret Formula."
To move through the maze of Learning quickly, it is free to read my "Secret Formula" at drlumsden, Blogpost, Secret Formula,
Top of the Morning Tips.
In addition for your case you need to understand another 'umbrella' principle: you need to write and talk in everything you do>>>>FOR OTHERS. watch YOUR RESULTS TRANSFORM.

DRL
Premium member
drlumsden@hotmail.com
Skype name: marketing by David

Dear ggee and Veronica.l,

I am glad for you ,that you liked it.
Best wishes in building your businesses.

DRL
drlumsden@hotmail.com
Skype name: marketing by David