Gold Can I make $20k? Affiliate Marketing Fashion Diary

[Honeybadger]

@EuronGreyjoy
Thanks for your research. As I understand it, to get into the top ten a new site needs a carefully selected keyword. When you choose a niche what frequency of monthly queries are you targeting?

I look for 10 keywords (5k/month vol. each) on the the 4th sub category
You can rank fast, and build domain authority for higher sub category
There is enough niches for everyone

Here is template (don't tell anyone )

Clothing > footwear > boots

Category..........boots (368k)
Sub cat. 1........boots for women (301k)
Sub cat. 2........leather boots for women (33.1k)
Sub cat. 3....... black leather boots for women (9.9k)
Sub cat. 4.......(brand name 1) black leather boots for women (< 5k >)
Sub cat. 4.......(brand name 2) black leather boots for women (< 5k >)
Sub cat. 4.......(brand name 3) black leather boots for women (< 5k >)
Sub cat. 4.......(brand name 4) black leather boots for women (< 5k >)
Sub cat. 4.......(brand name 5) black leather boots for women (< 5k >)
Sub cat. 4.......(brand name 6) black leather boots for women (< 5k >)
Sub cat. 4.......(brand name 7) black leather boots for women (< 5k >)
Sub cat. 4.......(brand name 8) black leather boots for women (< 5k >)
Sub cat. 4.......(brand name 9) black leather boots for women (< 5k >)
Sub cat. 4.......(brand name 10) black leather boots for women (< 5k >)

Total volume = 50k/month (1,666/day)

Based on only 500/day visit
Conversion rate @ 5% = 25 sales
25 sales x $100 (AOV) = $2,500
$2,500 sales x 5% (comm. rate) = $125/day

This how I reach 2020 target of $3k/month

Second question on content: what content structure do you choose? Is this a review? Or are you building a funnel landing page?

Designer fashion shops
100% organic search traffic
Following Google Search Guidelines

 

[AmNovice]

Its for new websites?

Not sure if this is what you are asking, but yeah it's for a new website I'm currently building!

 

[AmNovice]

TY @Graybeard I will use 2% in future
@AmNovice here's re-calc use in future to find sales of Amazon bestsellers
1 customer rating = < 50 > sales

For binoculars example
3,386 rating (2% of sales)
3,386 divide by 2 = 1,693 rating (1% of sales)
1,693 rating x 100 = 169,300 (100% of sales)
169,300 sales divide by 483 days = 350 sales/day
350 sales x 30 days = 10,500 sales/month

Thanks!!! This will help me roughly calculate the potential for my niche.

 

[Honeybadger]

DAILY REPORT
November 22, 2020

Commission Earned (2 sites)
Earning (today).........$97 (-$4)
Target (day)..............$100
Average (day)...........$93 ($-)
Forecast (month).......$2,790 ($-)
Target (month)..........$3,000
Breakeven (month)....$2,000

Project Notes

1. Sunday commission down by 50%, @shaunm has same issue for Sunday, anyone else had this?
   
2. Earning target on track to hit $3,000 this month after slow start to November, today passed monthly breakeven $2,000 for first time & it feels like a freedom from jail cell
   
3. New site indexing slow on Google, still less than 10 pages index of 200+
4. Using whiteboard wallpaper for brainstorming & getting ideas out of my head (link is Amazon, w/out aff. ID)
   
5. Motorhome plan going well, found one that stores sports car inside

News

• BLOG --> Single Grain has detailed blog about 10 SEO tips for 2021 not average, lots of sub lists & detail worth reading if your doing SEO any level
  
• COURSE --> General Assembly have free online marketing courses including 2 on Wednesday (1. Making Data Driven Decisions 2. Digital Marketing Trends of 2021 - @Branding By 8 you asked last month)
• VIDEO --> Amazon update You Tube channel (5 hours ago) with short video about 5 tips for holiday shopping with Amazon app and I got idea, create pre filled basket & create affiliate ID, then I create product bundles that don't exist on Google and create 1 product page (its the work in progress for now )
  
• WEBINAR --> Affiliate Summit posted a webinar to You Tube with 12 ways super affiliates optimize wordpress sites & good tips right from the start like 1. text content ads convert better than banner ads & tools to educate audience instead of sell at them - one of best webinars I've watched in 2020

 

[Honeybadger]

DAILY REPORT
November 23, 2020

Commission Earned (2 sites)
Earning (today).........$71 (-$25)
Target (day)..............$100
Average (day)...........$91 (-$2)
Forecast (month).......$2,790 (-$60)
Target (month)..........$3,000
Breakeven (month)....$2,000

Project Notes

• No motivation today but it happens like that sometimes & don't have time to waste
  
• Monday Sales dropped, traffic dropped, clicks dropped, but still on target for $3k if good B.F.C.M.

 

[Mario Fernandez]

Hey, your numbers look great, but that motorhome looks Amazing!!!

 

[Graybeard]

I am sorry, i want to make it clear. Web hosting for $10 per year or per month?

Cheap Web Hosting - Best Website Hosting Service | NameSilo
$36/yr I use this registrar and there have been no issues --I would assume their hosting might be good too

 

[Honeybadger]

Hey, your numbers look great, but that motorhome looks Amazing!!!

I learn something Mario
Make plans & take action
Don't care about failing, everybody fails
But care about not trying

In summer I made the plan for $3k/month
No didn't think it would happen
But here we are
Started with a plan

 

[Honeybadger]

DAILY REPORT
November 24, 2020

Commission Earned (2 sites)
Earning (today).........$124 (+$53)
Target (day)..............$100
Average (day)...........$94 (+$3)
Forecast (month).......$2,820 (+30)
Target (month)..........$3,000
Breakeven (month)....$2,000 (so far $2,224)

Project Notes

• Inbox fill with Black Friday Deals, I find deals for my bestseller products and apply it, but I'm the one who reads every email top-to-bottom - you can normally learn something (good or bad) from every message, but when its not I just unsubscribe
  
• Got 6 days to reach $3,000 target for November (so far $2,224), and its Black Friday + the weekend + Cyber Monday coming up
  
• SEO ranking are position 1-4 for my top 10 target keywords, traffic 93% Google organic (1,000+/day customer)
• For volume and scaling I must to learn data feed integrations, if you know about this or want to learn please message to data feed integration thread started by @Graybeard
  
• Affiliate Marketing is fun to try & beat many competitors, its like computer strategy game, and I plan to build affiliate battle rooms in garage & motorhome after Xmas

News

• Sorry but I don't have time until Tuesday !!

 

[Honeybadger]

Actually I am finding more shareasale vendors with datafeeds

@Graybeard If you have Wordpress site (and I know you don't like WP, sorry!! ) how will you integrate Shareasale datafeeds? I looked for so many hours on Google, all dead ends
I tried HTML page w/bootstrap theme, didn't work
All WP plugins don't work
Can't outsource it until payday
Like a stone in the shoe

 

[Honeybadger]

DAILY REPORT
November 25, 2020

Commission Earned (2 sites)
Earning (today).........$117 (-$7)
Target (day)..............$100
Average (day)...........$94
Forecast (month).......$2,820
Target (month)..........$3,000 (77% so far, 5 days left)
Breakeven (month)....$2,000 ($2,319 so far)

Project Notes

• 1st payments from networks due next week, been a long wait
  
• Start to test with plugins for data feed integration
• Found affiliate marketing jargon buster to learn
• Amazon Associates had new influencer program interesting

Here is my daily checklist

1. Full backup #1
   
2. Broken links check
   
3. Google ranking report (Semrush)
   
4. Full crawl reports (Google Search Console & Bing Webmaster Tools)
   
5. Google Analytics report
   
6. Reading blog, podcast, webinar, email (lunchtime)
   
7. Google Trend research
   
8. New product research, updates & add new
   
9. Semrush full audit
   
10. Full backup #2

Total time is 4 hours

 

[AmNovice]

Quick question about the CTA button when you're promoting Amazon products. Do you just say ''click here'' or ''check availaibility here'' or ''get yours here'' OR does it make more sense to include Amazon in the CTA, so ''check on Amazon here''.

In other words, I'm trying to understand if it makes more sense to let the customer know that the sale will be done through amazon as opposed to them clicking on the CTA and unknowingly getting redirected to Amazon.

Thanks all!

 

[Honeybadger]

Quick question about the CTA button when you're promoting Amazon products. Do you just say ''click here'' or ''check availaibility here'' or ''get yours here'' OR does it make more sense to include Amazon in the CTA, so ''check on Amazon here''.

In other words, I'm trying to understand if it makes more sense to let the customer know that the sale will be done through amazon as opposed to them clicking on the CTA and unknowingly getting redirected to Amazon.

Thanks all!

It's good question
I thought about this for long time at the start
Many options, test them A/B

1. Update price with data feed integrate
   
2. Update price manually
3. Check availability
4. Purchase/order/buy with Amazon
5. Buy (if dropshipping)

#1 --> best option for customer, needs DFI
#4 --> 2nd best for customer
#3 --> By far its easiest, recommend this one if no DFI

 

[Honeybadger]

DAILY REPORT
November 26, 2020

Commission Earned (2 sites, 6 networks)
Earning (today).........$229* (+$112)
Target (day)..............$100
Average (day)...........$87
Forecast (month).......$3,000
Target (month)..........$3,000 (86% so far, 4 days left)
Breakeven (month)....$2,000 ($2,598 so far)

Project Notes

1. Last checks before Black Friday & Cyber Monday, must everything on hold for next 4 days, will it hit $3k for November? next 100 hours will be the answer (needs $402 to reach the goal)
   
2. New affiliate network added (total 6), joined after alot of research (w/checklist) for new products
   
3. *Added 1 network to spredsheet forgot about w/$120 earned (added total to Daily Earned)
   
4. Traffic down 25% month-2-month for bestsellers as competitors put more ads on my target keywords, its why SEO never stops you have to keep attacking/improving even small tweaks to meta tags make my 2nd or 3rd place Google links get clicked instead for 1st place competitor site, links from Google are backlinks (agree or disagree?)
   
5. Found over 450+ new overnight "URLs need improvement" warnings for mobile in Core Web Vitals report (Google Search Console did not send notificatation, luck I checked), problem is sent to Console from CruX report these labels -->

• CLS issue: more than 0.25 (mobile)
  
• CLS issue: more than 0.1 (mobile)
• LCP issue: longer than 2.5s (mobile)

 

[Honeybadger]

Black Friday
I will post special updates about Black Friday today
Probably don't sleep much before Tuesday

Notes

• Fastest $100 earning since I started affiliate marketing
• Found Black Friday offers in emails that I missed (spam folder)
• Traffic 20% down from yesterday same point, sales 4x more
• Sales high until lunchtime then slow, traffic slow, looks like normal day

 

[azgold]

links from Google are backlinks (agree or disagree?)

If yours is the one that people click in the SERPs, that will help your ranking.

Fastest $100 earning since I started affiliate marketing

Congrats! Christmas is not far off, so maybe you'll get more like that.

 

[Graybeard]

Absolutely, while i reach my earning and my visitors growth i will move to better hosting.

I would not let my dog do business with GoDaddy --good luck
Your business will succeed or fail on the performance of your host servers --

1. For SEO server load times are crucial for SERP ranking.
2. For network ads -- server performance is crucial.

Don't overspend on hosting but don't try to cheap out either ...

 

[Honeybadger]

Google not only uses your content to sell their overpriced advertising but is picky now about what they 'appropriate' for their purposes --
anyway, not that I really care, but

Agree
Google breaks own rules all the time
Its just another traffic source that's working

 

[Honeybadger]

It's so cool well done humans !!
Shopify live shopping map

@Graybeard how could this be done with Google Analytics? Just feed my dream pls !!

 

[Honeybadger]

1. use ajax/xhr links so you can count the click out data
2. get postbacks from your vendors (sales only probably)
3. set goals in G-A
4. use the GA api to get the data on a cron job
5. write a script to display the data you want

Major project ...

Do you think anyone has ever done it?

 

[Honeybadger]

BLACK FRIDAY REPORT
November 27, 2020

Commission Earned (2 sites, 6 networks)
Earning (today).........$168 (-$61)
Target (day)..............$100
Average (day)...........$102
Forecast (month).......$3,060
Target (month)..........$3,000 (92% so far, 3 days left)
Breakeven (month)....$2,000 ($2,756 so far)

Notes

1. My first Black Friday as affiliate 4th best earning day ever, but wasn't prepared
   
2. $100 earning before lunch then normal sales ($68) after lunch for a Friday
   
3. $100+ earning x 4 days, 1st time since started affiliate marketing
4. Total earning for 2020 passed $6,000 today, target $10,000 this yr means I need to earn $4,000 next month
   
5. Weekend prepare for 1st Cyber Monday campaign
6. Tested Google's new crawl stats report in Search Console, will pass to developer after Xmas
7. Like this quote “A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.” Michael LeBoeuf
   
8. Pencil plan for 2021 in 3 phases from Forbes scaling up formula

Phase #1 - Start-up
"In this phase, your job is to prove you can build something, get customers to buy it and make a profit on those sales. You have to prove enough people care about what you’re doing to keep it sustainable." (Forbes)

• Jan 2021 --> $100/day (learn, plan, test, NY sale)
• Feb 2021 --> $100/day (learn, plan, test)
• Mar 2021 --> $100/day (learn, plan, test)

Phase #2 - Scale-up
"If the startup phase is about proving things out, the scale-up phase is about making things repeatable at scale. Scaling up requires a different set of skills, because you’re going from, say, 20 to 200 to 2,000 people." (Forbes)

• Apr 2021 --> $200/day (Spring fashion)
• May 2021 --> $300/day (Spring fashion)
• Jun 2021 --> $400/day (Summer fashion)
• Jul 2021 --> $500/day (Summer fashion)
• Aug 2021 --> $600/day (Summer fashion)

Phase #3 - Grown-Up
"The grown-up phase is focused on achieving continued growth once you’re big and established. This growth is achieved through the identification of efficiencies in established systems and processes. It’s important in this stage for leadership to monitor and contain the inevitable creep of a bureaucracy." (Forbes)

• Sep 2021 --> $700/day (Autum fashion)
  
• Oct 2021 --> $800/day (Autum fashion)
  
• Nov 2021 --> $900/day (Winter fashion, BFCM, Xmas)
  
• Dec 2021 --> $1,000/day (Winter fashion, Xmas)

 

[Graybeard]

If it's affordable do you think Cloud VPS is a good solution for multiple sites?

I have 5 VPS `cloud` servers with static IP's and many domains and subdomains configured.
I use Linode for most of them --but there is no "cPanel" it's all manually configured some setups are custom scripted (Niginx conf as example).
info: Linode Plans & Pricing Table

 

[Honeybadger]

WEEKEND REPORT (SAT)
November 28, 2020

Commission Earned (2 sites, 6 networks)
Earning (today).........$93 (-$75), edit
Target (day)..............$100
Average (day)...........$101 (-$1)
Forecast (month).......$3,030
Target (month)..........$3,000 (95% so far, 2 days left)
Breakeven (month)....$2,000 ($2,854 so far)

Notes

• 2nd highest Amazon sales day (42 items), but earning was v.low, just $6
• 80+ Amazon order not shipped yet, maybe 100+ by Sunday P.M
• Some Amazon shops are removing bestseller products on Friday but put back on Monday (why?)
• Need to earn $146 over next 2 days for Nov. target
• ALWAYS set a goal and date, its difference between dream & plan
• Testing Social Searcher tool to find what my customer says (when I research new product line)

Product Research
Apart from clothing I will promote new product in January, now searching for unusual items incl. furniture, sport, military, movies & video games that could go viral for sales

1. Baseball Glove Chair by Rawlings

2. Rambo Knife from 1st Blood Movie (w/Stallone signature)

3. Official Replica of Champions League Trophy (150mm)

4. Bullet Shape Coffee Thermos

5. Jaws Movie Tee

6. Multifuntional Leather Bed

7. Don't know what to call it, but makes sense

8. Ergonomic Chair