SEM Tycoon

**woahdolla** · 07-22-2006, 12:25 AM

Hi, Im creating an affiliate site. The site will have various offers from different companies. What Im NOT doing is providing "content" and using the affiliate links / banners as advertisements, but actually having it like an online offer store / directory. Like www.ukoffer.com

It will be something like that.

My question is, would it be smart to do a GENERAL site like his? With all types of stuff? Or just stick with one thing like business to business or porn? lol

Thanks:yes:

**IsMaR** · 07-22-2006, 12:49 AM

Man, UKOffer, i bet they make alot of $$, from CPA on all those products and commission on those stores

**woahdolla** · 07-22-2006, 12:52 AM

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Originally Posted by IsMaR

Man, UKOffer, i bet they make alot of $$, from CPA on all those products and commission on those stores

Yea he does, he grosses like 150,000 + a month...

**woahdolla** · 07-22-2006, 12:55 AM

Yea, and seeing how he has a huge variety of companies, Im thinking about doing various products...

**imported_DaveTurnbull** · 07-22-2006, 01:00 AM

I like doing this:
- make one "mother" site - make it real general
- make tons of smaller sites that focus on small niche's and link to these from the "mother" site.
you'll pick up extra SE traffic from the smaller niche sites, but your mother site will be what you're known for.

**woahdolla** · 07-22-2006, 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by DaveTurnbull

I like doing this:
- make one "mother" site - make it real general
- make tons of smaller sites that focus on small niche's and link to these from the "mother" site.
you'll pick up extra SE traffic from the smaller niche sites, but your mother site will be what you're known for.

This is not a bad Idea, but I think it can frustrate a potential customer at some point...

1) Customer goes to search engine or finds site in some other way
2) Customer goes to Mother Site
3) Customer goes to niche site from mother site
4) Customer goes to affiliate site from niche site

That's 4 different steps (5 If you include actually purchasing from my affiliate) the customer has to take before I see a dime! I'd rather limit it to 3 steps.

Besides if I had like 10-15 niche sites, thats like a extra hundred in domain registration, tons more time setting them all up etc...

I think I'd rather just do one big one:yes:

**imported_DaveTurnbull** · 07-22-2006, 01:13 AM

yea, that makes sense. just make the 1 big one, and make it awesome :P

**IsMaR** · 07-22-2006, 01:16 AM

150K, oh lordy

**5starAffiliates** · 07-26-2006, 02:54 PM

It's much better and easier to start with a niche. Better for search engines as you can target or theme your content with relevant keywords instead of having a hodge podge or unrelated products.

Think of it this way. If I GAVE you a beautiful, fully loaded mall site today - how would you get traffic to it. How would you stand out from all the other malls sites out there that have mega bucks for advertising?

I always recommend affiliates start with something they know about and are passionate about - hopefully in a niche. It can make generating content easier. Especially important, if you promote something you are passionate about it can keep you motivated in the early days when there is no money coming in.

Hope this helps and best of luck!

**cjshu** · 07-27-2006, 08:54 AM

UKoffer makes most of his money using PPC marketing, too.

I don't believe the bulk of it comes from his mall site though.

You can make your shopping portal site with the individual "pages" focused on 1 specific niche, as he does. Then you could promote these pages.

CJ

**garg** · 07-27-2006, 09:30 AM

UKOffer looks Impressive. Are they only using a simple content management system?