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in this video I'll be talking to one of

my viewers one of you guys

his name's Tim and he set himself up an

Amazon affiliate website by following my

video tutorials the site he created has

had a few good months some of which have

been four-figure months so over $1,000 a

month in commission from Amazon so yeah

we had a good chat on skype and he

shared with me some thoughts around

creating an affiliate site how he

creates his content and a whole load of

stories and tips and tricks I think you

guys are gonna find useful and I think

you're gonna find his story really

inspirational

so let's go

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hello it's Alex here from WP eagle hope

you're all well now before we get

started if you're new here why not

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videos now one of the questions I get

all the time is can you actually make

any money as an Amazon affiliate and of

course I always say yes you can and you

can make as much money as you want

really depends on how much work you put

into it

but I thought it was about time for me

to actually talk to someone one of my

viewers that has built a site following

some of my video tutorials and they are

actually making some money and some

pretty good money at that you know four

figures a month kind of money so yeah

rather than me just telling you guys

that you can do it I thought I should

show you that you can do it so the other

day I caught up with Tim who is a

regular on the channel we sometimes

drops into the live streams which by the

way are every single Wednesday at half

past 8 UK time I'm there to answer your

questions and have a chat about all

things affiliate marketing and WordPress

and what kind of stuff be good to see

you there if you've not joined us before

so yeah I caught up with Tim on skype he

was telling me that he'd watched pretty

much all of my full health tutorial

videos have you seen him you know these

kind of videos and after watching those

videos he was able to create himself an

Amazon affiliate website now this was

back in May I think it was a little

while ago so he set the site for awhile

and you know it does take time to build

up a site and get some traffic but he's

now at a point where he is earning some

good money so anyway I've recorded the

full conversation I do apologize it is

over Skype so the quality is not amazing

but yeah the content within the call I

think is really useful and I think it is

gonna be really inspiring for you guys

and those of you that are thinking about

creating an Amazon affiliate site and

you're not too sure and you really want

to hear someone else's story someone

who's actually making a sense of it and

yeah I think you're gonna find it really

useful he does share some good tips on

content and building a website and all

that kind of stuff so yeah I think I'm

gonna just shut up

and I'm gonna roll the tape I'll leave

you to enjoy it

so roll the tape really pleased today to

have Tim with me who's one of my viewers

on WP eagle on my youtube channel

and I wanted to catch up with him

because he's been having quite a bit of

success with an Amazon affiliate website

that he created after watching one of my

videos so that's me

Alex sorry I think I've seen them all at

this point you've seen all my videos

well yeah that's great so well let's

start

tell me a little bit about the site I'm

gay I mean I'm gonna show the site and

fed-up it up on the screen now in a

post-production edit but it's all around

having a smart home basically isn't it

yes yeah so the name of the site it's

one smart crib calm and it's all manner

of smart home technology and Amazon

affiliate site obviously and you know I

got started by watching your your your

Kingdom series and you know created the

Kingdom sight put it up had sort of a

mixed review in terms of you know

Kingdom functionality and so forth yeah

had a bunch of snags along the way but

you know ultimately it's been you know

it's been a little coaster ride at this

everything yeah or but you know it's at

this point you know the the site is

monetized it's making money you know a

month over month which is you know

fantastic and you know I'm not gonna lie

it's it's been a ton of work to get with

you know the main focus obviously being

on content and you know roughly just

today I think I've got roughly about 35

articles up okay oh that's not not a

huge amount I mean some people like over

an income school they say you need a

good few hundred before you can even

start making any money absolutely yeah I

think you know based on that you know

essentially if I had you know four times

the content that I have today I yeah I'd

probably be able to quit my day job and

take this full-time so I think that

number 150 150 article number is

probably spot-on and just knowing what

it's taken to get to the 35 articles a

ton of work obviously to get this one so

yeah yeah so that's my plan going

forward is to really focus on you know

producing more content I think with with

me you know my

my biggest issue is imperfections so I

spend a lot of time tweaking and -

retooling and going back with the old

with my current articles and I think

that I need to stop doing that focus on

creating new stuff new stuff yeah me

it's nice taste good to be a perfection

is to try and get everything as good as

it possibly can but it does kind of stop

you from moving forward in it because

you're never quite happy with the work

you've done you want to keep working on

it make it even better

exactly I think there's a balance there

between quantity and quality isn't there

you want to keep the quality up but then

you also want to maintain a good

quantity out and Rick so yeah I've got a

few questions I mean we'll kind of go

where it goes but the first thing is I

want to ask and this is a question a lot

of people ask me is how did you come up

with a niche or niche I should say

obviously to the Americans you know it's

funny you know we're just talking about

Amazon Alexa yeah I was an early adopter

of Alexis or backpack I've had an Alexa

for roughly um a little better than a

year and I love the thing I'm so you

know I used it everyday and then from

there I went you know I bought a couple

smart plugs for myself and lights and so

forth and I said Ben this is you know

this is absolutely the future

this whole Smart Home thing is a lot of

fun exciting it's open tonight and I

thought you know if I could if I could

somehow you know build a business off of

this new you know thing that I'm kind of

digging quite a bit how how cool could

that be yeah yeah no they are really

cool and I guess that's I always say

that when people ask me how do I choose

a niche or a niche I say you know think

of something that you're interested in

start with those things that you really

like because that'll make it a lot

easier for you to be inspired and get

some energy behind your business that's

obviously what you did - then did you do

any kind of research into any other

sites that were out there any

competition or did you just kind of jump

in with both feet and just go for it no

I'm sorry absolutely so so I did do

quite a bit of looking around and of

course you know one of the biggest

challenges that I have so I'm competing

with you know the PC mags of the world

the CNET's of the world you know the big

boys and there's a ton of competition

out there you know where I've had some

success there is you know essentially

you know using the keyword golden ratio

they are really just again

re optimizing tweaking and so forth on

to get some you know some traction in

terms of keywords and all that good

stuff yeah yeah that's really cool um so

let's talk a little bit about the site

you mentioned you were you did said

Albert Kingdom I I noticed now I think

you're running flat some theme so it's

actually X team

I like theme okay and so it's acting

this with it's the ethos the next theme

and then there's a bunch of little slack

yeah yeah exactly so I'm using that the

ethos stack you know pretty much since I

lift that up I saw my conversions go up

which is interesting and I think there's

a there's a slider that rep that runs

across the top of the theme and I what

it's looking at some heat map reports

and so forth that that slider gets a ton

of clicks

so essentially what what's happening is

the people are hanging around the site

longer and I think that that with my

conversions so X theme is pretty great I

think you still using movies out or you

just generating content how I am yeah so

I think you and I talked before so I had

an issue with when I installed X where

Google was actually indexing the pricing

and it would show the pricing and the

Google search results Alex yeah and then

I got super nervous that that that

pricing because it was going out of date

did I get penalized from Amazon um I

guess if you know someone who's we've

got the the pricing and the data last

update on the site and all that good

stuff I should be okay all right now

yeah so my plan is to reindex ROI ID

indexed all my product pages because of

that and now my plan is to free index

them that would give me some more

traffic but I've got roughly about a

thousand products I want to say um

Kingdom

so I'm talking about traffic I mean I

guess you're running Google Analytics do

you know where your traffic is coming

from is it mostly from organic search it

is yeah so what's interesting is it's

bit while it so it's been a mix and

again there's a part of my rollercoaster

ride um in terms of the you know traffic

and and what's happened with the site

so it was had myself was hacked a couple

of times the first time when I could

hacked was in July I was running Zippos

for security no word fence no no nothing

I said that's what my site was you know

vanilla hostgator with no security

you know shame on me so it happen

yeah so that site was hacked pretty bad

a bunch of executed executable files

were uploaded to the to the root of the

young the FTP and then of course you

know you get that dreaded email from

Google this yes I find out by their

before you do exactly so so I got an

email from them say four words malware

on my site and I nearly had a heart

attack but then you know so and then I

got hit with the penalty yeah so that

Google doesn't like malware on web sites

obviously I'm so then you know traffic

dropped off at that point

yeah and they will put you back home

once you clean it up exactly yeah yeah

and then so the other thing that I was

doing and marketing heavily was on

Pinterest and I had maybe I don't know

probably upwards of 300 custom pins that

I had created that I spent a ton of time

on Pinterest and actually loved doing

that part of it creating the pins and

posting up and so forth and I was

getting ton of traffic from Pinterest

and then so in that I saw also subscribe

in addition to doing manual painting I

also subscribe to tailwind and

essentially what happened there I think

Pinterest is it's kind of a funny beast

because you know essentially it's the

they give the impression that you can do

what you want in terms of you know pin

everywhere but that's really not the

case so what I was doing I was manually

pinning maybe 10 to 15 pins a day and

then on top of that I had Tillman

running and that was pinning about 30 to

40 pins a day just for the viewers can

you just clarify what I witness yeah so

tailwind so

Timlin is and is an application that is

actually sent you by Pinterest that

automates the pinning of pins to your

different boards group boards your own

boards essentially you can stick pins

wherever you

using killing it i sad story is i was

overdoing it so the 50 pins a day

consistently being pinned to you know

probably the roughly about thirty or

forty boards pinterest did not like that

they go flagged up as bait a bit spammy

or something it's exactly what happened

and then and then he did despite all my

protests they banned me from pinterest

so how create all that work my you know

my entire you know pin collection all

that stuff lost essentially so i guess

you did go back and fly that but there

was like yeah with so into the the the

thing that really stinks there is that

they don't warn you basically so they

just ban you despite protests and so

forth so lost my pinterest account

completely and i was doing it at that

point i think i was doing maybe between

three and four hundred visits a day from

pinterest only so that was my main

traffic source yeah so since then I've

been focused retooled focused on Google

you know and also I've got a feed a

Facebook account Twitter Instagram as

well I'm about to Pinterest open a new

account see again did you go back to

Pinterest tonight for the new account so

I did open a new account but it's

interesting because that when they block

you they block you so so essentially if

someone goes to one smart crip today and

they click on one of my beautiful pins

that I could spend two hours creating

the it basically says you know access to

that they get an error message it'll say

access tonight they're not allowed to

pin my pins from my website to Pinterest

anymore so it's a hard block basically

Wow the workaround that I've been doing

is essentially I've got a medium blog as

well and I've been you know pinning very

moderately from my medium blog to

Pinterest and that's fine but then you

off from medium to the website so for so

it's not gonna be a main you know a

major source of traffic yeah so that's

probably enough sec

self-interest experienced but Alice also

on Facebook missile Facebook groups that

have been you know driving some good

quality traffic so couple Facebook

groups and then I'm active on twitter

twitter less in terms of generating

traffic but it does seem to help help

with the brain in quite a bit yeah it

would

so yeah talking about that kind of stuff

have you done any link building as such

any guest posts or I don't know reach

out or anything like that

limited you know against well I've got

the medium blog you know you know hey I

had a Google+ account before that went

away tumblr and so forth so I'm on sort

of all of the major social media sites

and trying to replicate my content out

there and I've done a limited amount of

guest post blogging but I need to do

more of that and that's one of my goals

per game over the next few months okay

so you're talking about content how do

you create your content you right here

all yourself were you outsourcing

attorney writers yeah um for the most

part I take 90% of the content I have

been writing on my own and I've tried a

couple of you know text broker type

things

um you find the quality is you get what

you pay for

yeah I'm a cheapskate uh-huh so you know

a five you pay five fifteen fifteen

twenty thirty dollars for blog posts the

quality isn't really there and I think

you know I think one of the reasons for

my success is that it is that the voice

of the articles tends to be kind of fun

as these theme associated with it so

every one of my articles generally has

some sort of an 80s referencing an 80s

wrote over or whatever it it's it's it's

hard to replicate it's hard to it's hard

to allow someone else to sort of you

know provide that content again I think

this comes back to me being sort of you

know perfectionist control freak but

yeah I mean how long does it take for

you to create a piece of content you

have a template or anything that you use

oh sure yeah yeah so it's kind of really

two different main sort of focus

articles that I've got that I've been

working on

so first is so just a general product

review and then the other is a

comparison so I also do do a lot of

comparison so you know echo echo show

version 3 verse version 2 verses echo

show version 1 beginning and I find that

comparisons are more successful than the

flat reviews at least for me and I think

it's because because of the nature men

is just so super competitive that

focused keywords I'm able to do better

with very very very specific so that if

you if you're gonna write people

technology would you get hold of the

products and do it yourself like that or

would you just go around the internet

and look for inspiration that way yes we

are it's been a mix as I mentioned early

so I've got I actually have a number of

smartphone devices that I purchased

myself that are they're essentially

still sitting in the box because I yeah

I've played a lot to you you do journal

over the next couple months and I've

just that III keep putting that on the

back burner but I need to get that to

the front burner sooner rather than

later but yet so in theater question

it's been it's been a mix of buying

stuff and then testing it myself and

then also going out and doing a ton of

research in forums and so on Amazon you

know looking at the customer reviews and

and and and so forth so yeah and then

you asked about you know how long it

takes

yes tape just an article so it's

interesting so the first go is probably

I'd say the equivalent of one sec I

spent 10 to 12 hours on a single article

and then you know there's probably an

additional four to five hours of

tweaking I'm on top of that but that's

not all writing obviously so it's you

know it's you know keyword research it's

optimization and all that good stuff as

well yes

it takes time I mean yeah that's why

after someone's way up between the cost

and time and whatever such time if

you've got more money or time I guess

than you you start to slight back in may

2000 18 is that right correct yeah yeah

and in terms of let's talk about the

money I mean everyone's gonna want to

know

money so between May and August so

what's that it took my head that's like

four months so like that three months

yes he's doing about 20 less than $25 a

month exactly yeah so first four months

I think maybe it was you know it was

five bucks a month for the first three

months yeah net and then the fourth

month I hit 25 and of course that's

pretty exciting right yeah you start to

see something happening oh right exactly

and then and then it slowly you know

gradually as the holidays approach

particularly started to build and I

think it's from a timing perspective I

sort of hit that right of course you

have smartphone technology you know

you've got blackberries yeah but it's an

increasing trend in general that Misha I

guess is people are getting more into it

right hopefully yeah I think it's the

future as you say and then it all kind

of happened in November that was when

you pop the champagne cork because it

was Black Friday in November obviously

and that was when you had your best

month doing over $1,000 in one month

exactly yeah I think I think there was

about roughly about 1200 it's

interesting because literally i sat

there over the course of three days you

know Black Friday and so forth and at

that point I had I don't know maybe

maybe a couple dozen articles up but I

literally sat there on Amazon and you

know kept okay as I'm sure a lot of

affiliates do kept checking the report

yeah every single hour whatever yeah

watching the sales come in one you know

one after the next yeah that was super

exciting and at that point I said yeah

this is absolutely what I wanted to

watch my future perfect so you do you

think there's any rhyme or reason to it

you think it was just maybe some good

timing in your part that you already had

to site up for a good few months it had

a little bit of credibility and then you

kind of got the timing right with Black

Friday you'd already got some content up

or is anything else that you think might

have kind of encouraged that success

that month yeah no so III think that's

exactly it I did create quite a few

holiday posts so things that were

specific to the holidays for example I

created a post around you know here at

10:00 cool things to ask Alexa at

Christmastime okay

that was a wildly success

post and then I also essentially what I

did was I was watching Amazon in terms

of holiday seals and things that they

had and I was you know proactively

creating articles around that and that

seemed to to get me traffic as well yeah

so you that's good you actually looking

at was good so then December was a

pretty good month well just under a

thousand dollars a month or then

January's a little less but that's kind

of what you expected you knew that it

was going to be busy around Christmas

and this is a bit of a quiet period

although I be honest acts III didn't

really fully get how what an impact you

know the sort of Black Friday Cyber

Monday thing would have I mean it's you

know it is you know 5 to 5 5 to 10 times

the amount of traffic and activity that

I was seeing prior and I think that will

also continue to be the case you know

next year and then what so that was

Black Friday's is a very real phenomenon

for sure ok so have more questions

before we wrap um so go forward you've

got a few plans I guess content is your

number one priority still absolutely yes

yeah content um you know I've got to get

to that under 50 article mark somehow

yeah I hear the income school guys that

you just watched a video from them I'm

saying you know q1 you know try and

produce 150 articles I'm thinking I'm

going to and then one of the guys that

something like yeah but you know you're

gonna be you know producing content

until you're blue in the face and I

thought you know I'm 50 articles in

three months forget there's just no way

that's what gonna happen but obviously

if there's you know if you'd let it look

like you said if you can afford to

outsource some of that you could

potentially get there but I feel like if

I can get 250 articles over the course

of the next year um pretty good I mean

yeah they are two incomes could've got a

whole team of writers for them working

Fame full-time so it's quite easy to get

articles written just talking about

articles while we're on that subject how

do you come up with your ideas for

articles yeah so it's been so there's my

site right now is very its heavily

focused on

different things so it's Amazon Alexa

its universal remote controls I've

actually had some some up there and then

you know other basic smart home tech

that you might expect like smart plugs

you know smart lights and so forth I

think you know essentially going forward

but I want to do is I want to niche down

even more and get into some more sort of

very sort of you know specific products

so for instance that for instance is a

whole category that's seems to be you

know gaining momentum called hydroponics

or if you're familiar with that it's you

know the idea of growing your own plants

food and so forth in your house yeah

those those systems now have become

smarter where you can essentially you

know you can control how much water how

much nutrients how much things you know

how all of that happens over Wi-Fi over

your smart phone and so forth so it's

that type of a product is something that

I think that I need to do more or not

even more specific into admits isn't it

and maybe you had a niche by itself

possibly that yeah and the reason is is

that you know trying to compete with PC

Mag and you know the scene s of the

world and so forth on smart plugs

you know the Harvey Muller Chance yeah

they've got so much authority and

reputation it's hard to beat them if

that okay well thank your time there's

just one last question before you go and

I've seen your subscriber mind and we

mentioned income school and you

mentioned key word golden ratio so that

would be Doug Cullington but is there

any other youtubers that you watch that

you might recommend

yeah I'd say so in terms of Pinterest so

I get started with Pinterest so the

caffeinated blogger

I don't refute you've heard night with

half a night not for me yeah so he's got

a ton of great videos are on Pinterest

and so forth

income school obviously yourself ah and

Doug as well have all been that's

essentially my so we're a core of

mentors okay sounds good enough to me

that's perfect well for your time Tim

and obviously we'll see you in the live

streams maybe if you can make it and I

on the channel in the future but yeah

thanks for sharing your stuff with us

today it's gonna really help out

everybody I'm sure all right thanks a

lot

Oh excellent thank you there you go

hopefully you found that really

inspirational it's good to see that

people are making a success of it and it

can be done just requires a bit of work

some determination and of course a good

niche you've got any questions or

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