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Let’s conclude this section with a realistic example for ONE niche. Let’s say you gathered 15 sites and list of keywords, signed up with their affiliate programs and set up your campaign. Let’s say that five of those sites are failures and don’t get even one unique, even if you are the highest bidder. Five other sites with keyword list give you 200-300 uniques per day, 3 other sites with keyword list give you 500-700 uniques per day and the two best sites with keyword list give you 1,000-1,500. Thus, for that niche you get around 1,000-2,500 views per day. In addition, you have these additional facts.

i) Your AVERAGE CPV is $0.004U.S.D.
ii) Your average payout is $30U.S.D./per sale
iii) Your average conversion rate is 20%.

Now…for every 1,000 visitors (daily minimum) you get four sales.

Therefore, for a daily cost of 1,000*$0.004=$4 you make around $120U.S.D. per/day and that’s only for one of your campaigns.

What that example shows us is that you don’t need hundreds or thousands of views to make a killing. With a tiny budget and some common sense, you can do GREAT!

In any case, you should always experiment and test. Even a $0.001 increase or decrease in your bidding may give you good traffic or no traffic at all. You should also be aware that most companies let you know only how much the highest bidder bids. That’s your only clue. That’s why testing is so important.

The payout Problem

Our main method includes choosing and signing with a significant number of affiliate programs for every niche. The payout problem has to do with the fact that you have to reach a specific number in affiliate commissions
before being paid by a particular affiliate program.

So, if for example you sign with a program that pays you $40 per/sale and you have to reach $100 in commissions before getting paid, that means you should make at least 3 sales before requesting your money.

If the target URL with keywords of that particular program gets in your campaign 2,000-3,000 uniques per day and that program has a normal conversion rate of 20%, you’re only going to need a few days before reaching that number.

That brings me to our dating example. If you choose to be paid on free signups, you’re obviously going to experience some huge conversion rates.

However, there are some downfalls. For example, if you have a list of 10 sites with keyword list that belong to different affiliate networks, you’re paid $2-3 per signup and you’re only getting a few uniques for each of your target URLs, then obviously you’re going to need a good amount of time before being paid by each network. Thus, for a target URL that receives 3-4 uniques per day you’ll need more than 2 months before reaching the payout the network requires!

In addition to this, you don’t have the capability of bidding really high since the payout is so small.

What I want to say, is that you should choose niches and affiliate programs that pay you BIG. Actually, affiliate sites paying big are the RULE and not the exception. Also, study carefully the payout terms of each affiliate site to avoid later surprises.