Over the last few months, I’ve been working on building a template system to quickly build wordpress sites that integrate directly with Amazon Associates to make it easy to build niche blogs that showcase products for sale on Amazon.
I have about 6 of these sites up and running at this point. Only one is making money, but its making enough to easily pay for hosting fees and costs associated with all of the others. My thought is that as the domains age and I continue to tweak the templates, I can improve organic ranking for key search terms and drive enough traffic to these pages to bring in some good income when multiplied by 10 or 100 copies of the site.
The one site that is doing great brought in $18 in October 2009, $25 in November 2009 and $35 in December 09. This month is shaping up to bring in $30hich seems reasonable given its post-Christmas and I think folks are naturally being a big more frugal after spending for the holidays. You may think $30/month isn’t worth the effort, and that may be true. The point of the system is to make it simple to set up and run tens or hundreds of these sites. Thirty dollars per month per site is great if that is 1% of your website portfolio and it runs without maintenance.
If you’re interested in trying out the templating system, let me know by leaving a comment with your email (I won’t publish your email addresses). I don’t have it totally packaged up at this point, but I can walk you through it easily enough. You don’t need to be a techie, but you will have to edit a few files to get things working. Once its set up, its a breeze to add new content via wordpress pages and posts, each integrating with your amazon associates account to pull in relevant products offered at a discount in your niche.
on Feb 2nd, 2010 at 10:16 am
I wanna try! I’ll even file bugs and feature requests against it if you want