Comments on: Building a Business Around Affiliate Programs

By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Adult niche” … that has to be something kinky, care to tell us about it Scrivs :) ? (j/k)

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well I know with one of your sites Bryan a major focus is on video games. For that you have to look at the audience. You either have teenagers who don't have credit cards so can't purchase the games online or people who do have credit cards who rather run down to EB or something and play the game immediately. So obviously it is going to take a lot more work to pull anything off in the video game market. For the same obvious reason I could see how Adsense wouldn't really pull in that much from that niche. With adult sites I think you can make a healthy amount of money without seeming too sleazy. Some good examples are Fleshbot and Get Swank. Then again it's not like you have to tell anyone that you are running those sites, but if done properly I don't see what the big problem would be . *runs off to create his adult niche site*

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Good Posting Scrivs,

I consider myself a decent designer with some decent knowledge in SEO, navigation, information architecture, etc… but can tell you from experience making money with my sites is damn hard. I think one popular affiliate program that starts with Ad…. and ends with an “ense” has only brought me like 50 bucks since starting way back in December. Kinda sucks. Finding that nitch is a tough bitch to (did that ryhme:)).

There is also the possibility of doing an adult related site. Some people are against it, some people don’t care as long as their wallet gets fatter. It just depends on what is “right” for that particular individual. I have a few site ideas, just not sure how

a. I want to implement them
b. How I want to make money off of them.

Its tough.