Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Building a Passive Income Opportunity with the Amazon Affiliate Program

This week I have been busy cranking out some hubpages and building backlinks. Once you start pulling in a passive income online, backlink building is probably one of the most important things you can do to safeguard that residual income. Without good backlinks, your rankings in search engines will most likely slide over time as others pursue the same keywords that you are unless you have some really great links from high PR .edu domains.

Anyway, I've started to see my Adsense revenue from hubpages begin to even out and start growing - I don't have a tremendous number of hubs yet like some people, but the days when I am making absolutely zero on hubs seem to be just about gone. Nothing to quit the day job yet, but when you are creating something out of nothing but your own time and effort it is nice to see it start to pay off.

So this is just a little update as to what I am doing regarding my passive income opportunity business plan that I posted earlier. I haven't been able to get approval yet from EPN - and I hear similar tales of woe from others who have been trying for months to get approval, so I am attempting to learn to target Amazon affiliate sales better. I'm not convinced that hubpages is a good platform for Amazon affiliate sales, although I do have Amazon links on some of my hubs and a couple of hubs that target Amazon products specifically.

This week's keyword research dug up some really good, targeted product ideas that I am going to develop into niche websites using the iframes version of embedding an Amazon store into your site. Because these sites will be created from scratch, it may take several months to develop strong traffic to any of them. Following the methods that I have learned at The Keyword Academy, the plan for this week is to create a few of these sites and build them up. I haven't decided yet whether they will be monetized with adsense and Amazon, or simply with Amazon stores. I will have to test both as I've never done this before.