A Page a Day

Many successful affiliates have stated this in different ways, but one recipe for affiliate success is really quite simple:

Create at least one new page of content, each and every day, and you’ll be a rich monkey.

There’s much wisdom in that, despite the fact that it seems far too simple and easy. It does presuppose a few things (that you’ve got the assorted chops necessary to write good content and structure it for maximum traction in search engines, as well as the necessary knowledge to monetize the traffic you get), since you can’t just launch crappy, unfocused content into space and expect to make money.

The statement does get at some pretty important principles, though, if you unpack it a bit.

• Successful affiliates aren’t rocket scientists. All you have to do is be able to write reasonably well and to have the gumption (or greed) to plug away it on a daily basis. That’s it.
• Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that you necessarily have to create one uber site and work solely on that site, day in and day out. There’s nothing in the above statement that says you must only focus on one site. As long as you’re creating a page of content a day, you’re on track. You could have one site, ten sites, or fifty sites. Don’t be afraid to spread your efforts out, as diversity is almost always a good thing and it has the nice extra bonus of breaking up the monotony of the grind of creating content.
• Content trumps everything else in the affiliate world. Don’t sit around saying boo-hoo, I can never compete with other affiliates who have been doing this for years and have tons of traffic. Sure, in some niches you will never, ever catch up, if you tried to launch a new affiilate site to compete with established affiliates. So what. There are 192,293,381 other profitable niches just waiting for you to cash in on them. Get to work.

A Page a Day and related information can be found in Getting Started