The 30 Week Challenge
OK, so I have decided that it might be possible to make a decent income by building niche amazon stores targeting singular product types (ie. a website just with steam irons for example) and then focusing on some very narrow long tail buying keywords for those products.
I have had a couple of niche Amazon stores up and running but at the moment they are not optimized nor are they making any money. I’ve sent a few clicks but nothing is converting at the moment – wrong product choice maybe?
Anyway, I’ve purchased a great guide to making money from Amazon and I’ll be following the advice and suggestions in that guide. The writer claims he’s making around $50-$100 a day from the Amazon affiliate program so I’m going to see what I can come up with – surely with all my years of experience I can at least match that!
My aim, as the name of the challenge suggests, is to give myself 30 weeks, starting from now, to make one niche amazon website each week. I want each website to earn $5 in commission each day. Do the maths (or math if you are from America) and that’s a target of $150 per day by the end of 30 weeks, or approximately $4,500 per month, purely from affiliate commission.
The budget for each site is not that large, tiny infact. I will spend $20 per website, $10 on the domain and the rest getting some social bookmarking done.
I’ll be keeping this blog updated each week to let you know overall traffic progress, earning progress and thoughts and opinions about creating Amazon niche sites. At the end of 30 weeks I want to be able to say ‘yes, creating Amazon niche sites works’ or ‘no, some people are able to make it click, but not me.’
Although I won’t be revealing my niches for free, I will let people buy my keyword analysis, competition analysis and niche profitability analysis for a small fee. All my research for a particular niche will be available, however you won’t know what the niche is until you buy it, I don’t want to shoot myself in the foot by creating too many competitors!
The past couple of weeks have been spent learning and perfecting the art of turning Wordpress in to a storefront, learning basic CSS and PHP in the process. Hmm, OK, copying and pasting CSS and PHP and seeing what happens 
Right, I think that’s it, I’ll be back here shortly to update you on how it went this week. Oh yes, I had better put up my SEO analysis for the first niche as well!
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