How Much Traffic Do You Need?
That's a pretty common question, especially from newbies, but the answer isn't simple. Obviously there are a lot of variables to take into consideration, such as:
1. How much money do you want to make?
2. How popular is the niche?
3, What's the profit margin?
4. Where does the traffic come from?
5. Will you make money from recurring membership fees or a one-time payout?
6. Is it a paysite or a free site and if it's a paysite, do you own it?
We all know that without traffic our sites will fail, but do you need 100k hits a day to make decent money? You do if it's a TGP and even then you won't be getting rich, but in my humble opinion, you can make a living from a site that gets 500 hits a day.
For the sake of discussion, let's say that your answer to question #1 is that you want to make a decent living and you don't have a big family to support, and let's assume that for you, that's $50k a year. If that's not enough, then you'll obviously need to get more than 500 hits a day or keep your day job and use this as one hell of a good supplemental income. I realize that $50k a year is not what most of us would consider a comfortable income, but then again, 500 hits a day is just a drop in the bucket and easy to achive, so stay with me here and modify my traffic numbers accordingly.
Following through with my assertion that you can make a living from 500 hits a day, what would you need to achieve from that traffic to make $50k a year? Well, if you're an amateur that is willing to do live webcam shows, I'd say sign up at iFriends, build yourself a website featuring yourself along with some other models and then promote that website. You'll make $40 to $80 a signup from any visitor that has to join iFriends to see your live shows and videos and then you'll make a percentage of what they pay to join your fanclub once they get their free iFriends membership, and that can go on for months. An income of $100k a year is not hard to achieve using this scenario.
Let's say that you aren't interested in being your own content, which I'm sure is the case with most of us. I'm still going to use iFriends (from ClickCash) for my example, because I believe it's one of the easiest programs to promote and profit from. There are others of course, but I'm just going to focus on one to illustrate my points.
So, here's the formula. 500 hits per day + x = $50k a year. What is x? Well, 'x' is a successful program that pays enough per signup and converts well enough to generate $50k a year.
The question now becomes, is it possible to find a program that will help us achieve x? Sure it is, but you'll need to combine it with the ability to generate very targetted traffic. I'm not going to go into all of the ways that can be done, it's been talked about over and over before, but pay-per-click advertising, and buying banner ads on sites that tightly fit your niche and aren't going to charge more than you can make back plus a profit, are two of the best ways.
Using my iFriends model, you would need to achive a conversion rate of approximately 1:140, which is definitely not hard to do. With 500 hits a day and a conversion rate of 1:140 you would generate 25 signups a week. The payout would be $40 for the first 10 and $45 for the next 15 for a total weekly payout of $1075 per week. Multiply that by 52 weeks and you have a total annual income of $55,900 a year. During the year you could have spent $5,000 on advertising, $900 on hosting and bandwidth, (assuming you were building a lot of tgp galleries) and still make the projected $50k. $5000 a year in well spent advertising can go a very long way.
Keep in mind, that with ClickCash, the per signup payout increases as your weekly signups increase, doubling your daily traffic will more than double your annual income and further increases in traffic increase your income exponentially. For example, with 20k hits a day and the same conversion ratio I used in my example, you would make well over a million dollars a year.
Note: It's doubtful that you will achieve a conversion rate of 1:140 by sending traffic directly to iFriends. I personally suggest building your own websites, using iFriends' content and driving traffic to those sites. Personally, I've found that method works well for many sponsors. If there are 5000 webmasters all promoting the same paysite tour, design your own and then just link to the join page from your site.
If you want to make money promoting webcams but need a website built, click here.
1. How much money do you want to make?
2. How popular is the niche?
3, What's the profit margin?
4. Where does the traffic come from?
5. Will you make money from recurring membership fees or a one-time payout?
6. Is it a paysite or a free site and if it's a paysite, do you own it?
We all know that without traffic our sites will fail, but do you need 100k hits a day to make decent money? You do if it's a TGP and even then you won't be getting rich, but in my humble opinion, you can make a living from a site that gets 500 hits a day.For the sake of discussion, let's say that your answer to question #1 is that you want to make a decent living and you don't have a big family to support, and let's assume that for you, that's $50k a year. If that's not enough, then you'll obviously need to get more than 500 hits a day or keep your day job and use this as one hell of a good supplemental income. I realize that $50k a year is not what most of us would consider a comfortable income, but then again, 500 hits a day is just a drop in the bucket and easy to achive, so stay with me here and modify my traffic numbers accordingly.
Following through with my assertion that you can make a living from 500 hits a day, what would you need to achieve from that traffic to make $50k a year? Well, if you're an amateur that is willing to do live webcam shows, I'd say sign up at iFriends, build yourself a website featuring yourself along with some other models and then promote that website. You'll make $40 to $80 a signup from any visitor that has to join iFriends to see your live shows and videos and then you'll make a percentage of what they pay to join your fanclub once they get their free iFriends membership, and that can go on for months. An income of $100k a year is not hard to achieve using this scenario.
Let's say that you aren't interested in being your own content, which I'm sure is the case with most of us. I'm still going to use iFriends (from ClickCash) for my example, because I believe it's one of the easiest programs to promote and profit from. There are others of course, but I'm just going to focus on one to illustrate my points.
So, here's the formula. 500 hits per day + x = $50k a year. What is x? Well, 'x' is a successful program that pays enough per signup and converts well enough to generate $50k a year.
The question now becomes, is it possible to find a program that will help us achieve x? Sure it is, but you'll need to combine it with the ability to generate very targetted traffic. I'm not going to go into all of the ways that can be done, it's been talked about over and over before, but pay-per-click advertising, and buying banner ads on sites that tightly fit your niche and aren't going to charge more than you can make back plus a profit, are two of the best ways.
Using my iFriends model, you would need to achive a conversion rate of approximately 1:140, which is definitely not hard to do. With 500 hits a day and a conversion rate of 1:140 you would generate 25 signups a week. The payout would be $40 for the first 10 and $45 for the next 15 for a total weekly payout of $1075 per week. Multiply that by 52 weeks and you have a total annual income of $55,900 a year. During the year you could have spent $5,000 on advertising, $900 on hosting and bandwidth, (assuming you were building a lot of tgp galleries) and still make the projected $50k. $5000 a year in well spent advertising can go a very long way.
Keep in mind, that with ClickCash, the per signup payout increases as your weekly signups increase, doubling your daily traffic will more than double your annual income and further increases in traffic increase your income exponentially. For example, with 20k hits a day and the same conversion ratio I used in my example, you would make well over a million dollars a year.
Note: It's doubtful that you will achieve a conversion rate of 1:140 by sending traffic directly to iFriends. I personally suggest building your own websites, using iFriends' content and driving traffic to those sites. Personally, I've found that method works well for many sponsors. If there are 5000 webmasters all promoting the same paysite tour, design your own and then just link to the join page from your site.
If you want to make money promoting webcams but need a website built, click here.
posted by
Hammer
at
7:41 AM
2 Comments:
A conversion rate of 1:140 is very rare.
1:500 is probably closer to the truth for iFriends.
It all depends on how proficient the webmaster is at promoting iFriends and how targetted their traffic is. Sending traffic directly to fanclub pages or other pages on iFriends will indeed result in poor conversions and that's exactly why I build my own websites and use a generic iFriends join page. Also, the majority of my traffic comes from search engines and paid advertising.
I have a tranny site that converts at approximately 1:50.
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