So my February post was pretty late into march and now my March update is into April. Nice….  Anyways, I have been busy and got something going. Just not done with it yet. I’m finding its hard to get accepted to affiliate programs with out being established. Its also hard to get established if you cant get your applications accepted. The answer is to just generate a lot of content, but that takes time. Not very passive and I am busy otherwise. I just got to chain myself to the desk and start typing. Anyways, hopefully I should have a great April update. I think this is going to be the best one yet. Oh, and I have still made $0 so far…….

Introducing AlarmClockReviewer.com! This is my first attempt at an affiliate site. The basics of an affiliate site is that you put links to a product on your site and if someone clicks on that link and ends up buying that product, you will get a small commission. Now, that’s a lot easier said than done. As, I learned setting up your own site can be tricky and time consuming. The pay off is that once it is established, the time commitment goes down but the payoffs can go up. So do the bulk work once, make periodic updates, and hopefully generate a bit of income for all your work. I chose alarm clocks because that is something where I have actually have spent time looking for the best ones. I figured that if I took that information and put it in a neat and organized fashion, I could provide that value to someone looking for the same information I already found. That’s really the basic concept though, provide value. If you can provide that value to a larger audience, you have more opportunities to capitalize on it.

I faced a couple challenges while setting this site up. That is kind of why I am doing my monthly update so late. It turns out setting up a clean looking website is hard if you have never done it before. I recommend grabbing a domain name and hosting account from bluehost.com. From there, you can install WordPress or have them do it for you, then you can start being creative. Grab a theme and a few plugins and go to town on the hard part, your content. I plan to do my own little tutorial on wordpress eventually. There are already a million of them out there already so I dont feel to pressed to spend time on that at the moment.

As for content, this is where you need to spend the bulk of your focus. I plan to continually improve mine and hopefully that will bring people to my site. My goals for the rest of this month is to improve my content quality and learn a little bit about SEO, or search Engine Optimization. I will need to actually show up on search results and have a reason to look at my page so those two things should be my top priority. I haven’t made a sale yet, so I need to work on things that drive me in that direction.