Affiliate Musketeer

It is with great pleasure that I logged into my amazon associates account today to find that 2 items had been ordered from my bar stools affiliate website. This is the beginning of good things, I can feel it. Unlike my last commission from this site, I am 100% sure which items they were and I’m very please to say they were a couple of bar stools!

Yep, I had a user find a good deal for some bar stools on my site and they went right ahead and ordered two of them. This was one of the reasons why I chose to promote bar stools. Despite the average commission value being around 5% per sale, it will be very rare that a user will buy only 1 item. Bar stools come in pairs, (or more than that) so the average items in the basket should be at least two.

Now the stools that were ordered only cost £33.99 each so the commission amount is not great; it’ll be 4% of £67.98 (£2.72) so I’d need to do significantly better than 1 customer every month to make any of this worthwhile and in all reality, I need to ramp up sales to around 4/5 per day to make this really worthwhile and build myself a little cash generating asset but I am determined to keep going to make this happen.

The good news about all of this is that this commission was received whilst my site was not indexed by Google and was receiving the new site deindex penalty so I can only remain positive and upbeat about the future of this site when it actually returns to full index in the next couple of months or so. See this post documenting March’s Affiliate Earnings to get a full graph of the traffic pattern to support this.

As a recap, despite the site having virtually no traffic during the last 4 weeks, I have continued to add content (about 1 article/post per week) and continued to build links – about 1/2 links per week from related websites (when I say related, I mean closely related – eg, selling bar stools or bar furnishings related sites).

This has not been easy because the site has earned nothing (£49 from one sale prior to this one) and my motivation and enthusiasm have taken a real battering but I have weathered on and hopefully this is a sign of better things to come.

I can only keep my head down and keep going, but this little drip of commission has really made my day and given me a small boost of hope that all the groundwork I put into this site will be worth it in the end.

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