You can attract visitors to your site via various methods like article writing for sites and online publications, social media like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, etc., email marketing, videos on youtube and many other methods including paid traffic.

People online from all over the world are looking for information and answers to their questions or solutions to problems and also they are looking to purchase something at the end of their search.

When your website is up and running a percentage of that internet traffic will be drawn to your site via search engines like Google, Bing and the rest. Your site will show up in the search engine results pages or serp’s, and searchers will click on your listing and be directed to your website. They will read the site content and see what it is that you are offering that answers their search query. So you’ll be helping these people and earning revenue in the process.

When you build up a niche site that will attract daily visitors your website becomes your point of contact targeted audience. Your website becomes the online platform and market where you share and care for your audience.

Why have an affiliate site

Is the whole point of having your website to simply sell a product(s) to people that come to your marketplace and buy? Or is the purpose of your internet business to serve and help others to solve their problems?

You should choose a niche that excites you, one that you want to be active within as you build up your website and create a special place that will continue to grow in value as time goes by.

Answer questions, offer them quality content, on relevant topics and being there to help them in any way. They trust you and you become their authority on the subject and they become a long time customer or client of yours if all goes well. You can also recommend or promote your own or someone else’s eBooks, videos and other things related to the website niche that your visitors would like and find useful.

The important thing to remember is that real people are reading, searching and need help. They should be kept in mind before each article is written and their comments answered. You must give value to your visitors!

Here are 11 great reasons to have an affiliate niche website:

1. Low Start-Up Cost:

An online business can be started and built up to a thriving revenue earning site for a few hundred dollars per year.
There are millions of products, items, and services that you can become an affiliate to and sell online, ex. Amazon, eBay, CJ Affiliates, and hundreds of others.

There are so many products that someone can promote and make a commission that the hardest part is to choose just what it is that you want to promote first.

2. No Overhead Cost:

There are no offices to rent and electricity bills to pay each month or employees to hire with the taxes and workman’s compensation insurance and more, all needing to be prepaid and regularly paid. In the case of an online business, all that you really need is a laptop computer and an internet connection.

3. No Storage Space Required:

Most offline service businesses need to have or rent a storage space for their machines, office equipment and materials. With an online business, everything is stored on the computer, backed up and easy to access.

4. Focus on drawing targeted customers:

With a good keyword tool you can get in-depth statistics on exactly what “keywords” are used to search for an item, how many times per month and how much competition there is within that keyword. Much more information can be gained from a good keyword tool so that you can target a specific like-minded group for your outreach efforts.

5. No handling customer refunds or complaints:

This is a good one as the affiliate just promotes the product and leaves the customer refunding and complaints to that merchant’s department. The affiliate doesn’t want to promote a product with a high return rate or one with a lot of complaints as there are millions of other products to promote.

6. Write about topics that interest you:

By choosing your website niche you’re also choosing the subject that you will be writing a lot of quality and helpful content on. Information that internet surfers can find and use to find answers, solve their problems, show them how to do something, or purchase a product.

7. You can earn passive income:

Revenue that you earn even though you aren’t actively working. Another name for passive income is residual income. With such a huge online audience there are many affiliates earning six and seven figure incomes. Most affiliates also have more than one website and some have many.

8. Your site is always open:

This is awesome as your site is open for business 24/7, whether you’re sleeping or on vacation. No need to hire someone to watch the store and take care of customer issues.

9. Work from home or anywhere:

Another great reason for an online business is that you can be anywhere that there’s an internet connection and with your laptop, you can completely run your business. It doesn’t matter if you are in Europe, Asia or the US, with an internet connection you can run your business 24/7 from anywhere in the world.

10. Will generate sales income for years to come:

Once the niche website is built up and starts earning revenue each month you’ll keep on building and growing your business and the sky’s the limit as to your options and potentials.

11. One site is all you need to earn a full-time monthly income:

This is so true, however, when you start making money online you will see other ways to earn and naturally branch out from there. Enjoy the journey but one site properly built up and optimized can pay all of your bills and much more.

Bonus:

You can have multiple websites: How many websites can you handle, some affiliates have ten or more. You can have a cool Amazon site, one for eBay, ClickBank, etc, all earning a very nice monthly income. That’s how many affiliates get into the six and seven figure earnings.

Make sure that you only recommend things that are of quality and items that you would purchase for yourself. Only sell quality products because your reputation will grow continuously as time goes by, and that reputation should be for promoting quality products.

Your role as an affiliate is to give an honest opinion and advice based on up to date information. You should feel like you are helping them make a wise choice or decision. There are more than 11 great reasons to have a niche website and make money online.