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My First Experiment

Posted May 13th, 2008

I’ve decided that for my first real try at making money online i’m going to experiment with an affiliate site, or to be more precise, an Amazon/Adsense/eBay mashup site!

I’ve only just heard of mashup sites in the last few days or so when I came across this post at 45n5.com where Mark explains what they are and how to use them to make money.

As a quick overview, a mashup is a site/page that is made up of content pulled from different places. So, for example, you could pull in videos from Youtube, eBay listings, Amazon affiliate links and Adsense ads all into the one page. Because the content is all relevant, and essentially new, Google sees it as a new page and you have some pre-made keyword rich content.

I think that this week i’ll be working on modifying Mark’s script to work with the new eBay affiliate program and also tweak it to fit in with what I want to achieve. I already have a domain name I bought (rather impulsively) about 6 weeks ago which I think this could work well on and I already have hosting, so I should be set to get a site up in the next week or so. Then I get onto learning how to get traffic in!

I also found that a fan site I started a couple of months ago but didn’t get very far into has made some Adsense money! Well, when I say some I actually mean it got one click and made $0.40, but still, it’s more than nothing! Anyway that got me to thinking that maybe I should put a little bit more effort into that one as well seeing as it’s started to get some traffic (not alot) and that I only had a couple of pages up so far with hardly any content.

I’ll follow up with some posts on how I am getting on with these sites and anything I learn along the way.