Work at Home as a Webmaster?

Would you be interested in taking a class on the profit making side of being a webmaster? If so, please email me at madjourney@gmail.com and let me know. I will be contacting the Potter County Ed Council about teaching a few different courses soon. If you have any topics that might be of interest to you, let me know.

Ok, back to the post...

A few posts ago I mentioned that I was working on getting my first website launched, perhaps you remember. Read it Here

Anyway, that was only partially correct. I previously had a Wedding Photography site up and running, but have since moved away from that.

What that post was referring to was my first for-profit site. A site whose sole purpose was to make money by presenting PPC advertising and affiliate links to relevant topics. This is actually a very legitimate potential work from home business model.

Unfortunately, it is quite competitive and will require a good bit of effort to really do well. None the less, it is very lucrative as well; with some affiliate marketers making 10k - 50k per month.

So far the site is holding its own and although it hasn't generated any affiliate sales commissions yet, I am still breaking even or slightly profitable on my advertising costs. In other words, I am getting as much or more from visitors clicking on my ad links as I am paying to get visitors to the site.

Take a look at the difference between February and March:

Figure 1 - February 2007

Figure 2 - March 2007 (Note: Today's earning above are for today 4/2/2007)

The site is also starting to see some natural (unpaid) search traffic as well. This is the key to keeping the site in the black and will only happen over time with good meta info and keyword rich content.

Next time we'll look at the site's traffic statistics...