Finance Site Performance

[vatsia]

Hello,
I have seen many online-moneymakers building sites around finance topics such as debt, loans, mortages, credit cards etc. I know that there are some high paying keywords around this topics at google and good affiliate programs, but there is also a lot of competition. How are your finace sites performing and how many visitors do you need to earn for example 100$ a month? :confused:

[Chris]

10,000 page views a month might pull in $100

[vatsia]

Correct me if i am wrong, but this would be middle level performance. To bad to rely on, to good for not trying to setup a finance site. :)

[r2d2]

Depends how well you monetize your traffic, but 10,000 page views pulling in $100 should be easy, you could probably do it with 5,000 views.

I make around $250 with 10,000 page views on my house buying site which is similar to a pure finance site.

[ASP-Hosting.ca]

8,000 to 10,000 page views should earn you $100, but remember that getting those pages views for a finance site it's not easy...

[vatsia]

...getting those pages views for a finance site it's not easy...

Because of competition or lack of interest from the users ?

[r2d2]

Competition really - its a lucrative market, so lots of people want to have a go :) I have a new finance site, see my sig.

[Emancipator]

i think your finance site will do well R2 I like the simplicity and clean-ness of the site. It doesnt look like the 8,000 5minute cookie cutter finance sites.

[chromate]

I think $100 per 10,000 impressions is too conservative. Say that's made up of about 3000 uniques, if you've put some good affiliate pages together and only 1% convert, then I think you should make at least $400 on that traffic. AdSense should pull in at least $100 on top of that for financial keywords, on that traffic.

[r2d2]

i think your finance site will do well R2 I like the simplicity and clean-ness of the site. It doesnt look like the 8,000 5minute cookie cutter finance sites.

Cheers Emancipator - I have always wondered what 'cookie cutter' means though - googles searches normally turn up pages selling biscuit cutting devices :)

[James]

It means http://www.websitepublisher.net/forums/member.php?userid=765

[r2d2]

Ah right, lol :) I kinda figured it meant those sorts of sites, but didnt understand how they had anything to do with cookies (i.e. the type websites use to put info on your computer), and how you could 'cut' computer cookies :rolleyes: but now I see they really do mean biscuit cutter ;)

[Emancipator]

lol..... dont get me wrong i dont know for 1 second if 8,000 cookie cutter sites is better then 2 or 3 well developed sites.. never made one, never tried :P But yes its a compliment to your new site lol.

[James]

It really depends on the topic, quality, and ad placement on the well-developed site.

Personally, my ****ty little video game store (http://buy-video-games.net) AWS site with its horrid little domain name has gotten enough traffic and sales to get me $32.00. It's my only AWS site and the only advertising I've done for it is in my signature at forums. If I threw up a thousand of them in a thousand different categories I could probably expect to get quite a bit of money, but it'd be exceedingly wasteful to have all of those sites. Hundreds would get no sales at all, due to lack of optimization, etc. and many would be booted outta Google's results. I'd be paying for all those domain names, getting no sales from them, hosting them, etc.

So I'd say it's better to own just a few. AWS sites don't take terribly much to run if you just want to earn your money back, so they're good to run on the side of a large website--and even better to run if you integrate them somewhat into the website.
Personally, I'd prefer to just have a large site that has lots of items the same as Amazon has and just link to them with my affiliate ID on their respective pages.