top 3 spots for coupons for e.g. dell?

[Snowballer]

What do you guys think a top 3 spot for 'dell coupons' would be worth per month?

something like?

1. $1200K
2. $650
3. $300

[Chris]

1.2 million?

[Generalissimo]

You being serious Chris?

[Chris]

He said 1200k, thats 1.2 million, I'm wondering if he is being serious.

[MarkB]

I think it's a typo </obvious>

[Snowballer]

ahhaha

yeah it was a typo! sheesh!

[Cutter]

Overture shows 67,000 for "dell coupon", Google might get 100,000 searches..( just a guess).. maybe 50% of the people click on the first entry, so 50,000 SE uniques a month?

Just a very rough guess. Anyone who owns a dell coupon site would have to go from there based on their average per thousand, assuming they are sending good traffic to the site.

[ozgression]

I'm guessing anywhere between $2k-$5k per month (a pure guess).

[Snowballer]

well if those figures are correct, 50K clicks at even 1% conversion is 500 sales.

sounds like the $3K-5K figure might be close.

[Cutter]

That was a rough guess, but that is probably close... certainly not a million

That was one of the mistakes I made early on.. looking at the overture stats and saying, hey I'll get 100,000 hits a month just from this keyword. In reality, it could be more like 20,000. Suddenly that potential of $2,000 turns into $400.

Even if you are #1 it doesn't guarantee a certain percentage of clickthroughs on the searches. Anyone who has run an Adwords campaign understands just how important the copy is.

On most webmaster forums ranking for big keywords is treated like the holy grail. The reality is there are many other traffic sources out there. I know of one site that is pulling in at least $100,000 a month and the guy is getting little to no SE traffic.

[MarkB]

Where is his traffic coming from?

[Generalissimo]

I'm sure Chris made around $20,000 in one month from dell once... Probably not all from coupons but still...

[chromate]

Even if you are #1 it doesn't guarantee a certain percentage of clickthroughs on the searches. Anyone who has run an Adwords campaign understands just how important the copy is.

Spot on. In short - it can make a huge difference!

On most webmaster forums ranking for big keywords is treated like the holy grail. The reality is there are many other traffic sources out there. I know of one site that is pulling in at least $100,000 a month and the guy is getting little to no SE traffic.

PPC?

[Cutter]

The best is viral content. Videos, games, contests, social network sites (like myspace) usually benefit the most from this.

Google is a great example. They weren't running any big television ads, yet they are bigger than Yahoo, MSN, and AOL.

PPC is one source, but you are still technically getting SE traffic, unless its from type-in domains.. which are a great traffic source. Unfortunately for most domain owners they just send the traffic away immediately after it reaches their site instead of trying to monetize it further. Which is why I started DevelopedSiteSales.com