How Bowen Went From $0 To $3,208 / Month Building Affiliate Website

1. Would you provide us a short introduction about yourself?

Hey Tung, Thank you for interviewing me and it is a joy to be here discussing my expertise.
My name is Bowen Khong and I am the Head of Digital Marketing of Dr Wealth, we're among the biggest private finance and investment website in Singapore.
And as you know, I run an Amazon affiliate website during my Spare Time

2. How can you begin with internet business and just how far you have come since then?

It had been just like three years since I began the entire internet business thing. Long story short, I had always wished to give up the rat rat race and has been always searching for different ways to generate a living.
1 day I discovered SmartPassiveIncome and SmartBlogger (formerly called BoostBlogTraffic), and yet another site contributed to another.
Consumed their content. Purchased a few classes. Failed many times for its initial couple of decades. Then in late 2016 I discovered your $10K Challenge and 10beasts' success story. Got extremely inspired and motivated by it and I chose to give it a try.

I made my first Amazon affiliate website on Mar 2017; took me 5 weeks to split the initial $100, 4 weeks to reach $1,000 and one month to $2,000 and another 2 weeks to $3,200. The gain margin is in excess of 80%.

• Mar / 2017- $0
• Apr / 2017 - $0
• May / 2017 - $11
• June / 2017 - $17
• July / 2017 - $160
• Aug / 2017 - $415
• Sep / 2017 - $171
• October / 2017 - $311
• Nov / 2017 - $953
• Dec / 2017 - $2,064
• Jan / 2018 - $2,300
• Feb / 2018 - $3,227
• Mar / 2018 - $2,902
• Apr / 2018 - $3,208

3. Tell Us About Your Present Successful Job

The website I am running is an Amazon affiliate website, version after 10beasts and thoroughlyreviewed. It is plank general review website. 90 percent of the articles are review content and I am slowly raising info-articles ratio to generate the website feels more organic and strengthen topical relevance for specific keyword phrases which are more aggressive.

4. How Has The Success Of The Job Impacted Your Life?

Received my initial USD 2,000 cheque from Amazon!

Possessing a few thousand of dollars in addition to my day job wages constantly feel good.
Nothing have changed in my entire life. I still eat regular foods, take public transportation to operate and live a fairly regular way of life.
I believe the tiny success has given me the assurance that it is possible to earn money on the internet and constructing authority websites is a workable business model. And I am super excited how much the website will go in the forthcoming months.

5. Which Are Some of The Largest Challenges You Happen in The Early Days? How Can You Conquer Them?

Keyword were not rank as quickly as I expected guest and for posting hyperlinks did not improve my rank much despite placing a great deal of work on outreach, followup and guest posting posts.
I am unsure whether the backlinks I gained were feeble or simply my key word proved just too aggressive, and it requires is more guest article.
During the period before I attained $1K my key word plan has had shifted many times. At this time I just target key words with feeble competition.
Sometimes, I am the only person who have the articles for the key word and that I will position it readily (yes it is possible to come across people just you need to devote a great deal more effort; each day there are new products listed on Amazon).
The best part is, because my website does not confine to a particular market I could aim literally any key word throughout the board.
I think what really helped me to conquer the first position trouble was, strange enough to state it on your site, is PBN.
I combined TheLab out of Matt Diggity and learned how to utilize PBN the ideal manner i.e hyperlink speed, anchor pillowing and outreach vs PBN, of that originally I had been very reluctant because one wrong move could make or break your website rank.

6. Can You Follow Money or Fire when Picking Your Niche?

I followed the market that possess the best payout whilst ensuring I have some attention. It is very hard persevere on matters you don't have any passion about notably in case in which you meet with barriers.
I believe in the brief term it is o.k. to go 100 percent to the most lucrative jobs (more so in the event that you lack of cash ), however in the future that you still would like to go for some thing you're passionate about.

7. How can you make content for your site? Can you write yourself or outsource to authors?

I wish I could write all of the articles by myself but I am just suck . My articles are outsourced to Ph authors.
Presently, I have two authors and a single VA.. The authors produce review articles depending on the key words I send them and they're also required to adhere to an editorial principle. Thus, all posts follow a standardized arrangement.
When the material is written it'll be passed to my VA and she'll upload into wordpress, create & add affiliate links, formatting and make featured picture. After everything is set I will review the guide and hit release.
You are able to discover decent Ph authors and VA on www.onlinejobs.ph. I used to employ them out of upwork.com but not as it is much more costly. Upwork charges fairly large fee whatsoever, therefore, the greater price will pass down to companies.
To reduce your price, you can employ them from occupation portals such as onlinejobs.ph and utilize a freelancer time monitoring software such as hubstaff.com to clock their hours. You may use Paypal to cover their wage each week foundation on the hours they've clocked.
The first VA I'd I paid her USD 1.8 per hour and then I raised her commission to USD 4 . You ought to be able to receive an adequate VA in the speed of USD 2.5 per hour. In terms of authors, I'd like to pay them about $8 a 1,000 words, but I climbed to USD 16 per 1,000 words. They are quite familiar with USD 10 per 1,000 words.

8. How can you come up with content ideas? What kinds of articles would you post? How frequently do you post?

Nothing inventive here. I simply replicate what we've already figured out. I manage a master listing of opponents' key words found in Ahref Top Pages tab.
Prior to choosing the key word I shall evaluate each of these separately based on standards such as KD, M.S., merchandise cost, top 3 typical Ref. Dom. And sort of websites on SERP.
Largely review posts and much more informative articles this day; roughly 2 - 5 posts published each week. The review posts have 2,500 words and to get more aggressive search phrase 4,500 words.
My informational posts comprise 1,000 words, as it functions as a supportive articles so that the word count does not need to be overly significant. My website has around 90 posts (70 reviews & 20 information ).

9. How are you currently driving visitors to your own website?

Purely 100 percent SEO with greatest related key words as that catches perfectly the type of traffic affiliate websites required for great conversions.
To rank well on Google, link building is possibly the most essential activity besides generating great content. What works for me today is using a blend of PBN and guest article links, and possibly in future I shall add in certain high excellent donation links.
It is difficult to say that connection type works best since Google Algo is a complicated system and it is hard to see it in isolation. However, as much as large rank fundamentals proceed: PBN for connection strength and Guest Post to get pillowing, trust & authority.
I am using Freedom Hyperlink for PBN, also Loveto.link and Authority.Builders for Guest Post.

10. How can your site currently monetized?

Just Amazon affiliate link program.

11. Are you planning to cultivate your company going forward?

Grow it into 6-month monthly average earnings of $5,000 and market at 6-figure valuation. Plans can vary based upon the growth speed and dangers. I believe a lot of men and women overestimate the passive revenue facet and underestimate the dangers it involves i.e Google penalty and Amazon ban.
I take the perspective of opportunity price. What chance can I possibly lose if I do not sell the website. Or just how much can I possibly make with the profits to develop other more lucrative websites? I am sure my present Amazon affiliate website version is far from best.
Right now, the website is quite much neater and with the assistance of VA I am in a position to grow the website without having to spend an excessive amount of time. I just make certain things are properly done. I restrict myself to not invest over 5 hours a week so I can devote the rest on market research. I have a couple of niche jobs in your mind and will begin a non-Amz affiliate website by May.

12. Have you got some final suggestions for men and women that are only getting started?

I believe your site is a fantastic way for someone that are only beginning. I would also advise joining various online communities. Notably, sub-reddit /juststart since there are a lot of travel you are able to learn from.