Autopilot money making websites can make money around the clock through the selling of affiliate products and services. Website building services (such as Shopify) offer to set up money making websites for only a few dollars a month. However, what’s missing from these services is the marketing element. So even with a potentially profitable website, you’re not guaranteed any traffic to it unless you work on your marketing strategy.
So, before you rush in and pay for a money making website, think about how you’re going to attract visitors to it. There’s two main ways you can do this:
- Using paid marketing – (platforms such as Google Adwords lets you target ads to specific searches)
- Getting traffic organically – through the search engines (e.g. Google, Bing, etc.)
If you’re going to pay for traffic, it’s much better use of your cash to send that traffic to a landing page, not a generic website. That’s because on a website visitors can browse around and click about. But on a landing page they only have a simple choice: sign up or leave. This means online marketers can tweak their landing pages to optimise it for the best outcome, at the cheapest cost. There’s so many more variables on a website – blog posts, about pages, privacy policy and so on. See also why a landing page is important.
Autopilot Money Making Websites – A Landing Page
A landing page is a web page specifically designed to collect email subscribers to build an email marketing list. An email list is a great way to earn from a website because it gives you many more opportunities to sell something to your subscribers. On a website, most visitors are gone within a few minutes, never to return. But collect their email address and you can build a longer term relationship with them through automated email messages.
Studies show that most people need several touch points on a website before they buy something. Email marketing allows you to do this much more easily and cost effectively than on a website.
So, if you’re going to make money from a website, (using paid marketing), send your visitors to a landing page instead of a website. Send them to a website, with a bunch of information, and they will browse around at their leisure, and you’ll burn through your budget in no time – often without making the sale!
Autopilot Money Making Websites – Free Traffic
But what if you want totally free traffic? If you don’t want to pay for traffic to drive visitors to your website, you’re going to need to use another strategy. To get found organically, you need to create a reason for people to visit your website without running ads.
Blogging is a simple and effective way you can do this. However, blogging takes much longer than running ads before you will see a growing number of visitors. Still, if you are able to create content on a regular basis, there’s nothing quite like free traffic. Depending on your blog niche, you can start generating free traffic within a few months of consistent writing. In a more competitive niche, it will take longer.
To give yourself a better chance of ranking your content on the SERPS – search engine results pages (e.g. Google, Bing, etc.) you can target long tail keywords with low SEO difficulty. The most competitive keywords are much harder to rank for, since they are more competitive. So by finding long tail keywords, you give yourself a better chance of a listing on the first page of Google.
This can take some time and perseverance, and you’re not guaranteed to rank either! So it’s worth promoting your content as you write it however you can. You can share content on social media platforms and with your email list as your list grows. Build back links and reach out for guest posting opportunity to grow your online reach and build your SEO (search engine optimisation) score with Google.
Autopilot Money Making Websites – Building An Email List
Building an email list is a good idea if you want to create an autopilot money making website. Whether you use a free marketing strategy like blogging, or use paid marketing, you can build an email list. A list gives you more control over your traffic. With paid marketing, you need to buy traffic, with blogging and SEO you need to earn it! Once you start building an email list though, you have greater control and you can send your subscribers wherever you want. Whether it’s to a piece of content, or an affiliate product, for example.
To get people to opt into your list, you’ll need to offer something of value on your landing page, or on a form on your blog. Ebooks are great lead magnets and I have used several ebooks to great effect. Here’s another ebook I use as a lead magnet to get visitors to opt into my email list:
Selling From Your Website
Selling from a website is much easier to do if you collect email subscribers. On a website, they only have a few minutes to buy. From an email list, you can continue to communicate with your audience over a longer time period. I’ve sometimes had subscribers buy affiliate products from my list years after they initially signed up. This just isn’t possible directly from a website. You do of course need something of value to offer your subscribers and visitors to sell.
There’s thousands of affiliate products and services you can choose from to monetise a website. If you’re a blogger, you’ll need to find something which is suitable for your topic and audience.
Physical affiliate products pay less than digital ones and ideally have a subscription affiliate product to sell which pays out recurring commissions. That way, you stand to earn a lot more for each sale you make. You can also sell high ticket affiliate products from a website which pay out the largest commissions. See also the most profitable digital products.
You can also monetise a website through advertising space. Google Adsense is one of the more popular platforms which lets you place ads on your content. When someone clicks on your ad, you earn a small amount of advertising revenue. If you’re going down this route you’ll need to become a blogger, since it’s not worth paying for advertising to get these tiny amounts. See also Adsense alternatives.
