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by MaxBarraclough
2140 days ago
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On top of that, how practical is it, really, to make over $100,000/year writing content for the web? > If you convert only 0.1% of your traffic (30 users), you’ll yield $15 000 a month ($180k a year). Well, how likely is it that you will reach that 0.1% conversion rate? 0.1% might sound like a small, easily achievable rate, but is it really? If it were easy to make a good living this way, everyone would be doing it. The article doesn't seem to acknowledge that good writing is hard to do. It doesn't even mention the word 'skill', for instance. |
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It is not easy, at all. Especially because it takes time to bootstrap a niche website to a level of traffic that's monetizable to the level you mentioned.
However, in the niche I have a website in, myself and many competitors are definitely reaching these levels and expenses are rather low. The problem is that we are at the mercy of the few strong ad and affiliate networks. So it's very uncertain (without even getting into SEO and Google's changes).
Many of my writers left me to do it on their own (i.e. write their own niche site) but came back after losing patience (for the right or wrong reasons).
The best niche sites are those having a balanced range of income streams, and their own products. But that's not easy.