Webmastering – the numbers game ..

• November 24, 2008

There are few other industries where armed with a little knowledge and a tiny investment you can go on to make a very hefty income. Things aren’t anywhere near like they were many years ago, but you can still make a decent living being a webmaster depending on how hard and smart you work.
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Webmastering and creating sites will produce a residual income, you wont see lots of $ up front but after months and years of building you will enjoy the fruits of your labor over a long period of time, usually with very little maintenance necessary.
The first step is to work out how to make a site that makes money. I usually aim for the $1 a day site .. in that I like to aim to make a site that will earn on average $1 per day. Though for this thread lets take a more realistic target of 100 visits a day. Any site should be able to hit 100 visits a day just with a little content, some se traffic and a few link trades.
1 – Lets assume you get a pretty low 10% ctr overall on your site, and convert a pretty average 1:2000. Thats pretty poor figures but anyone should be able to achieve them. You spend half a day 7 days a week creating your site and getting linking up etc .. easy as pie. Lets also assume a sale if the average of $30 each.
After 1 month you are getting 3000 visits to your site a day, 300 clicks to sponsor and around 1 sale a week. Congrats you are on around $1500 a year!
though after a year you are getting 36000 visits a day, 3600 clicks to your sponsor a day and 1.8 sales a day. You would be on 18,000 a year. Not a fortune but a pretty handy residual income. Do it another year and it all doubles.
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Now lets be a little more realistic. Firstly 100 visits a day is piddly, and an average ratio of 1:2000 is bad. With some learning, and some extra work plus more of a full time approach we can play with those numbers.
Lets say you are building a site a day that will generate 200 (still low) visits a day on average, you are working 7 days a week, and you can convert 1:800 plus you are earning on average $40 a sale (more than doable with good revshare sponsors and some higher payout programs), and you are generating a more reasonable 20% ctr.
After a month you are generating 6000 visits a day to your sites, 1200 clicks to sponsor a day, 1.5 sales a day, and an ok 21,900 a year.
After a year of hard work and grind you have hit the jackpot. you are getting 72000 visits a day, 14400 clicks to sponsor a day, 18 sales a day, $720 a day, which equates to a whopping $262,800 a year…. thats right over $250k a year. Spend another year building considering the 2 year site rule and you should be able to sustain a $500k a year income.
Sounds easy right? Well heres the catch….
Can you avoid distractions and build and work every day?
Can you keep it up 7 days a week? 6? even 5?
Can you be your own boss and avoid temptations to surf the net and chat on all the boards all day?
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At the very least with a little determination and some hard work everyone is capable of financial freedom to some degree!
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