Time Investment for Amazon Affiliate & Adsense Niche Websites in 2022

Today I am going to share some great tips for time and money investment required in building Amazon affiliate or Google AdSense niche websites for passive income. These valuable tips will help you in setting up a successful business or even offer these services in difference freelance marketplaces and help you grow many folds. These essential tips are crux of my professional working experience.

1. Niche & Keywords Research (you will do it yourself, only time investment required)

Required Tools for Niche & Keywords Research include: Ahrefs, Moz & Keywords Everywhere Chrome Extension.

2. $10 to $13 per year for domain (name cheap has same renewal prices each year)

I recommend name cheap for buying domains, since their pricing stays intact on renewals unlike GoDaddy, where you will get surprised on renewal price.

3. Shared Hosting starts from approximately $60 per year for each website and goes up to $250 per year, where you can host up to 20 website.

Some good quality shared hosting providers are: HawkHost, MDDHosting & BlueHost. I will recommend to have a VPS, when your websites start growing fast.

4. WordPress Website setup with themes and plugins. (time  investment, you must do it yourself)

Free themes or plugins can be used to build amazon affiliate or Google AdSense niche websites for passive income

Fastest WordPress Themes Required for Amazon Affiliate or Google Adsense Niche Websites

You can pick any of the following fastest wordpress themes to start your amazon affiliate or google adsense niche website project.

Plugins Required for Amazon Affiliate or Google Adsense Niche Websites

Free Plugins for Amazon Affiliate & Google Adsense Niche Websites

Premium Plugins for Amazon Affiliate Website
a. AAWP b. AmaLinks Pro

5. Content Writing if outsourced will be a major chunk. If you will do it yourself, it will cost you time, and save money.

6. OnPage and OffPage SEO (you should do yourself, time investment needed)

7. Dedication and time investment for creating or scheduling content, integrating affiliate links.

Pro Tip: Avoid using short links in amazon affiliate sites, as it will cost you time when flipping the site, as short links have to be modified one by one to change affiliate ID, whereas you can replace affiliate ID in one click when you are using full URL, either using affiliate plugin or search and replace plugin within WordPress.

8. Doing social media promotion efforts to bring traffic from YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn etc. Building an active community around your niche on social media will help to drive more traffic. This stuff will cost time investment, approximately 2 hours daily.

9. In above mentioned steps, where you have had invested your time, you will gain practical exposure to some very good skills which could be sold later in freelance marketplaces like Fiverr and Upwork.
For instance, you can sell KW And Niche Research, WordPress Website Design with Elementor, Theme and Plugins Setup, OnPage and OFF Page SEO, Content Writing, WordPress Blog Management, Or provide all in one complete package of building niche websites on Adsense or Amazon Affiliate.

10. Once you have gained enough experience and made substantial savings, it’s the right time to grow your business by expanding into multiple niches and start outsourcing your work, or hire inhouse job positions.

Time & Money Investment Calculator for Google Adsense & Amazon Affiliate Niche Websites

Google Adsense Website Time Investment: Micro Niche Website with Low KD Keywords and Good Search Volume will take approximately 3 – 6 months to rank on Google Search.

Micro Niche requires less money investment as compared to macro niche websites. As you will need more content for macro niche websites. The best strategy is to start with a micro-niche Google adsense website and expand it into macro-niche as soon as your micro-niches are getting ranked.

Investment Required for Adsense Micro Niche Site: Domain $13/Y + Hosting $60/Y + Free Theme + Free Plugins + Content ($10 per 1000 words = $200 for 20,000 words or 20 articles of 1000 words each, this cost could be 3x if you are hiring a content writer from USA or Europe) or you can save this cost, if you can write the content yourself.

Google Adsense Micro Niche Website might require this much investment: $13+$60+$200 = $273

Investment Required for Amazon Affiliate Micro Niche Site: Domain $13/Y + Hosting $60/Y + Free Theme + Premium Plugin $67/Y (a. AAWP or b. AmaLinks Pro) + Content ($20 per 1000 words = $400 for 20,000 words or 20 articles of 1000 words each, this cost could be 3x if you are hiring a content writer from USA or Europe) or you can save this cost, if you can write the affiliate content yourself.

Amazon Affiliate Micro Niche Website might require this much investment: $13+$60+$67+$400 = $540

Passive Income Estimate Generator for Google Adsense & Amazon Affiliate Niche Websites

Passive Income Estimator for Google Adsense Micro Niche Website: It will take 3 to 6 months for Google Adsense micro niche website to rank on Google, afterwards you could be generating anywhere between $10 to $50 per day. These are lower estimates. Once you start promoting your site aggressively with SEO and Social Media, your passive income could increase many folds. Your passive income depends on a lot of factors, and the major factor is your targeting country. Tier 1 countries (US, UK, CA, AUS, NZ etc) always yield maximum earning potential. Google Adsense shares 68% revenue with their users.

Let’s suppose you are able to generate an average of $50 per day, that turn out to be $1500 per month. Keep promoting the website and making money with Google Adsense micro niche website for at least 6 months to an year. After that, if you want to keep the recurring passive income site, it’s up to you. Else you might flip it on Flippa marketplace for 12x to 30x of your monthly income. Let’s suppose your site’s revenue is $1500 per month,  you can still sell it for 30x, that means $45,000, if your website was consistently making $1500 per month over an year. So you have had turned $273 investment into $45,000 over the period of 1 to 1.5 years only. This $45000 does not include the income that you already had earned from Google Adsense micro niche website.

Passive Income Estimator for Amazon Affiliate Micro Niche Website: It will take 8 months to 1.5 years for Amazon Affiliate  micro niche website to rank on Google, afterwards you could be generating anywhere between $30 to $100 per day. These are lower estimates. Once you start promoting your site aggressively with SEO and Social Media, your passive income could increase many folds. Let’s suppose you are able to generate an average of $100 per day, that turn out to be $3000 per month. Choosing the products and niche is very important, our research shows that products ranging from $100 to $350 yield the better results. Amazon pays commission on the basis of their product criteria which is different for many categories.

Keep promoting the website and making money with Amazon affiliate micro niche website for at least 6 months to an year. After that, if you want to keep the recurring passive income site, it’s up to you. Else you might flip it on Flippa marketplace for 12x to 30x of your monthly income. Let’s suppose your site’s revenue is $3000 per month,  you can still sell it for 30x, that means $90,000, if your website was consistently making $3000 per month over an year. So you have had turned $540 investment into $90,000 over the period of 1.5 to 2 years only. This $90000 does not include the income that you already had earned from Amazon Affiliate micro niche website.