Health/Food Related Affiliates

[Grinderschool]

I have an idea with an ability to post a bunch of food and health related articles and posts on a wordpress type site. I have an online food diary of sorts that was never indexed by google and I could generate probably 100 pages/posts with what I wrote.

I ended up losing 30 pounds in 4 months at a very steady 2 lbs week for 15 weeks and have kept it off for over 18 months. I did 95% diet/food related with very little exercise.

My biggest concern is the ability to monetize the site. I could get some revenue from Amazon cookbook sales and then from google ads. I know weight watchers has an affiliate program but I'm wonder if with the right domain name it would be worthwhile for me to create the site?

[Scott]

You could make a product based on your diet plan... I'm sure it'd take a lot of effort to get it going, but it could be worthwhile... I don't have any experience in the niche though... Make a nice day-by-day program and get a nice landing page created... Put it up on Clickbank and start driving traffic to it... Still a good idea to have a blog to develop some of your own traffic, but you'd probably have a better chance at making a nice ROI for your time if you created a product... Once you get going try upselling your clients cookbooks and the other stuff that can make you commissions...

[pokeraussie]

The bigger concern is traffic it's a competitive niche. If your posts are basically just journal entries and not optimised for anything it's doubtful you will drive much traffic at all.

[leporello]

Clickbank has a ton of weight loss products with decent CPAs. I'd check that out for sure. Also, use Aweber to start building a mailing list and promote products via your automailers.

[Grinderschool]

The bigger concern is traffic it's a competitive niche. If your posts are basically just journal entries and not optimised for anything it's doubtful you will drive much traffic at all.

Ideally most of the work done would be to convert the journal entries into optimizable posts. Its the day by day part that would have the most appeal to me. Creating a product would be nice but I would feel somewhat shitty given I didn't have many unique ideas, but i took the good ones from several different sources. Thats not to say I couldn't improve upon these ideas to make them my own but that would take up most of the work.

Weight Loss products that have CPAs is another idea, but I would probably never 'recommend' them. Perhaps having a review section to go with the day by day plan that if people want to buy it they can. But hell, everyone starts out with such high integrity when they go to make these pages only to realize that's not how to make the most money lol.

Thanks for the advice, I think if I were to do something like this then I would need a partner or 2 and not just do it all myself.

Also, these domains are much more competitive than poker. The closest domain I could get to would be eathealthyplan.com.

[Scott]

Most of those weight loss products on CB are just re-hashed products, so I wouldn't worry about that if it's the only thing holding you back...

I looked quickly and you could pick-up NaturalWeightLossDiet.net... It's a bit long, but it gets some exact searches plus lots of other "natural weight loss xxx" searches...

If you don't want to push the weight loss products you could try finding useful natural supplements and push those...