How Many Pages Does a Site Need to Make Money?

make money one page site I got asked this question so many times. And it is definitely one of my favorites. Because I can advocate for both sides

So, do you need a lot of pages to be a successful blogger? Let’s dig in!

Sites with hundreds of pages

Of course these big sites will attract more visitors simply because they usually have more indexed pages in search engines.

With more content, more people will read different pages they like and share it on social media. Kinda like a snowball, once it starts rolling… you get the point.

With hundreds of pages on a site, you also have so many more (in content) monetization options. You can add affiliate links to your posts and include some in-content ads like Adsense, it would not be hard with so many pages on the site, right?

By seeing what is your best received content you can create targeted products and offers. So many pages are bound to give you some product and monetization ideas. Having variety is usually a great way to always have different offers for different audience.

But in all reality, you can really make (a lot of) money with one page site and I don’t mean only a long sale page.

One page sites

You can make a lot of money from one page sites. Or even having a single page on someone else’s site, like Squidoo I mentioned in a previous post.

So let me give you two ideas on how to make money with one page:

Build a list
Build a Squidoo lens

Building an “email blogging” list

This isn’t just building a list for the sake of it. The idea behind this is to create a squeeze or landing page, what ever you want to call it and get people to sign up for the list. The reason for signing would be “email blogging”.

So you would not have a blog, worry about SEO or anything like that. You would be blogging directly into peoples’ inboxes, sending them information they want to read along with product offers. If you target your offer good, people will sign up all the time.

A different variation of this same strategy is simply charging a small fee for your newsletter. I actually pay monthly subscriptions for some newsletters I signed up for using this exact strategy.

How would you get traffic to that page? You can do the same thing you are doing with your blog now, makes no difference, blog commenting, guest posts, forums, social media, etc.

As long as you are providing value for your target audience, you will send traffic to your sign up page. The best part is that even your costs will be lower.

Building a Squidoo lens

This doesn’t even have to be a Squidoo lens, it can be a one page WordPress.com blog, Blogger blog, a page on another site, but the reason I recommend Squidoo is that you can use all the traffic the site gets and the more popular lenses already there.

The main idea is to find a keyword for a single product that sells good, build a very good page and put affiliate links for the product. Then, use the same traffic generation strategies you would use for a blog.

To use other peoples’ hard work make sure to go through Top 100 lenses in the category you are interested in and see what you can do better. Also, use all the tags those lenses used, you can put many of them on your lens and help being found as a related lens from one of those more successful ones.

Conclusion

This is an overview of how you can make money from one page. There is so much more you can do and different ways you can do things I mention. I just wanted to show you that you can make money from one page, without selling a sleazy low quality product on a sales page you need to scroll through for hours.

The good thing with one page sites is that you are sending all the traffic to one page so it will be easier than trying to build links to several dozens of pages on multi-page blog. Focusing all those efforts on one single page bring results faster than getting spread too thin.

So let me know what do you think about this and if you have ever done something similar?

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http://www.wmwebdesign.co.uk/ wmwebdes

Hi Brankica
Got me thinking again!

List building, Squidoo lens… just when I’d decided on a strategy of building up my page numbers.

Took a look at Squidoo, looks pretty good – do you have a page?

Presumably you can have different pages for different products.
- http://onlineincomestar.com/ Brankica
  
  @wmwebdes I have just a handful of them left, the non-money makers, lol. Everything that was making money I just sell… doesn’t make much sense but I get bored easy so I try not to lose interest and lose money eventually. The reason I mention these one page strategies are because they are so much easier to work on in sense you don’t have to always build more and more traffic to each new page. You just do it to one page, tweak the page till it converts like crazy and go from there. I myself tend to build large sites more often than one page things and then get stuck with too much work and not enough time.
  - http://www.wmwebdesign.co.uk/ wmwebdes
    
    @Brankica
    ”…too much work and not enough time.” Now that I can understand.
    Thanks for a great reply Brankica.
http://www.slymarketing.com/ Jens

Hi Brankica,

I absolutely agree that you can earn money with one page. It’s great to be focused and it’s a lot easier for people to find your offer when they visit your site. What’s a lot more difficult with one page is to drive traffic without paying for it, or working hard at article writing or guest posts etc.. But as long as you have the right strategy, it’s possible

Very interesting post, and one that got me thinking
- http://onlineincomestar.com/ Brankica
  
  @Jens I was looking at how many hours I spend on my blog for example, imagine I did that only for one page where I would build list, I could still do the same thing – blog commenting, social media, guest posting… I am thinking about dumping something to have time for one of these one page sites
http://marketingwithsergio.com/ SergioFelix

Hey Brankica,

Pretty much agree you could do WONDERS with just one page.

I actually wanted to create a site that would have only one page in the front and all the content protected by a membership area in order to have a more responsive list.

But then again, I would be kind of shooting myself in the foot because if people can’t see if my content is good or not, then maybe they won’t sign at all.

Still too many assumptions but I do believe a lot on blogging directly to people’s inboxes.

As far as the Squidoo Lenses go, I remember that Steve (Scott) told me his brother was making a complete KILLING just with Lenses so I think that’s a great way of getting into affiliate marketing as well and yeah, pretty much with one pages too!

Great article, short but sweet!

Sergio
JamesPruitt

hey Brankica. I actually have a wp EXPORT FILE with my 5 basic pages: Thank you page, affiliate disclosure, privacy, about me, and welcome page already on them. I can upload it into a new wp instalation, create a opt in page ( I love Hesham’s thesis awesome product skin theme for this) and publish it within couple of hours from start to finish, then youtube videos articles and guest posts to promote it.
http://www.ipnostudio.com/ Andrea H. | The Hypnotism Weekly

Interesting point and actually, as an ex HubPages writer, I can say you can earn well if you get a very good article on those platforms. There are two points to consider though: the first one is that you get your stuff on someone else site and if the site closes or gets nuked you could lose everything and second that if they change their mind, and this happens pretty often, what was a hit can become a loss in a day, mainly due to Google’s diktats. It’s their own playground and they do what they want. Also many times they have their own rules as regards affiliate links, but asking for clarification you usually get a clear answer.

Good idea Brankica.
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