Affiliate Marketer / Niche Site Builder
Building a content site that earns traffic through search and converts it through commissions on the products it reviews and recommends.
Analogy Mental model
A food writer paid when readers book the restaurants. You don't run a kitchen; you publish the guide, and each recommendation carries a link that returns a small share of what readers spend.
In practice What you actually do
The pattern: choose a niche with real search demand and commercial intent, publish consistently around buyer formats such as best-of lists, head-to-head comparisons, and hands-on reviews, join the relevant affiliate programs, and diversify acquisition beyond Google because Pinterest, YouTube, and email all reduce single-platform risk.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
Reviews assembled from other reviews stopped working; recent updates removed sites that had clearly never touched the product. What survives is first-hand evidence — your own photographs, your own measurements, and your own failures with the thing.
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