What is a Magazine Website?

A magazine website is a huge site that contains all kinds of articles on your chosen topic or that your target market is interesting in reading. A magazine site may publish content once or several times per day, but there are no strict rules on how often you need to publish.

These sites are terrific for building traffic and establishing your reputation in your market. With so much content, you’ll likely receive plenty of traffic through search engines and your traffic builds through word-of-mouth because you offer such great information. It's also a good opportunity to display advertising from Google Adsense or advertisers who purchase ads from you directly.

However, portal sites, in our experience, don’t always convert to sales or opt-ins as readily as a smaller, more focused site. This is likely because there is just so much information and so many links on the site to distract your visitor. They may just want to find everything on your website for free.

But is that a bad thing? Not at all.  We already mentioned the benefits of a portal site – free traffic, establishing your reputation in your market and advertising revenue.

However, I don't put whole affiliate marketing strategy into a portal site. Make sure you're building a mailing list, create more topic-focused websites and adding to your online release estate. Once you’ve built up huge streams of traffic to your magazine site (most of which will be free), you can direct all that traffic into your higher-converting mini-sites – creating a steady stream of traffic to your network of websites.