Make Money With a Football Affiliate Website

There is no denying football is growing in popularity year on year and the money being poured into the game by television broadcasters is reaching astronomical amounts. You may well feel the touch of the green-eyed monster when you see distinctly average players trousering in excess of £1 million per year but this article looks at how you can have your slice of this multi-billion pound pie.

The easiest way to make money from football, without having to kick a ball in anger yourself is by running your very own online football affiliate website.

Getting Started

I am a big fan of content-rich websites and football provides an almost unlimited amount of subject matter for a devoted fan to write or blog about and then try and monetise those pages.

Whether you create a website about a specific player, club, league, competition or try to include a mixture of everything related to the beautiful game, it is important you are knowledgeable about the subject you are writing about and you are passionate enough to update your website regularly.

The long term goal should be to build up a devoted following of readers who will return to your website time and time again and hopefully earn you commissions by purchasing associated products you promote as an affiliate. In time, when your website is getting a substantial amount of traffic and you can prove a decent earnings figure over the course of at least six months, you will be in a great position to sell your football website for a five (or if you are really lucky, six) figure sum!

Can’t Build a Website? No Problem!

If you are unable to create a website yourself, then do not be put off, because I offer ready-made football affiliate websites for sale which you can make your own and will also provide you with full marketing and training support. So even if you are a complete beginner, you will be able to earn a great side income with your own football affiliate website!

The latest football website I have for sale can be found below:

Here are just some of the ways you can monetise a football website and literally get paid for writing about the sport you love!

Retailer Affiliate Programmes

A number of retailers provide advertisement banners with relevant football items, such as kits, equipment etc that you can add to your website. Just pick a banner that fits in best with the overall look and feel of your website, sit back and take any commissions that come your way.

Alternatively, you could pick an advertiser that compliments a type of article you write. For example, if you wrote a nostalgic football piece, you could include advertising material from a company such as Toffs, which sells retro football shirts.

Or, if you wrote a review of the latest book or video game, at the end of the piece you could add a text link to the items in Amazon including your unique affiliate ID. If your review persuades a reader to impulse buy, then you will receive a commission on the sale!

eBay Affiliate Programme

An alternative way to monetise your content is to tap into the thousands of items available in the eBay marketplace. If you wrote abut a particular player, club or competition, you could add eBay listings for complimentary products such as signed football shirts, match programmes or DVDs.

The eBay Partner Network enables you to create links to display relevant listings in a matter of seconds and should any of your readers to go on and buy any of the items displayed, you will receive a commission of up to 50% of the final value fees eBay charge the person selling the item.

Live Sport Affiliate Programmes

The popularity of video websites such as Youtube means there is easy access to football highlights from a number of leagues around the world. Indeed, there are official channels for Serie A, Major League Soccer and South American football on Youtube.

You can create match reports or football highlights pages by embedding these videos into your website. You can monetise the pages by adding affiliate links to software programmes and subscription services which allow you to watch live football online. A number of such services which offer an affiliate programme can be found at Clickbank.

Bookmaker Affiliate Programmes

It is important not to ignore the tremendously lucrative bookmaker affiliate programmes which can really rack up when you promote them in conjunction with solid football content!

Write betting previews for football matches and tournaments and at the end of your article, add some betting odds and then an affiliate link to the bookmaker who offers them. You don’t really have to know much about gambling to write agood preview, just offer your opinions on how you think the match will finish!

Some bookmakers, such as Bet365, will pay you flat fee for every new account opened via your website, usually up to about £20 or so but the real money is in the programmes which offer you a revenue share. This means you take a percentage, often between 20-30%, of whatever a person who opened an account via your website loses at the bookies… for life!

This is an incredible long-term earning opportunity and revenue share means you don’t need a lot of customers to open accounts for your commissions to grow to a substantial monthly amount!

Google Adsense

Finally, do not forget Google Adsense which compliments just about any page you create and enables you to earn a small amount of money if your vistors are not interested in buying any of the main products you promote and want to click away from your website.