Insurance Website Earning Good Revenue

Mike S · 06-01-2009, 10:58 PM

In addition to running a directory for insurance agents, I recently setup an insurance affiliate website at Save364.com. The site earns revenue through three affiliate programs, Google, Surehits and Insureme. To generate visits I refer traffic from our directory and have created a blog.
The site generates about a 100 visitors a day and earns around three thousand dollars a month.
I am interested in selling the site. If interested contact me at sales@save364.com

CHUMPS FROM OXFORD · 06-01-2009, 11:02 PM

OK.

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Peelerinsurance.com · 06-01-2009, 11:06 PM

Yea... good work... ???

EDM · 06-01-2009, 11:46 PM

Who designed your landing page?

Mike S · 06-02-2009, 08:22 AM

I designed the landing page. I wanted a page that loaded quickly with just the basic info.

The Hopp · 06-02-2009, 12:20 PM

What percentage of your monthly revenue are you getting from SureHits compared to Adsense?

CHUMPS FROM OXFORD · 06-02-2009, 12:33 PM

"Each Health insurance provider below is currently offering deep discounts"

Not true and not allowed.

Mike S · 06-02-2009, 12:57 PM

Surehits represents 70% of the revenue. There PPC is also about 30% higher than Google.

moonlightandmargaritas · 06-02-2009, 12:58 PM

That's great. What about the "deep discount" thing? It's misleading, untrue and illegal.

I, for one, would suggest you remove it.

somarco · 06-02-2009, 01:17 PM

So you are basically a shill for eHealth, Vimo, Benepath, our friends at 2insure4less and others on health insurance.

Mike S · 06-02-2009, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by moonlightandmargaritas

That's great. What about the "deep discount" thing? It's misleading, untrue and illegal.

I, for one, would suggest you remove it.

I am going to remove the word Deep but leave in Discount on the landing pages.

moonlightandmargaritas · 06-02-2009, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by Mike S

I am going to remove the word Deep but leave in Discount on the landing pages.

No good.

Insurance premiums are regulated by state insurance departments. "Discounts" are not allowed.

It's untrue, unethical, misleading, illegal and bad.

Mike S · 06-02-2009, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by somarco

So you are basically a shill for eHealth, Vimo, Benepath, our friends at 2insure4less and others on health insurance.

We earn revenue for whoever Surehits or Google enlists in there program. I have noticed that Allstate, Geico, eHealthinsurance and Vimo cross advertise between the two programs.

Our site is setup as a simple portal to bring the consumer and the Insurance company together. My main site The Auto Insurance Directory at CCAuctions is designed to promote agents. We have about 1,200 agents listed in our directory. I have had that site for about 5 years. The agents like it because they can write quite a bit about their agencies and we have the top-ranking for insurance agents directories.

joeljonathan · 06-04-2009, 10:56 PM

How do you get traffic to the site? (I notice that you have 146 pages indexed in Google but most of your site content is unrelated to insurance so I have to doubt that it converts very well...)

Mike S · 06-04-2009, 11:05 PM

Most of the traffic comes from insurance articles in our blog. We average about 100 visitors a day.

joeljonathan · 06-05-2009, 01:22 AM

Yahoo shows you as having over 1,000 backlinks which is not bad at all.

The Hopp · 06-05-2009, 01:37 AM

Here is my question because I am very interested in this stuff. I understand the Surehits and Adwords but did you approach the blogs to link them to your site? I checked your backlinks through google and they don't list your site as having any backlinks???
If you type in 'term life insurance' in Google the top organic site is wholesaleinsurance.net. They rank higher than State Farm, MetLife, Prudential, etc etc. They have 102 backlinks but when you check out the backlinks they are mostly blogs that seem like they are pay to insert blogs and there are a few that don't make sense like a 'prison blog'???
Anyways if you are averaging 100 hits a day how long did that take you to avg that amount of hits? Did you optimize your page or have others do it for you?

Mike S · 06-05-2009, 12:23 PM

Originally Posted by The Hopp

Here is my question because I am very interested in this stuff. I understand the Surehits and Adwords but did you approach the blogs to link them to your site? I checked your backlinks through google and they don't list your site as having any backlinks???

The nice thing about the site http://save364.com is that you don't need much traffic to be profitable. With an average of 100 visitors a day we can earn a good return because the landing pageoffers only 2 options (Google Adsense or Surehits). About 30% of the visitors will choose to click on one of the revenue paying options.

Insurance affiliates pay a high PPC rate, but if you tried to do this in a different category the results would not be nearly as profitable. Search engines will not rank any affiliate site high enough to get natural search results. Are blog attached to the site does rank in the search engine and drives the current traffic.

To increase traffic would mean more blog entries or some sort of additional content to the site.

moonlightandmargaritas · 06-05-2009, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by Mike S

The nice thing about the site http://save364.com is that you don't need much traffic to be profitable.

Yeah but the problem is you are dishonest and unethical.

There is no such thing as a "deep discount" on health insurance. Doesn't exist, not allowed by law.

ghealthplus · 06-05-2009, 02:10 PM

Hi Mike...This sounds really good. Who do I contact to set up a website? Thanks