$5-10 MILLION a Year - Super Affiliate Story

[Linda Buquet]

I've blogged about Markus before and many of you may know his story. Markus Frind is an affiliate that pulls in $5-10 Million a year at his dating site PlentyofFish, which he runs pretty much single-handedly from his Vancouver apartment. This week his success story was published in the Wall Street Journal.

"When you have that kind of traffic, you can make money three ways: via Google's small text ads, with bigger banner ads and through "affiliate marketing," where other sites pay you for sending them customers. Mr. Frind does all three -- and does very well. A few months back, he posted on his blog a picture of a check from Google for nearly $1 million for a two-month period. Google confirmed the check was for real."

Markus blogs about all the press he's been getting and says: "I’ve been getting a lot of attention lately because Plentyoffish climbed something like 40 spots on the rankings in 30 days (March/april) to get into the top 100 sites in the US based on visitors."

Hat tip to Andrew at the WebPublishing Blog for the story: PlentyofFish.com now pulling in $5-$10 million a year; Google confirms past income

[Julia]

Inspiring story Linda

Amongst all the rumours and over-hyped claims about multi-millionare affiliate gurus, it's always great to hear a true success story!

[cashadventure]

Not bad for a guy that is still working out of his living room. This guy thought ahead.

[erniec]

I would just like to know a few of his secrets!

[rogerharper]

Inspiring! And when it is featured on WSJ, you believe it (rather than the self proclaimed gurus with a scanned google copy of their earning showing some $)

Looked at the site - looks plain simple. Is it the free part that draws attention? How many of you have subscribe on the site after reading this new bit - would be interesting to know.