About 8 months ago I started a small niche affiliate site to promote Miche Handbags.

When I first started the site, it took me less then a month to rank in the top 5 of Google for my most relevant keywords. I remained in the top for over 6 months, and than one day, I am nowhere to be found.

The day the site dropped out of Google, I was a little worried as I knew that my affiliate sales were going to dissapear. However the exact opposite happened, which I wasn’t expecting. I started to notice that at the time I dropped out of Google rankings that the traffic coming from MSN started to grow. Now mind you, I was seeing a lot less traffic coming in from MSN than Google, but the traffic I was receiving seemed to be a lot more willing to spend their money.

In the last 3 months I have received a 3rd of the traffic that I saw from Google, but I average almost $400 a month more in commissions.

One thing I have gathered from this is that MSN users seem to spend more than Google users. Why, I am not sure. Maybe an older more mature crowd? Either way, I am happy with it.