Side hustle & income
AI Affiliate Site Earnings Calculator
Traffic is not income. What matters is how much of your traffic is on buyer-intent pages — this model separates the two.
Estimated monthly income
$340 – $1,019
- Affiliate clicks / month
- 1,200
- Sales / month
- 36
- Affiliate commission
- $259
- Display ad revenue
- $420
- Annual (mid case)
- $8,150
- Earnings per 1,000 visitors
- $27
Earnings per thousand visitors is the only number worth tracking month to month. It tells you whether to write more posts or fix the ones you have.
Why most affiliate projections are wrong
Informational traffic converts at roughly a fifth of buyer-intent traffic, so this model weights the two separately. A site with 100,000 visitors reading definitions earns less than a site with 10,000 visitors reading purchase comparisons.
The range is wide — plus or minus 50% — on purpose. Seasonality, cookie windows, returned orders and programme rate cuts routinely move affiliate income by half in either direction. Never plan fixed costs against the top of the range.
AI-written bulk content raises page counts, not earnings per thousand visitors. Search engines increasingly reward first-hand testing and original data, which is exactly what a language model cannot produce on its own.