I've seen quite a few threads lately with people asking which products they should sell. The answer is really simple. All of them! I know, it sounds like i'm not answering the question or trying to be funny,but it's the truth. People spend too much time trying to figure out what might sell. My best success has come from products that I likely never would have chosen, nor would I think they would actually sell online. Try some differing niches and find out what works for you. Put enough out there and something is likely to convert. THEN and only then should you step in and do some analysis. Find out WHY that product converted well and see if there are any other similar products you can sell. I'm personally promoting upwards of 200,000 different products right now. That may sound insane, but it has given me a great deal of insight into what sells and what doesn't. Now I can focus down my efforts and make some real money from those products. Hey, now you don't need that other "super secret niches revealed" e-book . Seriously though, give me some questions.
Hi 1EightT, Certainly, you can't be using your own website where you presell each product...You must just have links to all the major networks. Can you expand on how you are doing this? Thanks. Jim
WOW! Fancy promoting my CB product? Seems as though you're promoting everyone else's! An interesting strategy though... I guess the underlying message is to test, test and test. Gary
I have custom software that manages all of the domains (300+ at the moment). It gives us stats, shows performance per domain and allows me to insert new products from any network via data feeds, csv, scraping, etc. I'm setting up 37 new domains today for various products. Gary, that's pretty much it. Spend more time building and less time thinking (initially at least). Once the data comes in you can analyze it and figure out which products and services convert for you.
Interesting strategy, although I wouldn't recommend it to someone who doesn't have much starting capital to do so. I bet you have fun on renewal day
I rarely renew the domains. I get 88 cent .info's and use them for one year. The software allows me to clone existing sites so transferring to new domains is a snap. It really doesn't take much capital to get started. You can buy 30 or 40 .info's for 25-35 dollars.
I think you are wrong here. You have a shopping site, not everyone has that. Some people just has a blog or a small information type site and can only add a few affiliate products to it. Not everyone is going to start pulling every known product from hundreds of merchant datafeeds just to use for the small blog. I find that if you are using product datafeeds from the large networks then you can manage it just fine if you also use automated software / scripts to do have of the job for you. But if you are thinking of joining up to individual affiliate programs on the web, then joining as many as possible for a site that gets small traffic or is rather new is a very bad idea. By the time that you have signed up to 100 affiliate progarms and put 100 or more different product banners / links on your site, it would have taken you about 3 - 6 months. Before you know it, you will have to update some of the links / banners again, 1 affiliate program may have stopped their program so you will have to take all their banners / links of your site. Some affiliate mangers may have closed your account by then of 6 months inactivity, etc. So if you have a small site then only focus on a few affiliate programs and their products and then if they don't work, find some more and test them. Keep doing this until you find some products and affiliate programs that does well on your site.
I don't have a shopping site. I have individual domains for each affiliate or niche that I send affiliate traffic to. I agree with you if you have a small information type of site, but in my experience those don't convert that well anyway unless you have LOTS of traffic. This information is more for people that want to make some good monthly revenue from affiliate programs, but that don't already have a site that will convert well as far as sales.
I must be slightly wrong then. I had the impression you built software that automatically scrapes product sites and then inserts your affiliate ID or something like that and then you automatically create loads of pages with products on that is optimized for the search engines. You then have a script that automatically starts building your new website backlinks.
Natural search engine rankings. I use the software in my signature to build the sites. They are then promoted by the same software, and you in turn receive natural search engine traffic.
You are mostly correct, but the products and pages are spread out across hundreds of domains. I just use the software to manage all of them, build the pages, scrape the product url's, and promote the then built pages.
- it is just one strategy, to get many web sites and add many links not all person can do that do not forget that not to add more web sites but promote more than 300 web sites is the most important with 200 000 specific keywords (I think it is very hard to get more than 300 quality web sites and promote them correctly). - To make money with affiliate marketing is number game, one trsut web site that convert well and prodcut with high commssions can make more and more.
Yo uare exactly right that it is a numbers game. I prefer to spread my risks out across many domains. How many times have you read something here or on another seo forum where someone was making tons of money from a single site, then google had an update and they in turn make nothing now. If I were in the same situation I would likely not even notice the change in google.