I run a pretty large product review site (dedicated 100% to one particular niche) and get around 600 visitors a day. I might get an affiliate commission once every two or three days. I'd really like to improve on this and would like some tips. Thanks.
Well, if it's 100% dedicated to particular niche, then you probably need to work on your pitch. Try checking out more information on "copywriting" (or hire somebody to help you out) and you'll probably do fine.
Yeah, those numbers ain't lookin' too good, are they. Kind of hard to help if we can't see your site. Also, where are those 600 coming from?
Like 90% from search engines, particularly google. The other 10% is from referring sites and directly. All organic, never paid for advertising a day in my life. My site is www.theplayersociety.com Thanks ahead.
So you have over 500 coming in from search engines? Hmmmm *suspicious look* really? Come on, now. Besides most, if not practically all people coming in from search engines don't buy. They are looking for free stuff, they are window shoppers, tire kickers.... Thats is one of the reasons why search engines are so overrated. By the way, you come across as saying it is good not to advertise, that you are really something because you "don't have to advertise." Am I wrong in that assumption? If not, think again. Anyway, I clicked on some of your links. It goes to a "temporarily unavailable" page. Um, hello? Ya think that is part of the problem? Another problem is that you are using the word "player." Most guys will roll their eyes at it. Most guys roll their eyes at clowns like, Style and Mystery. They know better. I'm also an author on dating and sexual health for men, and I steer clear of sites who also push these guy's products. I don't want my name in the same site as these goobers. Sorry to be so blunt in this post, but if you want to improve your sales....
Oh, I understand. You just caught my site at a bad moment, I contacted my host and they're fixing it, but thanks for pointing that out, I wouldn't have noticed it otherwise. I'm not completely opposed to advertising, just never been my cup of tea. They might be goobers, but they are laughing straight to the bank.
Oh yeah, and you'll notice there are 0 articles and products from Style and Mystery. I agree, they are dorks and do give the rest of us a bad name. I try to help promote the natural guides who focus on having fun with it, not putting scientific theory into it.
It'd be helpful to know what the top landing pages are that visitors hit from Google on your site, but here are some first impressions. The products you review (e.g. Books, CD/DVD, etc) are all rated highly and the reviews themselves are short. I wouldn't buy on the basis of any of those reviews, especially with nothing rated lower than an 8.5. What I look for in a review site are details that help me to decide if I want to buy or not, and one that isn't afraid to bash a product that sucks. Those are the sites whose affiliate links I click through and buy. Also, I had to laugh when I saw in your Succeed At Dating blurb, "Succeed At Dating is a program created by my personal friend and dating expert Alex Coulson." Alex may very well be your personal friend, but that line is so overused these days by naive marketers that I'd avoid it like the plague. Also, you don't have many actual products reviewed in the books, CD/DVD, etc sections. That doesn't lend much credibility to the reviews you do have. So I'd say keep building content, and try to beef up the reviews, and your conversions will increase. Jay
Where is that print screen image from, fast? What pages are you on in the search engines? As a writer, I'm always interested in such sites as yours, so I'll check it out later on. Good luck with your site.
I forgot... If you haven't already, see if you can get these "authors" to give you free tips that may help sell their e-books. Maybe you already have them in your site. I didn't look all the way through it.
Google analytics cannot possibly tell how may are going into your site. It doesn’t have that capability. It can only give a guesstimate. You want a service, like your hosting co., that ACTUALLY counts the people coming in. Besides, are they counting the spider bots? Oops. No offense, but you do want an accurate reading, don't you? And over 500 for such a site as yours doesn't sound right. If it was a big site, with multiple pages, well, then, yeah. Anyway...to get back on the subject...advertise, cousin. It's the only real way to get more TARGETED visitors. None of this search engine shit. A few hundred or so a day doesn't cut it. Hell, a thousand a day doesn't cut it. You should also submit articles and quick tips, both on and offline.
Did you even go through my site? I have over 130 articles on there + video, reviews, tips/tricks, etc. with 193 indexed pages in google. What do you mean google analytics doesn't count single people visiting? That's the whole purpose of the script. Google analytics does count every single person and marks them by region, country, state, city, etc. It's not like Alexa.
Um, didn't I just say that? Okay, so you're indexed. And? That's normal. What are all the pages you are on in Google and the other engines that you say got you that many hits? Eh, never mind. I'm not interested anymore. I'm tired Did I say that? I said that it isn't that accurate, and it isn't that reliable. But, hey, if you like it, and you think it works for you.... But we are getting off of the subject of your OP.