I have this quite new t-shirt related blog: teeblast.com I'm affiliating t-shirts there. If you check the blog there's all kinds of t-shirt related stuff there (and I ordered 10 unique articles from pro article writer about t-shirts) and 'buy now' buttons for the t-shirts to purchase. I've submitted it to several directories and social bookmarking sites. So far there has been 3114 unique visitors, but not a single purchase. I've decided not to give up with this blog as there has been too many times I've quit because of zero profit. So what can I do to make this blog profit? Any tips? Perhaps drive more traffic? Should I join in to other t-shirt affiliate programs too and start posting their products also? What other monetizing methods there is for this kind of blog?
affilates and promoting your site or offer special discount etc should attract people to buy your merchandise. If thats not working try publisher ads/advertisements ads to get more visitors to your blog that could but your products.
You have a ton of links to other sites. Why? Those links just take the viewers away from your site = no purchases.
I found it too confusing - what did you want me to click? what do you want me to buy? There was a picture of Mario with a 'purchase' button - but purchase what? you're not selling it to me
organise some sort of competition and give away some free stuff, this way you get people interested and might come back to buy some more.
a link bate is a good way to improve a site, try to find a reason for people to link to you naturally
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yeah, brilliant advice nathan ( WTF ) you wouldnt be trying to increase you posts count by any chance. Anyhows, i would get comment kahuna ( free, do a google search ) its a blog searching and posting tool ( comments ) it lists PR and you can search for a t-shirt etc so find relevant blogs to comment on etc I will bring in a few clicks, increase your traffic and thus hopefully increase your rev.
Make it very simple for people to understand what you are really selling. Put Purchase/Order links or buttons at the top of the blog, at a very visible spot. Maybe make a small introductory text at the very top of your blog describing what you sell.
I really like the idea of a competition to increase your traffic and that way to monetize it. Your blog is about t-shirts, why don't you make a t-shirt with your own slogan and your own logo and give it away once a week or once a month for people answering some questions. You could make a t-shirt based upon the coolest slogans you get for each competition. The winner will get the free t-shirt with his slogan and your logo (and url to your site). Jens
go to a tshirt site and be an affiliate post new shirts on your blog and link them e.g www. tshirthell .com
look into giveaways or other viral marketing techniques. One good viral effort could make you TONS of money.
Thanks for all the tips, you've all been very helpful! So I'm thinking first thing to do is to make my blog/site look more like a shop. Then I'll continue there