I have recently played with outsourcing amazon reviews instead of writing them myself, and while it hasn't come up with conversions, I have seen a major jump in hit counts as well as traffic. Anyone else try this method? I went to odesk, found a writer, and have been posting their content. I've made several leaps in Adsense and MSN publisher clicks. Last month pulled $40 through Amazon Affiliates as a result, and am continuing to see improvements. I do write my own blogs on occasion, but have found a company that pays me to write, so I now don't write my own blogs for the most part. I'm assuming that within 30 - 50 reviews on a specialty website, I'll see conversions start to pile in.
I outsource most of my content because I just don't have the time to write my own content. Doing your own reviews of products sounds like a good idea, how is the quality of the odesk workers? The content would need to be good quality to help you increase traffic.
I've had some luck outsourcing via oDesk for review content for products that I don't know much about or have any interest in researching. I save the ones I really like and personally use for my own writing. The trick is to pay around 3-5 cents per word otherwise you get garbage from some dude in India who doesn't understand English. Also be sure to emphasize to your writers that you want them to discuss the benefits of a product and of owning it rather than just spewing up a rewrite of the Amazon product description and it's feature list.
You definitely need to be careful who you outsource too, including strict guidelines. I personally write all of my content (only really for 1 review site, the rest of my Amazon sites are "thin" sites), purely because I am a content writer but also because It can be difficult hiring someone else who has potentially completed many articles about that particular product or subject which can begin leading to similarities in the reviews they are writing.
MediaPiston.com is a good place to find affordable writers that can do product reviews. You might want to check them out.
You're not creating passive income writing for other websites though. Don't get me wrong, it's still a good way to make some money.
I have been trying out iwriter recently. Will not endorse or not, but, it does have qualified levels of writers, so, you can offer your project only to those who have earned a higher rating with previous Buyers. Also, it has a rejection mechanism, so, if the quality does not fit your requirements, you can toss it back in for a new writer (or have it rewritten). Good Luck and Have Fun!
That is a positive story and encourages me to try. I have been in Odesk before but I was there as a job seeker. I was trying my luck with amazon too but only ended with around 2 sales after years because landing page that I include with the amazon product using low English writing standard. Thanks for the share
I found the content I write myself is a lot better than outsourced ones. Most of the article writers write too advertising-sounding reviews, instead of honest ones where they point out the product defects and design flaws. You know the most what you want to deliver your visitors. The outsourced writers are good only if they know your topic well and they are able to write critically about the product flaws.
Writing a content is one of technique marketing, one of getting traffic, you write a good contents, it does'n mean you get a huge traffic. if you want to make money from amazon, you must get huge traffic. There are many ways to get huge traffic. formula: more traffic = more sales.