I've already purchased an aged and relevant domain with good backlinks/indexing and am going to get the hosting and throw up the site soon. It'll be a Clickbank product site which will ideally have the following: Front page, short entry article - below a list of the top three eBooks in that niche, pic on side, short write ups for each, and a click to read review button for each eBook. Pretty simple site obviously. I'd like to incorporate a blog within the site (for organic traffic, not just through article marketing/PPC) but am clueless of the best way to link everything together. Is it best for me to go with a template, if so where could I find one? Otherwise, if I were to hire someone here what should I expect to pay? Sorry, clueless as far as the coding and such goes - I'm just a writer, learning SEO/SEM has been hard enough. Thanks
You can start with a template, but a custom site will always be more of what you are looking for. Price depends on the person/company you use. Personally the lowest I charge for a website is $1500, but I have done sites for clients that were over $20,000. To put together the site you are talking about though, it shouldnt be too much money!
I'm not looking for a huge site to be designed. I looked around DP (just a quick search really) and the price for CB sites, I believe, was around $37 by one provider. It's basically just the front/landing page and then linking to the review pages, not a lot. Edit: Something like this but not as spammy/bulky near the top/mid sections. Also, instead of just linking to the actual sales page, have a shortened review so they make the effort to read the full review (on new page), which could have more articles on the right hand side to help boost oranic traffic, and also have a link to the sales page on that page as well...right? Do you know anywhere to get free, or cheap, Clickbank Product/Review Site templates?
Personally, I wouldn't use a template. You want your site to be distinctive don't you? that doesn't happen because of you rcontent alone. Why not start working on your own brand?
The site is only going to be used as a mid-way page between either articles directories or search engines and the products sales page...I don't see the need to over emphasize on the appearance on my website, when in fact that would reverse the results by making the visitors think the page selling the product is low budget because they came from such a superior site advertising the product, to such an inferior site selling the product.