Making Money With Review Site Blogs
The internet is all about information so if you want to build an internet business and make money then you need to produce and publish good quality information on your websites. One of the best ways to do this is providing useful reviews of products that people are looking for.
If a person uses a search for a particular product then there is a good chance they not only want to find information about it but also possibly make a purchase too. So if you provide good reviews of products and then provide easy links for the person to be able to buy you can also make money.
The way to do this is to find a company that pays a commission for sales through agents. For instance Amazon allows affiliates to sign up and use links to their products such that on a sale you can make a portion of the purchase price as commission. There are many other companies that do this, just type ‘affiliate sales’ or ‘affiliate commissions’ in search engines to start finding companies and procucts. Commission Junction is another big company along with of course ebay, plus smaller more specialised companies.
It is vital to produce a good website for your internet business. A blog is one of the best and easiest websites to set up and easy to add articles about the product type you are targeting. You must use original quality articles to have a chance of getting your site ramked which is vital if you are to get traffic to your site. Using less obvious keyword phrases makes it possible to rank highly (first page) quite quickly, though it does involve work, but the rewards can be worth it if you can rank high in the first page and start getting regular traffic to your website.
The techniques for ranking highly are not easily covered in a short article, but suffice to say that blogs make the task much easier as there are many plug-ins available which help to set up the pages for optimum search engine optimisation. There are also software tools to do some of the more mundane tasks associated with websites and blogging such as keyword analysis and searching for good niches and domain names. These have to be paid for but are well worth it if you intend to set up a business and need to save time.
Blogs are actually able to be used for other purposes than normal blogging as it possible to set them up as static pages among other uses and gives the advantages of easy set up and optimisation so can often be a preferred option to normal website templates. If your internet business is based on a review site though it is best to set up simply as a blog so it is easy to add articles regularly and then add extra review pages if you want.
Hi Dave, Product reviews are an excellent way to go if you take the steps and follow the product then show your results and state at the end of the review that you owe the success to…..then name the product with an affiliate link.
You’ll make better sales that way than just trying to send out affiliate links.
Not only that but if you have success at product reviews you can then approach the creators and ask them to promote your own product, double bonus!!
Good work Dave, hope you’re well
Barry
Hello Barry,
Good to hear from you and hope you too are well. Thanks also for the tips. I’m testing out review sites for physical products at present and using various software tools for website analysis, article marketing etc to get the review sites ranked higher. It works but still in early days so yet to see how much revenue will appear for various page 1 rankings. I intend to write a report if it looks successful which then may be of interest to the internet marketing community.
I may have a look at review sites for digital products also and what you said about reciprocal marketing would certainly help so will bear it in mind.
Have been a bit busy with this and day job so not been very active with masterclass but once this project levels out will start to be a bit more active and sociable. Good luck with your own projects.
Cheers
Dave
Hi Dave, have you heard about the 100 blog comment challenge?
A few of us bloggers have got together for it. The aim is to write a blog post and then try and reach 100 comments for it, which in turn builds backlinks and helps improve our google ranking.
I have created a page on my blog dedicated to the contributors Dave:
http://barry-wells.com/contributors-to-the-100-blog-comment-challenge/
if you would like to climb aboard let me know and i’ll add your details to the page.
Take care, Barry
Hi Dave, I wish you best of luck in launching your review sites. I think review sites for physical products via Amazon, eBay, Overstock and others is an excellent choice for marketers. I imagine that it’s maybe a bit more difficult to implement than digital product review sites but nevertheless can also be more profitable in time. I look forward to your reading more about your venture. BTW, I like Barry’s idea about reciprocal marketing to. It’s very pro-active marketing. Be well, Steve D.
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Everything online in the blogging world seems like a community. It’s the place you go to express yourself, give your advice, get advice and do business. By utilizing it in a profitable way, it’s a great source for extra money. I’ve seen a lot of blogs who get sponsored for doing posts on reviews, but never know how they get picked. How does a person in blogging get found or submit themselves to do reviews and being paid for it?