I've got traffic-but they don't buy!

[travis14]

I've got traffic visiting my review style Amazon site, between 60-100 unique views per day however they just don't click on the products I'm reviewing and purchase them once they click through to Amazon.

E.g visitor arrives at my site, clicks on a mobile phone I'm reviewing and arrives at Amazon.

But that is where the action finishes. They either leave my site after looking at the phones or they click on a phone, arrive at Amazon, then go somewhere else.

Can you guys-gals head over to my site: samsung-mobile-price .com and critique it in a way that I can take action on and finally get some sales.

The wife is sure we are all kidding ourselves on the Warrior Forum and no one makes money online so please help me out and get things moving.

Thanks in advance.

[celente]

you do not really have a clue, so I will clue you up.

1) you need to get traffic from places that are high quality. Forums, blogs and places that have interest and half have their credit card out read to buy.

2) then when you get em to your site, you cant have crappy copy. This is where many marketers let their prospects down. You need to use language that is going to persuade them to buy. if you dont, then you wont make sales. may I recommend the book, words that sell. That book helps me write ads, and get people even more warmed up to click ads and buy.

Do not worry about your wife. Most women are either for you or against you, I told my partner if she aint gunna stick by me or support me, its BYE BYE time. And I am glad she came to her senses, cause I stuggled at the start but now make a living on line.

It is possible, just keep testing and you will find a system that will work. then just do more of that.

[omy123]

I think you need a good CRO for you.. Try to provide useful and unique content of you site.. Attract user from the respective niche to increase the visibility of your product.

[DocJedi]

New give up and tell your lady you need support. Keep trying even in the face of failure. Failure is just another step closer to success brotha.

Claudio

[WilliamL]

As far as I can see your review site isn't really a review site- it contains the information people also find on Amazon. But they want your OPINION, not only specifications. As long as they are searching for other opinions they won't follow your affiliate links to buy something.

[DocJedi]

PS Make sure you're posting in areas where you audience is. Posting here is great for feedback and granted you may swindle someone to buy something -- but we're not your target. Everyone here is trying for the same goal as you.

[JamieSEO]

Man - you have some very serious issues. You need to do your research about product selection first.

You are promoting on your site products that you are displaying as rated 2 out 5 stars! Why bother trying to sell something that you are essentially immediately telling people is crap?

I clicked on one of your products http://www.samsung-mobile-price .com/samsung-glyde-u940-cell-phone-touchscreen-cell-phone-for-verizon-wireless-with-no-contract-refurbished-in-brand-new-housing-and-30-day-sellers-warranty/

When you click on the Order Now button it takes you to a 404 page on Amazon.

If your sales links don't work, then any traffic you have is wasted.

If you are promoting sub-par products (which 2 out 5 stars certainly would be classed as) then you are going to get less people click on your sales links.

Fix those issues first, then after worry about traffic.

[travis14]

All the traffic comes from google, so its all via keywords these people are typing in to find me. The term they type is "samsung mobile price", so would have thought that if I build a site around samsung mobile phones these people typing in this search term would be happy to find exactly that which I have built for them. I'm the number second tanked website on google.com for this term.

Have you guys visited the site yet?

Let me know, thanks

[rosetrees]

Originally Posted by travis14

Have you guys visited the site yet?

Let me know, thanks

Your own answer makes me wonder if you really just came here to make people click on your sig link. Clearly you haven't read the answer people have posted for you, so I'm not going to post another one that you won't read.

Originally Posted by jameiseo

I clicked on one of your products......

When you click on the Order Now button it takes you to a 404 page on Amazon.

Originally Posted by williaml

As far as I can see your review site isn't really a review site- it contains the information people also find on Amazon. But they want your OPINION,

Originally Posted by celente

you do not really have a clue, so I will clue you up.

1) you need to get traffic from places that are high quality. Forums, blogs and places that have interest and half have their credit card out read to buy.

2) then when you get em to your site, you cant have crappy copy....

[celente]

Originally Posted by rosetrees

Your own answer makes me wonder if you really just came here to make people click on your sig link. Clearly you haven't read the answer people have posted for you, so I'm not going to post another one that you won't read.

yes tell me about it.

Not good. Oh well, I am going to send him the bill for my RSI injury from typing so much. Problem solved.

[williamrose]

Many of your affiliate links don't seem to work. Some good advice here, would suggest you read it.

[retirewithsandie]

Agree folks want to know what YOU think about the products not what is already on the site. Especially since most of the ones on your site have few reviews for the product. A simple Google search can bring up price comparison sites. You need to let them know WHY to buy from Amazon & not elsewhere.

And as Jamie stated 2 out of 5 is not a good rating so having products with that low of a rating is not going to get people to buy without overcoming that. You're always going to have folks who hate a product & others who think it's the best thing since sliced bread. So a thorough review of the pros & cons, features, etc. may help people see that no it's not bad but those who gave it a low rating just didn't like it for whatever reason (provided that it is indeed a good product overall & they received a lemon or whathaveya).

When I received my current phone earlier this year, there were a lot of folks who didn't like it. It's a Windows Phone & men stated that it felt heavy in their pocket and that they didn't like it. I had it at the NASCAR race at Texas and had it in my pocket all day. I didn't feel that heaviness at all. In fact, I was constantly checking my pocket to make sure it was still in there. I thought since I didn't have it in my pocket all day as men would that I might notice the heaviness more but I didn't at all.

[rowanman28]

Do people buy mobile phones from Amazon? If you get targeted traffic, have good copy, and still don't make sales, perhaps the product choice is wrong. Many people are turned off by a site that looks like an affiliate site, my strategy is to build a list where I could sell an unlimited amount of different products to them over time.

[chuckwells]

This is not a business you can expect to make a living on overnight. Consider it a hobby untill you have had a chance to learn a lot more about it. Your wife is right if you expect to get a pay check out of this business soon. If you have the desire and proceed with consistent effort you can make a living out of IM eventually.

I really do not think you have posted here to get traffic from this forum to your web site. Because what is the point. Traffic from here is not looking to purchase a cell phone.

[travis14]

Originally Posted by chuckwells

This is not a business you can expect to make a living on overnight. Consider it a hobby untill you have had a chance to learn a lot more about it. Your wife is right if you expect to get a pay check out of this business soon. If you have the desire and proceed with consistent effort you can make a living out of IM eventually.

I really do not think you have posted here to get traffic from this forum to your web site. Because what is the point. Traffic from here is not looking to purchase a cell phone.

Thanks, everyone for your comments and I will address the advise provided. The only reason I've asked you all about looking at my site and going directly to it was my concern about the site structure/layout as that might also be playing a part in its miserable performance.

[travis14]

Originally Posted by omy123

I think you need a good CRO for you.. Try to provide useful and unique content of you site.. Attract user from the respective niche to increase the visibility of your product.

They say a dumb question is one which isn't asked-so I've got to ask what does CRO stand for?

[Tmill]

How are you currently getting your traffic? If your traffic is not target traffic, then they are just going to leave your site after they don't see anything that interests them.

Getting ranked in search engines for target keywords is always great traffic because you already know that person is looking for what you offer and they are more likely to click through and purchase.

I would also recommend you change your site up a bit. Your posts all look like they are copy paste. This will hurt you for SEO. You should also put some sort of navigation on your site.

[travis14]

Hi-all my traffic comes from the search engines, analytics tells me its from the keyword I'm targeting which is "samsung mobile price" so did think my traffic was pretty targeted.

[Scott Skinner]

Try a different niche. Laser focused to find the buyers. With 4-10k searches a month, maybe less. Offer a SOLUTION to a problem people are looking for. Example, cure panic attacks, find a sales job, eliminate termites...etc.

[Chris Paul]

Originally Posted by travis14

They say a dumb question is one which isn't asked-so I've got to ask what does CRO stand for?

Conversion Rate Optimization.

[Darkmon]

Hi Travis,

I am a new member here, but I have studied some aspects of internet marketing and the first thing that strikes me on your site is you do not understand creating desirability for a product(any experience members feel free to shoot me down on this as I am not an IM yet).

All you have done is copied a bunch of features which mean diddly squat to the average consumer.

For example "Samsung SGH-A737 is a slim slider quad-band GSM". Ok and what the hell does that mean to the consumer? That is what you need to be asking yourself.

Products are not sold by a bunch of features, they are sold by the benefits the features bring.

As an example instead of the above, a benefit might be that it fits in a shirt pocket without any problems. It can fit in mini handbag(if such a thing exists?!?).

Attach a mini story "Just imagine you are running to get to work on time, and you only have a shirt on top, this phone will fit unobtrusively and it's not going to bulge in your shirt pocket. You don't need a big jacket pocket on a roasting hot day just to hold this phone."

Now that's not ideal, you need to understand exactly what the benefits to the customer are and I am not clued up on this particular market. But, it is a whole lot better than simply sticking a specification which may mean nothing to the customer.

Hope this idea helps,

Nick

[dave_hermansen]

As many have mentioned already, I feel the 2 biggest issues are:

1. Non-functional links.

2. Lack of "intent to buy" in the main keyword phrase that's bringing visitors to your website. I would expect that a good percentage of the people typing in 'samsung mobile price' are not ready to buy. As mentioned above, you would be better off ranking for a more specific & targeted keyword phrase. (i.e. specific model names/numbers).

[DocJedi]

The site looks a little scary to be honest. Try displaying you amazon affiliate logo on the landing page to show them you sell items on amazon.

[travis14]

Ok, scary wasn't the intention, I understand what you mean though. Now that I've got some feedback the path going forward seems smoother-thanks again. I'm going to re-do the site completely and do a make-over.

[Rush]

Your traffic doesn't sound very targeted to me. If for example, I was searching for "ipad price", I'm probably curious how much an iPad costs, because I want to buy one - someday. But amazon has a 24 hour cookie. I doubt people searching for the price of an item are ready to pull out the credit cards in the next 24 hours.

Just my opinion.

[Matt Ward]

I wouldn't build a site with a domain name that includes a copyrighted name like "Samsung" for one thing.

[cooler1]

mattward is correct. If you decide to continue in this niche and rebuild the site, you should get a new domain which doesn't have a brand name in it.

[travis14]

Originally Posted by Rush

Your traffic doesn't sound very targeted to me. If for example, I was searching for "ipad price", I'm probably curious how much an iPad costs, because I want to buy one - someday. But amazon has a 24 hour cookie. I doubt people searching for the price of an item are ready to pull out the credit cards in the next 24 hours.

Just my opinion.

Now we're getting closer-the keyword phrase the site ranks for then is not a "i'm in the mood for buying" type keyword phrase. Any suggestions around a more targeted buying keyword phrase to look at re-building the site around?

[travis14]

Originally Posted by Darkmon

Hi Travis,

I am a new member here, but I have studied some aspects of internet marketing and the first thing that strikes me on your site is you do not understand creating desirability for a product(any experience members feel free to shoot me down on this as I am not an IM yet).

All you have done is copied a bunch of features which mean diddly squat to the average consumer.

For example "Samsung SGH-A737 is a slim slider quad-band GSM". Ok and what the hell does that mean to the consumer? That is what you need to be asking yourself.

Products are not sold by a bunch of features, they are sold by the benefits the features bring.

As an example instead of the above, a benefit might be that it fits in a shirt pocket without any problems. It can fit in mini handbag(if such a thing exists?!?).

Attach a mini story "Just imagine you are running to get to work on time, and you only have a shirt on top, this phone will fit unobtrusively and it's not going to bulge in your shirt pocket. You don't need a big jacket pocket on a roasting hot day just to hold this phone."

Now that's not ideal, you need to understand exactly what the benefits to the customer are and I am not clued up on this particular market. But, it is a whole lot better than simply sticking a specification which may mean nothing to the customer.

Hope this idea helps,

Nick

Awesome-thanks Nick.

[omurphy22]

It boils down to this: you need more traffic.

The typical conversion rate for clicks is usually in the 2-4% area anyway, which means it will typically take around 50 clicks before you see a sale, if not more.

[nicoledeal]

Originally Posted by Darkmon

Hi Travis,

I am a new member here, but I have studied some aspects of internet marketing and the first thing that strikes me on your site is you do not understand creating desirability for a product(any experience members feel free to shoot me down on this as I am not an IM yet).

All you have done is copied a bunch of features which mean diddly squat to the average consumer.

For example "Samsung SGH-A737 is a slim slider quad-band GSM". Ok and what the hell does that mean to the consumer? That is what you need to be asking yourself.

Products are not sold by a bunch of features, they are sold by the benefits the features bring.

As an example instead of the above, a benefit might be that it fits in a shirt pocket without any problems. It can fit in mini handbag(if such a thing exists?!?).

Attach a mini story "Just imagine you are running to get to work on time, and you only have a shirt on top, this phone will fit unobtrusively and it's not going to bulge in your shirt pocket. You don't need a big jacket pocket on a roasting hot day just to hold this phone."

Now that's not ideal, you need to understand exactly what the benefits to the customer are and I am not clued up on this particular market. But, it is a whole lot better than simply sticking a specification which may mean nothing to the customer.

Hope this idea helps,

Nick

Nick,
I about peed my pants laughing when when I saw the part about the mini handbag....i know I need help now 'cause I started researching it, over 8 million results....maybe my next niche? If it's successful I'll send you a free sample. What color shoes will you need to match?

Some good feedback on his site has been given on this thread, so now someone else has their homework for this weekend. Gotta love it.