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How Are Your eCommerce Affiliate Sites Doing in Google

by nik0 Banned
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I'm thinking about launching a couple of ecommerce affiliate webshops.

Is this model still viable when putting the aim at organic traffic from Google?

I've seen quite a few affiliate review sites tank and the main reason for that seems to be over monetizing and having affiliate links on every single page.

But with a shopping/ecommerce site that is kind of unavoidable.

My idea was:

- Launch an ecommerce site
- Import let's say 100 relevant products automatically
- Rewrite titles and descriptions of let's say 150-200 words
- Add perhaps a few how to guides, not too much
- Boost it with high PR links

Would that work nowadays or is this an out dated strategy in the current Google landscape?

Just to repeat, my main focus would be organic traffic from Google.
#affiliate #ecommerce #google #sites
  • Profile picture of the author shanayas
    Your all questions answer is Magento. Yes, Magento has many features as well it is user-friendly so it will helps to increase more traffic in your site. There are number of extensions & themes and all these are help to increase your business productivity.
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    • Profile picture of the author juggernaught
      Originally Posted by shanayas View Post

      Your all questions answer is Magento. Yes, Magento has many features as well it is user-friendly so it will helps to increase more traffic in your site. There are number of extensions & themes and all these are help to increase your business productivity.
      Magento is great. We live by it. Use PLA ad on google.
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  • Profile picture of the author Blogpico
    Yes, Lots of people do develop affiliate website. Though you can include your own products as to gain higher margins and increase your profits. Having unique content would be good for Google organic rankins. Though I also recommend you to list your products on Google Products as well to gain amazing conversions.
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  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    Christ, do you guys have a reading problem or something?

    - I didn't ask suggestions for an ecommerce platform
    - Neither did I talk about selling my own products
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    • Profile picture of the author Fernando1954
      Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

      Christ, do you guys have a reading problem or something?

      - I didn't ask suggestions for an ecommerce platform
      - Neither did I talk about selling my own products
      LOL

      As to your question, don't know if it is a viable model. But have just spent the last week building such a site, used woocommerce and auto imported products with the woocommerce amazon plugin.

      Everything goes through site cart like a normal ecommerce site they just checkout at Amazon after they hit checkout.

      Changed up titles and added more descriptions, added discount coupons page.

      Picked up on your idea of how to pages will implement that I think.

      Time will tell if it works or not, but worth a punt I think as my normal affiliate review sites seem to be struggling nowadays, but my ecommerce sites rank ok Google haven't punished them YET!
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      • Profile picture of the author nik0
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        Originally Posted by Fernando1954 View Post

        LOL

        As to your question, don't know if it is a viable model. But have just spent the last week building such a site, used woocommerce and auto imported products with the woocommerce amazon plugin.

        Everything goes through site cart like a normal ecommerce site they just checkout at Amazon after they hit checkout.

        Changed up titles and added more descriptions, added discount coupons page.

        Picked up on your idea of how to pages will implement that I think.

        Time will tell if it works or not, but worth a punt I think as my normal affiliate review sites seem to be struggling nowadays, but my ecommerce sites rank ok Google haven't punished them YET!
        Thank you, I forgot that indeed, it's not like every page has an affiliate link on them so that definitely increases the chance of success so there's not that much need for how to guides's although it won't hurt to bring some extra value to the site.

        I was also thinking about some comparison pages, those tend to convert very well or at least they are VERY effective in getting visitors to click through to Amazon.

        What I did the last time was just list 10 products, each with a 100 word description / an image / and an affiliate link using the anchor "Click here to read more reviews", not only was the conversion of that page stone high, it also converted very well at Amazon.

        Discount/coupon pages is also a very nice idea indeed, depends a bit on what you promote of course.

        I'm reasonably successful with Amazon review sites but I feel the cost of entry is getting too high with all the additional needed content and all the effort to make it look nice and unique, hence my search for other ways.
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        • Profile picture of the author Fernando1954
          Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

          Thank you, I forgot that indeed, it's not like every page has an affiliate link on them so that definitely increases the chance of success so there's not that much need for how to guides's although it won't hurt to bring some extra value to the site.
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          Yes it does keep the number of aff links right down, only page having a few is the discount codes page, can't see any way round that.

          Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

          I was also thinking about some comparison pages, those tend to convert very well or at least they are VERY effective in getting visitors to click through to Amazon.

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          What type of comparison do you use, is it a plugin you use. As there is a woocommerce comparison plugin I have been looking at.
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          • Profile picture of the author nik0
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            Originally Posted by Fernando1954 View Post

            Yes it does keep the number of aff links right down, only page having a few is the discount codes page, can't see any way round that.


            What type of comparison do you use, is it a plugin you use. As there is a woocommerce comparison plugin I have been looking at.
            The comparison that I described was just a list of 10 products, 10* 100 word description and 10 images and 10 affiliate links, just a best list really, not really a comparison.

            For some sites I do use a WP comparison plugin named: product_comparison, I bought it at this forum here: http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...tes-sites.html

            It's pretty much of a basic thing, nothing impressive but it pulls data through the API and you can create it within a minute.

            You can check it out here if you like:

            Best Hair straighteners Reviews 2014

            I also added a plugin that creates a column graph as you can see on that page but it all looks a bit noobish right now. I think if you really want something solid you need to get it custom designed.

            You have a link to that woocommerce plugin?
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Anton
    hi nik0,

    Here are some tips to help you and others new to this arena:

    1) Write Unique product descriptions (doesn't have to be long, 2 sentences is fine
    2) upload an optimized product image (don't use stock ones without alt text)
    3) SEO your onpage titles (don't compete directly with Amazon)
    4) Get more social network signals and backlinks then others
    5) profit

    It can and is still being done. Many are making a full time living on Amazon affiliate marketing with ecommerce based websites with Woocommerce and other tactics.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fernando1954
    Here's the link for the plugin Go - Responsive Pricing & Compare Tables for WP Preview - CodeCanyon

    It was codecanyon not woo, the ones at bottom of the page are more for products and look quite good.
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