Need help with my site.

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Okay so I'm a newbie at marketing, and I truly know nothing about when it comes to websites. Much less how to market them, SEO, etc. I thought it would be easy and was looking for an online income. So I bought a site off flippa just to get started. The seller promised me the world and said I could make 5K a month with this site..
Unfortunately after I bought it, this guy didn't show me zilch.
I have my site on go daddy, after 4 months of this site being exposed to the world, I get 100 views a day from ppl in every country. And it's growing. Now I'm not making a cent off it. I signed up with google adsense and it was rejected by them, they said I had one page on the site and incomplete sentences. I had clickbank products on there and they were ignored. I had Amazon ads on it with no luck. My amazon affiliate program expired. Most of my user registrations are bots. So I have no real list. I'm just learning about WP, I was thinking of adding products to the market place through dropshipping. But clueless about doing this. I have some great advertising space but nothing to advertise. Any help and info would be really appreciated. Thanks for reading and I do hope you have some encouragement for me. I am ready to throw the towel in and just sell the site because now the site is slow at loading.

www.bestcomputerbrands.com

best,
Ledz
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  • Profile picture of the author Cary Joseph
    hey, you should check out some affiliate programs! if your niche is computers there are many affiliate programs to bring in revenue. Send me a message if you want a recommendation!
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  • Profile picture of the author caymandiver
    Originally Posted by Taxislave View Post

    Okay so I'm a newbie at marketing, and I truly know nothing about when it comes to websites. Much less how to market them, SEO, etc. I thought it would be easy and was looking for an online income. So I bought a site off flippa just to get started. The seller promised me the world and said I could make 5K a month with this site..
    Unfortunately after I bought it, this guy didn't show me zilch.
    I have my site on go daddy, after 4 months of this site being exposed to the world, I get 100 views a day from ppl in every country. And it's growing. Now I'm not making a cent off it. I signed up with google adsense and it was rejected by them, they said I had one page on the site and incomplete sentences. I had clickbank products on there and they were ignored. I had Amazon ads on it with no luck. My amazon affiliate program expired. Most of my user registrations are bots. So I have no real list. I'm just learning about WP, I was thinking of adding products to the market place through dropshipping. But clueless about doing this. I have some great advertising space but nothing to advertise. Any help and info would be really appreciated. Thanks for reading and I do hope you have some encouragement for me. I am ready to throw the towel in and just sell the site because now the site is slow at loading.

    www.bestcomputerbrands.com

    best,
    Ledz
    you don't have to sell your domain name. Get with an expert in SEO and website developmet. There are a few honest ones still out there. You just have to know where to find them. (wink)
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  • Profile picture of the author caymandiver
    Originally Posted by Taxislave View Post

    Okay so I'm a newbie at marketing, and I truly know nothing about when it comes to websites. Much less how to market them, SEO, etc. I thought it would be easy and was looking for an online income. So I bought a site off flippa just to get started. The seller promised me the world and said I could make 5K a month with this site..
    Unfortunately after I bought it, this guy didn't show me zilch.
    I have my site on go daddy, after 4 months of this site being exposed to the world, I get 100 views a day from ppl in every country. And it's growing. Now I'm not making a cent off it. I signed up with google adsense and it was rejected by them, they said I had one page on the site and incomplete sentences. I had clickbank products on there and they were ignored. I had Amazon ads on it with no luck. My amazon affiliate program expired. Most of my user registrations are bots. So I have no real list. I'm just learning about WP, I was thinking of adding products to the market place through dropshipping. But clueless about doing this. I have some great advertising space but nothing to advertise. Any help and info would be really appreciated. Thanks for reading and I do hope you have some encouragement for me. I am ready to throw the towel in and just sell the site because now the site is slow at loading.

    www.bestcomputerbrands.com

    best,
    Ledz
    you don't have to sell your domain name. Get with an expert in SEO and website developmet. There are a few honest ones still out there. You just have to know where to find them. (wink)
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    "I simply don't have time right now to procrastinate...I'll do it later"...
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  • Profile picture of the author EPoltrack77
    whats the quality of the traffic! Start small and maybe instead of trying to convert multiple items try optimizing just one part say a opt in form to generate a lead or just a single banner maybe in the post itself and test different positions. Next week put before the post or at the end and play with it. Try to develop something you can work off of.
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    • Profile picture of the author Eagle07
      Publish more helpful info about the things you want people to know.

      Keep updating and improving while increasing your traffic through free and paid promotions. Monetize it through affiliate products and or dropship items.

      Don't quit as quitters never win but learn how to stop doing things that don't work. Keep learning strategies that work and work them out. Take massive action and enjoy the profits. Celebrate then rinse and repeat.
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  • Profile picture of the author digiraghav123
    Great answer cary i agree with your answers
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  • Profile picture of the author reachintan
    Keep posting original content on the site.

    The site seems to be a potential one with Google PR - 3.


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  • Profile picture of the author kilgore
    Imagine you bought a restaurant -- or at least the shell of one.

    You had a building with tables and chairs. It was decorated. It even had a shiny menu, with nice looking pictures of food items and even prices. But what it lacked were any recipes for any of the items on the menu.

    More importantly, it had no staff. No servers. No hosts. And no chef.

    So if you bought that restaurant, but had no experience working for -- let alone running -- a restaurant, what would you do? Suppose you bought that restaurant, but didn't know how to attract customers, find and negotiate with wholesalers for your ingredients, how to manage a team of servers, or how to cook -- what would you do then?

    Because that's pretty much where you are with your site.

    The good news is that running a small online business is probably easier than running a small restaurant. That bad news, is it's still not easy -- no matter what that Flippa seller told you -- and I think you're finding that out.

    The first thing I'd advise you to do is to consider everything you've paid -- in both time and money -- as a sunk cost. (If you don't know what a sunk cost is, this short article does a good job explaining what they are -- and why you should ignore them: How to Walk Away - The Atlantic. Seriously, if you get nothing else out of my answer, read that article).

    So forget about your sunk costs, the real question is what would it take to make a site like yours successful. And then you have to ask yourself, if you have what it takes to do it.

    To the first question, I'd say it need a lot of work. A lot.

    The design is OK, but looks pretty generic. The domain name is also very generic. You've basically got no effort at branding at all. It looks exactly like what it is: a hastily put together website created for the sole purpose of flipping it to someone who doesn't know any better.

    But the design is the best part of the site. The content is atrocious.

    Here's the actual last paragraph from one of the "reviews":

    You will find a fantastically refreshing lack of bloatware on this There are some actually apps for service, shortcut configuration, and even Steam, no unwanted and unasked for garbage casual installers or advertising applications.
    I set down with the expecting a long up as typically with a PC purchase, only a few seconds power I was at the desktop, clean and ready to This was of the impressive aspects of this for me.
    Build Quality
    I was impressed at the of this It feels well built and
    That's no misake -- it's an exact quote! It's not even finished! And that's the second most prominent article on your site!

    I'm not trying to be mean or lay it on thick, but did you even read those articles yourself? If not, why not? And if so, do you actually think they are going to be of any use to anybody?

    And that's the main point. Your site just isn't very useful. So why would anybody in their right minds visit your site instead of visiting CNET or PC Magazine or any of the millions of other electronic review sites out there? If you were looking for electronics reviews, would you visit your own site? If not, that's a very serious problem.

    So what are you to do? Well, that's up to you of course, but I see three options:
    1. Try somehow to salvage this site.
    2. Forget this site, but try to create a different online business.
    3. Give up completely.

    Personally, I think option one as a lost cause -- unless you have some really deep knowledge or love of electronics that's going to give you an edge against your competition. Do you have that? Then maybe you should consider option one. If not, you're probably better off selling the site the same way you bought it. You'll probably get a lot less for it than what you paid (consider that a learning exercise), but maybe you can get something for it anyway.

    As for option two, again, I'd suggest you make sure that you have some sort of advantage in the marketplace. As you found out, it's not as easy as buying a site on Flippa and then just watching the money roll in. It's called "building" a business for a reason -- it's hard work. And difficult work.

    As for option three, that's certainly the safest option to take -- and there's no shame in it whatsoever. Most people just aren't cut out to be entrepreneurs. Then again, sometimes it's more fun not to do the safe thing, to take a risk, even against the odds. But nobody can decide that for you.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
      That site needs work cleaning it up.

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      The post is a bunch of links.

      I'd never buy anything on this site.

      So what are you to do? Well, that's up to you of course, but I see three options:

      Try somehow to salvage this site.
      Forget this site, but try to create a different online business.
      Give up completely.
      I'm getting the impression that OP has no clue how to manage this kind of site.

      Best to sell it, take the money, go learn what a good site looks like, and learn how to manage this kind of site unless you have a crew lined up to do it for you.
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      • Profile picture of the author Taxislave
        Wow..thanks! for all the info and to tell you that you really know your stuff about marketing . Maybe I should just try to sell it, and go a different route. I've learned something today through all your imput and knowledge. I really want to thank you for taking your time to help me with this..

        Appreciate it!
        Ledz
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