Need Advice: Affiliate vs. Dropship Shop in Supplement Business
Hey Warriors,
Since 2011 I've been promoting health insurance, and killing it. Through pure page volume and on-page SEO, I'm making a full-time living with Adsense, Media.net, and Katch. Now I want to take my business to the next level, but getting quality backlinks in this arena is very difficult, so I started looking at building my own blog network by acquiring expired domains. My idea is to get backlinks by helping others promote their business... i.e., I'll publish your guess post if you publish mine. In this way, there's no connection between my blog network and my real money site.
Okay, so that's the back-story, and here's what's happened...
So far I have picked up 10 domains related to health, wellness and fitness. Of these, 7 look like winners and 3 are duds. I say duds because G refuses to credit backlinks to the domain after 10+ days having the website back online with content recovered from Archive.org.
One of the domains I picked up was a successful business, started in 2000, in the fitness supplement market. The business owner died and the original Yahoo! Store was closed a few months ago. The store received over 800 5-star reviews from their customers. The root domain has links from about 1,000 referring domains. Majestic TF is 20, while CF is 22. In other words, this was a solid business.
It took me a few days to realize what I have... the supplement website has the potential to be a highly profitable business. I'm no stranger to e-commerce and creating my own brands (founded Autopia-CarCare.com in 1999 and built it to $2.5-million revenue before getting out in 2007). E-commerce is time, labor and capital intensive... no thanks!
So my question is simply this, what's the better way to go in this situation, drop shipping or affiliate store (and why)?
Thanks!
Since 2011 I've been promoting health insurance, and killing it. Through pure page volume and on-page SEO, I'm making a full-time living with Adsense, Media.net, and Katch. Now I want to take my business to the next level, but getting quality backlinks in this arena is very difficult, so I started looking at building my own blog network by acquiring expired domains. My idea is to get backlinks by helping others promote their business... i.e., I'll publish your guess post if you publish mine. In this way, there's no connection between my blog network and my real money site.
Okay, so that's the back-story, and here's what's happened...
So far I have picked up 10 domains related to health, wellness and fitness. Of these, 7 look like winners and 3 are duds. I say duds because G refuses to credit backlinks to the domain after 10+ days having the website back online with content recovered from Archive.org.
One of the domains I picked up was a successful business, started in 2000, in the fitness supplement market. The business owner died and the original Yahoo! Store was closed a few months ago. The store received over 800 5-star reviews from their customers. The root domain has links from about 1,000 referring domains. Majestic TF is 20, while CF is 22. In other words, this was a solid business.
It took me a few days to realize what I have... the supplement website has the potential to be a highly profitable business. I'm no stranger to e-commerce and creating my own brands (founded Autopia-CarCare.com in 1999 and built it to $2.5-million revenue before getting out in 2007). E-commerce is time, labor and capital intensive... no thanks!
So my question is simply this, what's the better way to go in this situation, drop shipping or affiliate store (and why)?
Thanks!