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Does anyone really buy physical items from your blogs???

by ripley607
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I'll probably get slaughtered on this forum for asking this but the reason i say this is because I don't think I would.

I think of myself as an average internet user and if I wanted to buy something like a PS3 game or even something like a new shower the first thing i'll want to see is a website with products and prices and not a blog with loads of writing.

Maybe it's just me as i'm just used to ecommerce websites when buying online. I just can't see it happening with blogs.

Does a item have to really obscure to make it with blogs or can everyday popular items that you find in places like Argos (or Walmart for my US friends) sell just as well.

Just Curious.
#blogs #buy #items #physical
  • Profile picture of the author entrepreneurjay
    It all depends on what your blog is based around. If your in the Internet marketing niche like I am than you would want to advertise products that are closely related to what your blog is based around.

    If you have a blog on the newest cell phones that have just hit the market, and your advertising the newest hottest selling cell phones than yeah I think people will buy. Its all about relevancy - make it relevant!

    Do not put cell phone ads on an Internet marketing blog for example - You get the point!
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  • Profile picture of the author Charles Washington
    What happens is, you click on an ad from my blog and you are taken to Amazon, or where ever. From there, you are at Amazon and have most likley forgot you even came from my blog.

    you look at the product, mabe some other products. Then, you decide that since you are at such a trusted place as Amazon with all these great user reviews, free shipping, and whatever - that you should go ahead and buy.

    You arent buying physical products from our blogs. You are buying them from the marketplaces we are representing.
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    • Profile picture of the author entrepreneurjay
      Originally Posted by Charles Montgomery View Post

      What happens is, you click on an ad from my blog and you are taken to Amazon, or where ever. From there, you are at Amazon and have most likley forgot you even came from my blog.

      you look at the product, mabe some other products. Then, you decide that since you are at such a trusted place as Amazon with all these great user reviews, free shipping, and whatever - that you should go ahead and buy.

      You arent buying physical products from our blogs. You are buying them from the marketplaces we are representing.
      Well said I forgot to add what you just said great advice. We as affiliate marketers are just a medium to get you to one of our sales pages so we can earn a commission in essence. We let the vendors deal with the rest.

      Send them traffic, we make money, pretty cut and dry!
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      • Profile picture of the author Mark-Dickenson
        Yes they do...

        They click on my Amazon link (or whatever merchant I am using) and they buy if you show up in the serps for buyer keywords
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        • Profile picture of the author ripley607
          Thanks guys for all your replies so far.

          Well it seems i'm split in two which way to go so far.

          some blogs maybe do work BUT you probably have to set up loads and loads of websites to get a decent income. (50,000 +pa)?

          If i go down the affiliate ecommerce site route the earning potential could be loads more but i have no idea how i would promote keywords for so many items.

          Please keep your replies coming as i'm (slowly) starting to make sense of it all and it will help me make a decision soon.

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          • Profile picture of the author WillDee
            In the case of autoblogs, volume is definitely the key if you want to make it return that kind of figure.

            You'll need to maintain a couple of hundred blogs at a minimum, to get that kind of return. To be honest (for me, but others will disagree) it's not worth the effort of maintaining 500+ blogs, monitoring them daily/weekly/monthly to see which are performing well, dropping those that don't, adding new ones that might or might not work out. It gets to a point where it becomes a better proposition to go back into regular 9-5 employment.

            I only use a limited number of blogs, and then only to earn 'pocket money' that I can reinvest elsewhere without putting in too much time and effort. For that it's perfect because I do a bit of up-front research on products that seem to do well, set up a few domains with the blogs and then forget about them. I get a couple of hundred every so often, which I can then fritter away without guilt if I so choose.


            Originally Posted by ripley607 View Post

            some blogs maybe do work BUT you probably have to set up loads and loads of websites to get a decent income. (50,000 +pa)?
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            • Profile picture of the author ripley607
              Anyone else care to comment??????????
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  • Profile picture of the author WillDee
    Yup. Autoblogs with info pulled from Amazon get some sales of tangibles from a blog.

    I've got one that seems to convert pretty well in the paintball niche, with people buying markers from a blog 'review' link. Another gets a couple of sales a week of hand sanitisers, face masks, that sort of thing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Truong
    For physical items you would do much better creating a branded website (ecommerce) and positioning yourself in the market. Blogs that sell physical products don't have as much credibility as an ecommerce store-front.

    You don't even need to own or stock products as it could be a 100% affiliate website.

    With physical products - people will buy from you if your website looks like it has credibility (as in: it doesn't look like a scam shop, there's feedback from other customers on there etc.)

    I have made a website before that's an ecommerce store - when people place their order it goes straight to my drop-ship supplier who then takes care of shipping the actual product to my customer. So basically I just need to find the leads for the site to be profitable as I am not buying stock, holding any inventory, or worrying about shipping out the goods etc. I find new leads by marketing, word-of-mouth and SEO.

    As with anything, please do some research and follow the legal requirements when setting up a shop such as this. You'll need to use legal disclaimers and terms of use to indemnify yourself from any legal litigation (just in case you have a really unhappy customer someday) make it clear somewhere on the website that it's an affiliate website and that you do not carry the stock, but your supplier does etc. etc.

    I hope that helps
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