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13 years ago

I always write my own review. Of course this doesn't mean I have used the product. That would be impossible to do for each product.
I base my sites around summing up other peoples thoughts and reviews and putting them into my own words. Seems to work well.

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Ralf Skirr 13 years ago

If you want to get up many products fast, use the automatic thing.

If you want to get good SERP positions for specific offers, write it yourself and optimize.

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matt5409

13 years ago

so essentially, is it better to be lazy and automate or pro-active and manual?

i think you already know the answer

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Amanda Craven

13 years ago

I always write my own reviews for Amazon products but I take careful note of those already on the site and use those for my button-pressing phrases...

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ibmethatswhoib

13 years ago

dude, write your own. If you have read anything by now, quality matters.

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renegadetmj

13 years ago

I find a good option is to encourage people to read the impartial feedback posted by others about the products. Amazon is very good at selling when someone is already on the site so just try to get your visitors there and let Amazon do the rest.

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Giani

13 years ago

I agree that writing review is better. But I have read few posts recommending such plugins so am curious to know their views.

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proxified

13 years ago

Automation plugins are meant to automate your work, reviewazon is a good plugin for sure, but just relying on it won't make any sense as google is in enemity with duplicate content and if they find your blog to have only the duplicate content, you'll never be able to rank well.

The best use of reviewazon is by using it with your regular blogging techniques, not just depending upon reviewazon. Keep posting on your blog and along use reviewazon, it will help you to monetize your blog well.

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myob

13 years ago

Not only do I write my own reviews, but I also generically modify them and submit as articles to EZA and thousands of targeted ezines, authority websites, blogs, and offline outlets such as magazines, newspapers, and even as promotions by direct mail to previous customers and targeted prospects. The sales results are astounding compared to waiting for reviews to be found passively through the search engines.

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LynnM 13 years ago

Why not try both ways and see what works for you? Automated may be fine for low-ticket items to get your commission rates up, and you can do proper review sites for higher quality/more expensive products. The general consensus though seems to be that non-automated review sites are the most profitable.

This thread, although a long read, has some excellent advice on the best way to go with Amazon: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ing-money.html
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jan roos

13 years ago

Originally Posted by myob

Not only do I write my own reviews, but I also generically modify them and submit as articles to EZA and thousands of targeted ezines, authority websites, blogs, and offline outlets such as magazines, newspapers, and even as promotions by direct mail to previous customers and targeted prospects. The sales results are astounding compared to waiting for reviews to be found passively through the search engines.

Great list there Paul. I'd like to add Turing those articles into short videos and submitting to Youtube and other video sites works great as well.

To answer the Op's question. I write my own reviews and all my content is 100% unique which I believe is a big reason my sites increased traffic and ranking by 20% since the new Google ago changes.

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myob 13 years ago

Originally Posted by jan roos

Great list there Paul. I'd like to add Turning those articles into short videos and submitting to Youtube and other video sites works great as well....

Another great idea, thanks! Affiliates could be missing out on 90% or more of potential commissions by not proactively promoting their products in niche markets. By comparison, search engine traffic is so relatively insignificant, it's almost irrelevant.
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AnniePot

13 years ago

Originally Posted by myob

Not only do I write my own reviews, but I also generically modify them and submit as articles to EZA and thousands of targeted ezines, authority websites, blogs, and offline outlets such as magazines, newspapers, and even as promotions by direct mail to previous customers and targeted prospects. The sales results are astounding compared to waiting for reviews to be found passively through the search engines.

If you have review sites, which have a primary goal of pushing visitors to Amazon, how do you integrate collecting their email addresses for future contact? I've tried putting opt-in boxes on review sites and usually I've found that I may collect emails, but by doing so, I reduce the CTR significantly. I've tested this several times and the results are always the same.

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myob

13 years ago

Hi Annie,

My articles and other sources drive massive highly targeted traffic to my review sites. The opt-in rate is running at about 20-30% depending on the niche. Even if the CTR is lower, the advantages of building a list far outperform the short term profits of immediate sales.

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AnniePot

13 years ago

Originally Posted by myob

Hi Annie,

My articles and other sources drive massive highly targeted traffic to my review sites. The opt-in rate is running at about 20-30% depending on the niche. Even if the CTR is lower, the advantages of building a list far outperform the short term profits of immediate sales.

Thanks Paul
Yes, I see what you are saying. Very forward thinking. I appreciate your reply.

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ankur420420 13 years ago

Hi

After the recent content farm update, I guess it is a good idea to write your own unique content (even if it takes time)

The time invested in this will eventually pay off in the long run

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rajivkumar900

13 years ago

Originally Posted by proxified

Automation plugins are meant to automate your work, reviewazon is a good plugin for sure, but just relying on it won't make any sense as google is in enemity with duplicate content and if they find your blog to have only the duplicate content, you'll never be able to rank well.

The best use of reviewazon is by using it with your regular blogging techniques, not just depending upon reviewazon. Keep posting on your blog and along use reviewazon, it will help you to monetize your blog well.

Getting content from any plugin doesnt hurt at all, its content syndication and you can syndicate content from any source google dont have problem with content syndication..so there is no harm to use these plugins, as far as plugin has all functions to handle duplicate content from same source. i havent used reviewzon but wp robot has inbuilt duplicate remove option, i have use few more plugins which has same kind of functionality...even i have my own website on first page first spot without writing a single word .

I m not saying one must use plugins to fetch content..writing your own review or orginal content always help to get better ranking but when you say plugin fetch content can hurt your ranking due to duplicate content..that case i want to add again that is not duplicate content ..if its part of content syndication then you should not worry about this..

Hope this will help newbies to take thier next step.
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hocuspocus32

13 years ago

Hey Bro
Always always write your own articles, 100% unique content is what google likes and to get traffic organically is what will stay for the long run, I have used wprobot it will generate more post but the site wont be much of a value to google as the content is not unique. Now i have a site that has 95%unique stuff and its traffic is coming very well, 40-60 uniques per day and the site is just 20 days or so old, I have been getting searches from the search engines already . writing unique contents takes time but its worth it, Hope it helped

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sting82

13 years ago

I always write my own reviews manual is better.

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Jayden Rivers

13 years ago

I typically use Hubpages to write a unqiue review of a product, if I see conversions past my threshold, I then scale this up by building a site for the long-term promotion of the product which includes the use of the Reviewazon plugin.

Reviewazon works well when it comes to the 'buying' page, it's able to pull in data from the Amazon site like customer reviews and other addtional related products potential customers may be interested in.

I would not use Reviewazon to pull in actual product review content from Amazon's site, as this may be classed as duplicate info. Write your own unique content, give Google what they want.

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RichardF

13 years ago

No question about it, you should definitely write your own reviews (or pay someone to write them for you if you don't want to do it yourself). In my experience you can never really put too much effort into your reviews - in most cases you'll rank better AND convert better if they're long, detailed and unique.

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turntablist

13 years ago

You also try squidoo and share earnings till you can set out on your own websites

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Giani

13 years ago

Thanks everyone. I got some good ideas now.

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brendan9971

13 years ago

For sure write your own, but like others have said, obviously you can't actually try each product. So you can take out bits and pieces of quality reviews, combine them, and plug them into something like the best spinner to make it more unique (if you're stumped on what to write). But be sure to check it after it's spun so that it still makes sense and is quality.

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jerrydavid

13 years ago

informative insight and good seo tricks, thanks..

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Jake Gray

13 years ago

Don't ever use duplicate content. Google penalizes you
which makes it much harder to make a dent in the search
engines. For the price of that plugin, you could buy a good
amount of articles.

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myob

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Jake Gray

Don't ever use duplicate content. Google penalizes you
which makes it much harder to make a dent in the search
engines. For the price of that plugin, you could buy a good
amount of articles.

This is incorrect. There is no such penalty. Many of the most successful Amazon affiliates have their articles syndicated over hundreds of thousands of targeted websites and blogs, including myself.

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DWolfe

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Kukelka

No, i am not amazon affiliate. But i am wondering to join

If the program is available in your area take the plung. Find a good product to promote. Follow the advice of other Amazon posters here and you will get some sales. Good Luck

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Mrs S

13 years ago

If you want to make money then you need to write your own unique reviews - I use the Reviewazon plugin to speed up the process by pulling in images and price details etc.

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Giani

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Mrs S

If you want to make money then you need to write your own unique reviews - I use the Reviewazon plugin to speed up the process by pulling in images and price details etc.

How can you do that? I thought we can not add any written content if using ReviewAzon plugin.

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Anup Mahajan

13 years ago

It is better to write your own review.. If you pull content by using plugins then your content would be no different than what is already available on Amazon and therefore your chances of ranking higher will be less.

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paul nicholls

13 years ago

i know some folks do use amazon plug ins which post content and reviews etc

but i think its a bit risky as you have far too much outside influence on your site

if you upload everything yourself, use unique content and good product reviews your sites will do plenty good enough

paul

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Wechito

13 years ago

My suggestion is to write your own reviews. Reasons:
- You will have unique content , what will please google.
- If you make a good copy, you will have more conversions.

You can use the information on Amazon and the vendor site, of course, but do not just copy-paste (or feed your posts automatically using the pluging). Alwais rewrite the content you give it uniqueness.

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xdyputixin

13 years ago

I use astore provided by Amazon

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Michael Franklin

13 years ago

To repeat what the majority have said, I find that writing your own content is much better. Although writing content is the one area that most people dread, it really doesn't have to be so...dreadful!

You can easily take existing content out there on product reviews from Amazon and other product sites and then give it your own spin. It's what I do and have found to be the best way to come up with content quickly!

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redfieryheart

13 years ago

I am new to amazon.com and based on this thread, I learned a lot of things. I agree with LynnM that you can use both methods and see the outcome of them. There is also a plus factor to put personal experiences on those reviews.

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youngchild92

13 years ago

Yes I am. It has a huge potential but requires a lot of work.

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