How Do You Get Your Hands On....

Starting a review site isn't easy these days because a lot of people are doing them, personally I would create a broad review site and target individual products that will be easy to rank for.

To start off with unless you have the money to invest in buying the products why not go into any shop and test them out for yourself? Of course this is hard with most things but as far as electricals go it's extremely easy. I also have tested various bikes from halfords "I own a bike review website" and I just went in there one day and said "I am doing a bike review site, Can i test a few bikes out in the carpark and in return I will link to your website and say how coperative you were" the manager was more than happy and It meant i could get videos of myself testing out the bikes which in return made my website a lot more appealing as people could watch the bikes in action rather than just reading some writing.

Edit: incase you didn't get the hint trying using videos for reviews they convert a lot higher and you can get extreme traffic from the likes of youtube

Thanks.

You've given me some useful ideas.

I'm with you. I wouldn't review or even promote something I haven't used or have personal experience with. However, I know a lot of people put up review sites and use other people's reviews. You could do that.

However, I agree that this area is saturated. You might have to go really specific and do a micro niche.

I would not go broad on this, instead very narrow...but deep. Find a niche you like, and you know there's evidence people pay for products in the niche. Then only review those products on your site. Real reviews, not pretend 'made-up' ones.

Present yourself as a SPECIALIST and hopefully, over time you will gain some authority as well.
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Bruce