Are review sites worth making after panda update?

In my opinion if they have original and good content that is completely unique and not keyword stuffed they yes. If not then,no.

Think about the visitor, are you offering anything unique or just rehashed info they can find on amazon? Google will value your site more if your content is valuable to your visitors.

Aso, what is better to go with, somethingreviewsite.com or something-review.com? What would rank better for seo?

Like always you need unique content meaning... you have to write up a review yourself and it can't be copy from any other website.

Yes its worth it. You'll only be successful if you show proof of using the product on whatever you're reviewing is how you will get trust & earn revenue from your viewers. If you show no sign of proof than you won't really get anywhere.

If you focus on just 1 niche, and stay away from the "tech" niche, if you write extensive original hands on reviews, backed up by videos and photos, if you tell your story and the results you achieved using that product, and if you compare similar products and finds the best deals for your readers.

Then, on a longer term basis, you could make a name of yourself. But it'd probably take at least a year, and a whole lot of value to build up a strong review base.

If you're just starting out and insist on doing affiliate marketing instead of learning how to create your own products, then sniper sites would probably be the easiest solution for you. Or just blogging and going for low competition long tail keywords for each blog post. If you do a lot of posts, you'd see quite a bit of traffic from those low search volume keywords put together, and you'll in time be able to rank for the "shorter" tail variations of those search terms.

Review sites that google loves, and looks credible to your readers, is not the easiest to make, when just starting out.

Even I wouldn't go down that road, simply because of the time spent / $$$. And it would probably be a tiring an trivial thing to do in a long run.

Yeah, but you need to make sure you're adding unique, quality content. Also, one of the ways Google ranks a site is how well it provides information and answers questions that the user might have (based on what they are searching for). People tend to ask the same questions about various products in the same niche. If you're going to be going into a niche with a lot of products, make sure to choose kind of a generic domain name that all the products can fit under that's related to your niche.

Good luck,
Joey

There are several people here doing well with review sites, Jan Roos and Gaz just to name two but do some digging and you will find many more.

I am still making good money from my review sites and even my auto blogs are making good money...

Good content good SEO and giving the user what they are looking for is al you need to do

I have a review site for one pretty specific niche. The products range in price from $60-$500 and I have about 24 reviews and I make about $150 a month.

I would say go for it, just get good quality reviews. And remember - some people may be able to get a good site going overnight, but for most of us it takes months and months just for the site to start properly ranking and earning. But once it does, you are all set!

I am focusing on building product review sites and it produces good money. My tip for you is that you try to combine "best" product "reviews". com .... For the search volume of the keywords "best product" and "product reviews" should have a minimum of 4000 US exact monthly searches each, just an advice.. Do not get stuck from 1 niche, just take time to research well on what are the best products to promote. Rank #1 product because it is Really Good and not because it is expensive that you'll earn more money. Be honest on the reviews, if you reviewed a product that is no good then write disadvantages [to help prevent your visitors to buy that bad product] then point them to the good, best product.
Once you found your keywords that would give good amount of traffic, then work hard on the contents and seo. It is very rewarding to build review sites. Goodluck...

I think review sites are definitely worth making, but the formula needs to be changed up. No more "thin" 5 or 10 page sites. A review blog should be built up with loads of good content, and not just reviews but helpful original articles that are niche specific as well.

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good info, thanks.

I am currently working on a review site for one niche, I was able to catch an aged domain and it is a premium domain..IMO.. I don't believe in 100 review sites, first it is hard to manage them and then Google might change their algorithm and remove most of them of the web.. but the same issue might apply for 1 review site if it is slapped by Google then you lose all your income ( people say don't put your eggs in one basket) but I would still create one site and make it an authority site by providing top notch content and SEO ( which is the hard part)

I think both methods would work but I would stick with 1 site, I am going to start with 300+ reviews and add reviews everyweek or everyday since I am hiring a writer..

Yes, the key is unique content. But at the same time maybe good to protect our
content so that other people might not taking advantages ours for their
own use and purposes. Any relevant application helps on this?