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New here, need tips for a business website that has a shop, services and blog.

by Legendary Maan
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Hi, I'm working on a project for more than a year. I want to offer services locally, sell products internationally and use the blog for affiliate marketing. which part of it should be focused first and what can be done to get traffic without spending money. All tips and suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author DABK
    You can get traffic without spending money with SEO and social media.


    Which one to start with? Have no idea, you gave no info about where you are with your project after 1 year or your skills and talents.


    You seem to be in Pakistan.
    Selling locally is probably the fastest way you can make money.


    If you can sell in the US, you'd probably be able to make more per sale (same item) then if you sell in many other parts of the world.


    When you sell internationally, you run into problems that have to do with language and customs... You might come across as non-trustworthy, too... Unless your site seems to be based in the country where you're selling.


    Blogging takes a long time to make money, if it makes any at all. Can be done without spending money.


    For better responses, provide more info.


    Originally Posted by Legendary Maan View Post

    Hi, I'm working on a project for more than a year. I want to offer services locally, sell products internationally and use the blog for affiliate marketing. which part of it should be focused first and what can be done to get traffic without spending money. All tips and suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
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    • Profile picture of the author Legendary Maan
      The niche is about Gaming PCs and their related stuff. The thing is, my Computer Shop got messed up after COVID. and I started learning affiliate marketing and content writing.
      Currently I'm earning with the Amazon affiliate program but I am not getting much affiliate sales or profit. I only write content, and publish the articles but don't have the time or interest to do link building or off-page type of work.

      Now i have linked my old shop related stuff with my website due to which the website has become a little heavy than it should. I spend most of my time optimizing it or fixing it.
      Now I have my technician services which I offer but those pages have zero traffic. And I am increasing products on shop pages and most of my customers are of digital products but they're the old ones who know me from the computer shop.

      I am getting less than 50 users on my website and around 10-15 of which are on blog posts so affiliate sales are not doing good either.

      Now what I want, is to find ways and tools (Not-Paid) which can help me maintain and improve all 3 departments here. I tried facebook ads some time ago but they were good only while they were running, I got sales and followers while the ad was running.

      Any further help or suggestion would be appreciated. And if I need to provide even more detailed info, let me know.
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      • Profile picture of the author TobiMDD
        Originally Posted by Legendary Maan View Post

        I tried facebook ads some time ago but they were good only while they were running, I got sales and followers while the ad was running.

        You say you got sales and followers while the ad was running. I don't know if I misunderstood anything, but that's great, isn't it?

        That is exactly the goal of paid advertising. And if you are one of the few blessed people where it brings positive results, my advice to you would be to continue doing exactly what worked.

        So the only reason I can think of why you stopped would be that the sales weren't enough to cover the advertising costs.

        Therefore, my recommendation would be that you offer more of the products that can generate a higher income. And maybe in the same breath remove a few other products that don't work so well from the website.

        In general, it is best to offer fewer but high quality products.
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      • Profile picture of the author DABK
        Since you say this: I only write content, and publish the articles but don't have the time or interest to do link building or off-page type of work, I have to ask:


        Have you considered writing articles for other people? Like, go on Freelancer.com and such places and get hired to write articles?


        You need to attract visitors.
        No money spent ways:
        SEO
        forum participation
        social media participation.
        You pay with time. And they all take a while to get going, usually.
        You can create some amazing content on your site and then, contact websites whose visitors would benefit from that content but who do not compete with you, and ask them to link to your content (broken link method or just random site owners). Or just create the content and hope (look up www.backlinko.com's Skyscraper Technique posts).


        If you are constantly creating content on a blog, Google will show a lot of your pages... till you stop putting out new content. But it would take a while (months) to get enough of them that your traffic will be enough to get you lots of sales daily.


        Which one should you start with? I don't know. I do not know how much you make per sales.


        Have you considered offering people who buy from you a coupon that they can give a friend to buy on your site? Are your profits enough that you can do something like that?







        Originally Posted by Legendary Maan View Post

        The niche is about Gaming PCs and their related stuff. The thing is, my Computer Shop got messed up after COVID. and I started learning affiliate marketing and content writing.
        Currently I'm earning with the Amazon affiliate program but I am not getting much affiliate sales or profit. I only write content, and publish the articles but don't have the time or interest to do link building or off-page type of work.

        Now i have linked my old shop related stuff with my website due to which the website has become a little heavy than it should. I spend most of my time optimizing it or fixing it.
        Now I have my technician services which I offer but those pages have zero traffic. And I am increasing products on shop pages and most of my customers are of digital products but they're the old ones who know me from the computer shop.

        I am getting less than 50 users on my website and around 10-15 of which are on blog posts so affiliate sales are not doing good either.

        Now what I want, is to find ways and tools (Not-Paid) which can help me maintain and improve all 3 departments here. I tried facebook ads some time ago but they were good only while they were running, I got sales and followers while the ad was running.

        Any further help or suggestion would be appreciated. And if I need to provide even more detailed info, let me know.
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  • Profile picture of the author Joop Moore
    Yes i would agree, start with your local business. Generate some income locally and invest it in the growth of your other businesses.
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