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What Are Your Thoughts How Much Do You Think This Would Cost

by petevamp
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Hi warriors,

I recently decided on creating on online market place for the shoes niche. The products are purchased through amazon. I am thinking of out sourcing the whole posting process. How much do you think it is going to cost me to have this outsourced. All I am doing is picking a product creating the category if needed and then posting any where from a 100-300 word post about the product. On the post it also shows the list price and the sale price. Each post has a picture of the product and a button at the end of the page to purchase it.

Building the pages doesnt really take long at all. The problem I am having is I am running 4 seperate windows just to make the product live. The reason for the 4 windows is because I have one where I would grab the amazon link another with the products info so I can give info another of my site so I can make the post and another so I can cloak the affiliate link.

With each new product I add I am linking both the image and the button. I am also hosting the images on my server so that the site loads faster then having to pull it up from another site. So this is all taking way more time then I thought it would. I tried a few of the plugins that claim to do most of this. However with the changes amazon has made to their auto retriaval methods none of these are working at the moment.

So I would like to outsource the very first part of the posting process. Which is grabbing the product and creating a post on it. All they would have to do is take the product name and give as the title then add a second header to the post "product name Product Features" a small post then the template I am using for the price and the button with out the link to the product. Which I will supply all the images and links later. Since most of the products will go on at later dates as well.

So how much do you guys think this is going to cost me to outsource it. Thanks in advance.
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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    I think a lot of this will depend on your organization. You just need to make data entry simple. It also might make sense to hire a few and then keep the best people. You just need to spend time teaching them what to do, and then monitoring their work in the beginning. As for the 100-300 words, much depends on the quality of grammar needed. You could hire from the Phillipines for $2/hour or the US for $8/hour.
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  • Profile picture of the author petevamp
    The post are pretty much auto generated so long as they follow the simple pattern to how I am doing this. The process I am using does not make them 100% unigue however that is not the concern either. The page is still going to turn out to be 100% unique no matter how you look at. All I have been doing to get this is grabbing the product description directly and pasting.

    It is the other things that are added to the page that makes the entire page 100% unique. For instance I added 2 plugins one being similar post plugin and the other being related plost plugin. So first is the similar post plugin it shows 5 posts that are related and I have set it up so it's introduction is "Top Sellers". This only gives a title that is linked to the page on my site. Then there is the related post plugin. I have this so that the introduction to this plugin is "What others are looking at Now". This one on the other hand grabs the image and a snipit from the post of about 80 words or so.

    This is to help give it some content so the serps are more likely to rank it high. It also fills the page with over 800 words of content. So for a little 100 word copy and paste snipit from the amazon product description page is not going to hurt the site one bit and may even help it in the long run. I ran a couple of pages to this new site through copyscape just to see how it did doing it this way. It did pull up the endless page but it showed that my page was only 6% coppied which is by far better then some. Not to mention since I am directing all the product purchases to amazon this makes what I am doing 100% legal with little chance of getting hit with copyright infringment letters.

    Eventually I plan on going back through page by page and writing my own. For now though it is vital that I get it 100% ready so I can start my promotions on the site. To my surprise the site is only 2 days old and already has 13 of the 40 pages indexed with out me even promoting it at all so far. So I just need to get all the products on the site as quickly as possible so I can get to the promotional aspecs.
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