Effective One page Amazon sites?

Hi,
Single page websites won't rank at all on search engines now, especially on Google (since it is getting smarter & smarter). Even niche sites with 5-10 pages take a lot of hard work (building links, posting quality articles with perfect keyword density) and time to rank on the first page.

Until the end of 2011, I did have a site where I had 3-4 pages and did some backlinking using bmr to rank it. It was at #2 or #3 on google.com and #5 or #6 on google.ca. I had posted 5 product reviews of a particular niche (a 1000 word post) and 1-3 articles (not more than 400 words each) of the niche that the site was in. It was a typical micro niche site. This site took about 4-5 months for ranking that high even though it was fairly less competitive niche. It was doing pretty well driving me sales on amazon every other day until some google update came in. That site from then never crossed page 50 of google for the keyword I was ranking on the first page. I now realize that I had been using the same anchor text for the backlinks which may have triggered the sudden downfall of my site.

Anyway, I have been talking out of context here. So to conclude, I would advice you to write at least ten to twelve 500-600 word articles in your niche , post one to three every week and and after you have posted minimum 5-6 articles, then post the review page.

I would say not to do any link building unless the site is at least a month old. Google will slam your site if it smells something fishy and it will take a lot of effort on your side to recover your site on Google. I should stop writing now otherwise I would keep my anecdotes going & going.

P.S. PM me if you want to listen my anecdotes. All the best!

Sure you can. Why would it be strange? If that's all you are promoting, then build the entire site (including domain name) around up-and-coming products.

Yes, you are. Believe me when I say a site built solely around pre-order stuff is possible.

Yea my Dad does this every year. I'm aware of the massive opportunity's.

I think it just feels weird building a niche site aimed at pre-orders, maybe cause I like the idea of a single site for a pre-order product.

Do you have Skype mate?

It is not that Google penalizes one page sites - Google doesn't see thin sites as worth much and thus ranking them can be difficult to say the least.

If you can link to the page from an established, well ranked site - or if you have the money to promote without relying on search traffic, that might be a different story.

It doesn't matter what people think will happen - you have to try it and see what happens. If it doesn't work, increase the site with more content that is on topic or on related topics.

I do well using blogger for a recipe site promoting Amazon products. I get 90% of the traffic from Pintrest. But I do better doing Amazon review sites useing HTML builders or wordpress. It's all about content. Content sells the product for you.

The only way to test the site is get traffic and begin testing CTR.

I think his point was that if you are going to go the single-page route (which is a bad idea IMHO), why not just use Web 2.0. That isn't a terrible idea for one key reason:

How much time and money do you really want to spend on one-page sites that have a limited shelf life? I mean, once a product is no longer new (or goes out of production), sites based on your strategy become worthless. By using Web 2.0, at least you haven't cost yourself any money on domains, renewals, etc.

Blogger and Squidoo I'd say are the best 2.0 blogging sites. Thanks for that info dude.

Are your review sites on one product or a niche and full of reviews for a range of products in that niche?


Wolfmmiii your really good at answering my questions lol, I appreciate your help. Your point has just clarified what I should do lol. It makes complete sense what your saying.

Testing is the highlight here, same for anything in the world really, test and you get results to better inform yourself.

Thanks again everyone .