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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 12th April 2016, 06:59 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 302
Posted By Ben Armstrong
International Shipping

I'm about to start shipping our products internationally after having a few international customers make enquiries recently and have set up the international shipping zones and rates through shopify....
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 22nd December 2015, 05:09 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 522
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Dealing with damaged merchandise

Thanks. Yes I'm learning that it's a very different culture and that I can't expect the same levels of customer service you'd get from major suppliers and manufacturers elsewhere.

I've dealt with...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 22nd December 2015, 05:08 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 522
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Dealing with damaged merchandise

Thanks for the advise.

They are going to replace the badly damaged items at their own expense and with the other 50 or so they are going to send me cases to replace myself which won't take too...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 19th December 2015, 11:10 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 522
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Dealing with damaged merchandise

So I recently received a large order of products from China that arrived poorly packed and with damage to one third of the stock. The items themselves are fine for the most part except the plastic...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 13th October 2015, 07:11 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 683
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Importing and getting Samples

In my experience the item cost shouldn't be too high. At most you should be paying whatever their highest price bracket is for low volume orders, not a special sample price or anything like that.
...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 13th October 2015, 07:07 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 668
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Recommendations on Shopify Apps for popups

I'm having trouble deciding on a popup app to use for shopify and after some recommendations.

What I'm trying to achieve is this...

Popup prompting visitors to enter email address in exchange...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 13th October 2015, 04:50 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 994
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: How terrible is my e-commerce site?

Thanks again for the replies everyone.

I've started making changes based on the feedback I've received so far...


There's not a great deal I can do about the colour scheme as I've had the lash...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 6th October 2015, 12:07 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 994
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: How terrible is my e-commerce site?

Thanks all. This is pretty much exactly what I was after.

I've thought at times the site could be a lot more feminine so I've starting making some changes in that regard and will continue to do...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 4th October 2015, 04:40 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 994
Posted By Ben Armstrong
How terrible is my e-commerce site?

Looking for brutally honest feedback here. It's a shopify store with some custom code. Overall I'm happy with most things but I really need an outside perspective to improve it.

Please feel free...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th May 2013, 04:53 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 1,251
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Question About Amazon Product Review Sites

I have both. The second variety is a lot of work and is harder to get off the ground because there are so many keywords to target and build backlinks for. However in the long run you have more...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 31st October 2012, 10:33 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 559
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Best place to learn about on-page SEO

Does anyone know of a comprehensive guide to SEO that details pretty much everything on-page SEO related?

I don't mind whether it's a WSO, a physical book etc.

Preferably something that's up...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th August 2012, 07:31 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 1,179
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: The TRUTH about Anchor Diversity - All You Need To Know

Just forget about building backlinks and start promoting your website. Do it in the way you would do it if rankings didn't exist.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th July 2012, 05:22 PM
Replies: 226
Views: 6,244
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: A Question of Branding. Nearly died when I saw this .... lol

'I'm senator and I know it'

lol'ing pretty hard!

She may be targeting a certain demographic but unfortunately I don't think that particular demographic are too interested in politics.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th July 2012, 04:53 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 2,538
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Killing Your Old Life and Living the Dream

Just started reading it and it's brilliant so far. It's like reading an abridged, no-bs version of all my favourite personal development books.

Finding your purpose in life is probably the most...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd July 2012, 07:58 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 498
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: How do you plan your activities?

I believe you really need to have 3 different jobs within your own business.

1. You have to be an employee who takes care of the daily mundane tasks.
2. You have to be a manager who sets out what...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 22nd July 2012, 05:54 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 1,147
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Amazon sites still not ranking...

I agree with everything you've said here.

Focus on content and try to integrate social media and you'll be doing well.

You can definitely rank a page without any backlinks to it. I have a site...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th July 2012, 07:25 AM
Replies: 97
Views: 2,281
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: IM Guru Said: "I can't promote that!"

The first date example was pretty much exactly what I was going to use.

Once you've built up a relationship with your list and they've had an opportunity to get to know you as a successful...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th June 2012, 10:03 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 634
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Nofollow and penguin

No one can say for certain except for google employees but based on what google have said and what seems to be common SEO knowledge... yes, it's true.

However, just because nofollow links don't...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th June 2012, 05:33 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 2,227
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Do you still choose an EMD for a new site?

I've used them in the past and still own a few, but I have to agree. I think google wants to eliminate the traditional niche affiliate sites from it's serps so I'm pretty much moving in a different...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 20th June 2012, 05:04 PM
Replies: 60
Views: 1,894
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Eight-Year Lurker Exposes Herself!

Misleading thread title.

Welcome anyway :)
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th June 2012, 04:56 PM
Replies: 43
Views: 2,977
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: I Make 6K A Month...

I've generated $40,000 in sales so far this year. :)
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th June 2012, 04:43 PM
Replies: 200
Views: 10,245
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: How does anyone make money with Amazon?

I've heard you mention this a few times and I've also noticed that I've sold quite a few items that have no monthly searches quite consistently. I've decided that with my authority site I'm going to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th June 2012, 06:05 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 700
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: QUESTION ON AMAZON AFFILIATE LINKS

If they buy from US Amazon then you will get a comission. If they buy from Japanese Amazon then you don't get a commission unless you are signed up to their specific Amazon affiliate program.

Even...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 31st May 2012, 12:38 AM
Replies: 89
Views: 5,590
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Amazon Review Sites: how to stay on page 1?

While I agree that the traditional style Amazon review sites are struggling post-penguin, I'm not sure I agree with the reasons you're putting forward.

I doubt google's algo has the ability to...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 30th May 2012, 07:33 PM
Replies: 89
Views: 5,590
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Amazon Review Sites: how to stay on page 1?

The game has changed re Amazon sites. You can still rank well without updating your content regularly. Just make sure you're not over optimizing for your keywords both on-page and off-page.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th May 2012, 04:57 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 685
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: What to give away as free and what to sell? Any general rule for selling info products?

Give away your absolute best for free and people will be more likely to buy your product IMO.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 28th May 2012, 06:17 PM
Replies: 46
Views: 1,668
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: First Penguin Refresh: Penguin 1.1 ?

On further investigation of my site, it looks like the main keyword is still ranked number 1 but I've lost a heap of ground on many of the secondary and longtail keywords. Not sure what to make of...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th May 2012, 11:05 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 864
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Unnatural links detected: What to do with this website?

I had considered this but there are a lot of existing links and I'm guessing it would take quite a bit of work to dilute them. Even then there's absolutely no guarantee that google will approve my...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th May 2012, 10:39 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 864
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Unnatural links detected: What to do with this website?

So I have a website that was at one stage ranked in the top 3 for its main keyword and making me over $500 a month. Most of the backlinking was pretty standard stuff.. comments, Web 2.0's, Article...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th May 2012, 09:44 PM
Replies: 124
Views: 5,899
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Stop building backlinks..

Good advice.

You'll inadvertently pick up some very high quality backlinks that google will love if you simply stick to promoting your business.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th May 2012, 09:37 PM
Replies: 46
Views: 1,668
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: First Penguin Refresh: Penguin 1.1 ?

During the first update I had one site that jumped up for quite a few keywords. It went from roughly 40 UV's a day to 200+ a day. After this last update it looks like traffic has dropped down to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th May 2012, 11:25 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 5,727
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: How do you build your Amazon affiliate site ?

On my main earner at the moment I get about 220 UV's a day and roughly 100 clicks at Amazon, so that works out to be a CTR of about 40-50% which is pretty huge for an Amazon review site.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th May 2012, 09:27 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 3,012
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: How do you choose Amazon products to sell?

You haven't done anything wrong. Just keep building backlinks.

With my first site I built I sent about 400-500 clicks through to Amazon over a 3 month period without a single sale. Eventually...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th May 2012, 09:23 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 3,012
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: How do you choose Amazon products to sell?

1. The product should have a decent amount of recent reviews. If it gets more than 4-5 per month then it's a good product.

2. Stars should be at least 3.5

3. Think about whether or not it's...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st May 2012, 07:12 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 5,727
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: How do you build your Amazon affiliate site ?

I generally have about 5 links on a page.

The first is in the picture of the product at the top left of the page.

The next one is usually after the first paragraph or two saying something like...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st May 2012, 04:44 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 13,025
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Why aren't more people using Shutterstock?

I don't think he's suggesting you sign up for an entire year though. He's saying that a one month subscription will allow you to download 750 images. Assuming you can plan ahead and know what you...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st May 2012, 05:13 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,253
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Exit Pop up on close only?

I'm considering putting an exit popup on one of my amazon sites. The site makes a decent amount of money but I'm also using it to build a list in the niche. Unfortunately I don't have a great...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th May 2012, 12:18 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 463
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: How competition is those niche?

Normally I like to dig a little deeper and analyze the backlinks of the site in 1st position. You also don't have the domain age displayed.

Having said all that, from what I can see on the screen,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th May 2012, 12:14 AM
Replies: 69
Views: 2,491
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Those who can - DO, Those who can't - TEACH

Given the nature of IM, there are always going to be many people teaching things that they themselves don't understand, or can't actually do themselves. And probably in higher numbers than you...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st May 2012, 09:42 PM
Replies: 69
Views: 2,671
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Product names are cracking me up lately.

Hmmm. I was going to call my next product avalanche explosion. Do you think this would be a problem?
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st May 2012, 06:38 PM
Replies: 70
Views: 35,399
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Non-US Amazon Affiliates - how do you get paid

It all depends on your visitors. If they are happy to buy from Amazon China then no problem. I don't really know if people from Singapore etc generally do this.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st May 2012, 05:35 PM
Replies: 70
Views: 35,399
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Non-US Amazon Affiliates - how do you get paid

Yes, but you can set up an account as an amazon affiliate for the other countries as well.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st May 2012, 05:00 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 1,371
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Ever feel bummed as though you're almost FORCED to throw in the towel?

One tip I can give you is don't just judge your success or your worth in this game in $$.

Look at what you've learned, look at your skills, they're worth more than any dollar amount. I'd suggest...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th April 2012, 05:19 PM
Replies: 118
Views: 12,322
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: The Exact Method I Used To Get My First $5,000 Month (Amazon)

Getting the jump on new products is an awesome way to earn huge commissions for very little work early on. It's kind of like launch jacking for clickbank products.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 29th April 2012, 07:18 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 1,812
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Who works full-time in addition to IM?

Hi Rob,

I work 40 hours a week in my day job, I also have a 4 month old son who takes up a lot of my time but I still manage to work on my business for 1-2 hours a night.

It's hectic but it's...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 26th April 2012, 08:11 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 2,417
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: I can't believe the google nonsense here

You come across as a bit of a jerk but you're not often wrong.

It seems as though when some of us become internet marketers we completely forget what google used to be... "a search engine we used...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 26th April 2012, 05:00 PM
Replies: 727
Views: 50,072
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Why I Love Amazon Over Adsense

I've only just started experimenting with Adsense.

My sites are generally Amazon only but I've decided to try a combination of both on some of the poor performers.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 25th April 2012, 07:17 PM
Replies: 129
Views: 5,517
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Yesterday was a GREAT Day for SEO... and me! Its About Time!

Hi Kyle,

Could you share with us what kind of SEO methods you used. The more honest information people provide about their backlinking efforts, the more helpful it will be in figuring out what to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th April 2012, 07:07 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 864
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Why warriors are misguding me?

Yeah, instead of learning as you go and slowly building up your level of expertise by immersing yourself in the niche and learning more about it each day, just wait until you automatically become and...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th April 2012, 06:55 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 653
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Why are You Not Building a List?

Just a lack of time so far.

It's something that I'll have up and running within the next 2 months.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 25th April 2012, 06:49 PM
Replies: 129
Views: 5,517
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Yesterday was a GREAT Day for SEO... and me! Its About Time!

I tend to agree with most of what you're saying. However, I don't think guest blogging, Press releases or even some forms of video marketing and article marketing can be considered black hat. I think...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 25th April 2012, 05:57 PM
Replies: 129
Views: 5,517
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Yesterday was a GREAT Day for SEO... and me! Its About Time!

I completely agree.

I have 1 website that I started building early last year, my first ever website. Some of the backlinking I did to it would be considered black hat, a fair bit of white hat as...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th April 2012, 09:41 PM
Replies: 106
Views: 7,743
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Difference Between a $7, $37, $97, $497 and $2000 Product Offer?

For me, as a consumer, it comes down to a few things...

1. How much the product could improve my life.

2. How certain I am on whether or not the product will work.

3. Whether or not there is...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th April 2012, 08:19 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,326
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Is the quality of my articles worth $10 a per 500 words?

I think you're in the $5 per 500 words category at the moment.

Stick with it though.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th April 2012, 07:47 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 528
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Good Amazon Products for Twitter ?

Only thing I could even think of that would come close to working on twitter would be tweeting crazy or stupid products from Amazon in the hope that they go viral by retweeting and you get the odd...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1st April 2012, 06:31 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 2,371
Posted By Ben Armstrong
Re: Best Link Building method right now

1. Guest Blogging
2. Video
3. Social Bookmarking
4. Social Media

That's pretty much all I plan to do from now on.
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