$10K by Christmas - Newbie Journal

Be prepared for disappointment. Ebay is pretty picky about who they except into the program, so if you submitted a brand new empty shell website they are more than likely going to say get lost.

if that's the case, keep building the bitch out and put adsense on there. Then apply to shareasale and any other product based networks and find your products and switch to them.

The experience is more important than the revenue right now, lot's to learn at first
 


if that's the case, keep building the bitch out and put adsense on there. Then apply to shareasale and any other product based networks and find your products and switch to them.

The experience is more important than the revenue right now, lot's to learn at first

yeah, i've yet to get approved by ebay. i will run with your advice, dchuk. question i have is... won't google get upset that the site is essentially an mfa site? not to mention, i feel like my bounce rate would be huge if i started getting any significant amount of traffic.

would i be able to just throw adsense up, drive traffic, & hope ebay approves me by then. i was banking on being able to use the script they have that is like a rolling index of a particular search term. so, any & all alternatives would be appreciated.

right now i'm looking into amazon widgets. there's one that uses adsense-like tech (lol) that scrapes keywords from my site and shows relevant products, but i have the products broken down by specific types. so, say if people click on the product page for Product A, it pops up and the amazon widget shows them Products B, C and D and if I'm lucky... Product A.

question: should i just throw up some adsense + the amazon widget and focus on link building + writing more content, then move onto figuring out how i will monetize the site in a way that offers super relevant content, rather than related content?
 
The more pages you create using some specific keywords the more relevant your site becomes.

However links also increase relevancy.

So its up to you to decide. It appears to me that content trumps links.

Think Wikipedia...Associated Content...etc

I have been reading that content and links do support each other. As in google sees it as a red flag to get thousands of links (link farms) with not a lot of content and vice versa. I think this is how people sandbox themselves with google....but I am a newbie myself so I might be miss informed.