Newb here w/ crazy idea

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Hey guys. Newb here.

I have, what I believe to be, a great idea for a website. But I need some help and advice.

Let me give you some history:

They always say follow your passion, so I toke some time to think that over and thought of a product that I would love to sell. I figured I would sell this product on the internet as it would probably fail in a brick and mortar store. Not enough local interest to sustain it, I would guess. But probably enough interest online for it to thrive (I'm hoping).

It would be a website that sells art, posters, books, guides, dvds and stationary all regarding a certain topic. The only thing is is that for it to operate in the fashion that I am envisioning I would have to purchase nearly 50,000+ unique items! This would put inventory expenses in the millions of dollars. I can't do that at the moment.

So, during my research I discovered affiliate marketing....

My question is this... Would it be insane to make a one website with 50,000+ product links pointing to affiliate stores (like art.com and amazon.com)? Keep in mind that the site would be extremly well organized and designed. Is it possible?

Thank you!
 


Build it.

Start with standard interlinking.
Optimize for the highest volume keywords for which you are confident of ranking at the top, and get those pages at the top.
Link from those top ranked pages to your other pages (change your interlinking at this point so that external links point to your ranked pages, and internal links go out from them). Or, if that sounds complicated, leave the links alone.

They will come.
 
Why not start with just a wordpress blog with a couple of plugins - like maybe phpbay or auction2post for selling ebay - and along with that you can use the rss features of art.com and use rss to post plugin with your aff link to populate your website. that would be a cheap and easy trial run.

edit - just checked art.com - they don't have an rss feed. If they offer access to their db for affs, that would be a good way to populate.
 
5 replies 564 views on a newbie post. We are looking for blood or a ban.
 
blood or ban? I would say that the topic was intriguing but the idea has been done thousands of times already...this isn't a new idea but it works if you do it right
 
You could try to work a deal with the retailer to drop ship the products with your return address on them this woul keep you from having to have an inventory and allow you to keep a large selection of items. I would also suggest you purchase something every now and then and have it sent to different addresses of relatives and friends so you can make sure they aren't trying to steal your customers away
 
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