Review Site on Wordpress

[tjtigers14]

I'm a week into my first campaign and I'm having some (a lot) of wordpress-specific issues, but these are my most bothersome ones. If anyone could help me out, I just think I got too ahead of myself.

If I'm using a mix of blog posts and review pages, should I try to rank my review pages or just funnel them through the landing page? I currently have my site listed as a "round-up" sort of site, where I offer the best of ______ or whatever and link to the brands I joined. Is that a viable approach?

Alright and last thing; I want to have on the top of my home page a "featured posts (products)" box that draws the reader into clicking. Whereupon they come up to a quality page building up a certain product offering the full review/web site/coupon code at the end.

Basically I guess what I'm saying is i need some basic tips about how to design the actual sitempa of an affiliate review site. If anyone can help I can do 500 free words or similar "manual" labor lol.

 

[dogfighter]

500 free words = $5 tops, FYI

That being said, you need to start with something MUCH smaller than what you're describing. You are biting off way too much for your first attempt and it's only going to frustrate you... hence your post here. Plus the reviews thing has been done to death (though that doesn't mean it doesn't work).

Rank something simple. Get 10-20 blog posts on one topic where you've done 30-45 minutes of keyword research and not a minute more. Rank that shit as best you can, and learn from the process. Don't put any affiliate shit on it, just adsense to (hopefully) cover your costs, which should be nominal.

Forget CPA, CPL, product affiliates, etc. You need to learn how to gather traffic either through paid or organic means. Until you can do that, the rest doesn't mean shit. Build 1 site about 1 topic, purely informational, no pitching, no affiliate shit, no customized themes, just the odd adsense block.

Everybody wants to be a make monies online right away, but you will get there 10x faster if you start at the bottom and see your projects through to the end, one after another.

 

[tjtigers14]

500 free words = $5 tops, FYI

That being said, you need to start with something MUCH smaller than what you're describing. You are biting off way too much for your first attempt and it's only going to frustrate you... hence your post here. Plus the reviews thing has been done to death (though that doesn't mean it doesn't work).

Rank something simple. Get 10-20 blog posts on one topic where you've done 30-45 minutes of keyword research and not a minute more. Rank that shit as best you can, and learn from the process. Don't put any affiliate shit on it, just adsense to (hopefully) cover your costs, which should be nominal.

Forget CPA, CPL, product affiliates, etc. You need to learn how to gather traffic either through paid or organic means. Until you can do that, the rest doesn't mean shit. Build 1 site about 1 topic, purely informational, no pitching, no affiliate shit, no customized themes, just the odd adsense block.

Everybody wants to be a make monies online right away, but you will get there 10x faster if you start at the bottom and see your projects through to the end, one after another.

You only make $5 for your copy? You should maybe try charging more

I would have to definitely agree with you on skipping the marketing double-speak cookie-shoving shit, pretty sure that's what's throwing me off now that I think about it.

And even more true about the turtle vs. hare stuff; I was gifted a domain in that niche and had done a lot of write ups about it so I figured I would try all out but it overwhelmed me.

Hey quick question, my original e-mail got denied for AdSense back a year ago when I did something stupid on Blogger - any suggestions? I have looked but it pretty much said they won't let you back if they dont' want to, and they are intense about connected account monitoring I think...

So just to check, you're saying you didn't want any writing?