Growing and Selling a Review Website

[julianthr]

Hi ! I come from my last Journey because It was bad focused. So I asked Matsta to close it, and he kindly did it.

I closed it because I learned a lot in this few days and I'm having traffic, and even sales, from different traffic methods, not just 1.
And also, it didn't even had a Goal.

So I finally realized it how simply the journey and the goal is. And I'm not going to stop until I make it.

So this new journey is The One!
This time I'm going to document the whole thing, from beginning to end.

It is so simple as this: Growing and Selling a Review Website

I'm going to keep it short. I have been learning how to write journeys too

STARTING WITH :

+ Review website with 3 reviews
+ Commenting in blogs, social media and websites is delivering around 30 visitors per day

GOALS TO SELL THE WEBSITE:
+20 Reviews
+100 Articles

+For each of those 20 Reviews I want to have 5 Articles of 1000 words with low competitive keywords about interests around the product and try to rank those articles.

But of course.. we'll see.

*One of my reviews is already ranking in page 3 of Google for the keyword "PRODUCTNAME REVIEW". So I think I'm going to spread more links too.

In the meanwhile, I'm going to use every source that I found profitable, in therms of time & money, to bring traffic to my website, until I manage to build automated traffic to it, I'm going to be documenting every method that I use.

In the run I'm going to see which products I add and from where.
Right now the 3 reviews are for Clickbank products, but I'm not going to limit to one provider.

NUMBERS:

STARTED WITH: $50 > Domain and Host
EARNED SO FAR: $173 (4 sales)
PROFIT: $123


Here we go
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[Faith]

Good luck with your journey!

 

[moonshine7000]

You can use your Clickbank screenshots and traffic to help sell the review website.

 

[Boriss]

Something new to the "journey" section. Good luck OP. Bank HARD!

 

[kamilari]

can you mention name of the theme u are using

 

[julianthr]

can you mention name of the theme u are using

Currently the free version of Ready Review, but definitely going to improve it with time.

 

[DigiCyan]

Goodluck man. You never give up, that's what I like about you

 

[JasonGraham]

Nice start, good luck on your journey :6:

 

[denzbrown]

Great going. all the best man. I am sure you're gonna make good money

 

[julianthr]

Thanks all for the support!

UPDATE:
Wrote and publish my first article for one of my products
Shared the new article in a bunch of Facebook groups and it's getting a nice response

IMPROVED PLAN - STARTING ON NOVEMBER:
If I stick to this, I should be available to have the website ready to sell it by March 2016.

4 Reviews per month + 20 Articles per month (5 articles per review) = 20 Reviews and 100 Articles in 5 Months

I already have 3 reviews and 1 article, so by the end of October I need to have 4 Reviews and 20 Articles to start fresh in November.
Super possible if I work hard. I have time, so lets do it.

CURRENT TRAFFIC METHOD:
- I'm sharing some posts in Facebook and receiving UVs from comments that I leave a few days ago on several places
- Bing Ads Coupon

I learned a lot with Bing Ads these past few days and I'm trying a little experiment that I would like to share with you guys:

I spend my first $50 worrying about the CTR keeping it above %2 and I was getting a lot of clicks, but then I though: Oh it's a coupon, lets experiment.

Grab my best ads and my best keywords and twisted them to fit each ad to each keyword.

Then I just kept CTR away from my strategy.

MAIN STRATEGY RIGHT NOW: F*CK CTR!

I want to make the fifth sale in clickbank while I test my reviews, so NO, I'm not capturing leads. And I know that some of you are going to say "You are leaving money on the table".. yes, but I'm running a test here to check my reviews conversion and the Ads strategy.

I need to send the visitor to my review because I'm testing my reviews and my ads strategy, which is this:

I don't want just any click in my ad! I want people who is willing to buy something just by seeing the ad.

I don't give any FREE incentives in my ADS and I don't hide the fact that they are going to read an article about a DIGITAL PRODUCT that its FOR SALE! So the clicks amount that I'm receiving is super low! and my CTR is freaking low too!

But.. check this out

As soon as I started that strategy I got my first sale with these stats:

HOPS: 4
SALES FORM - VIEWS: 2
SALES: 1

So I think is going good for now .. and I'm not loosing money on clicks that I don't want. I am not capturing leads. I'm testing my reviews to see how visitors react and also testing this Bing Ads strategy that I'm doing right now.
Visitors who click my Bing Ad knows that they are going to read about a Product that they have to buy if they want to try it. That's why I don't have so many clicks.

TODAY STATS:

HOPS: 5
SALES FORM - VIEWS: 2
SALES: 0

But you can see that amazing ROI from those few clicks!

I'm going to keep testing that out .. Still have a couple of $ in the coupon so we'll see what happen.

Right now I'm going to write another article to finish this month with 4 Reviews and 20 Articles to start Fresh in November !

Proof of last sale with the Bing Ads strategy:


Have a great one

 

[blogzandstuff]

Currently the free version of Ready Review, but definitely going to improve it with time.

This is a good theme, in the pro version you can add amazon without a plugin - " Access products directly from the Amazon marketplace to be shown within your post or as a seperate page with live pricing, updated daily (if needed). " - I nicked that bit from their sales page LOL!
Good luck with your journey - i wish you well

 

[LoftPower]

Great journey. Wishing you well.

 

[julianthr]

UPDATE OCTOBER 22

Sorry for the late update. My mom broke her leg so I went home to take care of her for a week.

Anyways this are the current stats of my review website. Haven't done any work, just keeping the Bing Ads strategy going, and still getting a few hops from that, amazing hops. I made a new sale.



That day the stats where:

HOPS: 3
ORDER FORM IMPRESSIONS: 2
SALES: 1

So far I made $50 from the $30 remaining in the Bing Ads Coupon when I changed the strategy, and it turned out to be pretty good Slow and little traffic, but making every click worth !

Going to keep with that while I outsource 20 articles. Going to write a new review and keep going.

STARTED WITH: $50 > Domain and Host
EARNED SO FAR: $200 (5 sales)

 

[RafaViQ]

How much do you spend outsourcing articles?

 

[julianthr]

How much do you spend outsourcing articles?

I haven't outsourced any article yet.. did 4 reviews and 2 articles by myself.

But planning on investing $100 outsourcing articles.