Plan for amazon affiliate?

cham rox said:

Just an advice. You can build up an super quality Amazn affiliate site for half of that price (more less) yourself. (With non native written articles you could build a site for $100 yourself) And you will gain experience to build more sites in the future.

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How?? I Cant code and my design skills are poor, I always over think things. Any advice?

Hi,
A few tips:

+ concerning your lack of confidence in your tech/design skills
On tech: if you don't know how to install/run/use/add plugins wordpress do this first or don't get into SEO. It will get lightly technical but not as much as you think so. I don't think I've ever edited wordpress code at all. So, learn wordpress first
On design: ugly sells well: install wordpress, download from here a basic theme for SEO : schema, add some plugins like Tablepress and WP review and you're good to go.

> Buying a premade website is bad. You need to learn things yourself to get better at it.

+ building authority to your site
Lol to the guy that told you that he does not linking to his pages... You will need to build links:
How to?
Build a social fortress: simple. Youtube / google + FB, twitter ... 6 /7 of them. Syndicate content on your blog with jetpack (wordpress plugin)

Learn to build a PBN: find auction domains, buy them gradually. This is expensive but gives you a massive headstart and control on your links.
Web 2.0 are all very nice (btw they are public blogging plaforms like blogger, blogspot, tumblr and also social networks...)

Contribute on dedicated forums: this is to building links but also traffic.

A few comments here and there.

+ building one or many websites:
an amazon niche site can rank with 20k words. So you can/should create more websites and no burn your ressources on one. Especially if you build a PBN you can then use this to rank other sites.
Then, build your passion project as well, something you like and make it a big site.

+ niche
Seriously the hard part. I've spend so much time on Amazon. There's a lot of competition on big products that sell well and expensive and it makes it difficult to rank. So, well spend some time there and go for a product that maybe cheaper like > $60 at least with reviews

+ keyword research
Now people say it's hard but it's really not that bad:
Take competitors websites (ranking on first page) and run them in ahref/semrush (you should buy a subscription to a group buy for this: search it on FB there are some (group the Lab and Lionzeal marketplace).
You have a list of keyword they are ranking for. Well this is your target. You can tarket the big boys, or low hanging fruits with 500+ searches with buyer intent (product name...) and rank on that.

+ blogs to follow
I don't follow many blogs but I've read and learnt a lot on : backlinko, matt diggity, lionzeal (podcasts, too bad I hate the aggrssive promotion by Daryl sometimes...), cloud living sometimes.

About me:
I don't make millions online. I started my first amazon niche site 2 years ago and I now make about $1500-2000/m. But I don't work on my websites... I have a regular job and a family to take care of.
When I say I dont work on my website, I mean, when I create a website now it takes me a good 10 hours. Then, some care at the beginning but when it's ranking I tend to go lazy and do other things.
Good luck

OMG that was long!

Magic Roundabout said:

How?? I Cant code and my design skills are poor, I always over think things. Any advice?

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Learn how to use Elementor on Youtube and you're good to go, everyone can build a great site nowadays

Magic Roundabout said:

How?? I Cant code and my design skills are poor, I always over think things. Any advice?

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can you understand simple English? Then google and read and read. Keep watch related Youtube vidoes. Now a days even little kid can setup a wordpress site.

And you do not need design skills. You just have to buy a good wordpress theme.

dgeebee said:

Hi,
A few tips:

+ concerning your lack of confidence in your tech/design skills
On tech: if you don't know how to install/run/use/add plugins wordpress do this first or don't get into SEO. It will get lightly technical but not as much as you think so. I don't think I've ever edited wordpress code at all. So, learn wordpress first
On design: ugly sells well: install wordpress, download from here a basic theme for SEO : schema, add some plugins like Tablepress and WP review and you're good to go.

> Buying a premade website is bad. You need to learn things yourself to get better at it.

+ building authority to your site
Lol to the guy that told you that he does not linking to his pages... You will need to build links:
How to?
Build a social fortress: simple. Youtube / google + FB, twitter ... 6 /7 of them. Syndicate content on your blog with jetpack (wordpress plugin)

Learn to build a PBN: find auction domains, buy them gradually. This is expensive but gives you a massive headstart and control on your links.
Web 2.0 are all very nice (btw they are public blogging plaforms like blogger, blogspot, tumblr and also social networks...)

Contribute on dedicated forums: this is to building links but also traffic.

A few comments here and there.

+ building one or many websites:
an amazon niche site can rank with 20k words. So you can/should create more websites and no burn your ressources on one. Especially if you build a PBN you can then use this to rank other sites.
Then, build your passion project as well, something you like and make it a big site.

+ niche
Seriously the hard part. I've spend so much time on Amazon. There's a lot of competition on big products that sell well and expensive and it makes it difficult to rank. So, well spend some time there and go for a product that maybe cheaper like > $60 at least with reviews

+ keyword research
Now people say it's hard but it's really not that bad:
Take competitors websites (ranking on first page) and run them in ahref/semrush (you should buy a subscription to a group buy for this: search it on FB there are some (group the Lab and Lionzeal marketplace).
You have a list of keyword they are ranking for. Well this is your target. You can tarket the big boys, or low hanging fruits with 500+ searches with buyer intent (product name...) and rank on that.

+ blogs to follow
I don't follow many blogs but I've read and learnt a lot on : backlinko, matt diggity, lionzeal (podcasts, too bad I hate the aggrssive promotion by Daryl sometimes...), cloud living sometimes.

About me:
I don't make millions online. I started my first amazon niche site 2 years ago and I now make about $1500-2000/m. But I don't work on my websites... I have a regular job and a family to take care of.
When I say I dont work on my website, I mean, when I create a website now it takes me a good 10 hours. Then, some care at the beginning but when it's ranking I tend to go lazy and do other things.
Good luck

OMG that was long!

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I Will reply to your comment soon just at work, apologies it looks a good comment so thankyou.

cham rox said:

can you understand simple English? Then google and read and read. Keep watch related Youtube vidoes. Now a days even little kid can setup a wordpress site.

And you do not need design skills. You just have to buy a good wordpress theme.

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My issue is not being able to read made, designing and building are two completely different things.

I have done software engineer at university but I have not studied web design or take the university course for it.

Even with a good wordpress theme it still requires design, you cant just use a theme and not design it to be unique, especially when im for brandable long term.

But thankyou for your input anyway I do appreciate every comment.

ddlmanager said:

Learn how to use Elementor on Youtube and you're good to go, everyone can build a great site nowadays

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Yeah its mostly the positioning of objects and whicu objects to add, I tried elementor I just made a disgustingly ugly site aha, you wouldnt believe how bad my design skills are.

I can code perfectly I know HTML, Java, C++, C#, Python, X code for iphones, but since my design skills are trash I cant really apply it to designing a website.

I would rather get a professional unique design since im branding

Such a good read, following this. Some of the replies are really interesting

I suggest you to go for a standard theme like schema, where you don't need to do fancy design things. Just setup the website, menu, categories and you're good to go

ddlmanager said:

I suggest you to go for a standard theme like schema, where you don't need to do fancy design things. Just setup the website, menu, categories and you're good to go

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Thanks man, one thing I don't understand, why does everyone put all their reviews and products on the home page? it looks so ugly have 20,000 words on one page... or just scrolling through 10-100 products. I understand that having your content on the homepage improves SEO but does it really affect it that much that everyone needs to shove all their content onto it?

Also, why are all affiliate websites minimal themes? struggling to find an attractive one at the moment,

CFT said:

How would someone new find them "brand new blogs"? is there a certain search needed or tools like Semrush? Thanks.

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I actually use an extension for this call SEOQuake. It allows me to identify such sites within the search results itself.