Real Life Example of How You Can Make an eCommerce Site That Pays You Decent Cash

audioguy said:

Sure BTB. I have no doubt this process should work for e-commerce sites, selling and shipping products themselves.

It's the fact that affiliate sites can compete in product search results is the part that I need confirmation about since everyone says that you can't and shouldn't create affiliate sites around product-based keywords. Google gives preferences over e-commerce sites for those keywords for quite some time.

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The site that I built using this process is 100% affiliate; nothing shipped from here and all the products were 3rd party products shipped direct from them and I get your typical commission.

All the content is unique and it was all added as described above and there is more content on the site than you would get from a Big Box online retailer... I don't know why everyone would say that except that the majority of those kinds of sites are review sites consisting of a limited amount of products as opposed to an ecommerce site that is almost working with an infinite # of products.

The other thing about the majority of those sites is that they do not add content the way as described above. The amount of work that took and the amount of energy it took was an awful lot and for me to say it was a lot of work means it really was a lot of work as I do not shy away from work.

The KWs are the product KWs, not "buy product A" or "best price product B" and the like.

I don't outrank the big boys for each and every product but we know that is not how you win in this game anyway; you out rank for enough that you can have a semi-passive income from a decent site for profitable KWs and that is what you end up with in this process.

What software do you use to make and tier the web 2.0s?

What about single product and domain name keywords for the product?

SupremeBoner said:

What software do you use to make and tier the web 2.0s?

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I don't use software to make any Web 2.0s. They are done manually as that is a better product to have out there to rank a site.

theconscience said:

What about single product and domain name keywords for the product?

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I think you mean exact match domain names that are the same as the product you are trying to market? If that is what you are asking, I can't address that as a first hand SEO as I do not have any nor have I worked on any in recent memory, but I do not see why they could not rank with a little elbow grease.

stamobiles said:

Could someone explain to me what web 2.0 means

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A Web 2.0 is a page on a third party site that is now owned by you but rather in place by another that grants you the opportunity to build a subdomain or an inner page and get a backlink in exchange for your content.

Some common Web 2.0s are:

https://www.yola.com
http://www.jimdo.com
https://posterous.com
http://www.typepad.com
http://www.tumblr.com
http://www.blogger.com
http://www.weebly.com
http://wordpress.com

There are really a zillion more though.

BTB,
I would be most grateful if you could please answer the following questions:

how many products did you end up with in each of the 4 categories before you took a break from adding more?

Also, how do you structure each category? You write a main article per category but how do you link out to the product pages?

Your category and product articles, are they informative or review type?

Do you create tables and comparison charts?

For the product pages, that is what you're really trying to rank, how many links did you send to each page? Now I know they vary but for someone starting out what would be the ideal # of links to send to each page? you can give us a range like 1 - 4.

When linking out to pages, what kind of achors did you use? Lets say you build 3 web 2.0's to a page, you cant really use exact anchor on either of them as that is a very small number of links.

What is your strategy with using PBN's for this site? I know you probably used a small number of blogs, but just to give us an idea how many?

Thanks! Looking forward to your response.

DJ

Congratulation on ur success!

I have a few queries if u dont mind to give answer:

For specific product page, do u add them by taking use of a shopping cart plugin? like publishing a normal product with "add to cart" affiliate link??

or just write everything in a general post?? how u structure this?

Additionally, how many products u published to reach ur daily earning, $80-$100??

How many products or pages you have before you do offsite seo??

Thanks a lot

Solid advice here, BTB. Thanks for the share.
I must say I have done this kind of website before. It actually my first site and it literally KILLED my interest in the product.
The amount of work is extremely high and I'm not native speaker (+no money to invest in articles) so that will increase the work load a lot.
The point BTB is making here "the product that solve people problem" is where the money lives in. Also if you make a website that make a user can get the right product for their need that would be a great combination.

And where is your traffic coming from? only SERP or social included?

There are gigs on fiverr for uploading products, 50 for $5. Might save your sanity.
https://www.fiverr.com/woo_expert/add-50-products-to-woocommerce-or-open-cart

Thanks for an inspiring post. Good luck to all the ecommmerce marketers

BassTrackerBoats said:

I did the copy and paste the title and description from the advertiser and then added the content that made the post unique to a certain degree. I did this every day 7 days a week without fail and I added in between 5 and 12 new products a day. .

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First, thanks for the in-depth post; it's always nice to hear a detailed look at someone's experience that worked.

Have you considered working with a supplier/merchant that supplies data feeds?

It doesn't really help out much in the way off originality, but if you're copy/pasting everything but the content anyway, it could save you HOURS and HOURS of time. Literally, click a button and have 10K products on site in like an hour or so.

There are a handful of Wordpress plugins that make this pretty seamless for a somewhat decent final product. If you want to get serious about it, just a little bit of Python could give you all the control you'd need most-likely.

Before I even knew what SEO was, I had an ecom site, Wordpress, that had ~15k products on it. Mostly duplicate content, but everyday I would go through 5-10 products and hand-pick a quality slew of images, re-write the content to be original, and post to social media/etc..

The effect was as I slowly built up some actual original content, everyone that visited the site had the experience of a legit ecom site with over 10K products. Perception matters, I think, and looking janky with 30 products in a niche where most sites have 30K could throw up a red flag for a lot of people. Maybe not though, I'm sure you know your niche much better than I do.

Anyway, just a thought. Thanks for the post.

BTW, that ecom site made some money each month without me having any SEO knowledge, let alone applying any actual effective ranking techniques. Some = < $200 a month profit.

$3k a month site can be turned into a $100k asset. So yea, sweat money and sweat info Greg!

are you still getting traffic to ecommerce site considering the site had copied content?

So are you actually buying products and reselling them on your Ecommerce site or are you just linking to the actual product pages for affiliate commission through your site?

One thread checked of this lazy sod's list Nice read, may try put a spin on this in a few days.

Thanks BTB.

Seems like a plan to me.

Will let you know my outcomes

@BassTrackerBoats Sorry to bump an old thread, but I was curious to ask how your site is going now in 2017? What have changed? Would be very interesting to hear and learn from. Thanks in advance, and for the great guide!

tglr said:

@BassTrackerBoats Sorry to bump an old thread, but I was curious to ask how your site is going now in 2017? What have changed? Would be very interesting to hear and learn from. Thanks in advance, and for the great guide!

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I tried and failed myself.
My advice is buy Google Product listing ads and forget about SEO for an ecommerce site.

tglr said:

@BassTrackerBoats Sorry to bump an old thread, but I was curious to ask how your site is going now in 2017? What have changed? Would be very interesting to hear and learn from. Thanks in advance, and for the great guide!

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I sold it like I do with a lot of the sites I build up these days.