Using Wordpress to make Review Sites


I have been looking into review sites for quite some time and never really came to it. I kept on hearing good things and read the report from Chris Remple (the lazy affiliate) about what he calls conduit sites.

I do realize that just a normal site with a bunch of affiliate links is no longer the way to go. I just bought an expensive script for price comparison and have to think twice if I either make my own script or use a script I saw at Wp Review Site

I must admit that it looks very good and I am tempted. It turns wordpress into a review site by using a custom form of the post page i guess. Of course does it need a theme that can handle the extra features.

I had plans earlier to build a script for review sites , even registered a domain for it but didn’t thought of using wordpress before. Knowing how much time i have (not) it might be a good idea to just buy this.

If you have wpreview let me know what you think of it.

Affiliate Tool - Do you check your stats?

I have been coding again and made a product that if you are an affiliate I think at least should take a look at.

Do you check your stats? Do you spend maybe to much time login in into several affiliate networks just to take a look and see if you earned any money? I do … and I guess I am not the only one. Maybe you do not want to admit it but if you would time all the moments that you are non productive I guess this is one of the major pitfalls

STATS CHECKING DOESN’T MAKE YOU MONEY :)

So… what i did was this

I created a tool that automaticly logs into your account at 17 different affiliate networks. CJ.com , clickbank , azoogleads , neverblueads etc etc and queries the stats. returns the result of all those in one screen.

All mixed with a bit of AJAX so it’s lightning fast because all requests are done simultane in different processes and no need to refresh the browser. When the query at an affiliatenetwork is done that result is displayed in the browser.

A small screenshot of it

I have for a limited time an offer for it at the warriorforum. So if you goto this post you can get it for a special price. If you are not a member yet of the warriorforum I highly recommand that you join it today.

At this moment Affiliate Income Dashboard works with these networks

Affiliate Networks

  • Advaliant
  • Amazon
  • AzoogleAds
  • CJ
  • Clickbank
  • Clickbooth
  • Copeac
  • eBay
  • Hydranetwork
  • Maxbounty
  • Neverblueads
  • Shareasale

Text Links

  • TNX.net
  • TextLinkAds
  • Backlinks.com

More will follow and if you buy all updates will be free. Goto the warriorfum to see the offer.

Cheers,
Edwin

10k A Month Goal - Breaking the Numbers Down

When you have read some of my posts here you will know that besides my internet marketing business I own a business in creating personlised mugs. But , and i do want to be unthankfull, we (my wife and me) want to replace the income we make from it with income solely out of internet marketing.

The problem is only that in times it gets bussy with the mugs I have hardly any time on working the internet side and when i do I sometimes seem to lack focus. I am sure that if you done anything in IM you understand what i mean. Checking stsats, reading forum posts, reading ebooks, answering emails ..things that produce noting.

So to overcome this I will create some focus points. First is the numbers…what do i need per day in cold hard numbers. writing this down will make it more concrete

First target : 10k a month.

I have 700 domainnames for which i had great plans but most of them are collecting digital dust. I ran thru the list and picked 200 of which i think real have a great potential. Those 200 will be the onces that i will be working with.

10,000 / 200 = 50

So I will need to make 50 a month per domain. Of course not all things are equal but on everage it will have to be 50. That converts into 1.67 per day per domain.

Per month

  • 10,000 total income
  • 50 per domain

per day

  • 333.33 total
  • 1.67 per domain

How am i planning to do this?

I will need to plan the ways to monitize it and the ways to get traffic to the sites.

I will take a combination of 3 monitazation ways. Adsense, affiliate income and private ad sales. Each will have the potential to earn the 50 a month on it’s own but using it all 3 it will have a higher change in making it.

Making 50 a month with Adsense: My experiece has learned me that i earn about 15 per 1000 imperssions with adsense. So to make 50 I will need about 3500 impressions in a month which comes down to a lil over 100 a day.

Affiliateincome. Selling products that give a commsion of 25 it takes 2 sales. My conversion rate in average is around 0,5% so i need 200 visitors for 1 sale. Making 2 sales will make me need 400 visitors (targeted vistors that is)

Selling private ads. When you create a site that looks good and gets visitors and prevably has a pagerank of 3 and up selling ads on them is relative easy. If you sell 10 ad spots for 5 a month you are there and when the site has authority it’s no secret that even 1 ad will bring more then 50 a month. Just take a look at some income reports of top dog bloggers…most of the income comes from selling links and adspace. Using forums like digitalpoint is easy to find your first advertisers. Networks like tnx.net and text-link-ads can help also

Each of these 3 monitaztion ways will have the capability to make 50 on it’s own. But as I intent to make 200 sites it will be difficult to have each website reach it’s full potential. But breaking the numbers down like these is a hugh insight in what it takes to make 10,000 a month.

Next thing will be making a task list to make things easier.

One thing i didn’t address here is the costs involved. hosting and registering the domains are besides off course the only real costs. These account for such a low number per day that it’s almost not worth mentioning them.

Registering a domain: 8 per year = 0.02
Hosting 8 per month for unlimited domains. I mostly keep 50-100 domains on 1 account altho much more is allowed. (8/50 )/30 = 0.005
So in total per day the costs are 0.03

Squidoo Traffic - Set and Forget?

A long time ago (last year :)) I build several lenses (pages) at Squidoo.com and set them to forget. I had heared a lot about the love of Google for Squidoo and thought it was worth a shot and try to see if I could earn a bit from squidoo.

I did but it was not that much…i made a lens about dutch carinsurence called Goedkoopste Autoverzekering

I made a comparison about several car insurance offers and had affilaite id’s with the offers. The money earned in a year? $380 .. a nice amount for about two hours but I guess it could have been a lot more. Why? Because i didn’t build any links to my Squidoo page and had it set and forget just to see if it would rank out of it’s own.

So I’ll try a lil casestudy and see if I can build the traffic to squidoo by adding some more links to the page and see what it does with earnings and traffic.

Traffic last 7 days as of June 11th : 7 visits

PS if you’re dutch and are looking for Goedkoopste Autoverzekering I do recommand visit my lens at squidoo to get a comparison and ask a free quote

ABB Sample Websites

It’s almost 2 months ago I created a software tool to import products from CJ.com into wordpress. I created some sample sites at

The main reason why I used wordpress as a backend is because i like the way it’s structured. The tool lets you search in the catalog of all products listed by merchants that are joined at cj.com. That’s about 60 million (yes that’s million) products. With it you can make a lot of targeted niche sites that do well in the seach engines (as it’s wordpress based) and with the right themes it looks noting like a blog.

I have been bussy with some bugs that were in it and most should be ok now. Some minnor issues with the latest version of WP 2.5.1 but all should function

I need some time to create more sample sites but i do want to do that as the main reason for me building this tool was to make sites myself but now it’s so time consuming with customers asking questions that i haven’t had much time to use it myself.