Great post, Brett!  Pot Pie Girl has a lot of excellent information about profiting from micro niche sites.  I recommend everyone read her story.  When she started affiliate marketing she was on a very tight budget and free methods were her only option.  Also, she had absolutely no experience.  Her success story is very inspiring.  She's now extremely successful, and for those who are considering joining Wealthy Affiliate, she's one of the top contributors over there and she praises Wealthy Affiliate as contributing a lot towards her success.

I forget to ask Tissa if he met her when he flew out to Las Vegas to meet Kyle & Carson.  I think she was out there for that WA event.  Great story!

-Chris

Thanks Brett!

Its only 10 posts on January and thats it! But it sure does look professional with all the images and layout

As you said just be very focused and have some contents that add value to the website and your good to go.

-Brandon Sean

Hi Brett,

I would personally like to thank you.  You made a post a couple of weeks ago about the dam way by Jennifer.  I read it and was totally amazed and able to relate to her.  I like her teaching style.  After reading the dam way, I ordered the one week marketing plan.  It is really awesome.  I have learn so much for the price of it.  In one week, I had several of my squidoo lenses to rank on the first page of Google using all free methods.  I use some of her suggestions and others that I had learnt in the past. 

From reading her stuff, I am now concentrating on building mini niche sites.  While I am still involve with Acme, I am trying to see how the mini niche can work as well.  In fact, I am using Jennifer's techniques for products within Acme.  Kinda mingling the two together.  But, I am also now looking at other products outside of Acme.  I want to give this a go.

I highly recommend that people check her site out.  She offers so much.

Brett, again, thank you.

Donna

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Hi Brett,

This seems to be the way to go right now. Here is a great thread along the same topic I found on Warrior forum which proposes the same idea - by Daniel Brock - it's a live case study which is ongoing, so we will have to stay tuned in to this thread to see how things transpire, of course.

Somesh.

Hi Chris,
How to get datafeeds for physical products?
Do you just subscribe to the RSS Feeds from merchants and affiliate networks? Which of their feeds?

Giap

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And exactly that is where she is scoring I believe.

Good Summary Rick.

Ramesh

Hi Giap,

I pretty much only use the datafeeds from eBay and Amazon because they both have very high brand recognition and consumer trust.  A recent study revealed Amazon as the most trusted brand in the United States.  Also, most online shoppers already have eBay and Amazon accounts so there isn't the registration hurdle when a user decides to make a purchase.

eBay is my favorite because you can find everything under the sun there.  I especially like to build sites around collectible items because there isn't much competition from other affiliate marketers and collectors are eager buyers.

To pull in eBay listings I use the phpBay WordPress plugin.  The company that offers this plugin also has an Amazon plugin.  Another good Amazon plugin is ReviewAzon. 

Here's a sample screenshot of how my blog posts look with the phpBay plugin.  I used the keyword "Apple iPad" as an example.  Placing eBay auction listings under blog posts results in a very high click thru rate.  Also, I'm finding that I'm getting even better click thru rates with Thesis installed because the out-of-the-box design is so minimalistic that visitors aren't distracted.  Plus I love how it takes seconds to set the column widths.  I keep everything very narrow with a simple two column layout so the visitors eyes go straight down the page to the eBay listings.

Another plus with eBay and Amazon is since customer trust is so high you can successfully sell high ticket items.  To make money you want to find higher priced items that sell very well.  I like to check eBay Pulse for ideas and the Amazon bestseller lists.  With eBay there is a service called TeraPeak that allows you to analyze the past 90 days of eBay data.  It's a great way to come up with lists of ideas to build micro niche sites around.

The only drawback with eBay is they are pretty selective now so you have to make sure you have a decent established site to submit during the application process.  Amazon still accepts just about anyone from what I know.  On the phpBay site they have a good article about how to get accepted by eBay.

-Chris

P.S.  I've never tried promoting Overstock, but I have looked at this plugin.  You can join Overstock through Commission Junction.  I know a lot of you guys are overseas so you don't watch American television (that's a good thing ).  Overstock runs a lot of television ads (or at least they used to).  I think it's important to keep in mind which companies are running massive national television campaigns because there is so much scaremongering about credit card theft in the U.S. that Americans are far more comfortable buying online from trusted companies.  Amazon, eBay and Overstock fit that category.

Last edited by closenno (2010-06-11 01:36:03)

Yes, very valuable info Chris.. Thanks

Thanks to Brett too...

Regards,

Edgar

Last edited by ejabas (2010-06-11 12:34:07)

Thanks Chris for your valuable insights and very detailed info for me to get a decent start on Micro Niche Sites targeting physical products from eBay, Amazon and OverStock.

I plan to start with Micro Niche sites that focus on only Adsense income from info sites related to products from eBay, Amazon and OverStock.

What do you think? In a week after I started to learn and put on Adsense for my existing sites, there are some clicks and I can see some income instantly. I believe the potential is there.

John from the Warrior Forum said that he is making $300 a day from Adsense only for 30 Micro Niche Sites focusing on physical products. His sites are only using free search traffic with these simple ways:

1. Micro Niche Keyword for the Domain name.
2. Write 1 to 5 pages for the content
3. Write up to 5 articles to article directories to get backlinks.

I am reading his thread there with 1600 posts:
http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-ppc … arned.html

Giap

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Last edited by Wong Tooi Giap (2010-06-12 02:42:32)

Yeah, Internet users seems to like simple.  And ugly doesn't hurt either!    It took me a long time to learn this.  Thesis is perfect for me.  I can get a site setup very fast and I know the simple design layout will convert.  Also, not being an HTML/CSS/PHP expert I know that my sites are properly coded.

Here's an example of how my sites look with Thesis.  I set my column widths, add a header, change the background, add Privacy, T&C, Contact and Sitemap pages, get some kind of links to related sites (I like to add news feeds), and then add content (the hard part!) and build backlinks.  This example doesn't show it, but I usually add categories as well.  That's it!  These sites won't make you a millionaire, but they are a great way to build up some income.  And once they are up and running they require very little maintenance.  If a site makes $3-$10 a day then you're making $100-$300 a month off it and you can build 10, 20, 30....  The biggest mistake I have made in my two years of affiliate marketing is not building enough of these sites.  They worked for me immediately, but I was lazy and thought the work was mundane so I went over to PPC.  Then once I finally figured out AdWords I lost my account!  But you know what, the first sites I started are still paying me month after month.  So not only are these sites a great way to make money on the cheap (just buy a domain name), but they are also an excellent way to diversify your earnings.

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I gotta run out, but I'll address this later.

-Chris

Great stuff - this! What I'm wondering is - is the phone no. we are supplied with the PPCall stream going to work with Canada businesses as well, or is it restricted to the US alone?
Somesh.

Maybe it's because you think this business is "stupid" which is causing your problem. Have you checked out "Step 4" above to learn how to Market, Advertise, and Promote?