help and advice for newbies and people who need a kick up the backside in 2009

[Scorpioncart]

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Right, I'm going to create a mobile phone site and there aren't really any widgets for it on ECU. I want to create static pages but from the data feeds if that makes sense.

I'm just not sure what to do with the feeds. Do I dump it all into one database table, so say from Awin I'm getting e2Save and Dialaphone, lump it altogether in one feed and into one table?

I'm just a bit stumped on how to use the feeds effectively, any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Have you looked at Affiliate Marketing Price Comparison Websites | AffiliStore ?

[crazihos]

I think Ade from future-webites.com has a great rev share system form mobile comparisons, I'll tell him about this thread but it may be worth dropping him an email at:

adrian [at] future-websites.com

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[Miracle]

You might also want to consider that the mobile phone market is VERY competative! If you're starting out it might be a good idea to look at some other varied verticals.

Every market I can think of seems very competitive to me :blush Most people here seem to have sites about pc's, mobiles, gifts, bags, shoes, clothes, underwear, even blue pants So, where should newbies look at to get a foot in the door? I believe that the financial products are a good market, but maybe not for a newbie. I was thinking of making a clothing site, but since it's been flooded and overflowing with affiliate sites about clothes, I may reconsider as I think I would not stand a chance. Would any new clothing sites be successful anyway?

[Wardy]

Every market I can think of seems very competitive to me :blush Most people here seem to have sites about pc's, mobiles, gifts, bags, shoes, clothes, underwear, even blue pants So, where should newbies look at to get a foot in the door? I believe that the financial products are a good market, but maybe not for a newbie. I was thinking of making a clothing site, but since it's been flooded and overflowing with affiliate sites about clothes, I may reconsider as I think I would not stand a chance. Would any new clothing sites be successful anyway?

Maybe not a general clothing site but a niche sector such as "tracksuit bottoms" perhaps would be the way to go (about 10k exact searches per month).
It's just a case of finding a subject and drilling down to the different niches within it!

[accelerator]

Regarding clothing sites, I have now made a sale from the mens shirts site I started.

Rgds

[babrees]

Right, I'm going to create a mobile phone site and there aren't really any widgets for it on ECU. I want to create static pages but from the data feeds if that makes sense.

I'm just not sure what to do with the feeds. Do I dump it all into one database table, so say from Awin I'm getting e2Save and Dialaphone, lump it altogether in one feed and into one table?

I'm just a bit stumped on how to use the feeds effectively, any advice would be greatly appreciated!

hmm, my personal view is that the mobile phone sector would be very difficult to do.

What you do with the feeds really depends upon how you are building your site and exactly what you want it to do.

If you understand how to build a website, html and css, then I would recommend Price Tapestry as the most flexible.

I have used Affilistore in the past, but it was not flexible enough for me.

If you want to carry on asking about these, could I suggest you start a new thread and keep this one on it's original track.

[aotagain]

I would suggest thinking about an audience, not just products.
Clearly if you look for gadget products, the market looks wildly saturated.

But what about gadgets for the elderly ?
What about childrens first gadgets ?

If you aim at an audience, you've got the potential for at some point being bookmarked as a favourite, which gets you partly out of the constant-attention-worry-about-traffic problem.

Just the same as answering the question on Dragon's Den really when they say "there's a hundred and one people with a mobile phone shop - what's your target market and why should they come to you instead of the others ?"

The only problem is the site has got to be credible as some sort of portal.
If it looks like a passing traffic site with no brand - thats what it will be.
Depends how much time you've got I guess.

[Steve2009]

Just the same as answering the question on Dragon's Den really when they say "there's a hundred and one people with a mobile phone shop - what's your target market and why should they come to you instead of the others ?"

^^^^^^ U.S.P^^^^^^

very important, especially in this business!

[mikeb222]

Lol sorry mate - you need to be quick

platformshoes / org / uk

I would politely ask for a backlink from whoever buys the domain pointing to www / underwear / co / uk (replace the / with .) and using the anchor text "underwear"

1. platform shoes gets an average of 22,100 exact match searches a month

2. with a 40% ctr from serps and ONLY 1% conversion rate with an average commision value of just £5, you could make approx £442 a month from the serps alone.

3. There are currently 88 sponsored ads with the average cpc at £0.88 for the words "platform shoes"

Be quicker with this one

Just using one of these as an example, why does no 3 matter so much?
I get the other two, but how does the cpc of the sponsored ads work in your favour?
Been meaning to ask for ages!

[Miracle]

Just using one of these as an example, why does no 3 matter so much?
I get the other two, but how does the cpc of the sponsored ads work in your favour?
Been meaning to ask for ages!

I'll use the occasion to ask - how do you find out what the average cpc is?

[tom991]

Just using one of these as an example, why does no 3 matter so much?
I get the other two, but how does the cpc of the sponsored ads work in your favour?
Been meaning to ask for ages!

Its an indication of the level of competition you are up against, i.e. an estimate of what your competitors are paying for the selected keywords or phrase. Lower CPC / lower number of ads means lower competition and vice versa.

I'll use the occasion to ask - how do you find out what the average cpc is?

Google definition:
"Average Cost-per-click (Avg. CPC): The average amount you pay each time someone clicks your ad. Average CPC is determined by totalling the cost of all clicks and dividing it by the number of clicks received."

Average CPC is another column in the Google Adwords Keyword Tool; to display it just select 'Choose columns to be displayed' > 'Show All'

Hope this helps.

[mikeb222]

So how does Smingle come to his £442 in the same example?

Does this mean if you get to no1 position in the google searches.
As most of his domains haven't made it to no1 yet?

[karenlb]

Does this mean if you get to no1 position in the google searches.

Yep. That is what it means. I don't think Smingle has ever told anyone it was going to be easy!

[sabian1982]

So how does Smingle come to his £442 in the same example?

Does this mean if you get to no1 position in the google searches.
As most of his domains haven't made it to no1 yet?

Mines made it to position 3 thus far for the targetted phrase and so far has made... zip!

[mikeb222]

Mines made it to position 3 thus far for the targetted phrase and so far has made... zip!

OMG!
You mean I'm putting myself through all this self knowledge, all to get on the first google search page, to get zip!!

Surely not?

Are you saying that someone on the first page of Google searches can make nothing?