Re: Created a website in 3 days...... now what?
Don't mean to criticise, but doing it to help you.
You have 2 major problems:
1) You hardly have any text at all on the site, it's all banners. As a result there is nothing for the search engines to index, and there is no way you are going to get a decent ranking. As a result, if you want to get traffic to the site you will have to use paid for advertising which is going to be expensive.
2) What sets your site apart from any of the hundreds of thousands of sites doing exactly the same thing? What is there to make people come to your site rather than just doing a search in google and finding merchants and products they want? What is there that would make people tell their friends about the site.
Previously, you could set up a shopping directory and make money, but things are a lot harder now. People are getting more net savvy and know how to search for the product they want, and theres a huge amount of competing shopping directories.
As a result, you really need to have a USP (Unique Selling Point) for your site. You need to add value to the users experience, and give them something that they can't get elsewhere to make your site useful and keep them coming back.
I feel really harsh saying this, but I`m only trying to help. I really think that you need to have a major rethink, add a lot more text to give the search engines content to index and add something useful to the site. If you don't then you just aren't going to make any money.
When I started as an affiliate I made exactly the same mistake. I thought I could build a nice looking shopping directory, and then watch the money roll in. It took me two months of long hours to build it, and for the first 5 months it made nothing, and in the end I decided to abandon it and try something else.
If you look at some of the shopping directories that do well, some of them look really awful and you think that if you designed something better you can beat them. This isn't the case though, the sites are well established with regular users as they've been going for years. As a result, it's very difficult to persuade people to use something different.
It's very demoralising when you launch a new site and it doesn't make any money, and a lot of people give up at that stage. I think you should stick with it, and there is money to be made but you need to do a big overhaul of your site.
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