5 Steps For Creating Profitable Niche Review Sites

Published: 14th April 2011

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Product reviews are a very popular way of making money with affiliate marketing. By creating compelling and detailed product reviews, the reviewer can make a substantial amount of money by indirectly promoting a popular product. There are, however, a few steps that you need to go through in order for you to ensure that your product review venture will be a successful one.

1. Finding the right affiliate offers
The right affiliate offer is crucial. There are several factors that need to be considered, like commission percentage, commission amount, estimated earnings per click and amount of competition. The overall picture, after analyzing all these aspects, will give you a good insight whether or not you should promote the offer or not.

2. Good keyword research
After picking an affiliate product to promote, it's time to do some keyword research and find the best keywords to target for this specific promotion. You can mix product name keywords with general based ones, or simply choose one kind; that's completely up to you. The most important thing is to choose keywords with a decent amount of search volume, as well as moderate or low competition.

3. Creating a simple, yet professional-looking site
After you finalize the research part, it's time to create a simple, yet effective product review website. The easiest way to go would be to install Wordpress, pick a nice and flexible theme, and focus on making the content stand out by designing the site in a simple way. Colors have to be pleasing and the navigation must be easy.

4. Creating good content
By good content, we mean content that the majority of targeted visitors can easily read, that covers the features, benefits and downsides of the product in a comprehensive way and that makes the reader want to click on the affiliate links within the text. By creating good content, you minimize the amount of work you need to do on other things, like link building and SEO.

5. Maximizing CTR
Placing the affiliate links at least twice within the article body, once in the start and once in the end, will ensure that the reader gets more than one chance to click through to the merchants site. Placing even more links would be good, just don't over-do it. Different fonts and colors for links will help them stand out and help you get more clicks and more sales.

If you follow these five steps and do them right, you will be able to make a significant income by creating product review sites. From there, all you need to do is rinse and repeat.

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Jonathan Fourquinn is a personal development coach, paintball enthusiast and a zombies film buff. His Lexmark X4650 site is an example of what kind of things he does online.