I want to build up some ideas here, with your help, as to how to market a WordBay niche site.
For now I will just give a few ideas from my experience:
- ensure you have a sitemap plugin that is letting Google know about your site.
- make sure you have some backlinks. You might also think about becoming active on a relevant forum and including signature links. DO NOT spam though, you are far more likely to get visitors if you prove to be a valuable contributor to the forum.
- sit back and wait for search traffic. Google especially tends to send specific product name searches, you can expect a few of these per day at the very least, with high likelihood of clickthrough.
- include WordBay eBay listings on an existing site or domain and make sure the listings are of relevant products.
- If your site is very good in design and appealing to visitors, consider Pay Per Click advertisement.
Yes, I’ve wondered about this. I have a feeling that for most sites the return on investment would be too small, but I don’t know…?
I mean, if my EPC (actually meaning per hundred clicks) is, say, $5 and I am paying $0.20 per click, I am paying $20 to earn $5!
So we need to find a niche with very low click price but high EPC! I am not sure if there are many of those, but maybe I am thinking the wrong way!
The site link above has some excellent tips for generating traffic best of all they are free and not your run of the mill techniques like writing articles etc.
I have used them on several sites using wordbay and have had very good results one of my ebay sites using wordbay gets over 16 000 unique visitors since implementing them and with the high conversions using wordbays geo targeting I am getting good conversions from the traffic
I agree, you should be using PPC advertising (i use google Adword) to generate traffic, as well as natural search, backlinks, and posting on blogs like this. Placing Adsense ads on your site will generate some revenue to mitigate your advertising outlay.
AffiliateGlue
Start a WordBay Niche Site Club, grab a free openX hosted ad-server account, and have members submit banners for their sites, and cross promote each other’s sites via the ads from the ad server on an impression for impression or click for click basis.
I know it’s a bit like a banner or link exchange, but as the code is served through the ad server, it’s less of an SEO hit than direct banner exchanging, and it also serves more focussed ads that would appeal to those already shopping on eBay and using PayPal.
Hi, Thanks for this great plugin, I’ve been using it for sometime now. I dont make a lot of money from this but is enough to buy a nice buffet meal every month with my girlfriend in a 5 star hotel. Great work and keep it up.
Anyway, I wonder if is possible to make the link more pretty? At the moment the link shows something like http://.com/w-content/plugins/wordbay/buy.php.?buy_url=2981390128390128
This looks very bad. Is it possible to have a SEO friendly URL link instead of orginal URL? Thanks.
Hi Kelvin. Hey, still, that’s one nice 5-star buffet meal more than you’d be having otherwise, right! Very commendable use of your pocket money
I don’t make an awful lot either, but it’s still good fun and even an extra few pennies a month are nice to have.
As for the links, yeah, I agree they are pretty hideous… In order to make them more friendly it would be a royal pain - the plugin would probably have to store each link in a temporary database and assign each one a number or code of some kind and then match these up when you click it. Bit of a hassle to program (oh, OK… not actually THAT difficult…), but definitely something I ought to look into.
I have been a bit slack developing WordBay over the summer (apologies anyone else who I haven’t replied to) but I hope to take some time out in the next few weeks to make some upgrades, so that could be one (another!) thing to put on the list.