Diary of a Niche Site Duel 009

More guitar loop pedal sales!!!!

In the last post I told you that I made the first real sale. This was pretty encouraging and made me want to make this work now.

I’m really happy to say that i’ve had another four pedals sold through the site. One of the pedals doesn’t even feature on the site, but through checking out one pedal, they bought another.

Here’s a screenshot of the sales on this site so far…

Redesigning the site

Up until about six weeks ago, the site was mainly in a blog format with a few links to pedals.

Then I tried making it look like a shop.

I wasn’t happy with either of these, so I then consulted a few Internet Marketing friends on a forum and they suggested that I created the site as a review site.

Creating a review site

I really didn’t want to spend a lot of money on this, so I spent a while looking for a WordPress review theme to transform what I already have into a review site. The best one I could find is the Product Review WordPress Theme.

It’s very easy to implement for anyone that has used WordPress a bit. Also, it has a video tutorial to take you through.

The next step then was getting the reviews. As I told you in an earlier post, my brother was the person that gave me the idea for this, so he’s the one I asked to help me write the reviews.

He did a great job.

Building more authority

By doing all of the above, I have now started to see sales coming through. In the next post i’ll share with you the traffic i’ve been getting and where it’s coming from.

Diary of a Niche Site Duel 008

Just got my first Guitar Pedal affiliate sale!!!! I’m just finishing up my breakfast and having a mooch around the internet. I thought i’d check my Amazon Affiliates account to see if I had made any sales and to my suprise (although I really shouldn’t be surprised because this stuff works) I had made a…

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Diary of a Niche Site Duel 007

This is post seven of the niche site duel and I have… Made Some Money!!!!! But before I go and order that Bentley and the outdoor pool for my wild parties, I better clarify that it was $0.46 … and it wasn’t exactly for a sale that I expected. When you sign up as an…

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Diary of a Niche Site Duel 006

Now the niche site is up and running and we have some content, my focus will simple be on creating a bit more content and building more backlinks to the site. Bear in mind, we don’t need too much content. The focus is on the amount of links. Building Links with Social Bookmarking Social bookmarking…

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Diary of a Niche Site Duel 005

Traffic Time!! Apart from actually choosing the niche, I would say that web traffic is probably the most important success criteria. You could have found the hungriest bunch of buyers on the internet, but if Traffic from a Youtube video One of my first tactics is to get a link back from a high authority…

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Diary of a Niche Site Duel 004

You may have only just learned about this Niche Site Duel, but we’re four sessions in now. Here’s parts one, two and three for you. Setting The Niche Site So, now we have the domain and the hosting set up, we need to create the site. The easiest way to setup a niche website is…

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Diary of a Niche Site Duel 003

We are into part three now of the Niche Site Duel. Some of the other guys in the challenge have started making money, so we need to do some catching up. We’ll get straight into it. Choosing a domain name Now normally, I would say that your domain name needs be short, memberable and unique….

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Diary of a Niche Site Duel 002

This is my second post for my contribution in the Niche Site Duel. We are already listed on the page of people taking part in this challenge: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/nichesiteduel In the last post on the niche duel we started looking at the area of guitar looping. I established that my brother keeps going on about it,…

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Diary of a Niche Site Duel 001

I have received a challenge from Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income. Pat makes a great living from online marketing. The reason he has so many followers is that he explains all the processes he goes through to make money online. What is the Niche Site Duel? The Niche Site Duel started when Pat was…

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