Affiliate Review Site Monopoly Ebook

Affiliate Review Site Monopoly

DO YOU KNOW WHY YOUR AFFILIATE REVIEW SITE IS ALMOST GUARANTEED TO FAIL?
MOST PEOPLE DON'T. THAT'S WHY THEY FAIL

Fact:

Launching A Successful Affiliate Review Site Seems Easy Enough. And For A Few, It Is.

But Most People FAIL MISERABLY (See Why Below).

Fortunately For You, You're About To Learn, Step By Step, How To Avoid Their Costly, Profit-Killing Mistakes.

TO SUCCEED WITH YOUR REVIEW SITE YOU MUST AVOID THE PITFALLS . . .

Hi. My name is Stephen Carter. I am a software developer and an internet marketer, and before I get carried away and convince you that you don't have the slighest hope of launching your own profitable affiliate review site, let me assure you this is not true.

Not only is it possible, but thousands of affiliates have figured out how to make the review site model work for them. Some affiliates are pulling down a seven figure annual income, and a good fraction of their wealth can be attributed to harnessing the power of reviews.

Having said that, the reality is that tens of thousands of affiliates have been completely ineffectual in their review-based marketing efforts. Yes, there is big money to be made here. But, let's face it, if the exact steps that lead to success were obvious then we would all succeed in our first year of marketing. That wasn't the case for me, and I'm guessing it's not the case for you either.

For most of us, overnight success just does not happen. And it doesn't really matter how smart you are, or how hard you work. Affiliate marketing is one of those areas where it is just too darn easy to screw up. If you want to succeed, if you want to make real money, then you need to learn from other people's mistakes before you ever get the chance to repeat them yourself.

Now, I can't stop you from making every easily avoidable mistake there is to make when you run your affiliate business. But if you are going to be building review sites I can stop you from making those mistakes that will put your business down before you even realize that you have a problem.

So, if you have neither the time nor the money to risk building your review sites the wrong way, then you need to know what I know about creating profitable review sites.

But I'm not going to just tell you what you should be doing to succeed. I am going to make sure you get off on the right foot by giving you some finely-crafted review software that you can use to get started today - and it won't cost you a SINGLE penny.

You'll Instantly Be Able To Create Pages Like These!

• Using this attractive home page you'll immediately set a tone of authority for your niche. Visitors will be able to choose between reading reviews, comparing products directly, and checking out your articles. There's even a list-building form built in which dispenses downloadable gifts!
• Your product comparison pages will offer immediate at-a-glance summaries of every aspect you have deemed important for your niche - all automatically tabulated and formatted for easy viewing. Better yet, the highest rated product gets special highlighting for increased conversions!
• Present your review of a product with a simple format that includes pros, cons, and an overall rating. You can make your review as involved or a brief as you see fit. Need more fields to characterize the product? No problem. Add as many custom fields as you like.
• Need to add articles to improve your SEO footprint? It's a great way to add authority to your Review Site. Simply load your text and instantly your articles will be attractively formatted and SEO optimized for increased traffic and search engine ranking.
• Maybe I should have stopped there, but I went one step further. These days everyone seems to have a blog, so I figured you might like that option too. So, if you want to run a WordPress blog I have made it exceptionally easy to integrate your blog into the rest of your Review Site pages. Load the supplied Review Site theme into your WordPress themes directory and you're done. Completely seamless!

THAT'S RIGHT. I'LL GIVE YOU A TOOL TO CREATE STUNNING REVIEW SITES

If I'm going to be honest about this, I'd have to tell you that I had no intention of adding any bonuses when I wrote Launch Your Own Affiliate Review Site Monopoly. Most bonuses given away with ebooks are junk. I knew the book would be of extremely high quality by the time it was finished, and it would stand on its own.

But during the course of writing the book Jeremy Palmer's Black Ink Project launched, and I ended up following it. As I watched Jeremy put together an affiliate review site from scratch it dawned on me that I could automate the exact process in software and significantly cut both the cost and launch time associated with the construction of mini affiliate review sites.

This is not merely convenient. If you are just starting out as an affiliate the amount of work required just to outsource a project successfully, let alone do the work yourself, can be daunting. Where do you find a reliable developer? Will you even know if the delivered result is good, or a piece of junk? If you are a total newbie to affiliate marketing, you will very likely discover that these are complete roadblocks to your success. Not only will you not succeed, you can't even get started.

As I watched the development of the Black Ink Project it became more and more apparent that none of this is easy for newcomers. If there was just a way to get started without having to learn the slew of skills required to create that first profitable affiliate web site. If there was just a push-button solution to all this... Well, that would really be helpful, wouldn't it?

I realized that if I offered that as a bonus, it would not only improve the perceived value of my offering, it could significantly improve the actual value. And that's exactly what happened. I ended up designing a little gem of a software tool that every affiliate marketer should have within their reach.

Forget about having to pay someone a $1000 or more each time you want a new niched review site created for you. Nor do you need to worry about having to get the details right when you have never done this before. With Review Site you bypass those headaches entirely.

Not only do you save BIG TIME on your budget, but you won't have to wait a month or more to see whether the project you submitted is going to pan out the way you hoped it would. That's no fun at all - especially when it turns out that you actually won't be getting what you thought you paid for. As a matter of fact, Jeremy Palmer found this out the hard way during the course of his Black Ink Project, and he had been outsourcing projects for years. It can happen to anyone, and it happens all the time.

But this need not happen to you. With my mini Review Site software at your disposal, you'll be able to build your niched affiliate review sites cheaply and without any of the risk that normally goes with these projects.

THIS IS REVIEW SOFTWARE DESIGNED TO MAKE GOOGLE LOVE YOU

That statement might sound a little disengenous given that so many products these days manage to insert Google into their product name for instant marketing appeal. But in this case the software actually does have its roots in Google's growing disdain for thin affiliate landing pages. If you are an affiliate, then this is a problem that affects you directly. A BIG problem.

Looks great, but Google hated this site!
Let me tell you briefly about how a little tiff in early 2008 between Google and one of the most accomplished super affiliates of our time lead to the development of my Review Site software.

Jeremy Palmer had been building successful affiliate landing pages for years. In fact, he had made a boat load of money with Google AdWords. His strategy was to purchase traffic and send it to his landing pages, where he would present nicely designed content that summarized the offerings of the merchants he promoted. Sites like this one: Listen To Rhapsody.

For a while, this Rhapsody site was a tremendously successful campaign for Jeremy. It features great web design that compels the visitor to click through to the merchant's offering. But Google eventually decided that Jeremy simply wasn't offering enough visitor value and it threatened to deactivate his account immediately if he continued building sites in the Rhapsody model!

Now, if you aren't shocked by that, you should be. Jeremy was spending hundreds of thousands of dollars per year on Google AdWords, and apparently that didn't count for squat. Well, Jeremy's no fool. He knew that in this David vs Goliath fight Goliath was always going to win. So instead of sticking to his guns Jeremy changed his strategy and started building sites designed specifically to please Google. His Black Ink Project 2.0 was a direct manifestation of this change in strategy.

These days his goal is to build sites that Google considers to be packed with visitor value. These are sites that include: multiple products which are compared side by side, multiple reviews to profile these products individually, and articles that cover the same niche. In short, a selection of material that offers the visitor choices.

Are these sites more difficult to build than the single-landing page model sites of the past? You bet they are! But that's now part of the cost of doing business with Google if you want to be a successful landing page affiliate.

Of course, there are thousands of affiliates who are still building single-landing page sites who are managing to skate past these new restrictions. But one day Google will notice them, and just like Jeremy Palmer, they will wake to find the kind of nasty cease and desist email that caused him to drastically change course with his affiliate marketing strategy.

When I learned about this, while following Jeremy's Black Ink Project 2.0, I was struck by just how much work is required to get these new affiliate review sites off the ground. For beginning affiliates this is a HUGE obstacle to progress. So to cut a long story short, I developed my Review Site software so that you can create these niched affiliate review sites without needing to know how to build them from scratch, or pay someone to do it for you.

WHY MOST AFFILIATES WILL NEVER GET IT RIGHT, AND WHY YOU STILL CAN

Review sites abound on the web. Or at least sites that PURPORT to be review sites abound.

The truth is that 90 percent of these sites are pure junk. They are created by affiliates who hope to make a quick buck by tossing up a page that presells a product to someone who already has their wallet in hand.

The real problem is that these affiliates usually don't even acquire the products they supposedly have reviewed. They simply regurgitate some of the sales copy provided by the merchant and think that will be enough. To sweeten the deal they offer bonuses. That's not surprising. It's ten times more work to review a product than it is to offer a bonus as an incentive to buy.

The end result? You can visit ten of these sites, read every review for a given product, and you still won't have any understanding of how the product works or what its component parts are.

Do you think this nonsense is going to result in a sale? Of course not. Buyers simply skip from one site to the next looking for better information before they commit to a purchase. The affiliate who actually gets the sale is almost always the one who has done their homework and convinced the buyer that they now have all the information they need to make a buying decision.

The prevalence of this dreck hasn't escaped Google's notice either. Affiliates who build these thin sites eventually wake up to find that their sites have been slapped and their traffic disappeared. If you don't want to be continually building web properties that have the shelf life of a snowman in July you need to adjust to the new reality of building sustainable review sites that offer visitors real value and charm the search engines.

It really isn't rocket science, and in Launch Your Own Affiliate Review Site Monopoly I'll reveal all the approaches you can take to putting together review sites that sell. Sure, you'll probably end up doing a little more work than if you decided to go the classic thin affiliate route. On the plus side, you might actually sell stuff doing it the right way!

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