Using WordPress To Make Money With Review Sites

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

There are hundreds of thousands of ways to make money online. There are hundreds of thousands of ways to make money online ethically. And there are tons and tons of ways to earn money online using the free WordPress blogging platform and content management system. A great way to make money online ethically using WordPress is by building a review web site with wordpress. To do this you can use a premium WP plugin designed for review sites. The plugin requires no programming skills at all and it is super simple to set up.

Introducing the Review Site Plugin For WordPress

There’s a plugin in particular that I like a lot. The WP REVIEW SITE PLUGIN adds the ability for past customers to reviews that products that you list on your web site. You can give them the ability to give star ratings for the product or service as a whole or for different aspects of it. You can display average ratings for each item to give customers a quick idea of what other people think of the item they are looking to purchase. The ratings will even show up in the search engine results with the addition of “microtags” that the plugin takes advantage of! Next to the reviewed items you can place your affiliate links and make referral commissions.

Potential Review Site Ideas

The opportunities for untapped review sites are endless. I have been successful with hotel reviews for my local city and surrounding cities. The plugin developer set up a web hosting company review site utilizing the review plugin. He did this for demonstration purposes. He visited hosting company forums asking customers for their opinions. He generates thousands of dollars monthly with that demo site now!

If you the product line that you are considering doesn’t have affiliate programs that you can earn referral commissions from you might want to look to eBay because you can promote any of the auctions there. I do that for several niches with great results. You can use the phpbay wordpress plug in to make it very easy to add auction listings into your blog. You simply specify the eBay search keywords to look for and how many listings to show from the results. It works great.

An insider report that I just read earlier today listed the following top products that customers say they look to the web for reviews before deciding to purchase. And 89% of the time, customers say they use the recommended links from the the website they read the review on. These are some great opportunities for creating review sites.

  • Panasonic TV
  • Nascar Diecast Cars
  • External Hard Drives
  • Hepa Air Purifiers
  • Registry Cleaner Software

The tighter the niche that you are targeting, I find, the more potential traffic you can get and therefore the more sales that result. Your Internet sales should begin to soar when picking good brands for the products that you are promoting. Setting your site up to be user friendly and conversion optimized can be tricky but you can use the WordPress themes that come with the review plugin to help in this regard. Another thing that I found to be effective is to include both offline and online shopping tips for the products that you are reviewing. I think it is due to the trust factor and that you aren’t only trying to make money, you are offering value that the customer can use where they choose.

Try techniques such as article marketing and RSS marketing to promote your niche sites and you should see some traffic quickly.

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