Generic product domains - ebay store or mini site?

Ebay store or Mini site

  • Ebay store

    Votes: 13 72.2%

  • Mini site

    Votes: 5 27.8%
  • Total voters
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I have a few generic product domains in relatively small niches. Should I build them out as phpbay/BANS ebay stores or mini sites (5-10 pages of unique content) monetized with AdSense/aff offers?
 


I was thinking about making an affiliate site, but not on phpbay or bans. Since they have the RSS affiliate feeds, you could make a pretty niche site with a CMS like joomla. I've implemented a few products from ebay and buy.com through feed readers. Just a thought if you want to try something different that is unique and does not say powerd by ___
 
I voted ebay but why not do half ebay and half mini sites and see which perform better? I would be interested to know, for that matter.
 
i have several phpbay niche-focused sites that ive put up over the past few months and have been nicely indexed. i was thinking the same thing-- should i put up minisites to cover a wider range of products, or a themed site that would be more relevant for linking. i went with the latter and its been good to me so far.
 
Doing both is the serious answer, but if for some weird reason you only want to do or the other -- niche and sub-niche, go with eBay; specific products, go with mini-sites.


Frank
 
I got a site up for one product and am using adsense with along with an affiliate offer. I've got a couple of sales through the affiliate offers, but get a consist small amount of money daily from adsense (about $2/day average)
 
People are saying "do both" as in make one site one way and one site another. I'd consider "doing both" as in using both techniques on one site. It will make the site seem much more full, unique, etc.. anyways.
 
trigatch4 said:
I'd consider "doing both" as in using both techniques on one site. It will make the site seem much more full, unique, etc.. anyways.
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That is what I am going to do after doing more poking around, I think it may work well.

I'll post up some results once I get them built out.:eatmousepointer:
 
Trigatch, thats what I'm doing right now. I'm using PPC to get traffic to it to test it out while waiting for SERP results. However I don't know shit about off site SEO, so I'm not sure I'll see any results from the SERPs haha. But I just cancelled my PPC campaign because of shitty conversions. I saw 16% of the traffic click on the eBay links, with only 1% of the clicks converting. I had an adsense banner installed as well (only 1) and 23% of the traffic clicked it. So I made some money, but my ROI ratio is like 4:1. Not to good eh? My page converts, but I'm getting shitty payouts. Its probably because of the niche, and because I'm not paying enough for my keywords and thus not getting a lot of traffic. After seeing what kind of payouts I'm getting, I'm reluctant to up the bid; if even use PPC at all. But if I were to dominate the SERPs for my keywords, then it would be a nice little money maker. I guess this site just isn't made for PPC?
 
Yea, but by know shit I mean lazy. And by lazy I mean 'shit I don't wanna do this at all, and with what little links I do get I hope it actually does something'. I wish link building was as direct as PPC, therefore I could actually tell if what I am doing is working or not...
 
Yeah link building sucks. But it's like the dough of a pizza. Necessary and you can't really have pizza without the dough but people don't really notice the dough. Unless, of course, the dough is REALLY good ... or REALLY bad.

I'm definitely guilty of not link building enough.
 
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