Datafeed Importing Question/WFReview

RBseatown

RBseatown

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I've recent started importing datafeeds from CJ/ShareASale/etc into wordpress blogs. In the beginning I just blindly threw darts at the board, registering domains, importing products in mass and then letting the domain sit (and maybe post it to Digg) until google indexed a good number of the pages. I made a fair amount of money doing this.

I took the domains that made some money and SEO'd them a little bit.

My question;

How many products should I be importing? I usually buy 10 articles for each site and just throw them up one a week for the first 10 weeks. But how many is too many for the initial import?

It seems like the sites I've imported large numbers of posts on (5,000+) end up making me the most money, just because they are indexed for so many keywords. Keep in mind I'm lucky to have one of these poorly thrown together sites earning me $100/month. I just have so many of them that a few dollars from each site gets me by.

So how many products for the initial import is too many? 1000? Does it help to set the import up to post 1 new product a day over the course of a few months?

Am I damaging the credibility of the site/domain in Googles eyes with these large imports?

I am considering doing smaller, more calculated imports for the best of the domains that I pick up and doing large imports on the shitty domains.
 


Look dude, it's about quantity at first, then developing the converting traffic.

If a datafeed has 10K products, load them all up!

PM me if you have questions, I used to own the dirty diaper that is now known as WFReview!
 
RBseatown said:
How many products should I be importing? I usually buy 10 articles for each site and just throw them up one a week for the first 10 weeks. But how many is too many for the initial import?
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RB I can answer a lot of this but need more info. I import datafeeds and generate product pages on an hourly cron, from CJ datafeeds as well. 7M indexed on G.

But as you know you need more than what CJ supplies in the product record row or else you'll get nailed for duplicate content. Can you describe how much stuff you are showing when you grab a single product? Are you assembling a whole page? Rows of results?

RBseatown said:
It seems like the sites I've imported large numbers of posts on (5,000+) end up making me the most money, just because they are indexed for so many keywords. Keep in mind I'm lucky to have one of these poorly thrown together sites earning me $100/month. I just have so many of them that a few dollars from each site gets me by.
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You are doing great. Duplicate this on .info's.

RBseatown said:
So how many products for the initial import is too many? 1000? Does it help to set the import up to post 1 new product a day over the course of a few months?
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So far I've done fine for a year generating one every hour per domain. However, I am also generating a couple other pages at the same time. They are related content, but without product info or aff link. This is because G looks at percentages of pages that have an aff link.

I started a new group of 100 .info's that are indexing faster than the .coms. The difference is that I did NOT seed them with a big initial group. I just started the 24 per day auto generation. That is in line with what I have read that it throws up a flag if you launch with a really big product catalog.

Overall, you do not want to look commercial. Put whatever else you can in there that looks Wikipedia-esque, and that will keep your ratio of products to content better.

ON the subject of datafeeds, I am real excited about Prosperent because you'll never have to battle with huge datafeeds again. I am switching over to them from CJ and Google affiliates for that reason, and also do not have to wait for approvals on advertisers. They already cherry pick the best ones. I found out about them here.

PM me if you have questions about stuff you don't want to post in public.
 
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Thanks a bunch both of you, very helpful.

As far as the duplicate content goes, I definitely need to come up with some sort of solution for that. As of now I just order 10-20 articles every time I register a domain, and that is it, basically. I know its not enough, maybe I need to start throwing up PLR articles or something.
 
Air2air said:
ON the subject of datafeeds, I am real excited about Prosperent because you'll never have to battle with huge datafeeds again. I am switching over to them from CJ and Google affiliates for that reason, and also do not have to wait for approvals on advertisers. They already cherry pick the best ones. I found out about them here.
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Yea I saw someone recommend prosperent somewhere the other day. I was looking over their site, and think I am going to sign up with them and see how I can use them on some new niche sites I am starting up. Thanks for bringing them up, it kind of slipped my mind.
 
mikeaff2009 said:
Yea I saw someone recommend prosperent somewhere the other day. I was looking over their site, and think I am going to sign up with them and see how I can use them on some new niche sites I am starting up. Thanks for bringing them up, it kind of slipped my mind.
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Yeah, Prosperent is pretty sweet. They just opened up an API which can be used to create a variety of different types of sites.
 
cardmagic said:
Hello, I am the current owner and maintainer of WFReview. If you have any more questions or any trouble, you can contact me directly at support@reviewpluginforwordpress.com
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Great customer service there Lucas, how many days after he reported problems did you jump in?

Check out a recent ppc.bz post for a great reason to start tracking web chatter for WFReview.

BTW, ppc.bz is 100% dead on.

Can't tell you how disappointed I am.
 
Exactly why I went with his competitor. Shitty one word response emails. You can tell the guy has absolutely no business sense and is a bitter angry coder.
 
In Lucas defense

The product was solid when he took over, and his recent updates were excellent.

I haven't had much need for customer support just yet. I actually wasn't expecting him to come over to Wickedfire. I didn't ask this question on the plugin forums.

I haven't used MyReviewPlugin yet. It looks great too though.
 
excellent insights

Air2air said:
PM me if you have questions about stuff you don't want to post in public.
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This is excellent information - why don't you have more rep?! I'm going to PM you a source you should really check out (if you don't know about it already)

Suga Rae (well known SEO in the biz for 10+ years) actually did an interesting article on this

Affiliate Datafeeds and Duplicate Content - Sugarrae
 
Air2air said:
RB I can answer a lot of this but need more info. I import datafeeds and generate product pages on an hourly cron, from CJ datafeeds as well. 7M indexed on G.
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This is impressive. For any noob who needs this put in perspective, twitter has about 114M pages in G. So this is someone who has almost 10% of the index reach on G as one of the largest sites on the planet.....

Would be curious to hear yours and others opinions on prosperent.....
 
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