Using WFReview To Make Money With Your First Website PART 2
STEP 2: Find a merchant for your niche (one with a datafeed)
Because WFReview imports mass quantities of data (From CSV, or comma separated values, files) I want to identify affiliate programs that offer datafeeds. Datafeeds are files that contain the product information I want to use. For example:
Each row is a unique product column is a unique part of that product. We call the rows “records” and the columns “fields”.
Using this format, we are easily able to use WFReview to import this data. Since we can use the product name as the title of our posts, the image URL as the photo in the posts, the price as the price field in our posts, and the productAffiliateURL as the LINK (important!) in our posts, 99% of the work is done for us.
This specific feed for Mac Memory has over 38,000 products in it, all relating to memory for Mac (and many other high end) computers.
IMPORTANT: I look for a few things in my datafeeds, primarily MODEL NUMBERS and specific brand names and model numbers. Both large images AND thumbnail images, good descriptions with HTML, and current prices are very important too. Shareasale.com does a good job of keeping things in order.
Why is that important? Because people who search for <brand> <keyword> <Model> (example: Mac memory 4L84H) are a LOT more likely to be either comparison shopping for a purchase, or looking to purchase a hard to find item online. In our case, we have Mac memory, which is good because there are a LOT fewer Mac repair centers/technicians than there are PC techs in the United States. This makes it easy for us to find highly motivated buyers since users will be looking for deals online vs. a repair center locally. Better to have 5 motivated buyers find your site with 4 making purchases, than it is to have 20,000 people just browsing your site and none make purchases. We’re providing a solution to the buyer’s problem by offering the exact thing they want and an immediate way to get it!
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