Project Debut – Stock Brokerage Reviews
Over the past month, I have been working on a couple different projects.. 3 main ones to be precise. I’ll be sharing all of them over the next couple of weeks; however, the first one I can talk about today.
In the whole online marketing/make money online field, you can never stop learning and adapting. Because so much of it deals with how people use the internet, understanding social tendencies is a great concept to grab a hold of.
There is definitely no shortage of business models to make money online. Of the top of my head, you can sell an information product, create a membership site, run a blog, or create a review site. My latest project, Stock Brokerage Reviews (SBR), fits under the review site category.
What is a review site?
This type of site focuses around one main topic, and just spits out reviews of similar products. Obviously, in this case, SBR focuses on stock brokerage reviews. They are great SEO content builders and highly optimized because most visitors of this type of site have come for a specific reason.
On the backend, money is made by using affiliate links to refer people from your review site and make commission once they sign up or take the necessary action. Check out my recommended affiliate networks. So if you can get affiliate links for majority of your review subjects, then you are likely to get a conversion regardless of the users choice, thus, giving the option of choice to the user.
The key to a good review site
Probably the biggest factor of a good review site is to be completely neutral. Don’t give a bad review just because you don’t have an affiliate link for something. Its best to develop some type of review format or template and just plug away. This keeps things aligned through the site.
Create SEO how-to content. While the reviews themselves are great SEO content, create solid how-to content. For example, on SBR I have articles that tell people what they need to sign up for a stock brokerage, how to sign-up for one, and so on. Odds are that people searching for those topics will like to see the reviews as well.
Allow some type of social integration. Whether it be through comments, some sort of rating plugin, or social network integration, try to give voice to visitors. If readers can see other perspectives, then it will make them more likely to take action.
Yes, this site is barely 1 month old, but it has already created over a hundred dollars in commissions, while distributing valuable content to visitors. I still have some tweaks and addition to make to the site, but overall it has definitely been a good experience so far.