Market My Life - An experiment in making money online

Its been a busy weekend - not only did we go live with the first football price comparison site last week and make moves to SEO the content, but on Saturday I started playing with some new affiliate store software that allegedly produces quality sites from the datafeeds of a number of affiliate companies.

Cut a long story short, I installed Affilistore on Saturday and within 3 hours had a completely new price comparison store live and running:

Compare Football Boots Online
Find MP3 Players Online

I’m in two minds about using bespoke software for affiliate stores - on the one hand, its extremely quick with sites being online within a matter of hours, not days or weeks so on a sheer volume basis I can now work much quicker.

The ‘pay off’, however, is that the store software is also being used by an unknown number of other affiliate marketeers who are, in effect, my competition. However, weighing it all up, I believe the pros exceed the cons and I’ll stick with the store software but spend much more effort in SEO activities to push my sites higher up the search engines. In addition, I am not convinced that my own websites are substantially better than Affilistore in regards to SEO activity so I’m changing tack now and am going for the volume route.

Goal is now changed to having 100 affiliate stores live by the end of this year - its a challenging target given that it takes me about a day a site at the moment however even if I fall short, I’ll still have dozens of highly monetised websites, all stuffed with relevant content to feed the spiders.

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