King Conga
Active Member
Hey Gang,
Hope everyone is getting lots of work done on their sites, cuz you sure can't drive much these days. Anyhoo, I just finished a product page from my review site, and while it looks pretty nice, and provides lots of great info, I wanted to post it here to get as much helpful criticism as I could before I go live. Which brings me to another point that maybe I should put in another post. I'll pose my question at the bottom of this post.
As for this page, you can click on the "NI Komplete Kontrol" and a new page opens up to the actual home mfr site for the product that has their own full overview. The 6 retailer icons on either side of the keyboard will have my affiliate links embedded (when I get them). I have 4 YouTube video reviews along with links to the About pages of the Reviewers themselves to give them a little love traffic, as well as providing ext links that I know Google likes. Unfortunately, this jpeg image doesn't show the 2 bottom text version reviews, which when possible, I provide links to those reviewers About pages.
Here's an issue that I'd especially like advice on. The line "AVG Score from 84 Consumer Reviews = 4.08". I actually DID create a spreadsheet and compiled a list of 10 retailers, of course, not all of which offer affiliate programs, but that's not my fault, they're still MAJOR retailers. However, that process was a PAINStaking one as sites like Amazon mix all their reviews up of not just 88-key rigs, but 25-key, 3x-key, 41, 49, and 60-key rigs all on the same page. So, I had to weed through 100's of reviews sometimes. Granted some retailers only had 2-3 reviews, but I took them in anyway just for the avg. Here's my question. If I'm really trying to provide a great service to the readers do you think there's any other critical piece of data that I need to provide. Again, the purpose of this site is to help consumers alleviate hours on hours of tedious research, albeit fun sometimes, down to maybe 15-30 mins. Add to that, they can choose from many different retailers. They have access to several great reviews. Again, is there any pc of critical data that you think I should provide to make the site REALLY appealing to the market?
My next question concerns my VERY GREEN Newbie status. Do you see anything that would glaringly offend any affiliate partner that I might be in contract with. I HONESTLY did my best to be as ethical as I could in exposure, etc. etc. But like I said, this is my first time, and I know that excuse won't fly.
FINALLY, I've applied for affiliate programs to about a handful of retailers and partner networks, and some have allowed me in, but others, understandably, want some proof of performance, or otherwise legitimacy before they give me the go ahead. So, my question here is exactly when is the best time to pull the trigger on applying to these groups? I was thinking I would put about 50 products on my site that have lots of reviews before actually launching the site.
Also, I'd like to get this sample in front of some Google analyst and let them tear it apart so it's bullet proof at launch time. Any recommendations on what Dept, I could send this to? I'm well aware of all the SEO tools, but this is a jpeg, so that won't work.
Thanks in advance,
KC
Hope everyone is getting lots of work done on their sites, cuz you sure can't drive much these days. Anyhoo, I just finished a product page from my review site, and while it looks pretty nice, and provides lots of great info, I wanted to post it here to get as much helpful criticism as I could before I go live. Which brings me to another point that maybe I should put in another post. I'll pose my question at the bottom of this post.
As for this page, you can click on the "NI Komplete Kontrol" and a new page opens up to the actual home mfr site for the product that has their own full overview. The 6 retailer icons on either side of the keyboard will have my affiliate links embedded (when I get them). I have 4 YouTube video reviews along with links to the About pages of the Reviewers themselves to give them a little love traffic, as well as providing ext links that I know Google likes. Unfortunately, this jpeg image doesn't show the 2 bottom text version reviews, which when possible, I provide links to those reviewers About pages.
Here's an issue that I'd especially like advice on. The line "AVG Score from 84 Consumer Reviews = 4.08". I actually DID create a spreadsheet and compiled a list of 10 retailers, of course, not all of which offer affiliate programs, but that's not my fault, they're still MAJOR retailers. However, that process was a PAINStaking one as sites like Amazon mix all their reviews up of not just 88-key rigs, but 25-key, 3x-key, 41, 49, and 60-key rigs all on the same page. So, I had to weed through 100's of reviews sometimes. Granted some retailers only had 2-3 reviews, but I took them in anyway just for the avg. Here's my question. If I'm really trying to provide a great service to the readers do you think there's any other critical piece of data that I need to provide. Again, the purpose of this site is to help consumers alleviate hours on hours of tedious research, albeit fun sometimes, down to maybe 15-30 mins. Add to that, they can choose from many different retailers. They have access to several great reviews. Again, is there any pc of critical data that you think I should provide to make the site REALLY appealing to the market?
My next question concerns my VERY GREEN Newbie status. Do you see anything that would glaringly offend any affiliate partner that I might be in contract with. I HONESTLY did my best to be as ethical as I could in exposure, etc. etc. But like I said, this is my first time, and I know that excuse won't fly.
FINALLY, I've applied for affiliate programs to about a handful of retailers and partner networks, and some have allowed me in, but others, understandably, want some proof of performance, or otherwise legitimacy before they give me the go ahead. So, my question here is exactly when is the best time to pull the trigger on applying to these groups? I was thinking I would put about 50 products on my site that have lots of reviews before actually launching the site.
Also, I'd like to get this sample in front of some Google analyst and let them tear it apart so it's bullet proof at launch time. Any recommendations on what Dept, I could send this to? I'm well aware of all the SEO tools, but this is a jpeg, so that won't work.
Thanks in advance,
KC
