Get traffic and content and make money with user reviews.
Everyone knows that user generated content is usually great. It gives your site/blog plenty of fresh content, which the search engines love, and if done well, can create a great community of users all interested in the same thing. That usually means your own site gets better with submissions, tips and advice and help from the very users of your site.
That benefit isn’t only possible with "news aggregator" sites, video sites or myspace and their clones. You can also get that kind of contribution on your blogs as well. But what if you wanted to blend it in very cleanly with affiliate products/services and have your visitors help you sell those products for you?
Keith James Lock has a great post on how to turn a simple WordPress blog into a user review and ratings site. Not sure how user reviews can help make you money? Well take his personal test site as an example…his Hotels In Windsor blog is converted into a simple and clean user review site. Real people who have stayed at the hotels leave their review and comments. By using TravelNow he then adds affiliate links for people to make reservations at those very hotels being reviewed. In some cases the same people doing the reivews may end up booking more lodging through links so not only do they help with the content but also become great leads. I mean if they took the time to write a review of previous stays, they just might come back to the site to check out other peoples reviews on other places they may stay as well as coming back to leave new reviews.
So, as you can see, it’s an excellent way to get some decent little review sites up and get your visitors to help build the reviews. I think it would work best with really targeted topics/products but you could put one of these sites up for plenty of different things…not just travel. What about a TV review site? Or maybe a video game review site? Everyone has opinons and people love making others hear their opinion lol. So take advatage of that and let them help you make some money ;).
Check out Review Site How-to post over there to get all the info and learn where to get the plugin to make it easy to turn your WordPress blog into a review site.
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Thanks for the article as I have been wanting to do something like a review site myself and I’m kind of clueless where to start. It has been helpful for me to say the least.
Yan