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Using WordPress For A Review Site

Who would have know that WordPress makes the perfect platform for a review. I know I write product reviews here, but I mean a full-featured WordPress review site plugin where visitors votes are counted into the whole. So why spend your time looking for review website scripts or review website software when WordPress can be optimized to become a review site. All with the help of one review plugin.

If you don’t use WordPress, you should be using it. With plugins and themes freely available anywhere, you don’t need a developer to do minor changes on your site, just change your plugin or theme. This gives you a lot of flexibility.

First I have to give props where props are due. I ran into WikidPad via other users at Wakoopa. I played around with it a bit and then forgot about it. Then I ran into this post about using WikidPad to organize your keywords.

And something clicked. I had been using a folder with various reports and text files in it to store the information about the blogs I’ve been building. But it was a mess. I tried mind maps and they became overwhelming in the end. So I gave WikidPad a try. I just started with keywords.

I tend to see ebooks as noise reducers. Yes, you may get the same information for free somewhere. And free is always better. In fact you may get a lot more information free than you would from an ebook and that’s value. Or is it?

There is value in information but there is more value in the right information. You don’t want to read the entire encyclopedia in order to learn about Anteaters. And that’s what good ebook author’s do for you. They sift through all the info and tell you, “I tried this and this and this and they all worked.” Plus with a price tag on the product, there is a reputation to maintain and customer service. In order for customer service to exist, there has to be a customer and a customer pays a price.

I used to keep my head in the sand as an affiliate marketer. I did one thing. I promoted Clickbank products. Why? The high commission percentage. It’s a rush when a sale can get you anywhere from $20 to $100 in commissions. But I only tried a few things. Didn’t step out of the seo box much. But there is more than SEO.

Affiliate marketing can be a pain in the ass to learn sometimes. It’s not hard but it is work. But I am not talking about that part.

The problem is with the options. There are just too many. If you look at the post I wrote just the other day, you will see why. I listed over a hundred ways to promote your blog. Do they all work? Yes. To some extent. But when you are faced with a list like that, at least when I am, I freeze. Too many options gives you no clear place to start. And I promise, that list is only a start. I have used some of the methods and know what has worked for me. And some of the methods are based on your blog as a whole while others focus on posts. And some methods are good to use when you start a blog and others will only work after your blog has at least a little bit of a presence online.