After knocking out several RankSpanker reports over the past week, one of the most common questions that comes back is whether I prefer to use Pages or categorized Posts in WordPress, to setup the flow of your site. There really is no carved in stone documentation as to which method works best, but for myself… I prefer to use a Paged format for the products on review sites, and posts to drive demand and funnel traffic to those Pages, here’s why!
Hint… think of eCommerce!
Pages Versus Posts on WP Review Sites

Transactional Landing …

Last week, I published an example RankSpanker Blueprint Report to give you all an idea of what the report looks like. The example was a Board Games Website Blueprint, and was immediately picked up by a few readers who have already started websites in the niche.
This week, I am going to step into a somewhat busier market, and plan a website around the portable radio niche market.
RankSpanker – Portable Radios
I would build the site in a WordPress backend of primarily pages, and supporting posts, then monetize through:

ePN, Amazon, or CJ Product …

Since mentioning my Niche Builder Services last week, I have answered several of your questions regarding the RankSpanker Report. The most common question is actually… “What Is It, and How Will it Help Me?” The easiest way to envision the RankSpanker, is to look at it like a Niche Site Blueprint.
So… Instead of explaining what it is… I figured I would simply provide an example report for you to see! If you don’t subscribe to the RSS feed… someone probably owns what is written on this page already! The same …

It’s no secret that Kim and I have WAY too many domains and/or websites that are just being neglected, or completely ignored.
We made the decision several months ago, that instead of shelving projects and simply renewing domains with no additional plans, we would have a monthly strategy session devoted only to what we were going to do with the domains set to expire in the following month.
What we came up… is that we are going to develop them to the point of 10-25 page sites (Our typical starting point) and …

Over the past several years, I have talked with many of you both on and off the site. One of the most common challenges I hear people talk about is staying focused and structured in order to get things accomplished. I can definitely relate, since it’s my own biggest weakness also!
Repetition Creates A Habit
How many of you wear your seat belt EVERY time you get into your car? For me, its literally the FIRST thing I do, before I even start the car, and I really don’t even have to …

So – I’m gonna step back in time just a bit and get back to some of the very basic things that have been working for me on product review sites over the past few months. If you recall from a few days ago, I still lack focus… and due to that haphazard way of building product review sites  in volume, I have definitely seen a few things working better than others.
I confess, in the last 90-120 days – I have added more than 30 review sites. The following items …

Not a day goes by that I don’t get at least one email, asking my opinion on the Best Tools or Best WordPress Plugin for Affiliate Marketing! The truth is, the best WordPress Plugin for your affiliate site and mine may differ completely, depending on our target visitors and how we want them to interact with our website and our content.
That said – there are 8-10 tools and plugins I would not want to live without! Since using these, life has become much easier and building an affiliate site, much …

This post is part 4 of the 5 part Review Site Blueprint series . Thus far, we have determined the Type of Product Review Site we will be building and also learned a way to Determine if a Review Site is Worth Building, based on the overall amount of sales it produces. In the previous exercise, we Built a List of Brand Names that people are currently buying, and have them recorded on a simple blueprint text file, we are using to record everything we find along the way.
Just like …

This post is part 3 of the Review Site Blueprint series . Thus far, we have determined the Type of Product Review Site we will be building and also learned a way to Determine if a Review Site is Worth Building, based on the overall amount of sales it produces.
One thing I forget to move over was the simple worksheet I use on EVERY product review site I build. It is a simple text file, that gives you a way to plan and track your efforts! Right-Click and save to …

In yesterdays post about building your Review Site Blueprint, we looked at a quick way of deciding how to pursue our niche market, whether we wanted to pursue a brand, type, or combination of the two, product review website.
In this article, we are going to get into the nuts and bolts of our prospective market, to determine if enough sales volume exists, to make the product review site worth building.
In sales… the LAST thing you want to do is spend time building up a Sales Presentation, for a product nobody …