So I have this domain called bargainstomper.com and I have been thinking all weekend about how to monetise the site. I came up with various ideas, like tech reviews leading to amazon affil links, hosting landing pages for clickbank products, becoming a coupon site etc. I think all these have a lot of tough competition at present and getting rankings in a short period would be quite difficult.
What are your thoughts, what sort of thing would you expect to see at bargainstomper and how could you monetise it?
Cheers,
Marc
I'd build a better version of Deal Of The Day Tracker. Identify three categories with the highest / quickest growing online retail consumption (e.g. consumer electronics, home goods, and software), and aggregate deals for them. The idea is to provide continuous novelty, without overwhelming a consumer with choices.
I'd make each category a subdomain (electronics.bargainstomper.com, home.bargainstomper.com, etc.) and offer 1 prominent new deal each day, two less-prominent deals, and a text link to a "more" section / archive.
I wouldn't aggregate just deals-each-day sites like woot.com and midnightbox.com either; I'd monitor Amazon.com 's, ThinkGeek.com 's, and WalMart.com 's clearance & specials sections. Not every site has an affiliate program; that's okay. Enough do that I think it'd make a good profit for about an hour's worth of work each morning categorizing & adding new deals.
Contact me if you're interested in this idea, and would want additional help with it, Marc. My e-mail's in my profile. :-)