Summary: In this episode, we look at some review site tips -- specifically, we look at how you can get content for your review site. We also talk about my trip to DC, my nephew Greyson, some cool articles about Twitter retweets, and much more. Our 30th episode. Woo hoo. Still struggling to hit a weekly publishing schedule, but I will keep trying until I can make it happen. And much more.... In This Show... Special thanks to my very cool nephew Greyson for kicking off the show. He build a rocking super computer and is working on learning how to program - all at the ripe old age of 11. Wow! Greyson wants to podcast, so I sent him to Cliff's excellent free podcasting course. Just got back from DC where I got an amazing tour from a blogger!!! The guy (his name is Paul) was amazing. Best tour ever anywhere of anything. Check out his site at http://www.permanenttouristindc.com/ and be sure to take a tour from him next time you are in DC. Some cool articles this week Sam at Affilorama on RSS scrapers and how to defeat them. Kissmetrics post about why tweets get shared. Corn Sheller update -- Traffic is back down. Deep Linker Pro is the resource that I mention in the discussion. Video blogging while driving -- working on a new project in the Snoring niche. You can check out that post here. Talk about stalled experiments under the flags of the Open Niche Project and the Niche Site Duel. Going to merge that work and focus on LearnGuitarBasics.net. Announcing Dallas-Area MasonWorld Meetup I am thinking about a Dallas-Area MasonWorld Internet Marketing Meetup for listeners (and readers) in the Dallas Area. If you are interested, please be sure to leave a comment here. Review Site Tips -- Getting Content Of course, if you are building a review site, you are going to need some content. Here are some review site tips about how you can get that content. Write some real product reviews. Make a list of products you plan to review, the key features you should be looking at and start writing. Be sure to create real reviews that actually help people. Write product comparisons. Consumers are always looking for help on making an appropriate product decision and comparisons are one way to help them make the decision. I always need stuff like this myself. Make comparison tables. Create categories of products (ex. smartphones, tablets, laptops, etc.) and put together comparison charts and other useful information. Don't forget to take pictures. While photos are rarely enough on their own, they can certainly add a wealth of information to a product review. Take and publish product photos readily. Create screenshots of products used on your computer. Software makes great affiliate products. Just like photos, you can also take a picture of your computer screen and share. You can do this with software, websites you want to demonstrate and more. Take a video of yourself demonstrating the product, of other people talking about the product, or make an unboxing video. If you’re not familiar with a product, but you know someone who is, ask them some questions and ask them to show the product in a video. Want to learn more about unboxing videos? Check out this content from Pat Flynn. Take a video Use the Product Reviews features of the Amazon Associates program. This allows you to display review details from Amazon on your website. NOTE: This doesn’t include actually text from the review, but shows ratings and a number of reviews, so users can click through to see them. The product that I mention in the podcast for Amazon is phpZon (affiliate link). Leave Us A Review In iTunes Thanks so much for your reviews on iTunes. We get a ton of exposure from iTunes, and we really appreciate the reviews there. At last count, we were at 30 reviews and counting. Reviews help us get new listeners -- so I really appreciate you taking the time to leave a review.
