Over the last week i’ve found myself doing a lot of “dabbling” with various web applications to see what i could use to get good content onto my sites fast, plus get good, well displayed offers from affiliate marchants as easily as possible whilst still allowing some customisation. I’ve found EasyContentUnits to work very well, and am happy with those for small sites, but if you start to build bigger sites and want to use lots of product feeds, it’s going to get very time consuming. There’s also not a whole heap of “comparability” to the products – you select the ones you want to display, and that’s about it. So i’ve also been dabbling with Affilistore - now this is a lot more effort to get set up in the first place as it runs a whole site if you want it to – you have to install it, make changes to the template, find relevant product feeds from merchants, and i’ve also been manually editing the product feeds to only take products i want to be displaying in my store – but once that is done, i think it’ll give me better long term useability for large scale comparison shopping sites. Both are great products though, and both useful for certain types of site.

Now to my main point though – that’s all i’ve been doing for over a week now. Dabbling.

I’ve learnt a lot, and got one or two old sites on the way to being updated with fresh relevant content, but i really need to be concentrating on one or two sites at a time, maybe for a week to 10 days, and get the site done, updated if old, or finished if new, and online, running, ready to make me money. Then hit the old linkbuilding to try to get some visitors! Currently i’m having fun dabbling, but when i sit and look at what i’ve achieved since the last post 8 days ago, i’m somewhat disappointed.

This week, i will be working on 2 sites only, with no dabbling with new ideas, just simply using what i played with last week to get the 2 sites to a finished state where i’m happy to start trying to promote them and get them earning me money!