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The Side Hustle Show

340: Affiliate Review Sites Done Right: How to Market and Monetize Like a Pro

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

How To, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Robert Brandl is a German entrepreneur now living in Spain with his wife and twin 16-month olds, but 10 years ago he was working full-time, wanting to travel, and was just trying to figure out how to get a blog online. He did what most aspiring bloggers would do--he turned to Google for answers. But he was disappointed with what he found. Nobody was doing a great job answering his question and comparing all the different options. With that, WebsiteToolTester.com was born. This is Robert’s flagship affiliate site that now has in-depth reviews of all the top website building software. I invited Robert on the show because this is a really common side hustle business model: the affiliate review site. How it often works is you write product reviews, hopefully attract some organic search traffic, and then collect your commissions when someone buys through your links. We saw this most recently in the physical product space with Kieran MacRae in episode 313, where he was reviewing mattresses and other sleep-related products. But like most businesses, there’s an art and a science to doing this right and building a truly helpful resource as Robert has. And, he’s applied the same model to a number of different niches too, including email service providers, live chat tools, and more. You can check out his whole portfolio at ToolTester.net. Tune in to hear how Robert structures his review content to make it easy to consume, how he optimizes it for SEO, and how you might apply the same strategies to an affiliate review site of your own. Or even just to review content on your existing blog. Full Show Notes: Affiliate Review Sites Done Right: How to Market and Monetize Like a Pro

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0:00.0

Side House will show 340.

0:03.4

Affiliate review sites done right.

0:05.8

How to turn your own curiosity into helpful content and affiliate commissions.

0:10.4

What's up, what's up, Nick? missions.

0:22.0

What's up, what's up, Nick? Loper here, welcome to the Side Hustle show because questions with a little love and attention and strategy can turn into cash flow. It was a seemingly simple question that got

0:25.2

today's guest started down his side hustle path and that was just what's the

0:29.8

easiest way to build a website? Robert Brandt is a German entrepreneur now living in Spain

0:35.8

with his wife and twin 16 month olds, but 10 years ago he was working full time

0:41.6

wanting to travel and was just trying to figure out how do I

0:44.4

get a blog online so he turned to Google but was disappointed with what he found

0:49.6

nobody was doing a great job answering his question and comparing all the different options.

0:55.0

With that, website tool tester.com was born.

0:59.2

This is Robert's flagship affiliate site that now has in-depth reviews on all the top website building software.

1:06.5

Like fine, if nobody else has answered this, I'll do it myself.

1:10.0

And I invited Robert on the show because this is a really common side hustle business model, the affiliate review site, right?

1:17.2

Right, product reviews, hopefully attract some organic search traffic,

1:20.4

and then collect your commissions when somebody buys through your link.

1:24.1

We saw this most recently in the physical product space with Kiran McRae in episode 313, where he was reviewing

1:30.6

mattresses and other sleep-related products. But like most businesses, there's an art

1:36.2

and a science to doing this right in building a truly helpful resource like Robert has.

1:41.4

And he's applied the same model to a number of different

1:44.2

niches too including email service providers, live chat tools, and more. You can

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