Review of WP Review Site - Quickly Create Niche Review Sites With WordPress

Written by John Cow on October 2nd, 2008

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One of the most intriguing ideas to come along the past years has to be WP Review Site. More than just your average WordPress plug-in, WP Review Site gives you the power to turn your website into a self-maintaining, revenue-generating machine.

This plug-in relies on user-generated content to power your blog, and is an excellent way for affiliate marketers to increase their business.

The Power of User-Generated Reviews:

There are several benefits to user-generated content. First off, it saves you the time and expense of providing content to a website. Second, a community will inevitably form around your site as users discover others who have similar tastes and interests. Finally, user-generated reviews often have a greater degree of influence on consumers than editorial ones.

WP Review Site has tremendous potential and I really am impressed with it…. but because it relies on user-generated content you would want to already have a solid user base for it to be able tp produce the best results possible. A site with few visitors is a site with few, or no, reviews… unless of course you intend to create the reviews yourself at first or hire someone to do that.

Now that is in no way a bad thing, as any type of affiliate marketing requires traffic however, I would not want to mislead anyone to think that slapping this up on a new domain will get you fast money.

A 4 Phased Approach

I suggest that you approach WP Review Site as a project with four phases:

  • Step 1: Installation and setup - Click Here to Buy the product and then install it on your blog.
  • Step 2: Content generation - While you don’t have to do this, I certainly recommend it. Spend some time writing reviews yourself, or hire someone to write them. Once you start getting traffic, you want users to feel as though they are joining something, rather than pioneering it.
  • Step 3: Traffic generation - You can certainly start generating traffic during phase 2, but you want to have a solid base of content before you go full-throttle. For Phase 3, choose your favorite traffic generation method – commenting, forums, ppc, articles, social networking or whatever – and go wild with it.
  • Step 4: Introduce revenue-generating programs, such as affiliate marketing

Check out this live example…

Put your review site on autopilot!
Check out WP Review Site today!

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18 Comments »

Comment by IT Freak
2008-10-02 11:11:55

John Cow or John Chow… u sound like a copy cat. :roll:

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2008-10-02 12:56:51

That’s exactly what it is. And that what is meant to be. It’s genius!

Chow doesn’t seem to mind either as it’s probably sending him some more traffic!

I love the COW

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Comment by Danny Cooper
2008-10-02 11:39:30

A review about a review site, this is the kind of thing that makes the world go round :P

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Comment by Clog Money
2008-10-02 13:09:40

Ha ha I was thinking exactly the same thing!

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Comment by Ben - frogstr.com
2008-10-02 11:40:03

I was thinking about doing a review based website. This certainly looks interesting but it’s a 97$ you have to invest. It’s not bad, but I’m careful when I have to invest in a software in order for the website to work…I want to make sure I’ll be able to make more than 97$ out of it! I’m still studying niches and trying to come up with a decent/innovative idea ;)

I think the 199$ regular price is a little too much though…

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2008-10-02 12:55:17

Reviews are “in fashion” at the moment and i think they’re on to a good thing!

Thanks for the review of the review site :razz:

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Comment by Normal Joe
2008-10-02 13:46:36

Good review, it definitely looks like a cool plugin, however, there are free alternatives. I actually downloaded one…I can’t remember the name lol.

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Comment by Bloggeries Forum
2008-10-03 10:45:19

I’m with Joe. Cool but this is the internet always something equal or comparable for free. :cool:

 
 
Comment by Freddie
2008-10-02 14:32:09

Joe, come on with that free plugin Son! You cannot be slippin like that. We want the info!

Solid review, Cow!

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Comment by John Cow
2008-10-02 15:43:36

Thanks Freddie!

 
 
Comment by Andy Bailey
2008-10-03 12:36:55

I’m just discovering the power of reviews on my site, I paid someone to write the first couple and then people started asking if they could write them for free! I agree that you need traffic too, I have lost count of the sites I put up after buying a package before I knew about sites like this to advise!

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Comment by Credit Helper
2008-10-03 13:59:13

Thanks for the review. I’m still working the necessary traffic step (aren’t we all). Will definitely check it out though.

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Comment by Moneymonk
2008-10-03 18:52:11

Nice plug in, by the way I liked your iPhone hack

 
Comment by Christian Books
2008-10-04 12:36:45

Just read the last 3 posts, always providing good useful info and good recommendations. Im part of TK and this WP review plug in will come in handy as i build a few of the community blogs :)

 
Comment by jason
2008-10-04 20:05:30

I actually think reviews are losing there luster, with all the affiliates using this technique to sell ClickBank products….

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Comment by Szise
2008-10-10 21:27:30

i think is too expensive right now.

 
Comment by Richard
2008-10-26 15:52:36

You might be interested in a cheaper alternative. We’ve got a new service, ReviewThing, currently in beta which allows you to build your own review sites and add your affiliate links. You can get more details, and sign up at http://www.reviewthing.com.

Oh… and it’s $97 cheaper than WP Review Site. Free, in fact.

 
Comment by DiscussHub
2008-10-31 01:53:14

Too Costly…

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