I remember the time when there was only one recognized dropshippers list on the market and they used to charge a recurring fee every 6 months I think.

Nowadays dropshippers list competition has grown greatly (like e-commerce and internet business in general).

There are a few recognized dropship and wholesale list players now, all offering slightly different products attracting online merchants.

Shopster is one company on that list. Recently there were made a few significant changes to its products. In particular:

- Shopster is an eBay Compatible Application
what does it mean? It allows you to manage all eBay activity from your Shopster account

- New Products in the Warehouse
Shopster catalog is update daily. Yes, it is really a great feature that is now included with most top dropship lists.

- New Help Center
Updated help is always a nice feature to merchants as one is sure to find there answered most of the questions that other members asked Shopster in the past.

- This Weeks Hot Products
Never forget to check this page. Those 4 featured products are chosen by Shopster marketing team and at this time of posting have great sales potential.

To learn more – sign up for a 7-day free trial here

We will also regularly feature other dropshippers list new features and updates to help you to make the right decision with the choice of the dropship list to buy. It is obvious one needs a big budget to buy all those lists. On the other hand, one does not need all those lists – one is enough.

My position here is – drop shippers lists are great to start your online business, to find products that re profitable, to get trained with e-commerce and dropship basics.

Next step should definitely be your own fully functional e-commerce store and direct relations with the merchants that you set up on your own and that are not available to thousands of other dropshippers. More on dropshippers list disadvantages.

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In my recent post on money niches to target with your new websites I mentioned those industries that look quite attractive if you plan to make money with:

- Link sales (though Google does not like it, so it can turn out to be a short term strategy)
- Link rentals
- PPC campaigns (it is advisable to run PPC campaigns on niche related websites, otherwise there is a high probability to get low quality score or get domain slapped)
- Pay-per-post sales (with top service providers – SponsoredReviews, Pay-Per-Post, ReviewMe, Blogsvertise).

If you have in mind a long term target to get high rankings in search engines I think we should accept it as a fact – it is next to impossible to get into Google top 10 with the general websites in the mentioned niches. Of course, some ‘if’ apply – if you do have unlimited promotional budget and etc. But let’s be realistic – it is IMPOSSIBLE to dominate organic SERP’s with those websites of mediocre quality.

If you do want to get organic traffic or even dominate search engines then you should move in a quite different direction:

Yes, I know the idea is not new and there are excellent and FREE tools that help to implement this technique:

- Seomoz buzz tool
- Wordtracker top searched keywords lists
- Google Trends

But do you apply this technique? Starting this fall I try to combine now these both techniques described in the referred and this posts (I started 10 sites recently).

What pushed me to use hot niche approach? It just happened that I have come across a website for sale on sitepoint.com where the guy was selling a Windows Vista website.

The listing was up just a few weeks ago, I am not sure if he sold it or not. The guy writes:

I will accept offers min of $50,000, ‘buy it now’ – $75,000, current monthly income – $4,000 (95% – AdSense), traffic – 100,000 uniques per month, all organic!

And I did a quick research of my own:

- The website is online since Sept. 2006 – so, just one year (see monthly earnings stats and sale price request = HUGE ROI)
- Google shows 43 inbound links (yes, I know that the tool does not display all links, but it is an indicator anyway). I did not check the quality of those links though.
- Google search engine saturation – just 581 pages
- Content – some unique, but most articles collected on the web, various types posts incl. videos and graphics.
- Design and platform – some blogging platform (I think WordPress) and a very simple theme (probably unique).

So, my conclusion (and plan):

• spot HOT niches where there is money,
• buy a good domain
• post lots of mixed content – unique and duplicate, get tons of traffic,
• monetize it with AdSense (add some affiliate programs if available)
• then sell it in a year or so for a very nice price (or keep running it until you find a buyer for your expensive project).

Certainly it is good to start a few websites of this kind. Not all gonna be killers, but 1-2 are enough, do you agree?

[tags]affiliate marketing, seo, ppc, text links, paid reviews, make money, income[/tags]

I have assigned some time to browsing text-link-ads catalog by category with the sole purpose: to find those niches where:

-    the link price is relatively high
-    the ratio of the sold links is good (compared to other categories)

I certainly neglected those categories where I run websites as I have a good idea about those industries. But I own just a bunch of websites, so it took me a couple of hours to collect this ‘invaluable’ info.

So, if you want to sell links and to make sure that you will sell most of your link inventory via some link broker then it makes sense to start websites in these niches (if you do not have one yet):

• Poker (all websites listed in the category have sold some adv spots – it does not matter if you have zero PR or 9,000,000 Alexa; in fact a few websites have Alexa – n/a (not available)
• Education
• Business (certain subcategories)
• Real estate
• Health
• Computer
• Web development

I do not feel like discussing if it is good practice to sell the links (you know Google does not like it and promises to penalize those websites that sell links). I consider it as a method to increase your online income. And at the age when the competition online is tough and one has chances next to nothing to be on top of search engines this approach has the right to exist.

In addition to link sales you can employ these websites to run PPC campaigns in those niches – that increases your chances that Google won’t slap the domain if you use AdWords.

And there is a way to run all these websites on a shoestring:

1. you need to spend some money on domain names;
2. then you can host them as add-on domains along with your websites (my hosting company allows up to 6 add-ons per hosting account);
3. install some simple CMS (like WordPress) with nice and free theme;
4. outsource unique article writing (preferably with social sites buzz potential) – post 3-4 per month;
5. start cheap link building (use your own network, directory, social websites and article submission services)

Conclusion: You are likely to be ready to monetize your websites in 6-8 months. You also increase your chances some niches in these industries in the process of your slow website development. I think that some will just meet your initial target: to make some income with link or review sales, but I am sure that 1-2 websites can grow really big – one need to follow major events in the industry and see what top players are doing.

[tags]affiliate marketing, seo, ppc, text links, paid reviews, make money, income[/tags]