I am only dipping my foot in the water on this so be patient with me if I use the wrong terms and approach.

I am thinking of testing the water on Ad Sense by setting up a Wordpress sub-domain (is this a good idea or should I go with a domain and damm the expense :-)) along the lines of top10christmaspresents.ie and working hard on it over the next 4-6 weeks by putting some good adsense links to what I see as the best runners out there coming up to the Christmas season for kids and adults for Christmas presents (Ipod nanos, Wii games , best selling books etc....

I plan to advertise this in a local free newspaper to try and drive traffic. Does this work for people - have people tried this before? I also plan to send out e-mail to friends to spread the word.


I have the site ready with some content and just getting ready to pull the trigger so appreciate any tips and comments?


Thoughts???

Kieran

So apart from links will this site have any actual content?

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I don't know whether to integrate it into a blog or just make it products only. A friend of mine last Christmas did up a site in the UK specifically at Ipod (Amazon Affiliate) and related goods. He did a ton of work working on the SEO side of things and made some nice cash around the Christmas period. I accept links alone are not attractive.

I was thinking of doing my own PhP (not the standard look and feel you get in cookie cutter Amazon or GA type stuff. Then working hard for two weeks on pushing the rankings (responsibly of course).

I think it would be a lot better if you would create different pages for each product and have a main site to link them all.. this way it will speed up the seo results..

Hate to break it to you but you're leaving it a little late to make some dough from SEO traffic for Christmas at least. Have you been approved for Adsense yet, for the site you wish to push? You'll have to wait for that too.

Sorry to be a spoilsport.