Aust Comparison Affiliate Site
Build an Australian Comparison Website filled with affiliate offers mostly from the 3 biggest Australian networks DGM, CG and CM. I want someone who is able to reverse engineer websites if I show you something I want. I want the site to be generated and updated with the least work possible so I can focus on marketing the website.
The site can be started listing the merchants in each category. For some categories I would like to list all the offers/products and have more advanced search and comparison.
Design Inspiration / Layout
Have featured/most popular deals listed, then browse from providers.
Boxes for each category on main page.
Please look at these sites carefully – can you do something like this?
First step like jimmysdeals .com .au
Also whistle out .com .au – see mobilephones, creditcards, broadband
Tables like creditcardfinder .com .au
Comparebroadband .com .au
UK sites excellent – moneysupermarket .com
offers247.co.uk
gocompare. com
1) Need CMS suggestion – maybe database driven? So I can have database of offers from feeds? (at least for shopping) Thinking WordPress with Pages listing affiliate offers? Or Joomla with wordpress for articles. Open to suggestions.
2) Need template – header with flydown menus, footer with categories.
Header/Footer like Bigpond http://go.bigpond.com/home/index.jsp
Top has logo, search and opt-in email box
Categories also with fly down menus for subcategories
Down bottom is like a site map with links and subcategories
3) Need email marketing solution – able to sign up from the website. Will put the email sign up form in the header. Maybe sendblaster with their wordpress widget?
Open to suggestions what is the best email marketing software – prefer free / open source.
Will also do facebook, twitter marketing so something that integrates with that is a plus.
I should be able to segregate the database based on the categories/interests below (shopping, insurance, dating etc) and also country, also maybe city/postcode, where I got the email address from e.g. customer from my online store etc.
I also want them to easily be able to invite all their friends with a script to import contacts from their gmail, hotmail, yahoo address books when they signup or enter competition.
4) Need link management system to generate and track outbound links and have keyword friendly SEO urls so I can includes links to any offer in emails, facebook:
SEO friendly pages like /credit-cards/
Outbound links redirects to affiliate links may be like /go/nokia-n97/
Especially for the shopping section, I would like links for each product in the merchant feeds so we can email customers links in newsletters. Have heard of samurai/ninja link cloaker, suggestions?
5) I want articles integrated in the website. Maybe for writing articles > WordPress. On each section such as credit cards a box with relevant articles should appear
Categories:
Most categories we will start listing the merchants, then offers and have articles. May be best to use “tags” as some items fit in multiple categories. Feature the best offers and discounts in each category on the home page. Most merchants/offers will be listed as a table with a column to click “Go” to the merchants website.
Basic category structure below. I also have a detailed list with all subcategories and every merchant and which affiliate network (basically all DGM, CG or CM, I have spreadsheets listing the offers from those networks too). There are generally several merchants in each category, shopping has much more but still I have only selected the best (around 100 stores in shopping)
FOR ALL – Start by listing merchants/providers and offers, as well as ability to write articles. More advanced comparison preferred.
1) Credit Cards
Not approved for most yet so I just need to get started with a blank page, so I will cut/paste my credit card table code and start writing articles. May look to do a database listing like the comparison sites below in future.
2) Bank Accounts
None approved yet – just articles for now, will have comparison table of offers/ bank accounts and may do a database listing like comparison sites below if easy.
3) Loans
4) Trading
5) Insurance
6) Travel
Just list merchants to start
Can you do a basic comparison search of travel.com.au/zuji/expedia like airfaresflights.com.au or how liligo.com works?
Or do a site like http://www.kayak.com/flights which searches travel.com.au/zuji/expedia/jetabroad? (I am an affiliate, some provide widget searchboxes)
7) Shopping
First step just list merchants in categories, need ability for customers to add reviews for stores. I at least need to be able to get SEO urls for particular products to include in our blog posts or bargain newsletters.
Second step list all the individual product offers from their feeds – so I can have exact links, say I can email my subscribers exact link to Apple iPhone at the Apple Store. Add shopping datafeeds for stores from DGM, CG, CM, usually come in CSV/Tab/XML.
This engine is not the best, but this is an Australian engine that looks like it was made very quickly and cheaply from affiliate feeds. Maybe look how have they done this?
Comparison. Topbargains. Com .au
8) Business
9) Downloads
Can I have a section powered by the clickbank marketplace feed? So they can search and browse items? I shd be able to refine the database in future by hiding bad performers, will also need to be able to add review pages to the top performers?
Can you index feeds of digital downloads from affiliate networks? Similar to shopping comparison?
10) Mobile & Internet
First step can be just listing the providers, better still to list the offers, best step would be to have search / comparison like the sites below.
11) Dating
12) Utilities
13) Discount Coupons
Allow users to submit coupons like this retailmenot dot com
14) Charities
15) Competitions
SEO – I would also look to perhaps make some categories on their own domain, advice on SEO, keywords to target and domains to buy and best way to set this up the right way from the beginning is preferred.
Job 2 – UK/USA versions. I also want to at least get a basic .com and .co.uk version (should be easy to almost totally generate from feeds) so can start collecting emails from those users too. Im already part of CJ and Linkshare, will join other networks, can I have suggestions what would be the easiest way to generate the UK/USA versions full of the best offers? At the very least have the UK and USA version say coming soon and allow the customer so signup to our email database in the right country category, and have a few top featured offers on the UK/USA homepages for now. Whip up something extremely quickly and automated. Should be WAY easier to generate almost automatically as far superior tools available for UK/USA markets. E.g. DatafeedR, Easycontentunits
Job 3 – I have an online store I want to simply populate with affiliate links as an online showcase, so it looks like an online store, perhaps my shopping links can power this store? I have picked the best merchant in each of several categories that I would like to populate this store. Currently with zen-cart but any CMS suggestion welcome, may have to redirect some links to keep PR. Let me know what you can do.
Please email me your proposal with as much detail as possible, please make your absolute rock bottom offer upfront so we can get started ASAP and definitely ongoing work possible for quality candidates as I will look to make each of the categories a leading comparison site in its own right.
Please show me previous examples of your work and let me know exactly what you are quoting for and what you will be doing. I installed wordpress/joomla on godaddy automatically in minutes & made a template in artisteer in minutes so want someone efficient as I do not want much money/time wasted on the quick parts like that.
I can also discuss on Skype or MSN. I am available almost 24/7 to discuss but preferably 1000am-2am AEST.
Please READ MY BRIEF before applying. So I know you are real make sure you write “I have visited jimmysdeals .com .au and moneysupermarket .com & can do a similar site for you.” Also answer what CMS system you recommend, what link cloaking tool, what email management solution and why, and what you can do for me in each of the categories above, thanks!