Expected duration: Ongoing I've run a number of successful affiliate websites a few years back, but have not worked on them for a number of years due to changing jobs and starting a family. I've now got back into things, and want to re-launch one of my clothing websites.
I'm a professional web developer (in both full-time employment for a digital agency and for my own freelance projects) and primarily work with WordPress where I build themes and functionality from scratch.
I have a custom plugin which links to Affiliate Window (primary), Commission Junction, Webgains etc. So far I have around 25,000 products, about 50 product categories and around 300 brands. These are imported into WooCommerce as "External/Affiliate" product type - although I'd debating if I need WooCommerce, or just to setup a "product" custom post type.
I use WordPress SEO (Yoast) on both my work and freelance clients' websites and run though some of the basic setup for this for my affiliate site. I will be looking to use Upwork / PeoplePerHour to hire someone to take care of social media content, blog articles, backlinks etc, but getting to the point - I would like to see what you could offer to help prepare my site for launch (currently on a local development server) to give it the best chance to rank well, but the critical thing I want to avoid is being penalised by Google / Bing etc for "thin" content or not adding value to the affiliate products.
My aim is to re-write the product descriptions with one of the various "spinner" tools, or something like OpenAI / Copy.ai so that they are unique to my site. I'd also like to have the descriptions for each category (my main focus) and then the key brand pages to be engaging, unique and ideally good for SEO. I'd also want the meta descriptions to be bespoke for each category, and eventually the brands too rather than using the Yoast template where the meta description is the same, apart from swapping out the category name variable.
Is this something you can get stuck into, and build a working relationship with me on, as I'd like to apply this to other sites in the future, once the clothing site is back on my production server?
Happy to answer any questions and discuss further.
