My favorite type of affiliate marketing is products. Good old fashioned stuff that gets shipped to your door.

The majority of my income comes from people buying things that show up at their door and I earn a commission on the transaction.

In the past most of my sites have been “niche websites“, but moving forward and thinking bigger (a great read btw) I think I might try going at a larger product topic.

So I thought of a topic I like, I’m familiar with, I’ve spent money on in the past 6 months, i plan on spending money on, I want to know more about, and is pretty broad: Camcorders.

And so I bought the soon to be developed Camcorder.fm (and camcorders.fm to redirect to camcorder.fm)

I want to create a site on camcorders that is better than any other site on the web about camcorders. Which leads me to ask:

What Makes An Awesome Product Site?

First and foremost the rule should be “user experience trumps advertising”.

With product sites it’s easy to put ads on the site because most of the time the content is the ad, unless you are doing banner/adsense stuff. Either way the user should come first.

Then there is the obvious stuff:

- Reviews

- Forum Unique to each product

- Price, current and historical

- Videos

- Pictures

But what else?

Is the social shopping stuff a fad? Should the product site have profiles and that jazz or just basic info.

What do you think a great product site should have?

(sidenote: Camcorder.fm will be an affiliate site I’ll be publicly building here, obviously. ;)