My Dropshipping Journey with AliExpress

I think direct traffic comes from forums but it does not generate sales. My orders come generally from organic and social media traffic.

 

Yaros, I am little unclear about your pricing increase feature. Doesn't the affiliate website simply take you to the AliExpress.com website from where the visitor would subsequently buy. So if you show a 2x price increase, would that 2x price increase show in the AliExpress website as well subsequently? Besides, there might be a risk that the visitor might end up in the AliExpress site finding the same product at 1x price, isn't it?

Thanks again for your engaging and informative support in this thread.

 

Actually there two plugins I am working with. My AliPlugin is only for building affiliate sites, not dropshipping ones. So, this plugin does not have any options for changing prices and shows everything like on AliExpress. As for the dropshipping plugin, I am still developing it and it is not for sale now.

 

That explains it! Thanks! keep us posted when the new plugin is ready for primetime!

 

Hi,

I have got this plugin and am trying to import products.

My first issue is that I select, lets say 100 products to import - 9 times out of 10 all products will fail to import, whereas there is sometimes the odd one that will import.

Next, how do you set it so you make an initial profit on the item and force the buyer into purchasing from your site instead of redirecting to AliExpress?
I've looked everywhere and can't find a solution to either of these problems.

Many thanks in advance,

 

I think you did not pay attention that I had mentioned on this thread that I don't sell a dropshipping plugin for AliExpress yet. You bought AliPlugin that is for building AliExpress affiliate sites only, not dropshipping ones.

 

Today I want to show you my social plugin that I am successfully using with my dropshipping sites and Amazon affiliate stores.

Before I used many different social posters and social promotion plugins but each of them has its own disadvantages and could not meet all my requirements. As a result I created my own solution that I called SocialRabbit.

How this Plugin works:

The plugin has a Dashboard that displays the list of activities performed by SocialRabbit. As you can see this plugin works with 3 popular social networks - Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.



The connection with social networks API is implemented like in other social plugins.

Posting option also does not differ much from existent solutions. It allows posting all the products available on your store in your social pages - Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest on full autopilot.



Such posting brings great benefits:
- Promotion of your products on social accounts
- More stable positions on Google because of social signals
- Targeted traffic from scoial networks

Owing to such posting some of my product pages posted on social networks appear on Google higher than Amazon, AliExpress and Ebay.

Now the most interesting part! The core of this system is two Social Robots integrated with this plugin - Facebook Liker and Post Grabber.

For Facebook Liker you have a convenient interface where you can find the most popular groups in your niche and pass them to FacebookLiker Robot that will start visiting these groups, liking posts, leaving comments and replying to other comments attracting people to your webstore. And it works perfect!



Another social robot is called Post Grabber. This robot visits the most popular Facebook groups devoted to your niche, finds the most popular posts in these groups and re-posts these posts on your Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest accounts.



The Plugin also features a Spinner section for creation different pre-loaded comments and replies for FacebookLiker Robot.

So, that was a quick tour of my SocialRabbit plugin. There are other features available with this tool I can describe, but then my post can be very long. So far I am very satisfied with the results it gives me and I think if you have such a Rabbit in your hands you can easily fire your SMM expert

Among other similar solutions for your webstores I can also recommend Wpfanmachine and Nextscript autoposter.

 

Nice plugin

 

Hi Yaros,
On average how many orders you get everyday

 

Hello Yaros,
May be i am asking so many questions to you its only because i just went live with my dropshipping store thestylishkid dot com,
i have done some seo, but do not get any organic traffic 1 or 2 visits, rest is only from ppc adds or facebook adds.
i want to ask how you managed to get alot of organic traffic in beginning, is it because of backlinks as you mentioned that you are using Senuke.
can you make a detailed post about your seo and backlinks strategy, i have read all the stuff you mentioned earlier in this thread but can you write some more like for newbies to reach the same level of success as you have achieved.
i am sure there are many other who will highly regard your thoughts on this.
Thanks

 

Hey yaros, its so great for you to share all these info. Can i ask about paid ads, you only charge fixed US dollar prices to everyone and every country but i see one of your top buying country is India, how can they afford your products? i thought the currency is weak and the country is poor. What country do you target when you use paid ads? Which country do u recommend us to boost the post to? Usually all 3-4 countries in one go or do you target them one country per post?

What i mean is, what is your pricing strategy towards each country with their respective currency and buying power? How did someone in mexico and india buy your product when its priced in USD( Expensive! )

Also what social channel is the best for you to start marketing organically when u first started? Pinterest is the best? Thanks.

 

hi yaros, previously thanks for your nice sharing.
i'm always keep watching this thread.
i'm interested with your plugin aliexpress, you create yourself this plugin?

and i want ask you about experience to be dropshipper.
first i want said i'm ever to be dropshipper too from china supplier and i'm sell on ebay but really much problem later, mainly about shipping. many item late or not arrived on my customer so he open case for make dispute, i'm lose here because on shipping i'm not provide tracking number. why i'm not provide tracking number? you must be know, if i'm provide tracking number, shipping price will be high and it's not competitive price with other seller.
and now my question
1. how about aliexpress? you provide tracking number for every product you sold?if not, how about that? no case opened by your buyer?
2. how to find good supplier on aliexpress? maybe you have some idea to see.
all my question. thanks before. and sorry for my english

 

In spite of the fact that the product descriptions on my site are not unique, I get many pages indexed by Google, stable organic traffic and many keywords that could be found on top pages of Google.
How is it possible?
1. Before choosing main categories for my site, I use Google Adwords to find good keywords in selected niche. As a result all names of my categories are in line with chosen keywords. (For example: category name “Harry Potter wands” = “Harry Potter wands” keyword that has 40,500 monthly searches according to Google Adwords.
2. When I import products I get many pages on my site are indexed by Google fast with the help of so called long tail keywords appeared automatically.
3. Using special software (Senuke) I create social bookmarks which also help to get my site fast to Google index.
4. I write and add one SEO article to the home page and another 10 unique articles written for each category of my site. For each article I make unique title placing it in H2 tag. It is important that this title (H2) should be different from the name of the category (H1).
5. I add meta tags and meta descriptions to my site and product pages.
6. Social signals are very important today. That's why I create social pages, connect them to the site and fill these pages with products available on my store.
7. With the help of the plugin I also add reviews to the products. The point is that these reviews are located on a separate AliExpress server that is hidden from Google indexing. As a result I get some more unique content by placing these reviews on my site.
8. Using special software (usually WebSite Auditor) I do SEO audit for all my pages to find out if:
- I have any errors in the code;
- robots.txt created and setup properly;
- there are any pages with 404 error;
- a site has any broken links;
- all meta tags are written correctly;
- all pages are mobile friendly.

 

Actually, I stopped running any paid ads. I could not get a good ROI. So my main traffic sources now are organic traffic from search engines and social media - Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram.
I don't target any particular countries and make focus on the whole world. India and Mexico are not my top selling countries. The majority of orders I get from USA, Europe and Australia.

 

I know there were quite many complaints about AliExpress regarding delivery time issues before. But it should be noted that AliExpress has improved delivery time for the last year seriously and continue working on this signing agreements with major local and international postal service companies, including US. Anyway, my main strategy now is to take not expensive products and with free shipping option only. In this case customers are more willing to wait longer. So far, all my customers are happy!

AliExpress has a good protection system with full money back guarantee. So, if your customer is not satisfied with a product and asking for refund you should dispute the purchase with AliExpress seller. If you are selling not expensive products your AliExpress suppliers usually refund you quickly without having to return the items because they don't want the headache of disputes and receiving returns for relatively low value items. This enables you to give a full or partial refund to your customer through PayPal without them having returns either. The reputation of the wholesaler is rather exposed and they are willing to do anything to maintain their feedback rating.

As for finding reliable supplier on AliExpress, pay attention to such indicators like Purchase Volume, Seller's Feedback Score, Product Rating, etc.

 

Hi Yaros. Great idea and excellently written thread.
I am writing a very similar system but outside of the WordPress platform. Also putting together a chrome plugin to fulfill orders.

I have seen Facebook ads work quite well to a website like yours. It involved setting prices very low and the delivery high on a few select products. Then adjust the checkout flow so you grab the email address before they see the delivery price. Of course, this reduces the chance of a transaction, but, you end up with an email address you can create lookalike audiences with in Facebook. Combined with some further refinement to targeting, some pixel retargetting and email offers - you can get a good ROI.

Anyway I stumbled upon your thread when wondering how I can automate the titling of products. Is this done automatically on your site, or do you set these manually?

Thanks again for an awesome thread.

PS. Your other plugins look pretty damn tasty too...

 

Thank you!

My Plugin works on AliExpress API, so it takes and sets titles automatically. However I have to edit them manually if they look not nice.

 

Hi Yaros,

Wondering if the Aliexpress plugin comes with Themes? If not what theme are your worldofharry using?

 

AliPlugin comes with 3 built-in themes, but bear in mind that AliPlugin is for creating AliExpress affiliate sites only, not dropshipping ones. For my Harry site I am using another plugin.

 

How is the site doing? Still getting a decent amount of traffic and sales? I'm very interested in this plugin you have developed for dropshipping affiliate items with custom set prices.