My AliExpress Dropshipping Journey

[Yaros]

How to choose categories and products?

To find best categories for my drop shipping site I use Google Adwords.

With the help of Keyword Planner I usually start checking different niche related keywords targeting all locations and English language.

For example, I take “Harry Potter wands” and see the results.



In spite of the fact that this keyword has high competition its search volume looks rather good.

One by one I select 10 main categories for my site and add them to my site.



Among these 10 categories I also select 3-4 most popular ones to add them to the slider.



After my categories are ready I go to AliExpress.com to find necessary products.

To find the best and most demanded products I filter all products by orders and pay special attention to feedback score.



I get product ID of a desired item and add it to the plugin that automatically finds the product and imports all necessary information (images, description, parameters, variations, etc.) in my site.

Or I can make all the process (search, filter and upload products) work through the plugin.





to be continued...

[freelander]

keep us update on your journey mate

[arkanth]

Following this thread ...

In the below image, it was found list of item.
In which version it is available.. ??

[Yaros]

(07-28-2015 12:48 PM)arkanth Wrote:  Following this thread ...

In the below image, it was found list of item.
In which version it is available.. ??

There is no any versions now for building dropshipping sites in the market.

[freelander]

2 week promoting aliexpress = $67.56 maybe will buy a domain after i received the payment.

[arkanth]

Keep Going ...

(07-28-2015 06:39 PM)freelander Wrote:  2 week promoting aliexpress = $67.56 maybe will buy a domain after i received the payment.

[WaRp3d]

Would be great to hear how the site traffic and sales are doing after the first week of your site Yaros (Y)

[elenisofikiti]

Yaros, how can I build a site like yours? Do you sell the plugin? Can you give guidance?

[vbnitz]

Yaros, the plugin does all this appearance?! Which WP theme are you using?

[Yaros]

(07-29-2015 01:03 AM)WaRp3d Wrote:  Would be great to hear how the site traffic and sales are doing after the first week of your site Yaros (Y)

I have not launched advertising campaigns yet. I need to connect credit cards payment option first and then start promoting my site. I will share all financial stats wit you later.

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(07-29-2015 07:55 PM)elenisofikiti Wrote:  Yaros, how can I build a site like yours? Do you sell the plugin? Can you give guidance?

This dropshipping site uses the solution based on the platform of AliPlugin. However there is no possibility to build dropshipping sites with AliPlugin, only affiliate ones.

I am not sure when I can release a dropshipping version of the plugin. There are a lot of things needed to be optimized before pushing it to the market. It searches and imports products well from AliExpress but there is still much manual work need to be done in order to build such dropshipping store.

I think in nearest feature I will offer a custom dropshipping store service and then will release a dropshipping plugin.

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(07-29-2015 11:05 PM)vbnitz Wrote:  Yaros, the plugin does all this appearance?! Which WP theme are you using?

Yes, the plugin and this theme (that I developed myself from scratch) does all this appearance. However, some icons, header images and logo are needed to be designed and placed manually.