I see a lot of plugins for Virtuemart and a lot of very specific products that people won't buy as impulse purchases, but through very specific search queries.
With such products you rely a lot on Google searches. To get your products ranking high in Google will require time and a few links to your page will help. This will take a few months.
Why promote through Codester instead of promoting your own website? I see you are your settings up your own marketplace
So it looks like you got the software ready!
Like already mentioned your products will probably get most sales through Google traffic. Paid traffic is a good way to find out the right keywords, but chances are this is too expensive to make it profitable. That leaves you with Organic traffic on the long run. You can now promote your products on your shop and start lnikbuilding until your domain reaches a nice DA score, but this will be quite an investment.
Codester is already top ranked on many searches on Google. Just few links to your item's page should be enough to get some good organic traffic through Google. A lot of authors have been in this same place as you are right now and are now getting good sales.
Other reasons to choose for Codester instead of you own website:
- Tap into a our audience of web developers to sell your products.
- Easier to get your items listed high in Google through Codester.
- You can use our anti-fraud system to prevent creditcard/payment fraud.
- Simplify your administration - You only deal with 1 customer (Codester) instead of many customers from many different countries.
- Simplified dealing with Tax and specifically for EU customers (Please check this with your own marketplace - I don't think you are charging or paying tax AT ALL).
- Higher conversion rate due to trustworthiness.
If you use your affiliate link, you will receive 80% of all sales. For that 20% that goes to Codester I think you get pretty good value for your money.
I will stop rattling on