How To Make An Affilliate Store With Affilistore And Datafeeds
Affiliate stores have a big advantage: once you do the initial setup and link building, they are pretty much the “set and forget” type of businesses, unlike blogs which require content, and good content, and even better content, and still bring you barely any income.
Affiliates stores can be produced in many ways, from writing your own mysql and php based code, to using dedicated scripts like BANS for eBay affiliate shops, or Associate-o-Matic for Amazon affiliate stores, or Affilistore 2.0 for datafeed-based affiliate stores.
This is a video tutorial of setting up an affiliate store using the following elements:
- Affilistore 2.0 – free affiliate shops script
- Datafeed from a merchant in the shareasale.com affiliate network.
After setting up the affiliate store, as shown in the video tutorial, I’m going to do the following:
- Submit the site to 1000 free web directories. Tool used: Website Submitter (the test version is free, the paid tool is $47)
- Write one article about perfumes and submit it to about 200 article directories. Tool used: Article Submitter (the test version is free, the paid tool is $47)
- Comment on about 10-20 do-follow blogs in the perfumes-cosmetics niche.
- Bookmark all pages of the website with social bookmarking sites. Tool used: Bookmarking Demon (free alternative: Social Poster – this takes much longer, but if you don’t have money, it’s still good)
- Let the affiliate store “ripe” for a while, get indexed by Google, and get some traffic
- Watch the stats: build more links anchored on the keywords that show in my stats and I’m not number one in Google for.
Add more categories, based on long-tail searches observations: if I see a lot of visits from, let’s say “Chanel perfumes”, I’ll add a new category in the sidebar, called “Chanel perfumes”. This would generate a new page for my shop, with an URL containing my keyword, so I increase the chances of getting even more traffic for that keyword.
Please keep in mind that I don’t intent to rank quickly for very competitive keywords. This will come with time (months, or even years). In the beginning I just want to get the shop indexed by Google and ranked for as many long tail keywords as possible.
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I like your plan:
>> Add more categories, based on long-tail searches observations <<
Many many many affiliate marketers miss that particular forest for the trees.
Enjoy,
Barbara
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Thanks, Barbara, we’ve noticed that this strategy brings in good results. I used it for getting topics for new blog posts, then I extended it to the affiliate stores.
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Great article, I’ll be sure to check out that article submitter. Affilistore looks like a great free product, although it would take some time to setup. I ran into a really cool affiliate store app that is a breeze to setup. It integrates with WordPress is super SEO friendly, and autoposts so your site looks like it’s updating itself all the time. You can find the app and intro videos at Datafeedr.com.
Watching the videos will make you drool. This app ties into not only Shareasell, but also Commision Junction, Clickbank and various other affiliates.
The only downfall is it’s price. At 97$/month. They do offer to give your money back if you’re unsatisfied with it in the first 30 days though.
Datafeedr.com is super easy, extremely flexible, it’s just a gem. I haven’t seen any other affiliate store application come close to it. If you guys have, at a better price point, please reply here, i’d like to know!
Anyone else here has used datafeedr?
Thank you for the information, I’m going to check this out. I suppose you are already using it, since you are recommending this affiliate storefront solution so warmly. I hope you don’t mind me deleting your affiliate links in the comment
“Comment on about 10-20 do-follow blogs in the perfumes-cosmetics niche”
How do I find these blogs?
There are lists that are published on some internet marketing blogs. You can find one of them here: http://courtneytuttle.com/blogs-that-follow/
Hi, i was looking forward to the video of AffiliStore, but it does not seem to be working.
Thanks,
David
Hi David,
I don’t know why the embedding doesn’t work anymore. You can watch it by going to http://ezmoneyon.net/affilistore.swf
This might be a stupid noob question: I am using affilistore script and affiliated with CJ. How to correctly integrate CJ datafeed into affilistore? Hopefully the post will mention from exactly how to obtain the feed to how to insert it into affilistore. I drive myself nut figuring this out.
Sorry, but I don’t work with CJ, so I don’t know how their feed looks like. As far as I know, feeds in CJ are not for free, so you’ll have to pay the fee to be able to access them. After that, just try to import them as I showed in my video – it should work if you match the fields correctly.
I’ve been using Affilistore to build shopping websites for two years now – 35 to date. Someone above said they are slow to set up..no way. I did one the day before yesterday in approx 1 hour, and had its first organic lcicks from Google yesterday!! If you want to check it out its called Big Fashion. I would say that optimising for SEO is not that easy – the constant changing of product feeds and therefore page locations means you do have to keep an eye. Some feeds are OK. By the way, CJ don’t charge for feeds anymore, at least not me. Do I make a living from these Affilistore sites…yes..just! Anyway know what has happened to the affilistore website and forum..its gone!!
Hi James, I’ve seen your “Big Fashion” website and I lik it. My site ette.it is also done with affilistore but it’s very slow compared to yours. Do you have a private server?
Ette,
Sorry its taken so long to reply. No, all my sites are on a shared server. Are you using the cache facility – it does make a big difference.
Im slow too.. Thank you for your reply. I didn’t use cache! I’m gonna try, thank you again.
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Hi Simonne,
Nice tutorial, congrats! Are you still using the same Affilistore version or have you switched to Affilistore Enhanced? I was wondering whether the latest version is as buggy as people say on forums.