Affiliate Websites in a Box

With the advent of product feeds and webservices there has been a load of scripts produced to take advantage of the fact that it is simple to generate comprehensive, product populated landing pages for SEO, PPC or indeed offline website marketing.

Below are 2 powerful free tools for using amazon and allposters affiliate webservices. Being free to get the most of them you will have to get your hands dirty and modify the templates and possibly even modify the PHP code. But they are quick and easyways of setting up prepopulated affiliate site.   The amazon web services script is a good alternative to the inbuilt amazon astore.

Before you read on I suggest you check out the following articles about creating a sucessful landing page.

Weekly Q PPC - Nice pointers about landing pages

And

Google AdWords Landing Pages - how to build a page that won’t get banned, with examples

 Free Web Services Scripts:

Amazon Web Services: http://www.accessories.me.uk/about5.htm This is a powerful FREE amazon web services script, it can be modified to work with any country that supports AWS

AllPosters Web Serices Script: http://www.oneclickdesigns.com/

Allposters affiliate program lets you earn 25% commission on a MASSIVE range of T Shirts and Posters! Sign up to their affiliate program here

Examples of this script in action: Comic Book T Shirts, Horror T Shirts

July 31st, 2007 Posted by admin | Uncategorized | no comments

There is another way.

Promoting finance merchants as an affiliate has never been an avenue I have seriously explored. The main factors being that the market is very competitive and although the payoffs can be huge the conversion rates have always been low.

You need very targeted traffic to promote finance, people with not just an interest, but people who are going to go through all the processes involved with completing what is really one rather big transaction.

But moving away from CPA there is another route, CPQ. Cost per Quote.

To date this has been a rather sparingly used by finance merchants. But now it seems to be coming out of the wood work.

Accepted.co.uk has just launched on the Clever At network. On CleverAt accepted.co.uk has launched with the CPQ model.

What does this mean. Well the big point is that Accepted.co.uk is paying out £20 per loan application whether the loan is accepted or not. This will mean that there should be much higher conversion rates than other loan offerings that pay out on completed loans. 

Why? Well basically there are so many hurdles from the point of a user clicking through from the affiliate link to actually completing the loan process. Particularly the points of the loan provider actually accepting the application, and the possibility that the customer is likely to cancel the application, having received a better quote. This offer circumvents these stopping points.

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July 27th, 2007 Posted by admin | affiliate marketing | no comments

GreasyPalm. Cashback Shopping nets Shoppers £5 Million

Press release from UK Leading cashback site GreasyPalm. 

Online shoppers save £5 million with GreasyPalm cashback website

Online shoppers eager to save money have now earnt themselves over £5 million with GreasyPalm, the UK’s premier cashback website.  Featuring over 850 participating retailers where users can earn cashback on their purchases, GreasyPalm’s service continues to delight their 750,000 members to remain number one in its sector.

Paul Knapp, Director of GreasyPalm comments, ‘Money saving and cashback shopping has undergone massive growth since we set the ball rolling with GreasyPalm back in 2003, but our core principles remain the same.  Shoppers want a fresh, innovative, reliable service and GreasyPalm delivers. We are proud of reaching this major milestone and it demonstrates that consumers truly value our service.”

GreasyPalm’s announcement follows shortly after news that they have launched their new white label service. Providing established media owners and website publishers with access to a co-branded rewards platform.

Paul Knapp says,’£5 million in member savings is just the beginning for us.  With established media owners utilising our white label services many more savvy consumers will start to enjoy the benefits of cashback shopping.’

July 17th, 2007 Posted by admin | affiliate marketing | no comments

Premier Cookware Newsletter - offers and vouchers

In case we missed your email inbox, here is a copy of the latest premiercookware affiliate newsletter

The PremierCookware affiliate program has been running on Affiliate Window for a few weeks now and we thank you for promoting our program. Please find below details of our latest customer offers, PLUS deeplinks to the most popular product categories.At the moment we have a selection of great customer offers that your visitors may be interested with.20% off Knives / Knife sets from the following: Global Knife, Knife Blocks & Knife Sets, Kasumi Knife & Knife Block, Tojiro Knife, Bunmei, Masahiro Excludes Sharpeners Expires 30th Sept 2007 Customer simply needs to enter the discount code knives20 in the checkout process to get their discount.Free Novelty Kitchen Timer PremierCookware are also giving away a free fruit timer with every pot and pan purchase, see the image on the available banners. This is a strictly while stocks last promotion. FRUIT TIMER BANNERS These already have your affiliate ID embedded in the HTML 468X60 <a href=”http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?s=75371&v=1594&q=62152&r=!!!id!!!” mce_href=”http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?s=75371&v=1594&q=62152&r=!!!id!!!”><img src=”http://www.awin1.com/cshow.php?s=75371&v=1594&q=62152&r=!!!id!!!” mce_src=”http://www.awin1.com/cshow.php?s=75371&v=1594&q=62152&r=!!!id!!!” border=”0″></a> 120X60 <a href=”http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?s=75372&v=1594&q=62153&r=!!!id!!!” mce_href=”http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?s=75372&v=1594&q=62153&r=!!!id!!!”><img src=”http://www.awin1.com/cshow.php?s=75372&v=1594&q=62153&r=!!!id!!!” mce_src=”http://www.awin1.com/cshow.php?s=75372&v=1594&q=62153&r=!!!id!!!” border=”0″></a> Deep Links to Popular Product Categories: Bakeware: http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?awinmid=1594&awinaffid=!!!id!!!&p=http://www.premiercookware.co.uk/bakeware-c-86.html Barware: http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?awinmid=1594&awinaffid=!!!id!!!&p=http://www.premiercookware.co.uk/barware-c-1.html Knives: http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?awinmid=1594&awinaffid=!!!id!!!&p=http://www.premiercookware.co.uk/knives-c-12.html Pots and Pans: http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?awinmid=1594&awinaffid=!!!id!!!&p=http://www.premiercookware.co.uk/pots-pans-c-32.html Tea and Coffee: http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?awinmid=1594&awinaffid=!!!id!!!&p=http://www.premiercookware.co.uk/tea-coffee-c-48.html If you need any help in promoting our program please feel free to contact me Brian Edwards Managing Director Scifind Ltd info@scifinddigitalmedia.com www.scifinddigitalmedia.com Tel: 01480 890417 Mobile: 07952 987265

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July 16th, 2007 Posted by admin | affiliate marketing, premiercookware | no comments

5 Essential Links for The Affiliate Marketeer

Just thought I would share 5 of the most useful links that I have at the moment.

I am not going to list networks (they are already listed in the navbar on the right). But I am going to list the 5 most commonly used links by myself at the moment.

1. Google.com

Ok - this is a bit of a cheat, but despite the problems that google brings and the reputation it has of a nonstop monster eating up the web, it does have a plethora of great tools. Excluding the search, adwords, adsense, there are also maps, analytics and unfortunately it is very difficult to get away from it.

2. InternetMarketingBlogs.co.uk

There are so many quality blogs out there that I read on a daily basis - it would be mad to try and list them, let alone pick a handful to fit into the top 5 links. So this service covers all of them. It is quick and easy to get a grasp of what is going on and follow up in detail on the original blog.

3. php.net

Being a fond user of PHP MYSQL this site is fantastic, THE manual to PHP programming. My brain is not big enough to fit all the functions that I use on a weekly basis.

4. AffiliateBounty

Need to find out if a company has an affiliate program? This site is fantastically easy to use, though unfortunately not definitive - yet.

5. SEOChat

Some great seo / keyword tools. If you are not already familiar with this site go and have a look, there is too much to cover here.

Other top links - The Weekly Q, Bumpzee, Facebook, Youtube, BBC News

July 10th, 2007 Posted by admin | affiliate marketing, affiliate, tools | one comment

Drupal With the Pick of Addons and Themes.

I have been using the opensource Content Management System, Drupal, for a while now. It is one of the more versatile and feature laid en CMS that I know of. But the try functionality comes from the plugins or modules.

Heavily expanding on Keith Bond’s 5 must have Drupal Modules from a while ago I have pieced together a package of some of the best modules and themes.

Download here ~ 2.5Mb

Additional Modules include:

 Adsense / Adsense Injector, Nodewords, service links and feedback as mentioned in Keith’s post.

Ad - Advertising system

The Image systems that allow images to be uploaded and included in a post

Event - Calendaring API, calendar display and export

Mass Contact - Enables site administrator or privileged users to send mass e-mails to registered users.

FlashVideo - this is beta - but allows uploading of video and conversion to Flash - requires some special server configuration

Pathauto - Automatically generates User friendly / SE friendly readable URLS.

I have also included a dozen extra themes / templates.

More than enough to get you started producing well managed content driven website.

July 9th, 2007 Posted by admin | Web2.0, webdesign, xhtml, php | 2 comments