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Building online stores with affiliate mashup scripts
Affiliate marketing is a great way to monetise your website or blog. However, keeping track of relevant offers or updating your store pages can be a pain. Affiliate mashup sites solve that problem by using data feeds from affiliate programs to present a range of related products.
With a good affiliate mashup script, you can add related content to boost the authority of your site, making it more relevant and useful to your visitors.
This lens looks at affiliate mashup scripts and explains how they can work for you.
With a good affiliate mashup script, you can add related content to boost the authority of your site, making it more relevant and useful to your visitors.
This lens looks at affiliate mashup scripts and explains how they can work for you.
What is an affiliate mashup store?
The idea of a Web 2.0 - a new version of the world wide web we all know and love - has been noised around for a few years now. Another name for it is the 'semantic web', but both these terms mean essentially the same thing: a new version of the web where users create, judge, and comment on the content.
The new breed of social Web 2.0 sites are familiar enough - Facebook, Myspace, Digg, YouTube - but the idea of bringing together similar ideas and content goes much further than this. A big component of this ideal is that of the 'mashup', and it's in this article that we'll be exploring not only what a mashup is, but how you can use it to boost traffic to your site, as well as increasing your site's earning potential.
Simply put, a mashup is the combination - the mashing up - of multiple sources of content. Wikipedia defines a mashup as "A web application that combines data from more than one source into an integrated experience." With the advent of tools like Google Maps, it's relatively easy, even for novice programmers, to pull together sources of information to create useful, content rich websites. With so much content out there, publishing in so many forms, you can quickly add depth and value to your existing site.
Many sites, like Amazon, Ebay, and Commission Junction, offer data feeds for affiliates. By using a mashup tool you can combine these to present a range of products and information to your users. On top of that, you get a commission every time someone buys something through your site.
A good mashup site can not only pull together a wide range of products from mutliple suppliers, but also combine video, news articles, and blog postings to give more information about the product range being sold. For example, if you had a site selling lingerie, it would make sense to present a range of clothes from different suppliers. Add in some video, and the latest news articles about what designs and trends are hot, and you have a content rich, useful website.
To see what I'm talking about, have a look at Midnight Playtime, a lingerie mashup site from the UK. You can see they've combined video, news, a wide range of products, and postings from related blogs to present a really authoritative source of information to the user.
You don't have to be a progammer to take advantage of these data feeds. Scripts and toolsets are available to quickly build rich and powerful mashup stores. If you know how to setup a Wordpress blog, you've got enough knowledge to build your own affiliate mashup store.
The new breed of social Web 2.0 sites are familiar enough - Facebook, Myspace, Digg, YouTube - but the idea of bringing together similar ideas and content goes much further than this. A big component of this ideal is that of the 'mashup', and it's in this article that we'll be exploring not only what a mashup is, but how you can use it to boost traffic to your site, as well as increasing your site's earning potential.
Simply put, a mashup is the combination - the mashing up - of multiple sources of content. Wikipedia defines a mashup as "A web application that combines data from more than one source into an integrated experience." With the advent of tools like Google Maps, it's relatively easy, even for novice programmers, to pull together sources of information to create useful, content rich websites. With so much content out there, publishing in so many forms, you can quickly add depth and value to your existing site.
Many sites, like Amazon, Ebay, and Commission Junction, offer data feeds for affiliates. By using a mashup tool you can combine these to present a range of products and information to your users. On top of that, you get a commission every time someone buys something through your site.
A good mashup site can not only pull together a wide range of products from mutliple suppliers, but also combine video, news articles, and blog postings to give more information about the product range being sold. For example, if you had a site selling lingerie, it would make sense to present a range of clothes from different suppliers. Add in some video, and the latest news articles about what designs and trends are hot, and you have a content rich, useful website.
To see what I'm talking about, have a look at Midnight Playtime, a lingerie mashup site from the UK. You can see they've combined video, news, a wide range of products, and postings from related blogs to present a really authoritative source of information to the user.
You don't have to be a progammer to take advantage of these data feeds. Scripts and toolsets are available to quickly build rich and powerful mashup stores. If you know how to setup a Wordpress blog, you've got enough knowledge to build your own affiliate mashup store.
An affiliate mashup script explained
This is a great video that quickly shows how an affiliate mashup script works, pulling together multiple data feeds and content to build a relevant, feature rich store.
The Affiliate Mashup Store
http://affiliatemashupstore.com The Affiliate Mashup Store is a website creation tool which pulls affiliate products from the Commission Junction marketplace. In ten minutes you can have a vast catalogue of niche affiliate products, fully searchable and SEO optimised. The store also combines feeds from eBay's affiliate program, plus any number of videos from youtube based on your own keywords. With the Affiliate Mashup Store you can be ranked for hundreds of competitive keywords in your niche, beating your competition without breaking a sweat.
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The Mashup Ecosystem
Affiliate mashup scripts and example sites
The following sites show what you can build using a simple affiliate mashup script. Most importantly, there's a link to Paul Hedger's excellent mashup script site. Make sure you sign up to his list and get a copy of his free mashup script.
- Affiliate Mashup Store script
- Paul Hedger's excellent affiliate mashup store script allows you to quickly and easily build mashup stores. The license allows you to create an unlimited amount of sites. Sign up for his newsletter and get a free mashup script you can start using today!
- Midnight Playtime lingerie store
- An example of what is possible with affiliate mashup scripts, Midnight Playtime is a mashup site in the UK selling lingerie.
- Star Wars Lego
- Another example of an affiliate mashup store - this time specialising in the greatest toys known to man: Star Wars Lego!
- Mashup Man's affiliate mashup resources
- Mashup Man has compiled a great list of affiliate mashup resources - have a look through his reading list at Grazr.
- Make Your Own Affiliate Script Mashups
- Find out more on the powerful technique of using affiliate script mashups to boost traffic and increase sales on your websites.
- Affiliate Mashup Stores PDF Guide
- A guide on how to use mashup scripts to build your own affiliate mashup store. Using Ebay, Amazon, Commission Junction, and other affiliate programs, you can quickly boost traffic and increase affiliate sales. Also includes details on how to promote your affiliate mashup store and SEO techniques to increase traffic.
What's the most important component of a mashup store?
There's a huge range of affiliate products and related content out there on the web. What do you think are the most important components needed to build a successful affiliate mashup site?
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Finding Out More About Affiliate Mashup Scripts
There are a number of guides and articles that not only show how to integrate affiliate mashup scripts with your existing sites, but also give you some ideas on how to use these powerful tools to boost traffic and earnings on your own sites.
- Why Should You Join the Mashup Revolution
- If you are looking into why you should join the mashup store revolution that is sweeping the web then here are a few reasons why you may want to give it serious consideration: traffic, depth, and an increased market. These three things are essentials to having a successful web based business or web based access to your business.
- The Benefits of Using an eBay and Amazon Affiliate Mashup
- There are a number of benefits to using an eBay Amazon affiliate mashup on your website. One of the biggest is that both eBay and Amazon are huge sites and highly popular as a result they generate a huge amount of traffic. Being able to tap into that using a mashup store can provide a great deal of traffic for your website and that increases not only potential customers but also the potential profit.
- What Type of Affiliate Mashups to Use For Your Site
- Choosing the types of affiliates to use for your mashup store and the mashup scripts to use is an important process. There are a number of sites, which have jumped onto the affiliate mashup bandwagon offering the mashup scripts up to allow their affiliates a new and improved way of generating traffic and profit.
What do you think?
I'd love to get some feedback on what people think of the growing trend of affiliate mashup sites, and mashup scripts to power them. Do you think they can be profitable? What has your experience with them been?
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- SeanMcG SeanMcG Oct 6, 2009 @ 8:32 pm
- As long as these mashups have been around (and yes, I even purchased a Web 2.0 Mashups book from Barnes & Noble last year...) I have yet to really delve into them. However, you provide some good examples and descriptions of affiliate mashup stores that are easy to understand. I just may have to spend more time here and checking out any other lenses you may have. Thanks!
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- richardsonlynda richardsonlynda Oct 5, 2009 @ 2:29 pm
- this is real great stuff i have came across... its really great mashup... thanks
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- markowe markowe Oct 30, 2008 @ 6:08 am
- I wonder what you think - when does a mashup store become a comparison store? We recently rolled out the StoreMinator which mashes up eBay and Amazon results, quite effectively we think. But probably it will take more features and more stores to become a fully-fledged comparison shopping site.
Mashups rule though - I think they will continue to be very successful until everything has been mashed that CAN be mashed and the web becomes one BIG mashup!
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- blogmasters blogmasters Oct 23, 2008 @ 9:38 am
- Great information the more people that lean about Mashups the better. I helps build sites quicker. Keeps them self updating and rank higher. Keep up the good work spreading the word.
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