Affiliate Stores

Just released in the last couple of days is a neat tool to import any csv (comma) delimited affiliate feed and present each item as an individual post.
You can see an example here on My Santa’s Christmas Gift Ideas blog.
The tool is not a plug-in in the strictest sense as it is a standalone script [...]

Today, I want to introduce you to a new tool in your arsenal … the affiliate mashup store.
But what is a mashup? Well …. it takes affiliate opportunities from different avenues and blends them with RSS feeds and other content into a coherent, but potentially self-managing website.
See an example at the Christmas Store.

This post will be short and sweet. All the details are in a forum post :

Affilistore Enhanced 2.5 - RC2 - Testers Wanted
In essence, we are calling for people with good past exposure to Affilisore to give Affilistore Enhanced a try out and help us find any last remaining bugs and maybe find some good [...]

I wrote previously about the simplicity of the aStore not being easily monetisable due to the need to effectively redirect the customers and search engines to Amazon, and therefore not carrying any of that content yourself.
I found an alternative, but unreachable developer (astoreproxy.com) who had created such a tool with some limited opportunity to inject [...]

The Amazon aStore is potentially one of the easiest ways to get a niche store up and running.
Amazon provide the coded solution and you customise your store to contain as few or as many products with your own custom categories and colour scheme.
Unfortunately, conversion from a standalone store will never be great. As ever, traffic [...]

If you read Steven’s (Tifosi’s) blog over at Anyname, you will see that he has written some more on the AffiliStore Enhanced - Release Candidate and has now started to talk about version numbers.
It is now at RC1 stage, which means that it is undergoing some final testing to get any last wrinkles out of [...]

Do you sometimes wish that you could see how many products you have loaded from within admin. This is a quick drop in hack to do just that.
fd.inc.php updated file
Unzip and upload as a direct replacement for admin/includes/fd.inc.php.
This could be useful as a cross-check if you expect a merchant to have 1,000 items, but the [...]

It adds nothing to the functionality, but with the switch to the Affilistore v2.01 engine it has become a much simpler proposition to add a count to your site of the size of your product catalogue.
This comes about because it is easier to count products in a single product database rather than to add the product [...]

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If you have the oportunity to include remote file includes, then you should jump at the opportunity.
Why?
Well, you get full content indexation of any HTML that you can incorporate on your page, whereas you get none if all you can include is a link to a remote javascript option.
Unfortunately, more and more ISPs [...]

It appears that many people struggle to find high quality hosting that supports their Affilistore hosting.
I am looking at reselling some services that I have found to be very acceptable and in fact, very fast.
Before I undertake such a solution and risk subsidising people out of my own pocket, I am inviting feedback as to [...]