Affiliate Stores

Did you know that RSS feeds are already embedded in your new Affilistore storefront?

It isn’t obvious on looking at the site whether there is RSS or not. There are buttons to digg.it on news pages, but there isn’t that nice big RSS button, thus :

However, Affilistore 2.0 and 2.01 come out of the box with two feeds ready enabled and operating, but it does it almost under a veil of secrecy.

As an example, Have a look at the feeds from our gifts and UK days out Affilistore tutorial site

• Your site news articles: http://www.foodwithpassion.co.uk/feeds/newsfeed.php
• Your popular products feed :http://www.foodwithpassion.co.uk/feeds/popularproductsfeed.php

If you view the source on your site home page, you will also see these enabled (with your shop domain of course) and being published to the world.

However, in order to make best advantage of these feeds, you need to publish them … that gets external links back into your own web site and helps increase traffic.

The Googlemeister has its own feed aggregation service at http://www.feedburner.com/ and at a minimum I would recommend that you should publish your news article to feedburner. You can of course look for other RSS aggregation services … the more the merrier as far as traffic is concerned.

Just one little tip, Affilistore editor has a habit of entering characters in your news articles that are unwanted in feeds (such as ‘ ’), just check out your feed at feedburner each time you write a new article (it will tell you if it doesn’t like characters and you can also subscribe to alerts for broken feeds) and be sure to go back and santise your article to remove any unwanted characters.