Affiliate Christmas Cash Strategy
November 26, 2008 by jerry
Filed under Affiliate Marketing
Welcome back!
Whilst the ‘crunch’ bites, online sales of Christmas Gifts will rise this year. We’ve been looking at the Christmas gifts market by building a combination of static and blog websites focusing on certain products and toys. Specifically chosen products that we want to target get their own product page, and where possible their own mini-site. Blogs are just too powerful to ignore, so we will be putting a few of those out there too and pushing the feeds to remote content sites using the strategy in our new new media reports.
Specifically focusing on Amazon products works nicely and there is an excellent product Info Product Killer – discount code SPL777 – (although we have nothing against info products!) featuring videos and templates to build this strategy to focus on affiliate marketing of real products and not just for Christmas 
A very handy wordpress plugin came to our attention called MultiFeedSnap which easily brings in RSS Feeds to your blog by encasing them in a [feedsnap, 10] tag, so naturally we used Amazon’s product feeds with our affiliate associate ID slapped on there.. 
Grabbing the Feed:
Most of the main categories on Amazon have their own RSS Feeds which you’ll see on your browser if available.
You can also grab the main RSS feeds from Amazon.com from here. Just copy the URL after choosing your category and don’t forget your associates ID.
You can also get the feeds manually by copying the RSS url and tagging on your associates tag.
Example:
Step 1.
Go to the relevant category on Amazon and copy the URL:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/videogames/ref=pd_ts_h?pf_rd_p=103981591&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_t=2101&pf_rd_i=home&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=0M4DFHDP3P4JFGKKQRC2
http://affiliate-blog.amazon.co.uk/2008/07/create-associat.html
Step 2.
Delete everything in yellow above until you just have:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/videogames/
Step 3: Replace gp with rss and add ?tag=AssocID-21 on the end giving you:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/rss/bestsellers/videogames/?tag=AssocID-21
Warning: This will not work if there is no RSS feed available. You can pick out most categories and there is an excellent post on the UK Amazon affiliate blog which gives you a good idea on how it works.
This feed just goes within your [feedsnap, 10] tags in the html tab of your wordpress post:
[feedsnap, 10]http://www.amazon.co.uk/rss/bestsellers/videogames/?tag=AssocID-21[/feedsnap]
It works pretty well, except occasionally there’s an error instead of a list of lovely products which is usually fixed by a hit on the refresh button. There are many many ways to pull in the feeds to your blog, so if there are any other great plug ins for that, let us know.
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Good luck with your Amazon marketing campaign. There will definitely be lots of affiliate dollars to be earned during this holiday shopping season (also all year round for that matter).
PuReWebDevs last blog post..Amazon S3 has Akamai Laying off 7% Of It’s Work Force, Maybe.
Thanks! So many successful marketers just get between the customer and the merchant and profit heavily!
Excellent reading material on your blog by the way – bookmarked your feed
anyone interested in amazon and ecommerce should head there right now. (click on PuReWebDevs last blog post)
Hey Jerry;
nice post – was looking for something like the multisnap plugin only today
Cheers,
Austin.
Thanks Austin!
I’m looking at a few other very cool similiar plug-ins – will do another post about em
Hi Jerry
Wishing you a very happy and prosperous new year.
I hope your 2009 Internet business will give you everything you have ever dreamed of.
One Big Word Of Caution!
And PLEASE DONT JUST TAKE MY WORD FOR THIS. I will try to back it up with some facts.
Unfortunately we are in a global financial situation none of us have ever seen before. You need to consider very carefully which currency you trade in. Then consider very carefully in which countries you bank and keep your money in. At the Moment experts are predicting the British pound and the American dollar both currencies are going to collapse within 2 years your £s and $s could very well be worthless in just a few months
I Hope I am talking a load of Rubbish.
But a FIAT based currency A DEBT economy in which we operate; in history has never lasted very long perhaps a 100 years. In other words, the bubble will always burst collapse is always inevitable. The amount of debt we have, makes it impossible to come back from. You Cannot Pay A Debt with a debt. It’s Impossible.
But first watch a couple of experts tell you how they see the future, forewarned is forearmed and I would suggest taking this into consideration so you can position yourself into the right financial position.
At the moment our politicians US & UK are the last people to listen to. They are basically saying anything that keeps the people quiet. They are telling us what they want us to hear.
I could keep writing for ages about FIAT currency, debt money, Offshore Banking, Tax havens etc but to give you an idea so you can judge for yourself go to my blog http://daveorchard.com click on the header WHERE’S YOUR MONEY GONE? And watch the program. Please leave a comment this can be good or bad this is something we are all in together, and there are millions of other people that will be effected and will need our help.
We are in a global business so we bank global, live global, for our own benefit.
Best Regards
DaveO
Dave Orchards last blog post..Where’s Your Money Gone?