Affiliate Christmas Cash Strategy

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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.