Great post! I’m playing around with Affilistore myself at the moment and totally agree with how easy it makes it to setup the datafeeds. I’m using Paid On Results for the feeds and it couldnt be simpler. One of the reasons I wanted to try Affilistore was when I analysed some of the demo sites using Keywordspy, I think only the Football Kits one had good rankings. The other thing was the volume of links but low PR. It kind of made me a bit scepticle about using it but as its cheap to remove the footer link I was kind of intrested to see if it was worth the go. I’ll let you know how I get on.

Quick micro sites can build up quickly. Having one or two is never that impressive as sometimes a few days will go by with no income. But when you get 10 up and then 100 you’ll find a nice steady income

You’re correct in thinking if you did the basics and no more, then eventually you’d probably have issues with duplicate content. However the information within the feed, titles, keywords can be easily manipulated to a small extent.

I’m not implying you should think “Do this and the money will role in”, I was pointing out how someone can quickly and very easily, get a site up and running using feeds from merchants. Datafeeds to some people are the dark mysterious unknown. People often think they’re only used by the technically competent when in reality, using them with Affilistore means there’s nothing technical involved at all. Even I can use them!

The site I created 2 years ago relies on a feed for one single merchant. There’s no jiggery-pokery what so ever, yet I still manage to make a few quid here and there. The emphasis of this and my previous post, is on using domains that you’ve lying dormant which guarantees £0.00 and £6.88 renewal fee’s every 2 years… as you WILL get round to it this year

The alternative is to spend 15 minutes and you could have something in place that stands more chance of earning a few £’s when compared to an “Address Not Found” message. Give it a go and see what you make of it.

I don’t mean to sound negative. You could churn sites like this out all day but how good would they be for attracting visitors?

Hi Perp
The site’s not yet finished. In total I’ve spent no more than 1 hour on it and that includes some little tweaks here and there such as changing the caching, re-jigging keywords and descriptions, creating a logo and adding 4 additional categories. I expect to spend about another 2 hours maximum in the coming weeks.

Nigel
As Quirky Gifts has only been up for 4 days, I can’t comment on conversions. I have used Affilistore before, and with some tweaking, it’s possible like any other site, to target some good keywords and attract visitors. I’m using both the free version and a paid version but there is no difference other than the removal of the footer.

Really interesting post and a nice clean looking site.

How do you find Google treats your Affilistore site, it looks like you are using the free version….or not?

Is it converting well for you?