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nice inspiring post, I’ve dabbled with affilistore which is great, how much tweaking did it take for quirky gifts? Presumably a little longer then 15 mins?

Joe
Definately worth giving it a go, especially if you have a spare domain doing nothing. Affilistore really makes using (good quality) datafeeds very easy to use. Be very careful who you select to promote as it’s very dependant on the quality of the feed unless you plan to hack away at it yourself.

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.

Paul

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.

You could try some of the tools at http://www.domainnamesoup.com to find good available domain names

Hi Chris.

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.

Update from earlier comment:
We now rely on AffiliStore as a sub directory installation for selling affiliate products on our niche websites and it works extremly well.
We have updated our information page to include our latest fitness equipment Affilistote niche template as well, plesae take a look – http://www.simplytoday.com/categoryblog/affilistore-the-best-free-website-comparison-scripts.html