Affiliate Marketing Tutorial – Standalone Amazon Shop
I have sorted most of the problems with shops and have a spare minute to start the actual tutorial. First we are going to make a standalone Amazon shop. The tutorial site and shop itself are located at the feetwarmers (dot) co (dot) uk. To view the tutorial site replace (dot) by . and type it in your browser. I am not giving you direct link here to keep the experiment clean and not create irrelevant links to a live store.
Shop is built using
Associate-O-Matic with minimum effort, in fact within just an hour. Associate-O-Matic or AoM is probably one of the best low cost solutions for building Amazon shops. It gives a professional look to your store straight out of the box.
Installation is very simple, but please note, if you want to use this software avoid “easy hosts” and use classic cPanel hosting companies. After uploading the package you should do some initial configuration. We have already spoken about obtaining Amazon associate account and you should take a note of BOTH (!) of your API keys as they are going to be inserted into the AoM.
Point your browser to yourdomain/admin.php and select login details. Keep your login name and password secure. After selection you can now login into your admin area and first of all choose the country you are building your shop for (in our case – UK) and insert all Amazon IDs. After pressing “Save” button your initial configuration is ready and you can start inserting products into your shop.
AoM itself has busy and helpful forum where you can ask all sorts of technical questions and find solutions to problems. In fact, I am not going to discuss actual settings in much detail here but I am going to show how to make your thin affiliate shop to do well in SERPs. If you check google.co.uk for the keyword combination feet warmers, you would see that our tutorial site is number one. This is the main idea of the tutorial – technical questions are being discussed all over the Internet but I want to show you that the standalone affiliate shop could actually be set and optimized in a way that it would bring you organic traffic and therefore customers. Organic traffic is when people type something in the search engine and find your site. This is the best way of obtaining customers as it doesn’t cost you anything but your time and effort. Even without much advanced SEO work it is still possible.
Many Internet gurus are saying that a thin affiliate shop would never bring good organic traffic simply because it would be treated as “duplicate content” and therefore go to the “supplemental pages” section. As you can see it is not true, thin affiliate site that we have selected for our tutorial is not even using built-in SEO options but still tops the SERP.
I am going to reveal some of the secrets of how this could be achieved. Watch this space.
…to be continued
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