aStore Proxy for amazon affiliates
Would you like your aStore to be inline rather than in a frame or iframe?
Also, would you like to get complete visit statistics and make your aStore search
engine friendly (aStore SEO)? aStore Proxy is the solution.
Better Usability, aStore SEO, Realtime aStore Traffic Tracking and Increased Contextual Ad Revenue
What is aStore Proxy?
aStore Proxy is a software that you can install on your web server to enable
your Amazon aStore to be inline within your website rather than placing it in
a frame or iframe.
Enter your aStore URL to see how aStore Proxy works
or simply visit
The Web Entreprenuer Store.
Note: The url you enter should be your astore link on amazon.com and not
your website url where you currently place your astore in the frame. Something like
astore.amazon.com/yourstore-20 or astore.amazon.co.uk/yourstore-21
aStore Drawbacks
Amazon's aStore is a great way for Amazon affiliates to quickly build an ecommerce
store front without writing any code. However, it has a few drawbacks for the
affiliates. They are listed below
- Your aStore is on Amazon's aStore website (astore.amazon.com for example)
and not your own website.
- This makes it difficult to provide a seemless navigation between your website
and your aStore.
- Forcing you to typically place the aStore in an iframe.
- Even then, navigation within the aStore does not bring back the top of your page.
Read this amazon associate forum message for more information on this subject.
- Further, it's not possible to change the height of the iframe dynamically
as the user navigates various pages within your aStore where each page has
a diffferent height.
- You are passing on your pagerank (link juice) to Amazon's astore website rather than
keeping it internal.
- Pages within your aStore will not appear in the search because the aStore links
contain the session id.
- Further, not possible to provide unique content for each product on your aStore to
make your aStore product pages rank well.
- aStore statistics are available only when there is a checkout. So you
don't have complete website statistics. Read this amazon associate forum message for more information on this subject.
- Due to lack of complete aStore visitor statistics, you can't effectively
use AdWords or other CPC advertising. Check out this digitalpoint forum thread on the topic of Amazon aStore and Adwords.
- Some webmasters prefer to provide product link/image that when clicked
takes the user to the astore. This is good to mix content and product
recommendations and works well for SEO. However, once the user visits the
aStore, there is a good chance that the user may leave to some other site
without buying anything through the aStore. In this case, not only are you
not able to make any affiliate commission, you are also not able to engage
the user on your site further so that you could either try to sell something
else or make money from your adsense or other pay-per-click (PPC) ads.
aStore Proxy Benefits
- Your existing aStore displayed inline rather than in a frame or iframe.
- You can maintain a better look and feel, your site branding and seemless
navigation providing a better user experience.
- Your aStore page titles become part of your website.
- You can do further search engine optimization (SEO) for your aStore. You
can provide product specific unique content. Check our astore proxy
example astore and click on the first product to see additional content
at the top.
- The session ids are removed making the internal pages of the aStore to be
indexable.
- You can track complete aStore statistics and not just when a checkout happens.
- You can estimate your Orders-To-Clicks ratio in realtime and plan your CPC
advertising more accurately.
"The average business metrics improvement after a usability redesign is now 83%.
This is substantially less than 6 years ago, but ROI remains high because usability
is still cheap relative to gains" - Usability ROI Declining, But Still Strong (Jan 22, 2008).
Also, take a look at this nice forum thread on how to increase site conversion.
How does it work?
Easy. You install aStore Proxy software on your server and do simple configuration,
create a html template of your main web page that contains your inline aStore
and you are good to go. Everytime a user visits your inline aStore page on your
website and browses it, the corresponding page is pulled from amazon's aStore
server, the links in it are rewritten to point back to your website and then dipslay
the aStore page. Any clicks within the aStore goes back to the aStore Proxy script
that then repeats the process fetching the page from Amazon's aStore server.
Is the use of aStore Proxy allowed under Amazon TOS?
Using the associates feedback form we asked
"Is it allowed to use a proxy software on my webserver and fetch my
aStore content and blend it with the rest of my website html and
display it rather than using an iframe?"
and the reply was
"As long as you display all the content of your aStore, then yes
you can use the software on your server to obtain the content to
display on your web site. You are not required to use an iframe."
aStore Proxy displays all the content of an aStore.
Visit The Web Entreprenuer Store.
How do I get started?
Please read the
terms and if you decide
to buy aStore Proxy then email
staff@astoreproxy.com for pricing
(a onetime license fee) and system requirements (what your website hosting
solution should support to run aStore Proxy). Please indicate your website,
hosting infrastructure (linux vs windows, support for cgi scripts, perl and
php) so that we can try to evaluate if aStore Proxy works for you or not.
astoreproxy.com is hosted on
hostgator
and the aStore Proxy script is known to work with this ISP.
This is not a get rich quick scam, but a clever technical solution
for a real annoying problem. Once you get your aStore show up inline using aStore
Proxy, you still need to do all the hardwork required to get visitors to your
website, aStore SEO etc. aStore Proxy is only a first step that helps get your aStore
content directly on your website.
aStore Proxy software is no way associated with Amazon
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