aStore Proxy for amazon affiliates

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 Proxy works with astores from all the countries that Amazon operates (United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan and Canada).

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 iframe height dynamically as the user navigates various pages within your aStore where each page has a different 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. Check this forum article that talks about 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 link to astore instead of embedding it with an iframe. 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.

• Inline Your existing aStore displayed inline rather than in a frame or iframe.
• Javascript Include your own javascript. You can spice up your aStore with various 3rd party widgets driven by javascript!
• Seamless You can maintain a better look and feel, your site branding and seemless navigation providing a better user experience.
• Page Titles Your aStore page titles become part of your website.
• Look and Feel You get better control over the aStore layout and alignment.
• astore SEO You can do further search engine optimization for your aStore.
• Keywords aStore product pages only have title tag and not the keywords meta tag. aStore Proxy automatically inserts a keywords meta tag with the title of the content. This is useful with search engines that rely on keywords meta tag.
• Unique content 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.
• Targeted audience With the ability to provide content by product, you can mix product descriptions and comments from other languages like Spanish and Chinese if your website is mainly targeted towards foreign-speaking audience living in your Amazon affiliate country.
• Search Index The session ids are removed making the internal pages of the aStore to be indexable.
• Visit Statistics You can track complete aStore statistics and not just when a checkout happens.
• Ad Optimization You can estimate your Orders-To-Clicks ratio in realtime and plan your CPC advertising more accurately.
• Amazon Widgets Have you felt that your astore homepage is pretty static? Well, you can put a dynamic amazon widget (including your own astore widget that displays random products from your astore) on your astore pages. You can promote special offers during holiday seasons using relevant affiliate banners.
• Endless No, this is not about Amazon's new endless.com website, but to say that the possibilities are endless!
• Wordpress Blog Some of our customers have used astore proxy along with their wordpress blog and made a unique store with rich content to improve their search engine ratings and convert better by offering their blog visitors to relevant products with a a seamlessly integrated inline store.

"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.

Also, take a look at this nice forum thread on how to increase site conversion.

• We are the first to come up with this idea and been longer than anyone in this. Also, we worked with many affiliates on different web hosting platforms and content management systems to integrate aStore into their main site.
• Some solutions are provided as a free service, but the software stays with them. You don't know if they are link hijacking costing you affiliate fee.
• Further, as more affiliates register these free stores, the load on the server makes them very slow against costing affiliate fee.
• There are some monthly subscription based solutions. However, we charge a onetime fee for the software.
• Some solutions require you to have a high-end hosting solution since they try to pull lots of data from Amazon using the Amazon Web Services. This is fine for some type of stores, but if you are getting started with simple affiliate website, this may not be the best option.
• Also, when users search on aStore, the results are displayed by Amazon giving the most appropriate results. If the search is implemented by the custom solution, it's results quality may not be good since implementing Google like keyword search is difficult and requires lot more server resources.

If you prefer quality software that resides on your server and also get an excellent support, then aStore Proxy is the right solution for you.

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.

Used the associates feedback form and 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, an example astore created using aStore Proxy script.

Please read the terms and if you decide to buy aStore Proxy then email for 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. Please check the list of web hosting solutions with discount coupons known to work for our customers.

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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.