Add An Amazon Store to Your Site - Easy and Profitable

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 at 8:48 pm by Evelyn Grazini, AC Student and Staff Writer

I was recently creating another website when I decided to add some Amazon books to sell from it. It was at this point that I kind of accidentally found about their new aStore — a complete store loaded with items in my niche that I could easily add to my site.

The aStore works almost like a data feed, but is EASY to install. I had almost given up on datafeed programming, because I can never get it right the first time.

However, I do use GoldenCAN because they make it simple; I just add one line of code to my site, and I have a complete store! I’ve remarked on this before because I think it’s just amazing. I’m not a programmer, so I’m all for anything that makes it easy for an affiliate marketer to get content and items onto web pages!

Amazon’s aStore works more or less the same way. You just go into your Amazon Affiliate area and select what kind of products you want displayed at your store. There are quite a few different features to choose from (for example, Customer Reviews, Wish Lists, Categories, etc.). You can even change the colors to match your site, and add your site name.

After you make your choices, you just copy the HTML code, and paste it onto your web page. You now have your complete store.

The great thing about this is that users can review the books, look at images and reviews, as well as get current prices at Amazon – all without leaving your aStore. And, you can have up to 100 aStores per Associate account!

If you’re going to sell Amazon products, you might as well sell a whole store of products that pertain to your particular niche. After all, more choices for the customer increases the chance of a sale.

Just sign in to your Amazon affiliate account and look for the aStore link. You’ll be walked through the entire process and have your niche store up in just a few minutes.

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3 Comments

not sure how this works - would I get a commission on any books I sell? Surely this takes away from the main product?
Denise

Comment by Denise | November 30th, 2006 6:57 am | Permalink

I am very new to all of this - I have a 2 week old blog on wordpress and have put on a couple of pages and a couple of blogs. I am now trying to put on the amazon link you suggest and the adsense link. I have contacted the support/chat room at wordpress and keep getting conflicting advice as to where I paste the HTML link and how it is then uploaded onto the page/site. Can you advise me as I notice you are also using wordpress?

Comment by Janet | December 1st, 2006 9:01 am | Permalink

Denise, You do get a commission on each book you sell, but if you don’t want it to take away from your other sales, you should put the link inside of your pages somewhere. That way, if someone is just surfing your site, they will run accross it and maybe buy.

Janet,
You put the HTML code into the HTML area of your Blog (click on the little box that says HTML, then put the code there). HOWEVER, I am not entirely sure this will work on a Blog. I am using it on my regular web site, which is built with XSite Pro. That may be why you are not getting the answers you need. Make sure to ask Amazon it it works on a Blog.

Evelyn
P.S. If you are an Affiliate Classroom member, you could post on the Forum there and see if anyone else knows the process. www.affiliateclassroom.com

Comment by evelyn | December 1st, 2006 8:04 pm | Permalink

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