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I'm sorry, I don't often feel the need to brag, but I am just so excited I have to....
One of the things I do on my datafeed sites is list the most expensive items the merchants sell first. Well, someone, some wonderful rich person, bought a $30,000 dollar watch through Overstock that was featured on my homepage. My commission? Over $2000.
That has got to be the single most expensive item I've ever sold through an affiliate program.
WOW, that is awesome. Isn't capitalism awesome. I think it is awesome that some people can buy things like that and spread the wealth like that. Yes, that is awesome.
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Very nice!
Wohoo! Nice Christmas bonus! :) Let's hope they don't send that one back! haha
Link to watch?
Nice bonus right there.
I'm happy when I see somone has bought a $1,000 Laptop and I get my what - $10? :D :p
That's a nice bonus Chris :).
Do you use LinkShare for all your data feed sites?
Do all LinkShare merchants offer data feeds or just some of them?
Thanks,
Peter
Right now its all linkshare (and amazon, with 1 befree merchant). But I plan to expand it in the new year. First to Befree and then to CJ. Only some LInkshare merchants have datafeeds.
Here is the watch:
http://www.4overstockedshelves.com/item/133369
Chris none of the sites in 4discountshopping are loading for me.
Just tried a few and they all worked for me..
That $30k watch, I'd probably want to pay more than $3 for shipping!
Can you elaborate on how the datafeed download works? Is it different for every merchant offering data feed? Does each merchant give you an FTP access to download the feeds or you access the datafeeds through linkshare's interface?Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris
Thanks again,
Peter
Great sale....but that link shows Regular price $32,500, Sale price $87,662, doesn't seem like much of a bargain :eek:
John
John--
Overstock has an error with their datafeed where the prices are switched.
Peter--
With linkshare its 1 FTP account, all linkshare feeds you get are posted there for you to download.
Thanks ChrisQuote:
Originally Posted by Chris
Does it matter too much what you put in your merchandiser application? Can you just say, 'Im starting a shopping network, will build many sites and partner with many different merchants.' ?
I don't know, I didn't put in a merchandiser application.
You must have thought of this, but I'm surprised to see you doing this with the different domains Chris. The engines will see that as nothing more than a link farm of affiliate sites, no? You can get past the bot check but all it would take is a competitor to send them the url of the main site...I am a little over paranoid with my network though.
Why not put it all under the one domain? That would avoid pretty much any risk since even a human would have to see it as nothing more than a unique site.
Its not a link farm, and there is no specific rule against affiliate links.
One unique site would have a harder time getting listed.
Hows it going now anyway?
Its good....
Chris,
what kind of items are the most selling ? I mean which categories? jewelry? electronics? sport?
I was so motivated by Chris' shopping network that, I decided to develop my own last year. Surprisingly its doing well, but not all of the sites are completely indexed.
Chris, I read all this thread. I thought it's only me on the web. :) Just Kidding. Beleive, me, REALLY GREAT work. Three Cheers.
Hi Chris, (or webmasters who launch a datafeed website)
I would like to know if your network is doing well... What average of $$$ you can make???
My first project for the new year is to launch many datafeed website (I have 200+ merchants in my list) and I need advice:
- Build website per merchant
- Build website by theme or categories (health, golf, lingerie, billiard, fishing...), mixing many merchant
What is the best option?
What is the good tricks to get indexed very fast (blog and ping, High inbound links, using Wrdpress???)
Thanks
Its not doing that well. Amazon sites are doing better, but the Linkshare based ones aren't... the SERPs are just ignoring them now. Google has gotten very good at spotting datafeed sites.
Is this suplicate content Google is spotting or more generally the format of the sites, do you think?Quote:
Google has gotten very good at spotting datafeed sites.
I'm not sure, I'm willing to bet they did some custom work to get the format of feed sites from popular affiliate networks.
In anycase the end result is the same, poor rankings.
I sold something for Overstock for around $1,300 or so and earned just under $100's for the sale.
Infact I had sold that same product twice, but the first sale got rejected as the person must have cancelled the sale or something.
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Originally Posted by Chris