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I was thinking about adding few things to make it paid service: - allow people to enter keywords describing product - allow people to enter their own affiliate

I was thinking about adding few things to make it paid service: - allow people to enter keywords describing product - allow people to enter their own affiliate id - allow people to generate short url to dynamically generated page showing above All above would allow people to quickly generate and share chunks of specific amazon products to their following and monetize it. You could either produce sidebar with your own ads or just charge for such service so it would be win-win for all

elwell 7y ago
Like a 'roll your own affiliate marketing site'? You could call it 'affilterate marketing'.
thrwaway69 7y ago
I was thinking about the same. If there are any affiliate marketing people in here, can you tell us more about your workload, RoI, setup and problems? :D
- tomschwiha 7y ago
  Depends on the niche. Some work easily out (especially if its about products with an EAN), for others it works too, but you need manually processing, if you care to not only offer a comparing of Amazon products. The Amazon API is howevery very detailed and useful for product data. You look at the data provided and either try to "not care and add everything" or to form it to fit your scheme (imo the better way). Issues are with marketing (SEO, useful text), malformed or wrong informations and normally there is no global valid usable database available to get all the data. Sometimes I depend on crawling, so websites changing break normally price-updating. By using an API its not such much a hassle, but also using the API sometimes product ids change and you have to keep it updated to not end up with a broken website. I created Keyfuchs[1], a german / english price comparing website for game key prices and we mostly manually write the texts, half-automatically crawl the different stores and try to set it up nicely for our users. [1]https://www.keyfuchs.de https://www.keyfuchs.de / https://www.thegamefox.net https://www.thegamefox.net
chapium 7y ago
If its a paid service, who would be paying? This data is all over the internet, typically for no monetary charge. Other shopping sites (I'm thinking of newegg) already provide a detailed breakdown.

elwell 7y ago

Like a 'roll your own affiliate marketing site'? You could call it 'affilterate marketing'.

thrwaway69 7y ago

I was thinking about the same. If there are any affiliate marketing people in here, can you tell us more about your workload, RoI, setup and problems? :D

tomschwiha 7y ago
Depends on the niche. Some work easily out (especially if its about products with an EAN), for others it works too, but you need manually processing, if you care to not only offer a comparing of Amazon products. The Amazon API is howevery very detailed and useful for product data. You look at the data provided and either try to "not care and add everything" or to form it to fit your scheme (imo the better way). Issues are with marketing (SEO, useful text), malformed or wrong informations and normally there is no global valid usable database available to get all the data. Sometimes I depend on crawling, so websites changing break normally price-updating. By using an API its not such much a hassle, but also using the API sometimes product ids change and you have to keep it updated to not end up with a broken website. I created Keyfuchs[1], a german / english price comparing website for game key prices and we mostly manually write the texts, half-automatically crawl the different stores and try to set it up nicely for our users. [1]https://www.keyfuchs.de https://www.keyfuchs.de / https://www.thegamefox.net https://www.thegamefox.net

chapium 7y ago

If its a paid service, who would be paying? This data is all over the internet, typically for no monetary charge. Other shopping sites (I'm thinking of newegg) already provide a detailed breakdown.