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Storestacker Review
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Every now and again along comes an affiliate marketing product which truly revolutionizes the way you do business. Not very often but it happens. The latest evidence of this is a product called StoreStacker. Now you may not have heard much about it but that is probably because the people behind it do not use ‘mass control’ style launches and up until the release of store stacker were very much focused on the blogging niche, particularly auto blogging.
So what is storestacker. Basically it is a piece of clever software which creates a storefront for you stocked with products from affiliate programs, at the moment there are 3, amazon, eBay and for the first 500 customers Clickbank. The real beauty of this software is that it a real breeze to install and you can potentially have 1000′s of products online in minutes. You can see an example site at http://www.qibs.com/ or my test set up at http://www.golfguidedirect.com/Store/ which took me a whole hour from start to finish. There are a ton of enhancements, like templates etc I can add but wanted to get it out there fast so you could see it.
If i went through everything I like about this software it would potentially take me hours so I’ll try and summarize as best i can.
Good Stuff:
1. Easy to set up
2. Imports products from Amazon, eBay and Clickbank automatically, no uploading one product at a time.
3. StoreStacker can be used to add products to an existing site or as a standalone site builder
4. Being able to build a store in a folder on an existing site is huge for me. I have over 200 sites and because storestacker pulls the products from different sources I am virtually guaranteed to be able to build a site for any topic/website
5. StoreStacker can add thousands of pages of content to a site in mins if you want, and tons of long tail, product-based keywords. Added to sites that already have solid in-links, this can translate to a nice bump in search engine traffic. A new site created with the system has a big advantage over any ‘regular’ website.
6. You can optimize all the pages on your site by editing 3 files, similar to the way permalinks works in WordPress you can have the page listed as category/productname.html or anything you want, this is truly awesome and beats any ecommerce system I’ve seen.
7. You can ADD YOUR OWN PRODUCTS too. Fill up the categories with affilaite ptoducts from eBay etc then add your own products or plr products.
8. When you add your own products you can actually get the site to make sure your products are always displayed first, EXTRA profit!
9. If you really want to go overboard you could actually build your own store that is bigger than amazon, at least in terms of products because you could add everything from Amazon, then add eBay and CB and voila. Not sure I recommend this but I might give it a shot when I’m bored!
10. Product support from a great company! Once the intitial launch is out of the way, they plan to only release 1000 copies, they are closing the sales and going to work on adding more affiliate programs. This is not an idle promise, they have done this before with other products and never failed yet to improve upon a product. Expect to see Paydotcom, Linkshare, Shareasale and other similar sites.
11. Last but definitely not least is that each category in your store comes with its own rss feed, the promotional possibilities are endless!
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Not so good stuff
1. At the moment CB products do not have an image added automatically but they are fixing this and you can edit any product yourself and add images, change description if you really want
2. adding 1000 pages instantly to a site all at once can raise a red flag but there is nothing to stop you ding it gradually.
3. The templates are not great but they are promising to release more and they are all editable anyway if you have some basic html knowledge.
Thats it. I can honestly say this is the best thing I have seen in ages, I can’t wait to see the profits rolling in from my 200 new stores!
It is being released Tuesday, April 1st, 12:01 AM PST and no it is not an April Fool, but you will be if you do not check it out!
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RSS feeds provide headlines and summaries of information in a concise and standardized way. RSS technology is a simple but powerful technology that helps users to get information from the internet more easily
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication (although versions before RSS 2.0 have been known by other names). RSS feeds are written in a computer language called XML, a special mark up language much like HTML This means that they have mechanisms included that identify structures in a document. The structures define the content and how that content will be displayed within that document. RSS is what makes big news websites possible: RSS files are used to create a data feed which will deliver headlines, links or virtually any other piece of information to a channel viewer application, commonly called a news reader
In simple terms, an RSS feed is a system that allows web content to be put into a standard format for viewing through an RSS feed reader. RSS technology or news feeds are growing quickly and have become a major part of the Internet but many users don’t understand what they are.
Using syndicating content is a great way to keep up to date with the latest posts from your favourite blogs and websites.
Many people set up RSS technology to update in their My Yahoo, or Google page. For example, Google Groups is a free online community and discussion group service. Google Groups can be monitored using RSS technology. Add the new URL to a newsgroup reader and receive updates each time a new post is added to the newsgroup
RSS Feeds can be used for online marketing very effectively.
In terms of promoting your website, RSS can get your URL listed with all search engines fast and easy. No more waiting weeks for your URL to get listed with search engines, RSS marketing allows this to happen almost immediately. This is certainly a good choice for new web pages that are looking to increase web traffic. Another awesome aspect of RSS marketing is that it can get your web page returned as the number one result for your web pages’ most popular keywords.
Internet marketers are using the technology of RSS technology for contacting their mailing list with a brand new look and feel. Perhaps it is time to rethink the traditional email newsletter RSS Feeds can be used creatively to maintain a relationship with your subscribers.
RSS Feeds are an easy solution to the problem of creating new content for webmasters. RSS Feeds create an ever changing source of content syndication and need very little maintenance once set up. There are several advantages to using RSS technology as a source of fresh content to your site. Fresh content keeps your site visitors coming back and continually adds value to your website. RSS Feeds greatly aids your site in obtaining higher ranking in the search engines.
Webmasters can use RSS to place different types of content on their site. Valuable content can be in the form of articles, stories, press releases, announcements, updated info, company details, products and marketing.
How about using RSS technology for advertising?
W. Atlee Burpee Co. (the garden seed people) saw their RSS strategy help them increase November sales by four times from just one trial feed featuring a ’seed of the day’.
USAToday.com reports that their RSS traffic is ‘rising month after month by orders of magnitude’, even though they are barely promoting their RSS feeds.
Here’s Why Using Camtasia Can Increase Your Affiliate Checks
Since there are already lots of people getting into affiliate marketing, it is no wonder that the competition is getting stiff. The challenge is to try and outdo other affiliates and think of ways to be able to attain this.
There are also many tips and techniques being taught to these affiliate in order to best plan their strategy for their program to work effectively so that more earnings will be achieved.
What better way to wow your prospects and customers than to record and publish top notch, full motion and streaming screencaptured videos. Nothing like feeling your hard work getting paid by having your customers jumping up excitedly in great anticipation to buy your product right there and then.
This is Camtasia in action. It is a proven fact; giving your customers something they can actually see can explode your online sales instantly.
You do not need to have trainings and education to be able to know how this system can work for your affiliate program. Anyone can create stunning videos, from multimedia tutorials and stepbystep presentations available online. The process is like having your customers seated next to you and looking at your desktop, as you show them the things they need to see and hear. All this done step by step.
For those who does not know it yet, how does Camtasia works?
1. It can record your desktop activity in a single click. No need to have to save and compile all your files because it is recorded right there and then.
2. Can easily convert your videos into web pages. Once converted you can have your customers visiting that certain page. Videos are easier to understand and take in unlike reading texts which oftentimes is a trying thing to do.
3. Upload your pages. Publish them through blogs, RSS feed and podcasts. You may want your Camtasis videos to get around and reach out to other people that may be potential customers in the future. Nothing like being visible in many sites and pages to advertise yourself and get your message through.
There are other things you can do with your affiliate program using Camtasia. You can