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• April Kerr // Oct 25, 2006 at 8:07 pm

  I don’t know much about this kind of thing. I only know how to make Frontpage and (basic) WP blogs.

  If this Feed technique considered spam? Do you think it will be long lived?

  Can you give me a URL to show me what these sites look like?

  I did come across the website affiliate data feed website before but it makes no sense to me.

  Is affinityoflondon.com an example of a data feed site? It doesn’t actually sell any of it’s own products but looks like it does.

  I will read through the sales page again tomorrow.

  Thanks
  April

• Splork // Oct 25, 2006 at 8:56 pm

  Yep your example is probably generated by a datafeed. However, what these products do is post to a blog. I think just about everything on the web is spam. You can use any blog template to make it look good but here is a basic one from Teli:
  http://www.wordpressdatafeedimport.com/preview/

  go to http://www.wordpressdatafeedimport.com
  and watch the video.

• Scott // Oct 25, 2006 at 9:26 pm

  Hi,
  I don’t undestand how these kinds of sites can get traffic, and/or sales because at any given time only the latest five or so products are showing. If those aren’t any of the ones the visitor wants, then away they go. How do you make a site like this work?

  Scott

• April Kerr // Oct 25, 2006 at 9:50 pm

  This website: thebaglady.tv is a little bit like it but better. All it basically does is talk about handbags, fashion and jewellery. Lots of photos of products with descriptions. It’s done in a really nice non-spammy way.

  I suppose they just keep on the mailing list of lots of companies and then post details of new products.

  Go to the “about us” page and you will see it is part of a network of 20 blogs.

• Splork // Oct 25, 2006 at 10:45 pm

  Hey Scott. You’re right, although you can adjust the number of posts that show up on the front page of WP in the settings. Anyway, you are really working for the SE indexing. So when someone searches for say, “Roberto Yeganelli Wedgeplatform Boots”, there will only be 800 listings and yours should probably be listed on the first page. If your feed has 3000 products and you can get indexed for a third, on the first page of Google (and Yahoo and MSN) for one blog….do you see the potential? It’s a numbers game just like Adsense scraping with TE. But Adsense ain’t used and Google digs the content. Plus they are easy to build. I understand that AFG makes things really easy.

• Scott // Oct 26, 2006 at 12:12 am

  I think I see what you mean. Is the key to just constantly update/add to it and “socialize”(the part I don’t know how to do) it? I’ve been using a similar script (see one of my test sites above) but I have not had many, if any visitors and no sales. Having a new baby in the house has made updating a bit tough to get to lately.

  Thanks,
  Scott

• Splork // Oct 26, 2006 at 2:14 am

  It really depends on the size of the datafeed. For Teli’s script I try to set it up so there is something happening for 90 days. Whether that something is a post every day or a post every 6 hours (nothing less) it really depends on how much is in the feed. And I always “seed” the blog with around 100 items just to get the categories going nd something in the blog at the start. socializing is simply via Delicious, Blink, Technorati and a couple of others.

• Mike // Oct 26, 2006 at 2:27 am

  Hey Splork. WDFI will be released again soon. In fact, existing Optiniche customers can log into the private area and read more about it. For Optiniche customers that don’t already have it, you may find a treat for you inside.

  Also on a limited release is the Datafeed-To-RSS script (datafeedtorss.com). Currently, it’s only available to Optiniche customers (discounted too) at a way cheaper price tag. Of course, you don’t need this if you already have WDFI… however, this is a cheaper alternative which functions similarly to Michelle’s Affiliate Feed Generator. AFG, however, allows you to generate 2 different feeds: 1 regular and 1 customized for RSS2B.

• April Kerr // Oct 26, 2006 at 1:50 pm

  This is not 100% the same but could compliment.

  I was re-reading the newsletter from Allan Gardyne and one of the examples of tapping into other peoples traffic looks good. Basically ebay ads are shown on your site and you split the commission 50/50 with http://www.equeenbay.com. So there’s no money upfront which is a nice change

  I suppose if you found you were making heaps of money you get something like AFG and keep 100% of the commission.

  Haven’t read through it 100% but I might try it on my bonsai site, but now I should get back to work…

  April

• Bryan // Oct 27, 2006 at 4:04 am

  Hi Splork,

  What do you mean when you say:
  “Duplicate content? Nope. I use tags in the feed when setting it up so it’ll never be like any other. I also mix the feed up using a spreadsheet.”
  I don’t quite understand how you are able to “personalize” this so you don’t have to worry about dup content.

  Also, let’s say you set up a data feed, but you want to throw in an article here and there… i.e. a data feed with darts and then an article you write about the different games you can play. If you post an article, does that disrupt the automation of the datafeed?

  Thanks!
  -bryan

• Splork // Oct 27, 2006 at 1:28 pm

  You can use tags to make up sentences, at least with Teli’s script. Hard to explain but it helps keep my output different than anybody else’s. Sure the product is the same but when did Google ever penalize for duplicate products? No, the wording can be different using tags. As far as posting the feed, if we both took the same feed and began posting, say a 3000 product feed, from the start, our site would look very similar. I rearrange it in a spreadsheet so I am not posting anything like anybody else. Plus if you take the whole page together, the blog will be totally different than anyone else’s. Hope that makes sense.

  I’m not going to get rich off this and it is something I just throw out from time to time. But the blogs that I have out there, that are now 6 months old or so, make about a sale a month. Each blog makes maybe $10-15 commish on the sale. It’s like the old days of spamming with scraped sites and posting Adsense. Except this is real content. And it’s quick to build. The more you build the more dough you’ll rake in. Honestly I’m tired of building article sites. Affiliate programs are the way to go and this is about as easy as it gets if you’re lazy like me.

  Oh and I have no idea if you can post articles with this script. I don’t know why you couldn’t. The script just automatically posts everything to the blog at once. Then itt just publishes on the schedule. Probably wouldn’t be a bad idea. I’m sure Michelle’s script would allow that as well.

• Bryan // Oct 30, 2006 at 3:50 am

  I agree… for the lazy folks (I am included also) I think this would be great. Even if they are making one sale a month at $10-15 per sale, that is great stuff. I can host 50 different sites on my reseller account, and that costs me $10/month… so just one would cover my costs for the month and the rest could be pure profit… I like this line of thinking. I might throw one up there and see what I can do with it.

  Thanks for throwing out this idea. Good stuff.
  -bryan

• Splork // Oct 30, 2006 at 1:37 pm

  I’m sure the marketing badasses can coax alot more than 1 sale a month from these sites. I haven’t really been able to. 1 sale a month or so is about all I can get. But I also don’t make a huge assault on getting indexed and traffic either.

• Darrell // Oct 31, 2006 at 2:10 pm

  Hi Splork,

  (You’ll have to explain the origin of that name one day!)

  You’re very wary about buying courses/info etc - but I see you talk quite a lot about Optiniche. That that mean you consider it a worthwhile investment?

  Please bear in mind the fact that my credit card is suffering from severe internet marketing burn marks.

  Cheers

  Darrell

• Splork // Oct 31, 2006 at 4:29 pm

  When I bought Optiniche I paid $37. The price is now $97. The plugin is quite useful and the theme is not bad to use. The blog has private entries that are helpful. And you get first shot at products like WDFI for a good price before the public.

  But honestly I do not know if I would want to spend $97 for the offering. There are so many free blog resources now. I use the plugin on all my blogs for SEO purposes but there are probably good free ones you could use. I’ve been a customer of Teli’s for over a year. I have found way more value than the $37 I paid a while back. But to start out now dropping $97, I might not feel so good about the purchase. Don’t get me wrong. I love the ebook. The plugin. The blog. It’s very good stuff. I just don’t like the price today (which will be going up when ver 2.0 gets released. Current customers get the update for nada). Hope that makes sense.

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