Amazon is one of the most popular affiliate programs on the net, however one problem that many affiliates face with Amazon is that the products change so quick, prices changing daily and no product feeds. This can make creating an Amazon affiliate site quite difficult unless you use their Ashop, which gives you very little control over the site and no control over the content.
Fresh Store Builder is a great piece of software which allows you to create your own, auto updating Amazon store in minutes! You can literally have a store up and running in under 10 minutes. Fresh Store Builder normally costs $197, however we have managed to get a $100 discount just for sitey.net readers! That means that you get it for just $97! It’s a one off payment that includes unlimited sites and free updates!
Fresh Store Builder is definitely the best Amazon affiliate site builder I have seen. It comes with a handful of different professional looking themes and also allows you to create your own if you want. Rather than each product linking through to Amazon, it has its own basket which transfers to Amazon. This helps to make your site feel more like a real ecommerce site rather than an affiliate site. To make it easy to show you the store, I have put together a demo store which you can view here: Home Security Kits.
As with all my reviews, I tested this software properly first. I had 12 domains which where sat with a single article on them and not making any money at all. All 12 were somewhere in the first 3 pages for their main terms, based purely on the domain and the article I had put up and most were around a year old. I had done nothing to try and make money from these domains, so I decided that I would quickly install Fresh Store Builder onto each of the domains. It took me just over 2 hours to get a basic site up on each of the domains (which works out at around 10 minutes per site as I said).
Does Fresh Store Builder Work?
One word – YES! From the 12 domains that I setup, I made 23 sales resulting in £87.81 (around $140) in commission in 4 weeks. That’s just from a basic install with no customisation done at all. It wont make me rich, but it means the domains are earning money while I wait to develop them properly. Each domain costs be £7 ($10) for 2 years (all UK domains), so it 2 years, each domain should make an average of £175 ($275) back! Not bad for 10 minutes work!
Developing Quality Sites With Fresh Store Builder
Unlike some of the Amazon store builders which create low quality scraped sites from Amazon, Fresh Store Builder allows you to create a unique and high quality site. You have full control over the design and theme, you can rewrite the description of each product, setup your own categories, add pages of content such as how to guides etc and so much more – if you want to! As well as the 12 standard installs above, I had 2 sites which were running on WordPress. I’ve converted these to Fresh Store Builder (unfortunately no automatic way so all have to be done manually). I spent around 3 hours on each of these sites. One has seen sales go up from an average of 5 or 6 sales per month to around 15 sales per month which is an extra £25 ($40) per month, while the other has seen sales go up from around 30 sales per month to 50, generating an extra £80 ($120) per month.
Installing Fresh Store Builder
Installing Fresh Store Builder is easy. Simply upload all of the files to your host and then go to the domain. You will need to give it the database details and then a few basic details about the site and your Amazon tracking code and keys. Once that’s done, you can login to the admin control panel and start playing around with your new store.
Adding Products
This is one of the best things about this Amazon Store Builder. There are so many different ways of importing products into the site. You can search through products by keyword and add them to the site with a single click, or add a whole list of ASINs and they will automatically be imported. You can populate a site with hundreds of products in a couple of minutes
Editing Products
When you import the products, it automatically uses a spun description for the products. It obviously doesn’t give much information about the product, but it helps to get some content on the page. The content can all be edited at any stage and you have full control over everything down to the Meta tags for each product. I’m slowly working through each of my sites, rewriting decent quality descriptions for each product.
Spinning
As I mentioned above, you can use the built in spun descriptions for each article, or alternatively you can plug “The Best Spinner” into it and it will spin your content for you!
Additional Content
This is where this software really stands apart from some of the others. You can use it as a CMS to add extra pages of content – for example buying guides, tips and advice etc. As with the products, you have full control over the content of the pages, the URLs, page names, meta information and pretty much everything you could think of!
Categories
Once you have added all of your products in, it will automatically group them by manufacturer, however if you want to spend a little time you can add products into categories (or even sub categories) as I have on the above demo site. Each of the categories that you create can also have more content added to it. This means that you can pad out each of the pages with some text to help with SEO and stop your site looking like a thin affiliate site.
Reports
You can install Google Analytics into Fresh Store Builder easily (it asks for the tracking ID when you set it up!), however there isn’t a lot of built in tracking/reporting. This isn’t a problem for me as I use Analytics, however it may have been nice to have some sort of basic visitor stats in it.
One report that they do have that is very useful though is a list of the checkouts. This shows you the date and time of the checkout, how the user arrived at your site (including search term if relevant) and what they bought. For some reason it shows each sale 4 times.
There is also a basic overview on the very front page of the admin control panel which allows you to see at a glance how many checkouts you have made. One thing to remember though is that a checkout is not necessarily a sale! I find that around 50% or so of the checkouts result in a sale.
Fresh Store Builder Discount
As I mentioned at the very start of the review, Fresh Store Builder is normally $197. On their own website, they are currently giving a Fresh Store Builder Discount of $50, however I have managed to secure an exclusive Fresh Store Builder Discount with the creators of $100! That’s over a 50% discount! This is the best Fresh Store Builder discount available, giving you full access to the current version and all updates for unlimited sites for just $97!!
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February 10, 2012
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