Zonterest

Please allow me to jump in this thread as I am the creator of Zonterest. I won't comment on reviews, just add some details about pricing.

Zonterest is all-inclusive, so it's in fact quite cheap as it includes: domain registration and hosting for 1 year, content, website building, as well as up to 50 social signals per website created (from real social networkers around the world).

If you compare this to just domain registration + hosting, even using the simplest hosting plan, it would already cost $12 (domain) + $50-$60 for 1 year of hosting... and you would have no website ready.

We truly believe it's more than fairly priced :-)

If you have any question, use the contact form on Zonterest.com as I am probably checking WF once a month if not less.

JP

Any website that is put together like that and has traffic is for sure to make some money..

For under 200 bucks with resell rights sound like a deal to me..

Zonterest is a kind of "Done for you" system. You login, add your keyword and it creates an Amazon affiliate website with your affiliate ID. The "blog" section you refer to is simply the link to all the product details listed on your Zonterest website.

Zonterest is part of Creative Niche Manager (Creative Niche Manager | Niche Marketing Platform ) and for CNM members, you have access to a Blog management module (you can use to create WP blogs), to a Content Publishing engine (you can use to edit Zonterest content, to add more reviews, to pull articles from a 10 million articles database, to add Clickbank reviews, Linkshare products...).

But Zonterest will remain as simple as possible as most users are in because of its simplicity: create an Amazon affiliate website you fully own with just one seed keyword ; promote it by pushing a few sliders to create social signals (one-way backlinks) to your Zonterest website.

If someone needs more advanced features to add blogs, content, they can do it, adding extra modules to their account by joining Creative Niche Manager.

JP

These are optimized Amazon affiliate websites. As with any website, you still need to get traffic to it. Zonterest system includes Social signals so that you can start building say 50 social signals (backlinks from social networks from real social networkers) within 30 seconds after creating your Zonterest websites.

So, these websites will make money when they receive traffic. We also recommend you generate traffic through other means, especially Youtube videos and further backlinking.

We also have "private" solutions for users where we can create a video, upload it to different video sharing networks (Youtube, vimeo...) and then build links to it.

JP

Steven, not sure how you did that since Zonterest is fully hosted and you can't use it on a WP based website.

That said, Zonterest allows you to create specific stores (Kindle stores, book store, video games store...) in different country, with products based on your keyword.

When it comes to traffic, usual technics should apply: link building, social bookmarking, Youtube marketing, classified ads, PPC, PPV... We help by creating 50 social signals on each Zonterest powered websites, but based on your niche and keyword selection, one might need more.

JP

I have been using Zonterest for about a week. I think it is a great idea, but so far I have been disappointed and frustrated with the difficulty in trying to get it to work right.

I purchased one site to test it out. For $37 I was supposed to get one site plus 25 social signals. But everything works on a "credits" system, meaning you need a certain number of credits to set up a site. The problem was that 10 minutes after I signed up, the system automatically deducted 5 credits for monthly support. So then when I tried to set up my site, I got a message telling me I didn't have enough credits left. $37 and dead in the water.

After a couple of messages to support, they restored the credits, and I went and set up my site. It couldn't have been easier. After adding my personal info and Amazon ID, I picked a domain name, category and main keyword for the site. "Voila", and the site was ready in a few seconds, and hosted on my domain too!

But then I tried to change the template. It let me change it to one of the web 2.0 templates loaded into Creative Niche Manager for their other content sites. But that turned out to be all wrong, not suitable for the Amazon store. And when I tried to access the Zonterest module to change to a suitable template... you guessed it... "not enough credits". So at this moment I am stuck with the wrong template and a lousy looking site, trying to get support to help me again.

All these issues might not occur for someone who buys a large package with lots of credits. (And by the way, the smallest package of credits you can buy is $60, so this is not a trivial issue.) But in my opinion (JP, I hope you are reading this with an open mind) they need to tweak some things for the person who just buys one site. I don't think it is too much to ask that we should be able to buy and set up one site after purchase and be able to change the template and content of that site, all without running into the "not enough credits to do that" message. Or to put it another way, I shouldn't have to pay $60 to edit a $37 site.

I would also suggest allowing us to use our own domain names rather than forcing us to register a new one through their dashboard. I like to have a little more control over my domain names.

I hope they fix these things (and will be happy to update the review when they do) as I still think this has potential to be a super easy way to set up and manage Amazon sites. I was hoping to use it to park some domains that I haven't had a chance to develop yet.

-Gene

Gene, your issue is in no way related to Zonterest unfortunately. If you read the Zonterest tutorials, you see that Zonterest is a fully hosted service with no other template. You simply tried to do something not planned for Zonterest. So, it failed. Zonterest is not to blame here. We never explain how to change templates since Zonterest is based on this highly performing template.

As you say, Zonterest is dead easy: enter your keyword, pick your store type and voilà. That's it.

As a member of CNM 2 (the much bigger platform supporting Zonterest) then you know that we have some Support & MAintenance monthly fees (5 credits). They are not new. That said you can opt out of this program (this program gives you access to more templates for other Creative Niche Manager website builders).

What happens, is that since you had no credits and were still in this program, as soon as you added credits, we charged you for unpaid Support credits.

Also, there's a confusion: you can't pay to edit a website... since we edit it for you and for free in case you made a mistake (regarding your keyword selection for example). Then Zonterest has no option to edit the content or change the template. So, here you're also going beyond the Zonterest features which are described in the online Tutorials.

If you had the "not enough credit message", it means you tried to create a new website using Zonterest.

These are not bugs at all. This is the way Zonterest works.

(btw Gene, with CNM, you can build websites listing Amazon products, as well as ebay, Clickbank, Linkshare... with any other templates available). Zonterest is designed to be a fully hosted platform with a completely done for you process (domain, hosting, content, template).

We will revert your website to the right template, but once again, blaming the service for something Zonterest is not responsible for, is quite interesting :-) (I hope you also have an open mind when reading this).

I wish you a great day.

JP

Gene, your website has been restored to its original state and it looks really great :-)

JP

JP was right... My issue had to do with a lapsed subscription to Creative Niche Manager (the larger platform which now includes Zonterest), so that when I added the Zonterest module, the system automatically deducted credits that I had just added with my purchase.

Bottom line, my situation is probably unique, and not representative of what the average purchaser would experience.

I can say that now that they have sorted things out, I am delighted with the ease of use of this system, and the finished product looks great.

I am also pleased to report that JP and staff were responsive in helping me get things straightened out.

I am going to see how well the site converts, but I expect I will be buying more, as this is a drop dead simple way to monetize a domain and set up lots of sites quickly.

-Gene

I just checked and my site is in the Google index with 16 results. I don't expect it to rank for the main keyword, but some of the longer tail product keywords could produce some traffic.

I think Google cares more about backlinks and social signals than unique content. So if you can get people liking and sharing your pages, I don't see why you can't get decent rankings.

@maverick4u : as Gene reported, you need content on your website. I won't enter the "unique" discussion as it's in progress for like 7 years just on this forum. After so many years online, I don't think Unique content is the issue.

What matters is good onsite optimization and most importantly good backlinks and ones from Social networks (social signals). This is what search engines tend to favor for sure since last updates.

Zonterest Amazon stores are just about that. Produce great looking websites with content and sociall signals at a fair price.

Now, I have no idea how you would want to show an Amazon product and at the same time show unique content for this product... since you would just play against Amazon Associates agreement.

That's where all the other Zonterest alternatives miserably fail. They just surfed the "Unique content" wave but simply ended up putting their customers' business at risk by providing non compliant Amazon associates store.

Amazon is really strict about that. The reason is that it's dead simple to follow their rules. So, no point to breakt those. Some of my customers reported having tracking issues and unpaid commissions because of such non compliant plugins or softwares.

Basically, I would run away as fast as I can from every plugin / software that claim to be integrated with any content spinner (thinking it's a benefit!). As well you can't edit a product description, and many other restrictions I won't discuss here. But they do exist for a reason.

Now, Associates store service producer have to adapt. Why game Amazon when it's so easy to just make the most of these rules. We decided to do just that at Zonterest, Amazon Affiliate System - Amazon Website Builder

Instead of gaming them, we have produced highly optimized Associates stores that generate a high click through rate to Amazon product page, and rank high thanks to the social signals we provide and to the other tools and backlinks our users have access to.

JP

@castlefort: these are great news for your websites. As I understand you only used Zonterest features (including the Social Signals module) to promote your website and create backlinks.

Of course, we do what is supposed to be done when you setup a Social Media campaign :-)
You results are coherent with what other members report: websites getting indexed in a week or so (based on keywords) and traffic. We've extensively tested this specific Zonterest design to make sure it would work well with Amazon listings.

We were pleasantly surprised as it even outperforms all other designs we've tested (even from so-called other Amazon store builders). We've learnt a few lessons regarding how to build effective Amazon stores for sure!

JP

How is this going guys?

I am in CA, is Amazon still open to CA Affiliates?

Get your ticket closed Mav?

HI Gene,
glad it's working well for you. Zonterest has generated close to 80,000 visitors to our customers' Amazon stores last month and it's growing.

As for getting more control, we also offer a PRO level where you can add / edit content at will, as well as display other ads.

Any WSO deals on this?

No WSO planned.

JP, does CMN2.0 also include features of Pro?

I beg to differ Jimp1, JP has been a stand up guy in my book! The credit thing is a good deal overall but I think you should have won the dispute since that was omitted. Maybe there was more to that?

CNM2.0 includes the ability to edit your website and to manage ads (peel away ads, overlay ads, drop down ads). Just contact me directly if you're already in CNM2.0 and would like to get all Zonterest PRO features.

PRO features also gives you access to different "powered by Amazon" marketplaces (Amazon SUpply, Javari), + it now lets you download the generated website so that you can use on your own hosting with your own domains. PRO also includes automated / scheduled backlinks and social signals.

JP

This looks solid. People say few clicks software tools do not work but I got to tell ya I bought one and it is working for me not huge of course. But this one looks even better.

Yup, I think I am going to dig this!

A quick one to let you know we've released a new version of Zonterest: Zonterest, Amazon Affiliate System - Amazon Website Builder

Mostly for those who already have domain and hosting and / or don't want overkill features like we have in Zonterest Wiz and PRO levels (Zonterest, Amazon Associates System)

Enjoy

Light works great but wish it would add more products by default...not a lot more but more. I know can go Pro but price diff preventing me @ moment. Overall this whole system rocks and getting indexed in a few days with all relevant content and like the way it's not a blog.

I would like to know the quality of Promo Backlinks, probably real good from what I see so far from JP.

Zonterest is not part of CNM. It's powered by our engine, but it's not available to CNM members.
We have 3 versions of CNM
Light: Zonterest, Amazon Affiliate System - Amazon Website Builder (you can generate and download - you host it yourself on your own hosting)
Wiz: Zonterest, Amazon Affiliate System - Amazon Website Builder (fully hosted service: we register domain, we create hosting, content, website, links, social backlinks...and we can even do that for you)
PRO: Zonterest, Amazon Affiliate System - Amazon Website Builder (premium features)

JP

What is the quality of backlinks from the bookmarks?

Gene, quality is a relative notion: we evaluate the quality of those backlinks based on indexing rate and traffic they can generate. So far those social backlinks have worked really great. Of course, to get more traffic, you either need more of these backlinks, and / or links using other sources. but it's way better than nothing.

Any examples of sites? Any results? Anyone?

Hi actually I saw your lite version of zonterest but dont understand what is the total difference btw lite and pro version according to purchase costs. Do you have a features comparison chart or any in depth analysis of your different level products.
Also CNM service includes hosting or do we need our own dedicated etc for the management?
regards

Why you calling onpoint gene? I don't know about this one guys. I am trying but support is really lame so far and not getting any results yet. If things turn up I will let you know but so far another bummer.

I mean the quality of sales page to us is great...great looking in every way. But what about cash in our pocket to build on? So far not looking too good but hoping!

Anyone know the difference between the two light versions, one is $49/mo while the other is $17 one time...
maybe just price testing? I don't see much difference in the sales pages..

I bought this to use up some UK domains that are doing nothing. Discovered that you cannot change the Amazon country to UK in the light version. It doesn't say that on the salespage. Refund applied for. Shame as it looked OK.

Any one able to post an example of a site using this system?

Here is one: Http://clubwearcity.com

any more examples?

Any update to add UK amazon?

Zoneterest light === How do you specify how many rows it should show. I see some sites with only 2 and some with almost 6.

Is it possible to remove the huge footprint : Powered by Zonterest.com, Amazon website builder

I think this has potential. I have mixed feelings but something about it keeps me going.

I have requested a refund in line with their 30 day refund, no questions asked policy.

The sites are poor rubbish, how can you expect to make money with only 10 -12 static items on a site, there is nothing that will encourage the spiders to come back, content never change and all you are doing is paying them $17 so they can have a backlinking " Powered by Zontrest" back to their main site.
There is no randomness of how the content is being displayed, it is just plain ugly and always the same.
Even the sitemap it generates is useless as it does not comply to Google requirements and Google is rejecting the sitemap..

You are much better of just creating a Wordpress site and adding the Amazon products manually, or let wp robot do it for you. Me i am going to spend $50 more and get myself WPzon builder.

Dont waste your time with this Zonterest

You're probably right royal, good luck with refund.

wow... I get an email that it is now $27.. but going to $37, and all I am hearing is how bad the support is..

how it is not delivering as expected...

raising a price on something that I really want to want but is impossible cuz there are
so many questions unanswered... not sure if I would want it for free.??

Fair warning: if you draw conclusions based on one guy who don't see why such a website would make money instead of the hundreds of people using our Zonterest suite for months and making in some cases 4 figures a month in commissions, then kindly ask for a refund for sure.

Jrasset: unanswered questions. Really? Which ones?

As for the footer, many emailed us saying thank you for an opportunity to add their affiliate link in the footer. And some removed it instead of jumping in here calling us about it.

I guess there are different behaviours in the IM community: people who buy something and taking action, and other ones buying and asking for a refund before putting it to use just because they "don't expect it" to make them money. The first ones are making money though.

If you have support questions, they are all answered in a timely manner.

JP

We have different services in our Zonterest Suite:
Zonterest Light: Zonterest, Amazon Affiliate System - Amazon Website Builder (we ran a kind of dimesale on it) - you get what is listed on that page

Zonterest Wiz: Zonterest, Amazon Affiliate System - Amazon Website Builder (it's a fully hosted service including everything and even done for you if you want) - you get what is listed on that page

Zonterest Pro: Zonterest, Amazon Affiliate System - Amazon Website Builder (some premium features for Wiz users).

JP

:-) I have nothing to prove. Do you want me to give you the Associates credentials of my customers?

You say "talk is cheap", hmm, but what are you doing exactly in this thread as well?

I won't comment in this thread anymore. Questions have been answered and we are busy serving our customers and helping them make more money. We have a support desk members have access to. If people need help, they get it, if people just want to throw some light on them, or bash, or "review", or say how happy they are, they can continue doing so in this thread. But it's not a support thread, nor do I have to interfere.

JP

Be warned about JP:

http://www.warriorforum.com/off-topi...schoeffel.html

I got Zonterest Light a couple of weeks ago. They don't tell you they have to "confirm" your purchase first, so I was following the tutorials, but had no access to any of the links in the Account Manager to set up my profile and enter account information. I wrote an email to support. No answer.

However, today the necessary links in the Dashboard appeared. Unfortunately, the link for the "Source Settings" doesn't work. Neither does the link to Support. So I can't enter my Amazon ID or create a site, or even write to support. That really stinks.

If I have to buy credits to get a site going, that also really stinks, since they never mentioned in the sales letter that you HAD to buy credits to create a site.

How disappointing! It looks like I'm going to have to ask for a refund.

You shouldn't have to buy credits for Z-Light.

I also had some initial problems getting set up, but JP sorted it out. I think they are just selling the heck out of this and are experiencing some operational kinks.

Cmon. man.. still think this product is a good idea..but with all the negative reviews and now the price is higher? are you selling ANY????