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Amazon Product Finder Google Codes
Posted 18th March 2011 at 11:59 AM by danemorgan
So, there is a lot of interest in doing niche product review blogs out there right now and finding the right products is a common question.
If you have no idea what you want to promote, this probably isn't going to help you much, but I'll let you decide that for yourself.
A lot of courses available right now seem to agree on a common sweet spot. I won't make any comments on that except to mention that if a couple dozen products are telling people to stay within a certain set parameter, you might want to consider trying things a little outside those parameters.
Right now the group-think is that products should be worth $100 or more, have 10 or more reviews and a star rating between 3.5 and 5.
Understand that 80% of everyone you will compete against will use those exact numbers. They won't try 9 reviews and they may never find products with 500 reviews because 10 reviews is what they were told. Likewise, there are probably hundreds of products they'll never look at because they are $98 or $2757.
Do what you will with that information.
Once you've decided on some parameters you like though, save yourself some time. Instead of slogging through page after page over at Amazon looking for products that meet the specification you choose, you can just turn to Google and left them do the sorting and filtering for you.
Here's the magic.
site:amazon.com "> Chocolate Bars" "(70.. customer reviews)" "Price: $100.." "3.5.. out of 5 stars"
Now to break it down.
site:amazon.com
Return only pages from amazon.
"> Chocolate Bars"
Scroll all the way to the bottom of a page with an item you want to promote. There you will find a bread crumb like "Grocery & Gourmet Food > Chocolate > Chocolate Bars" simply select the portion of the chain that represents how broad or narrow you would like your results to be. and put it in quotes
"(70.. customer reviews)"
That means pages that have products with 70 or more customer reviews. 10.. would be 10 or more, 26..50 would mean 26 or more up to 50 customer reviews.
"Price:$100.."
Price is wonky... Sometimes it works, sometimes not. But try it and see what it does for you. If it helps great, if not, kill it and use the other fields to narrow your search down. $100.. should mean $100 or more, $101..200 should mean $101 through $200 inclusive. AQs I said it doesn't always work right, probably owing to the way amazon puts the "Price: in one table cell and has the $##.## in another table cell.
"3.5.. out of 5 stars"
How many stars do you want? 3.5.. would yield anything with 3.5 or more stars. 4.2..4.9 would give you products with between 4.2 and 4.9 star ratings.
If you have no idea what you want to promote, this probably isn't going to help you much, but I'll let you decide that for yourself.
A lot of courses available right now seem to agree on a common sweet spot. I won't make any comments on that except to mention that if a couple dozen products are telling people to stay within a certain set parameter, you might want to consider trying things a little outside those parameters.
Right now the group-think is that products should be worth $100 or more, have 10 or more reviews and a star rating between 3.5 and 5.
Understand that 80% of everyone you will compete against will use those exact numbers. They won't try 9 reviews and they may never find products with 500 reviews because 10 reviews is what they were told. Likewise, there are probably hundreds of products they'll never look at because they are $98 or $2757.
Do what you will with that information.
Once you've decided on some parameters you like though, save yourself some time. Instead of slogging through page after page over at Amazon looking for products that meet the specification you choose, you can just turn to Google and left them do the sorting and filtering for you.
Here's the magic.
site:amazon.com "> Chocolate Bars" "(70.. customer reviews)" "Price: $100.." "3.5.. out of 5 stars"
Now to break it down.
site:amazon.com
Return only pages from amazon.
"> Chocolate Bars"
Scroll all the way to the bottom of a page with an item you want to promote. There you will find a bread crumb like "Grocery & Gourmet Food > Chocolate > Chocolate Bars" simply select the portion of the chain that represents how broad or narrow you would like your results to be. and put it in quotes
"(70.. customer reviews)"
That means pages that have products with 70 or more customer reviews. 10.. would be 10 or more, 26..50 would mean 26 or more up to 50 customer reviews.
"Price:$100.."
Price is wonky... Sometimes it works, sometimes not. But try it and see what it does for you. If it helps great, if not, kill it and use the other fields to narrow your search down. $100.. should mean $100 or more, $101..200 should mean $101 through $200 inclusive. AQs I said it doesn't always work right, probably owing to the way amazon puts the "Price: in one table cell and has the $##.## in another table cell.
"3.5.. out of 5 stars"
How many stars do you want? 3.5.. would yield anything with 3.5 or more stars. 4.2..4.9 would give you products with between 4.2 and 4.9 star ratings.
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