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How To Setup an Amazon eCommerce Site in 10 Minutes

by nik0 Banned
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Well 10 minutes when you know how it works, it took me a little longer, about 30 minutes.

Let's not waste time and get started:

- Install a domain on your hosting
- Install Wordpress of course

- Download a free woocommerce theme, this one for example:
http://www.woothemes.com/products/mystile/

- Download the woocommerce plugin here:
WordPress › WooCommerce - excelling eCommerce « WordPress Plugins

- Purchase the Amazon Woocommerce import plugin here:
WordPress - WooCommerce Amazon Affiliates - Wordpress Plugin | CodeCanyon

- Install the theme and plugins

- Click on the Amazon affiliates button in your left sidebar in the dashboard

- Go to the module manager and activate all settings that are deactivated

- Fill in your access + secret key in the Amazon config section

- Click on Advanced search & bulk import

- Enter your preferences and import the products

- Go to the WooCommerce plugin settings and set your location and currency at US

- Go the the Mystyle Theme Options, click on "Homepage --> Woocommerce" and tick the Display Recent Products box and other boxes if you wish.

- And finally setup the cart / checkout / thank you and such pages, you can use short codes to fill in the page.

- And assign those pages at WooCommerce --> Setup --> Pages.

- Rewrite Titles and Descriptions of ALL the products and perhaps add some how to guides or price comparison pages and you have a site that rocks and that will be able to rank in Google.


Visit your site and this is the result: http://www.padsonline.org
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  • Profile picture of the author KenJ
    Well Nik0

    I came here for five minutes and typed in Amazon Theme and this is the second search result. Just the info I was looking for. Thank you. Much appreciated.

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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by KenJ View Post

      Well Nik0

      I came here for five minutes and typed in Amazon Theme and this is the second search result. Just the info I was looking for. Thank you. Much appreciated.

      KenJ
      Lol glad it helped, I have to add that the product categories don't work somehow, they remain empty, seems like that woocommerce Amazon script is a bit buggy or something as I tried it with 3 different themes and in the end I bought a paid theme out of frustration in the hope that would be updated instead of out dated and work, but nope.

      E-mail send to seller so hope to get a response / solution tomorrow.

      Just figured it out on coincendence, it turns out that you need to edit the product first, then click Update post, and then it does show up in the category. Luckily I plan to rewrite those product descriptions and titles anyway so it won't bring any extra hassle but for sure odd.
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  • Profile picture of the author Weblover50
    Yes, setting up the site is easy, getting any traffic from Google is the hardest past. Especially for a site with no unique content.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by Weblover50 View Post

      Yes, setting up the site is easy, getting any traffic from Google is the hardest past. Especially for a site with no unique content.
      That's why I included this part in my list:

      "Rewrite Titles and Descriptions of ALL the products and perhaps add some how to guides or price comparison pages and you have a site that rocks and that will be able to rank in Google."

      Without that it's definitely doomed to fail yes.

      The additional how to guides and comparison charts are meant to optimize it for phrases with good amount of searches.

      Then add solid links at high PR pages and job done!
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Anton
    Good intro tips, but it is very short lived thinking. The site has been live since 2012 and isn't getting any traffic. Looks like in semrush it was penalized in March 2012: padsonline.org - SEMrush's main report for domain
    Most likely from spammy homepage backlinks.

    Furthermore, if you rely on pulling products directly from Amazon I would hardly consider the site "setup". You would have to edit every product description, so you mine as well not use the plugin. If for any reason the plugin fails your add to cart / buy / checkout options might not function.

    If you are using the plugin to save time pulling the products you have to rewrite them anyway. The image on the page is not optimized either, which would then need to be reuploaded with alt text. Just seems like a lot of shortcuts that would lead to long term disaster.

    Copyscape search results for: http://www.padsonline.org/shop/dog-baskets/solvit-62331-tagalong-wicker-bicycle-basket/

    Can see all the scraper sites that are pulling this product information.

    9 websites use the exact same image as well:
    10 results - TinEye

    That is bad for SEO.

    The whole setup is a great idea to get familiar with adding products but the fact that the images, products, titles, etc are all copied and rely on a 3rd party plugin that could cease to exist, you mine as well add the products individually as it's more time consuming initially but you won't have to deal with bad onpage principles and worse - relying completely on a plugin for your business.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by Matthew Anton View Post

      Good intro tips, but it is very short lived thinking. The site has been live since 2012 and isn't getting any traffic. Looks like in semrush it was penalized in March 2012: padsonline.org - SEMrush's main report for domain
      Most likely from spammy homepage backlinks.
      The site is build on an expired PR3 domain honey with records dating back to 2004. The new site has been live since the day I posted this thread so that's what, 3 days maybe?


      Originally Posted by Matthew Anton View Post

      Furthermore, if you rely on pulling products directly from Amazon I would hardly consider the site "setup". You would have to edit every product description, so you mine as well not use the plugin. If for any reason the plugin fails your add to cart / buy / checkout options might not function.
      That's the plan since the start, rewrite descriptions + titles, still saves me a lot of time sourcing affiliate links, adding images, prices, outlining it in a nice way and so on. Yes IF the plugin fails, if we have to live by IF in this world we can better go back to sleep.


      Originally Posted by Matthew Anton View Post

      If you are using the plugin to save time pulling the products you have to rewrite them anyway. The image on the page is not optimized either, which would then need to be reuploaded with alt text. Just seems like a lot of shortcuts that would lead to long term disaster.

      Copyscape search results for: http://www.padsonline.org/shop/dog-baskets/solvit-62331-tagalong-wicker-bicycle-basket/

      Can see all the scraper sites that are pulling this product information.

      9 websites use the exact same image as well:
      10 results - TinEye
      Yes smarty, the content hasn't been rewritten yet. I always pull images from Amazon, never saw it affecting the SEO in a negative way.
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  • Profile picture of the author bolabolo
    so even if i want to sell thoundsand of products from amazon, i have to rewrite description,title and reup the images ? do you know any better way ?
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by bolabolo View Post

      so even if i want to sell thoundsand of products from amazon, i have to rewrite description,title and reup the images ? do you know any better way ?
      You could build a normal site, write content, rank it, and noindex the shopping section. That would save you from rewriting everything but obvious with noindex you won't rank for those pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author herman12
    This method might be a fast solution, but it will be almost impossible to rank in the serach engines. You will have to rewrite all product descriptions an rename the product names in order to get traffic from Google. Example the amazon product "Justin Bieber T-shirt black" could be renamed to "Black T-shirt with Justin Bieber".
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by herman12 View Post

      This method might be a fast solution, but it will be almost impossible to rank in the serach engines. You will have to rewrite all product descriptions an rename the product names in order to get traffic from Google.
      That's what I said yes.
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  • Profile picture of the author jobbermicro
    Is there no free plugin to manage this site you need 30dollars for the plugin not cheap !
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by jobbermicro View Post

      Is there no free plugin to manage this site you need 30dollars for the plugin not cheap !
      You want to make money? Then you often need to invest a little bit of money, simple as that.

      And nope, I don't know any plugins that do it for free and even if there were they might not be updated in the future and make your whole site worthless at some point. With paid plugins the developer has a benefit of keeping his product updated.

      And $30 is not much really.
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      • Profile picture of the author RemoteProgrammer
        Thanks nik0 for a great post.

        But I think it is possible in 10 to 30 only for a developer who has already tried before. For a new person it may take longer and much longer. So many things to bring on the head. So many downloads. So many uploads. So many setup configurations. And a developer is by definition slow because he always think before doing anything. I have been a developer for so many years and no exception of it.

        So my request to one who could not complete even in 2 hours, please do not give up.
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        • Profile picture of the author nik0
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          Originally Posted by RemoteProgrammer View Post

          Thanks nik0 for a great post.

          But I think it is possible in 10 to 30 only for a developer who has already tried before. For a new person it may take longer and much longer. So many things to bring on the head. So many downloads. So many uploads. So many setup configurations. And a developer is by definition slow because he always think before doing anything. I have been a developer for so many years and no exception of it.

          So my request to one who could not complete even in 2 hours, please do not give up.
          I did some pre-research to see what was needed, I was a little confused why I would need a woocommerce theme and a woocommerce plugin. You would think the plugin functions would be integrated with the theme but apparently not.

          Now that I know how it works all I'll probably be done in 5 minutes with the next site.

          First setup took me 30 minutes from purchasing, registering domain, figuring out the plugins / settings and everything. Got me annoyed that it took so long
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  • Profile picture of the author bymarcot
    You can use plugin which adds correct alt tag and description automatically according to your title.

    Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Anton
    nik0,

    Share one of your websites using your setup tips that is actually getting traffic or making money. As of right now it's just theory, and we all know how great theory works out in Internet Marketing, especially when the principles aren't well thought out for long term growth.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by Matthew Anton View Post

      nik0,

      Share one of your websites using your setup tips that is actually getting traffic or making money. As of right now it's just theory, and we all know how great theory works out in Internet Marketing, especially when the principles aren't well thought out for long term growth.
      Darling, perhaps you would like to read the title of this topic again?

      This is about how to set it up quickly, it's not a case study as those are not allowed here, remember they deleted your thread?

      It might be theory for you though but I ranked 100's of affiliate sites in the last year so I know what to expect.
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