Purchased Covert Store Builder and OTO 1.
There are 2 more "Upsells", that are Not needed to operate the
program itself. So I did not purchase those.
When I have a chance to get it going, I will leave a
review.

One thing that is noticeable is that it shows the Amazon products price.
Now, if this does not update to reflect the current price of products, then you are in trouble for violating their TOS.

Cindy,
You come here and tell us that you are violating Amazon TOS with this product, and then turn around and accuse us of bashing the product?

You just bashed your own product by clearly admitting to violating Amazon's terms of service because "people are begging you"?

Give me a break.

I bought the theme yesterday and installation was easy process untill... I do not know how to set Amazon network details. I filled in my affiliate ID but I do not know about my API Access Key ID and API Secret Access Key. It was the first time I had red about it. I tried to follow directions but I did not find them simple. Does anyone have the same problem or solution to my problem?

I bought this theme and installed it. So far, everything has worked like a charm and the documentation is excellent. I was looking forward to using some of the powerful viral features...

BUT... the pricing issue is a real problem. On my store, it is displaying the list price of an item, which is very different from the actual selling price on Amazon (e.g. one product has a list price of $600 but sells on Amazon for $99). Displaying list prices will chase away any potential buyers, so I am changing them manually. But either way is not compliant with Amazon rules, which, as stated above requires any pricing to be provided directly by Amazon, along with a disclaimer about when it was updated.

Cindy, I'm sorry, this is not a minor technicality. Displaying accurate and compliant pricing should be a basic requirement of any Amazon theme. I am sure you've seen other Amazon themes and plugins that handle this. So the obvious question is: Why doesn't yours?

I was really excited by the potential of this theme, but I cannot use it or promote it until the pricing issue has been resolved. So I do hope you address this ASAP.

Thanks,
Gene

Adding theme options to remove price from category page, product page, simple page.

Am on the fence still about purchasing. IM Wealth Builders usually launch great products but how easy/complicated is this one? And have all the above issues been ironed out? Would love to see a few more comments first I think. Thanks.

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Error Connecting to Amazon API - Couldn't resolve host 'webservices.amazon.com'
This is the error that I get in the last days and I cannot use the theme and product. The support forum and tickets ... no answer. What´s wrong ?

I think they are relaunching it at a higher price... as they said they would.

As an early purchaser with some misgivings, I am happy to report that V1.2 fixed my concerns. I have been very pleased with how responsive the owners have been in updating the theme and fixing issues as they come up. The support has been excellent, and they really are thorough in documenting the changes and showing you what you need to do to upgrade.

In short, I am very happy with it, and looking forward to further enhancements.

A couple of suggestions for those... It would nice to have the theme pull more than just one image for a product, although if the strategy is to encourage click-through to Amazon, maybe that isn't necessary. Also, I prefer the format of Amazon reviews, with star ratings, etc. rather than just dumping the info into the comments section of a post. And it would be nice if we could automatically filter out the really bad reviews

Yes, you can delete them, but I have seen other plugins that can automatically filter out reviews with however many stars you set.

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The more I hear and see about Covert Store Builder, the more I'm thankful that I did not buy it.

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Has the pricing issue been fixed yet?

Aside from the features people aren't happy with, is anyone making money with this theme?

My site has only been up for about a month and has just over 20 products posted to date. So far, I receive about 10-15 unique visits a day, mostly from organic search. I receive very few clicks to amazon and have not made a dime yet but I realize I have a lot of content generation and link building to do in the next few months.

Has anyone who has this theme been able to get the infinite scroll plugin to work?

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I like this plug in and it works great. There are a few issues but the one thing I would like to see is SEO integration. If I add 100 product posts I have to go back in and add all the SEO data.
So far it works great and will be good for flipping sites also

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Anyone else get thin content penalty from google using this theme?

I had a reply from support which says this about thin content:

"the way around that (as we also recommend in guides and tutorials) would be to add content posts and/or rewrite and add the imported product listings"

Not sure what "content posts" means. Does this mean articles?

I have the Covert store Content plugin. Isn't that the imported product listing?

They also tell me that Akismet will stop 99% of Spam and I should activate it! Well, of course I have it activated already but it does not stop spam registrations.

I have installed Stop Spammer Registrations Plugin and that has done the trick.

Sandy

This thread is very helpful. I appreciate the suggestions to add StopSpammers, done. I discovered WP-Insert because of this thread, thank you. I'm now more aware of the limitations of Covert Store Builder.

Are there any suggestions for solutions to the product selection problem in which CSB finds only limited selections or makes search clunky and tedious?

Are there complementary products available to build an Amazon Affiliates site? Are there alternative strategies to consider?

And how about the question that matters, is anybody making money because of Covert Store Builder, other than IM?

I found Prosociate searching Amazon Affiliate here on the warrior forum. Before I get too much further along with CSB I'd like to know that I'm putting my effort into the right product or strategy.

I have a network of 1,200 autoblogs, they make $75-$80/mo consistently. I would consider a builder like this if I ever started building them again.

I appreciate if someone reply back with the actual result

So guys, seeing that I'm the one who started this whole thread.
And after reading nearly all of the posts here, I would like to know from the people who bought "Covert Store Builder", did anyone of you make any money from your stores?

So far, from reading the comments here, something keeps telling me to stay away from this product.

Therefore, would appreciate if anyone would answer my question.
Thanks.

Hi Everyone

Here is my actual result of just 1 Covert Store Builder site :

Over the time span of about 3 months, I have earned $130 from just 1 site featuring about 15 products (I also put in relevant 1 or 2 Clickbank ads but I avoid putting Adsense altogether cause I heard a lot of horror stories of people got their Adsense accounts banned for autoblogging so that's why I wouldn't want to take the risk, but I am sure there are certain people may disagree with this but it is a personal choice that I made). Basically an average of $43 per month ... well I think it is not too bad ...

What I did for this site is I put in the relevant keywords or product titles (if I know the exact products from amazon) and let the theme pull the content. Someone pointed that there is a need to tidy up and yes I did spend some time to do some texts tidy-up too and rewriting some part of the contents. The pulling of content is a breeze to me but being a perfectionist me, it is the tidying and rewriting that takes alot of time. And yes I do receive a fair share of spam comments ... but I guess nothing can be stopped, I just learnt to ignore them as long as I don't approve these comments (which you can set them in the Wordpress setting). I actually like the look of the CSB theme in the homepage but I didn't like the loading speed when someone clicks to read the product post (not sure if anyone has this experience though).

Some people pointed about price issues, I resolved this problem by hiding the prices long ago but I made sure that I do not cloak my affliate links ... in my humble opinion, if the price isn't shown and people interested in the product, if they find it is amazon link, they will feel safe and free to click (they may or may not buy, but at least they do click cause my free Statcounter plugin show they did click quite a few of my affiliate links) ... I also do away with the "Add to cart" in the homepage and product posts.

So will I be creating a 2nd CSB site, only when I really have the time, I will do so.

Regards
Eltara

Hi Eltara,
Thank you for your in-depth feedback, really appreciate it.

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I see what you mean.
Comparing what I've been experimenting with to yours, I would rather have what I've done which is based on the 2012 Theme that comes free with WordPress.

Here is my site: BestCordlessDrillReviews.org | Performance ... Durability ... Exceptional Ergonomics
Admittedly, the layout is not the best in the world, but at least I did not pay anything for the theme and it looks good on my cell phone.
I'm looking for a better plugin at the moment that will give me a better product layout.

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Why is there no updates or any more info for Covert Store Builder since July ?
or is this thread continued somewhere else ? Pl enlighten me ?

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How does CSB compare with WP-Amazillionaire? Does anyone use both programs?
I am looking for a link like this to find out how Amazillionare stacks up? They both look the same to me.

Thanks
Tom

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I would like to purchase CSB, but there seems to be a lot of bugs still. Also, I'm not sure if the OTO (automation) is a good idea...or how much it costs for that matter. Can anyone steer me the right way. I am mostly interested in affiliate marketing for Ebay and Amazon, but CJ is good. Does this work with CB? Thanks. Mario

Hello, just clicked on some of the products in Cool Hunting and Solar Lanterns (thanks guys for giving us links to see how the program works, much appreciated). The product price listed on the sites are significantly lower than Amazon's current price.

Any idea of the legal issues with the price difference?
Because the affiliate is advertising at a lower price are they obligated to honor that price?
Is this a "bait and switch" issue?

Inquiring minds want to know.

I suspect what you're seeing is that the API is picking the lowest price for the product among several buying choices on Amazon. It's confusing, but you can actually buy the product at that price if you select one of the other "buying choices" that Amazon gives you.

In other words, it's not a mistake.

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It's amazing to see that after nearly a year of starting this thread, people are still coming and voicing their opinions about "Covert Store Builder".

Seeing that I'm the one who started this thread, I thought that I'd come here and voice my opinion as well.

Now, just to let everyone know, I never did purchase "Covert Store Builder" seeing that I was not convinced that it is the right thing for me to build Amazon stores.

I ended up getting "WP Amazillionaire".
In my opinion, this is an excellent theme for building an Amazon store.
It really is so good that I ended up building 23 different stores using this theme.

Here is just one of them:

Best Cordless Drill Reviews

Now, there is more to this story than just the "WP Amazillionaire".
But before I get there, let mention here that this theme is also mobile responsive.

Go ahead and open the example site above in your tablet or smart phone and see for yourself.

If you are looking for a theme to build your Amazon store with, then I would recommend "WP Amazillionaire".

Do a search for "Amazillionaire" on the forum, I think that there is a WSO still running for this theme.

By the way, Kezz, the developer of this theme, provides first class support and really gets out of her way to help her customers.

Now, if you want to totally automate this process with "WP Amazillionaire", then you will need a couple more plugins.

One of them is "WP ZON Builder".
This plugin really helps in automating how and when to post the products that you want to feature on your site.

The most important factor of all is which products to target and how and what to search for.

The best tool for this in my opinion is "Market Samurai".

I hope that the above is of help to someone.
Khal

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I use ShopperPress, and it works like a charm. But I didn't tried Covert Store Builder because I knew there was a problem between price shown and actual prices on Amazon, that goes totally against Amazon Associates.

If you want to see some good sites I created with ShopperPress and Wordpress, I would be happy to share them with you.

See you soon,
Alessandro

Hey there,

I'm pretty much happy with WP Zon builder which is semi-auto store builder, shipped with a licensed & tweaked gazette theme.

Price is automatically synced and you can choose when to pull the price data from amazon. I didn't expect to hit Google first page with my chosen keyword but it settled at first page since last year.

I haven't build any back links yet and I'm sure that this is the right time to take #1 since my website is nearly 1 years old without any SEO works. This is the process I've been through to build my woodworkers warehouse dot com.

I didn't use factory theme but built my own theme with headyway frameworks.

1. Go to the amazon
2. Search related terms with woodworking
3. filter items only shown with 5 stars
4. filter items with full of reviews
5. Push the ASIN finder script and paste it into the zon builder
6. In Wordpress set category name as my chosen niche
7. upload ( Push button easy with some tweaks )
- You can set date ranges of each posts like (-20 ~ 4 weeks ). kinda fake but...
- When you hit the upload button, it will populate allinoneseopack with some relevant texts.
8. This is what I been through for my site.

* Conversion rate? Not much since I didn't optimize this site for super conversion but it's time push this site to a next level. Site been preserved quite a long time.

You can find plenty of positive & negative reviews about this plug in but I'm happy with it and I'm sure you will find some useful features from it.

* PS : You should avoid over posting. eg. more than 50 auto posts a day. One of my friends banned from Amazon with this site ( he dumped 900 post in single day )

** PPS : I should check the "covert store builder", any demo version for warriors?

Would Sports Clone work better?

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Just keeping my end of the bargain that I made with Covert Store Builder to come and review this theme of theirs.

From having read through this entire thread, it would seem.. nothing has changed since the first version of this theme came out.

I've had my copy for about 6 months now, have written countless emails to support for feature updates and bugs, such as:

Searching for products from amazon without using ASIN!
At times, simply typing the title of the product produces ZERO results, and you have to play around with your titling to get the product you want to show.

The amazon - blog price synching's a joke.. it never updates.
Theme options disappear within your dashboard, only to be replaced by affiliate products being promoted within your wordpress dash.

The amazon affiliate link this theme creates is super SUSPECT.. the amazon affiliate link is simple, a set of characters etc followed by a "-" then 20.
According to this theme, your affiliate link has 3D then your affiliate link, followed by more characters etc.
Which begs the question. WHY?

Support is prompt to respond with no help, simply asking you to do something else and hope that works!

In short, and my advice, Buyer BEWARE!

I have several sites built with CSB that have been operating successfully for over a year. I send traffic to them and they convert well. I earn $200 or so monthly from a few sites. But I don't use it anymore for new sites. WooCommerce combined with an Amazon plugin like Prosociate and a premium theme can create much nicer looking stores.

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