Is there a Amazon wordpress plugin that does this?

Here's one you may like

WordPress › Keral Patel Amazon Wordpress Plugin WordPress Plugins

Michael

Kael41,

Funny you should ask about that kind of plugin.

I am putting the finishing touches on a custom amazon/ebay/LinkShare/Commission Junction integrated wordpress plugin that I've been using for holiday selling.

You can bring in all the details of Amazon (description, ratings, etc..) and then integrate price comparisons with CJ and Linkshare affiliates and of course eBay auctions.

I am adding additional features now and hope to be done by the first of the year. I've been using it on a test site for Christmas and doing quite well I might add.

When I decide to sell it, I will need some testimonials and will give away free copies for those who want to participate.

You can check out the site toptoyreview(dot)com I am using as my holiday selling website. (btw, I am not soliciting sales, just showing an example of how I am using the plugin on my site)

I will also be posting a thread soon on how I used PPC to drive traffic to this site and made money for the holidays.

So far I've spent $300 on PPC and pulled in almost $1300 in sales in 2 weeks. Not bad for getting started late in the selling season.

The plugin is coming along pretty well as I have been working on it over the past few weeks over the Christmas holiday.

I'll post back to this thread when I have something stable to offer those who want to participate in a free copy for a testimonial.

If you've had time to review the site noted in the previous post that I used as a test case for holiday selling and want to offer suggestions/features I'd love to hear them.

nichewebstrategies, is your plugin automated?

ie. can you enter a keyword and then the plugin generates posts or do you have to add the details into the posts manually?

Stewart

NicheWeb:
I gotta have this plugin. Please keep me in the loop on this as I think I can give you some good feedback. Would like to integrate this into a class I'm teaching later this month but if it's not finished I would be glad to pass along purchase info to students later.

How does this work with other themes. Any problem integrating?
Thanks!!!
Russell

Thanks, Russell. The goal is to make this as flexible as possible with the output of the HTML being 100% customizable by the end user.

There are two places where you have that option, generating excerpts (like on the front page of toptoyreview.com) and the full post page.

I modified the theme for that site slightly to show the type of excerpt with rating stars for each product. This will be available to you as a custom field on the post so that you can do the same thing.

Out of the box, it should work just like any other posting, but if you want to do what I did and show the same display for each product, you will have to make a VERY easy code change to accomplish that look.

Other than that, I am open to suggestions on other ways to display the data.

The theme I used is Revolution 2 Magazine Church theme. That theme used to be free to download until Brian decided that they were going back to a paid model for these themes.

I love this theme as it is suited very well for this type of site.

Currently, I am targeting eBay US and I am signed up with Amazon's US affiliate program.

I hope to make the eBay integration geotargeted at some point, but for now I am just trying to get the initial development done.

Btw, it is setup so that you can use any eBay plugin with it. phpBay has a free version that does all of that, I think, so you could use that in place of what I am coding for.

great clean looking site, keep us in the loop with the plugin looks really good!

do you have a mailing list? Saves having to trawl through posts or WSO's to find it when its out.

thanks
andy

I'd be interested in this plugin too when available.

The plug-in sounds awesome. I would like to get a copy as well. Thanks.

Wow, this plugin is exactly what I have been looking for. I currently use Wordbay on a number of sites, and use Amazon along with it. But to be able to pull customer reviews is something that I have been looking to do for awhile. And contained within a Wordpress plugin is even better. Please keep me posted on the release of this one. Maybe you could put an opt in form somewhere so that those that are interested could get updates as you progress. I would be willing to be a beta tester for sure.

nichewebstrategies, how's your plugin going?

Is it near to release yet?

Stewart

I'm also looking for such script last few months until I gave up. So what I did, I studied the Amazon AWS and created my own script but it's not plugin.lolz

There is no Amazon Australia as far as I knew?

Is there, and I'm just completely blind?

thanks
Andy

can you provide a link to where they ask for approval? I can't find any info on this. thanks.

Quick question (and you may have mentioned already):

How is the plugin going to handle Ebay, now that Ebay is
no longer CJ enabled?

I noticed on your Toy site you' were pushing people thru the old
ebay.rover aff link, that I believe is currently dead.

Thx

Brad, what is the status of your new plugin? I think many of us here are anxious to get our hands on it

I will be happy to do some kind of review for it you want.

Rebtl

Hello Kael41

I was looking for a similar plugin for a wordpress blog. After looking for a long time I finally came across this plugin which can do what you are looking for. It's called Item-It

WP Plugin Amazon Item | Great Deals On Net (non affiliate link)

I haven't used it yet, but I tried a smaple post on two different hosts. It worked great with hostgator but not with my other host.

Check out their sample blog posts, sounds interesting.

My only concern is about duplicate content. Some products on amazon have hundreds of customer reviews and all these get fetched on your blog. There isn't seem to be any control over how much content (in terms of word count or number of reviews) can you display on your blog.

@nichewebstrategies > your plugin and blog looks great too. I ask you the same question again about duplicate content. Recently there was a long thread about creting blogs with duplicate content and many warriors seem to confirm that "you should not link two webpages that have similar content on them"

Here it is >
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...94-so-far.html

With this rule, "content on your blog links to a webpage on amazon.com (through your affiliate link) which has the same content as a "product detail page". How does this work out as far as SEO is concerned.

Thanks....

I have a question about your new plugin. Do you just add it in at the Widget section of your blog or do you have to ftp it in?

I'm interested in seeing the finished version when it's done. It looks pretty good so far.

Thanks, TelZilla. There are a few more really good features coming. I think everyone will like.

-Brad

Brad, I use a plugin currently called wordbay that minimizes a footprint of having all outbound links going to ebay. the plugin simply uses a buy.php file to make it look like the links are on the same site. The questions I have are: 1) could a plugin like wordbay be used concurrently with yours, or 2) would you consider adding the functionality of cloaking those links to ebay (or amazon for that matter) so that all of our sites don't start to look like BANS to search engines? I have found that with BANS, so many outgoing links to ebay listings per page is not a good thing.

the thing I like about wordbay is that it has geotargeting, and you can also set minimum # of bids so you don't get all duplicate listings. Also the fact that it is free doesn't hurt. I think it is much more powerful than phpbay lite for the same price.

Hey! There is a good plugin that I use regularly to insert Amazon details into a wordpress post. Its a great plugin that carries the data that of a full product description and ratings from Amazon. Check it out here! Hope this helps!

Good question. There are quite a bit of "product comparison" sites that are pulling in Amazon product descriptions and they are ranking very well.

One other thing to note is that content duplication across websites is a myth and has been debated at length on this forum. There are lots of folks using WP-o-matic to create posts from RSS feeds that are doing really well and that would be considered dupe content if that was true.

As long as you don't have the same content on multiple pages of YOUR site you should be fine.

You have the ability to modify the content pulled in from Amazon so you can make it as unique as you want, but I really feel it isn't worthwhile to do so.

I am not really advocating PPC over SEO traffic methods or vice versa, but PPC happens to be my main source of traffic when I promote sites using this plugin. (Mainly because I like to see results right away vs. waiting unitl the sites get indexed) , but I will say that I have a few sites right now getting decent traffic from the search engines using the product descriptions straight from Amazon and they are converting quite well.

Hope this helps,

Brad

Hello Brad,
I am very interested in your plug-in when it becomes available. I have just become an Amazon associate and am having problems installing their widgets on my wordpress blog (postioning on the page & adjusting to the template I'm using) . This plug-in of yours sounds a much better solution. Please can you add me to your list.

Thanks
Keren

I've gotten a lot of emails about the ability to schedule product reviews and bulk post them to one or more blog categories. You will be able to do this as well as "drip feed" them over time.

I've added a new video that demonstrates that functionality:

Schedule Amazon Product Review Posts


-Brad

Just wanted to give a quick update and let everyone that has followed this thread know the product has finally been released.

I appreciate all the great feedback and interest.

-Brad