Comments on: Amazon aStore First Impressions Review

By: twinky

twinky — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:47:01 +0000

StoreBrander.com free aStore proxy provides ability to have AStore under own domain name. Also you can customize aStore appearance to meet your site design, add custom tags, use various Google Services with it.

By: Anime Figure

Anime Figure — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:42:49 +0000

What i need is a traffic for my astore

By: Beef Jerky

Beef Jerky — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:31:26 +0000

I set up not 1 but 2 seperate aStores on my own domain. 1 for purchasing Beef Jerky and the second to purchase the Dehydrators used in making homemade beef jerky.

Easy to say the least.

Problems revolved around the 4000 pixel height dimension required for inframe coding.

I just started, it looks like a great system, but I keep asking “Why wouldn’t everyone just go to Amazon.com to purchase the goods instead of doing it through my site?

Granted my traffic is highly targeted, but really…

… isn’t there more to it than redirecting organic traffic to one of the biggest sites online?

By: pradit18

pradit18 — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:22:16 +0000

It very excellent. I start aStore today. I will try make seo for this aStore. and I will back report once

By: Steve Elfrink

Steve Elfrink — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:24:06 +0000

I will add my two cents about Amazon’s aStore. First off it was incredible easy to set-up. Adding a custom logo was simple, and adding content is incredibly simple. My only complaint is that there is no way to set-up the home page with separate categories.

Here is my store: http://astore.amazon.com/accesstoawareness-20

I do think it is an awesome service from Amazon – hopefully a win-win!

By: markowe

markowe — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:58:31 +0000

The idea is a good start, I reckon, but the whole thing is still rather inflexible. For example, it would be good if you could have greater control over the size and shape of the a-store. At the moment it is rather clunky – if you use the built-in navigation menu, to take you to your sub-stores (which you seem to have to if you want a search window to appear anyway), the width gets especially great, i.e. takes up most of the screen, leaving no room for your all-important site content, especially if you want to have your own navigation menu outside the i-frame.

It would be great if you could decide the size of the store, I would prefer it to be 2 x 4 products perhaps… And for the size of the window to be determinable within A-store, so that it would break the product detail window (which is the main reason you need the stupid great 4000 pixel-high a-frame…) down into smaller pages.

By: rowie

rowie — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:37:16 +0000

I believe you can now pick individual items to include in your aStore.

By: aStore Upgrade

aStore Upgrade — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:38:04 +0000

After having my own issues with aStore’s feature set, I decided to enhance it on my own. I setup aSensibleStore.com, which tracks statistics, allow you to ad AdSense ads and allows you to include your aStore directly in your code without iFrames.

Please use the contact form on the website if you have any questions or new features you’d like to see.

By: Integrating Google AdSense with Amazon aStore and other embedded content

Integrating Google AdSense with Amazon aStore and other embedded content — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:10:55 +0000

[...] I’ve long been a member of Amazon’s affiliate program, ever since I published my first book. One of the new features available via the Amazon Associates program is the Amazon aStore, which Darren Rowse already reviewed, but here’s the quick summary: an aStore is an Amazon-hosted website that displays Amazon products chosen by the associate. It can be customized to a certain degree to let the visitor also see categories of products, but it really needs more customization capabilities. All product information comes from Amazon’s databases, of course, and any purchases made through an aStore earn the affiliate a commission. The idea is to make it easy to build a featured set of products and include it on an associate’s website with no programming required. (If you’re willing to invest some time and do some programming, however, you’re better off looking at Amazon Web Services, you’ll get much more control that way. You may be interested in the series of articles I wrote for IBM on using AWS as a starting point.) [...]

By: Integrating AdSense with Amazon aShop and other Embedded Content

Integrating AdSense with Amazon aShop and other Embedded Content — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:02:09 +0000

By: aaron

aaron — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:03:17 +0000

aStore is great. I have created a fitness store called http://www.xigle.com

The new version of aStore will include the following features

Build and maintain multiple aStores using a single Associate ID
Specify products to feature on Category and Sub-Category pages
Create multiple instances of individual categories and sub-categories (e.g. Beatles Music and Rolling Stones Music)
Feature up to 54 products on the front page of your store rather than the current limit of nine
Write longer custom product descriptions
Better control the layout and design for use in frames by providing the capability to remove the store header and category navigation

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By: Curly Tree Money Blog: From Employee To Entrepreneur

Curly Tree Money Blog: From Employee To Entrepreneur — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:18:11 +0000

[...] The Amazon Associate’s aStore By Curly Tree Amazon Associates is Amazon’s affiliate program, which allows web publishers and webmasters to receive referral fees from their users who buy stuff from Amazon through their sites. Very recently, Amazon came up with the aStore, which is a nice way to set up targeted items on your site in a manner that is seamless and well integrated. You get to choose Featured Products on the first page, configure categories and subcategories, select the right look and feel for your aStore and incorporate various Amazon features such as a Search box, Listmania, Similar Products, your Wishlist and Reviews. To give it your site’s identity, you can even add a logo and use your site colors. To incorporate the aStore to your site, you can do so via [...]

By: New Features Coming Soon for aStore

New Features Coming Soon for aStore — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:33:34 +0000

[...] Amazon have emailed participants in the aStore beta test (my review here) with a sneak peak of what will be included in the next version of aStores. Here’s the list: [...]

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bweaver.net » amazon astore — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 03:39:56 +0000

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By: John Hood

John Hood — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:56:04 +0000

Here’s mine.

http://astore.amazon.co.uk/designby-21

I like the fact that it’s relatively easy to maintain a consistent look and feel (brand experience) with other sites, which you may own.

By: Holch

Holch — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:58:52 +0000

I am not sure if using the store within an Iframe is allowed or well seen by Amazon.

However, it looks much nicer and would be good if it would be allowed.

On the other hand, if the store seems to be run by you, you also have more responsabilities. I would make clear that the contract is with Amazon, not with you.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:06:33 +0000

Using iFrames (mentioned above) is pretty cool and the aStore is very simple to set up. However, I still have a few items on my want list. For example, after I created the store, I was not able to go back and change the title. I am unable to create more than one aStore with a single account. As noted above, it would also be a great improvement if we were able to select individual products to the pages. I am also wondering about the future impact on search engines when hundreds of thousands of these stores are live.

However, overall, this seems like it is a nice little add on to a blog or website.

My site took a few minutes to initially set up, but I went back and created sub-catagories for each main catagory which took a little longer. If you want to check it out:

http://astore.amazon.com/popstarsplus-20

By: citeblogger

citeblogger — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:29:49 +0000

Amazon Rocks! This is sooo cool..

By: Amazon aStore in iFrames

Amazon aStore in iFrames — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:27:43 +0000

[...] Two of the main critiques of Amazon’s new aStore (the new beta test from Amazon that allows you to make your own Amazon store) that I’m hearing from publishers are: [...]