Comments on: Amazon aStore in iFrames

By: salisy

salisy — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:00:53 +0000

I try to put astore in blogspot, and that is not bad .. :). http://the-titles.blogspot.com. yes that is a hardwork for full 1 days to setup that such that look beauty .. :))

By: Evangelos

Evangelos — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:45:32 +0000

I really liked the solution of dedmondson. It is very clever to use server side java scripting to proxy the astore. Anybody knows how I can do this also to my astore website?

By: Sergey Yurov

Sergey Yurov — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:34:04 +0000

Iframes is not he best solution for problems described because all links in aStore remains hosted by Amazon. Proxy, rewriting links is much better approach but high quality programming is required. Both approaches require hosting. Fortunately free public on-line service StoreBrander has been created recently. The service allows not only give own domain name to Amazon aStore but benefit from various Google services like Webmaster Tools, Analytics, AdSense, etc.

By: wow power leveling

wow power leveling — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:16:12 +0000

The question is, is anyone making any money with the astore. I just signed up yesterday and have been searching to see if people are actually profiting. I mean 4% doesn’t seem like a lot of money.

By: dedmondson

dedmondson — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:28:00 +0000

My site is only a couple of months old and made me $300 last month from an average of 150 visit per day.

4% of a $2000 camera or plasma tv is worth earning. However you have to sell an awfull lot of books and dvds to make any serious money.

By: suade

suade — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:49:41 +0000

The question is, is anyone making any money with the astore. I just signed up yesterday and have been searching to see if people are actually profiting. I mean 4% doesn’t seem like a lot of money.

By: dedmondson

dedmondson — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:47:17 +0000

I use my own server side java scripting to proxy an astore. My solution goes way beyond that offered by astoreproxy.com but does demostrate the what can be achieved once you break out of the limitations of iframes. See my Nikon DSLR camera store and notice the diifferences. Check the source Cheap Nikon Deals

By: sir jorge

sir jorge — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:28:53 +0000

Astore is working well with my site, i use it for skateboarding, and this month I’ve gotten 15 sales. The astore is tied into my website that is all about skateboarding. I love skateboarding, so the astore is never the focus, just an after thought, and it works out quite nicely.

By: aStore Proxy

aStore Proxy — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:55:25 +0000

Even with the iframe approach, there are several disadvantages with an aStore. These disadvantages and a solution are provided at astoreproxy.com

By: Saikaew

Saikaew — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:06:40 +0000

I learn that iframe astore is prohibit for blogger.com theme. Is it corrected or not?

By: J

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:32:07 +0000

Instead of putting "yes" or "no" for the scrollbars I put "maybe", and now the scrollbars don't appear unless they are needed. Weird. Anyway, here's the script: [iframe src="http://astore.amazon.com/yourstorename" width="825" height="950" frameborder="0" scrolling="maybe"][/iframe] Replace [ ] with .

By: Stefan Julius

Stefan Julius — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:46:37 +0000

Darren or others, what do u think about this kind of implementation of the aStore

http://tips4blogger.eu/tips-for-blogger-astore/

By: AdBabel for astore-seo

AdBabel for astore-seo — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 04:51:11 +0000

Note: typo in post above – US store link in 2nd to last paragraph is incorrect. Correct text is:

“ASTORE-SEO been tested with US stores ( http://www.adbabel.com/astore.php ) … ”

ProBlogger Moderator, if possible, please edit the link and delete this one :-)

Thanks and best regards
AdBabel

By: AdBabel for astore-seo

AdBabel for astore-seo — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 04:44:01 +0000

I’ve written a spiderable aStore script called ASTORE-SEO.

The script available for FREE DOWNLOAD at http://www.adbabel.com/astore-seo/ and is very easy to set up.

Just edit your Amazon ID and URL suffix (.com, .co.uk etc.) in the script, copy to your server and open astore-seo.php in your browser!

The script runs on PHP and transparently provides spiderfood by placing Amazon’s HTML as alternate text for an iframe. Humans visitors with iframe compatible browsers see the aStore in an iframe while spiders and non-frames browsers will see a spiderable version of Amazon’s HTML linked from your aStore. You can see the human view and the spider view at: http://www.adbabel.com/astore-seo/demo.php

ASTORE-SEO been tested with US stores ( http://www.adbabel.com/astore.uk.php ) and UK and ( http://www.adbabel.com/astore.uk.php ) and is designed to be compatible with aStores from all Amazon locations.

Development is on-going so please let me know what you think and I’ll try to include your ideas in future versions.

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By: 5starAffiliateBlogs

5starAffiliateBlogs — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:20:09 +0000

Amazon actually suggests doing this is with an iframe and give you the code. But there is A LOT they don’t tell you about how to do it right. Here are some tips and tricks to optimize this new affiliate marketing concept that Amazon does not tell you.

Check out my 5 Star Internet Marketing Book Store
http://www.5staraffiliateprograms.com/internet-marketing-books.html

Below are some tips I came up with while building my little store that may help you leverage your aStore for more success.

Click a book on my site as if you were going to order and then add to cart. Notice since everything is in an iframe, it appears you are still on my site but in reality you are on Amazons secure server. HOWEVER a consumer would not know this. They may look and see that “add to cart” and “check out” is not on a secure page on your site. So I added some copy to the top of the page to let shoppers know the purchase is secure.

Tip #1 – Add some copy about the secure shopping process to the top of your aStore if you embed it on your own site. Here is the copy I added. “Order Internet Marketing Books Here. All orders go through Amazon’s secure order server.” If I really wanted to sell stuff to consumers I would probably add a link to bottm of page to explain more about why there is not an https in the address or a “lock” icon showing the site is secure.

Tip #2 – Since the iFrame does not provide any spiderfood at all, I did a copy and paste of the titles in my store and put them in plain text below my store for spiderfood. Check my source code to see why this is important.

Tip #3 – Be sure to select the widget that adds their “Amazon Wish List” to the sidebar. That way even if they don’t buy one of your recommended products, you could remind them of something they have been wanting to buy and get commission for that sale! ;-)

I was never an Amazon affiliate and joined just to try out aStore. I had also never used iframes before so it took me a little time to format it right to fit into my site. If I already knew what I was doing, I could have set this store up in about 2 minutes.

Have fun setting up your aStore!

By: Staska

Staska — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:28:34 +0000

iFrame shmisframes…. don’t really care. The main broblem with aStores is that I can have only one on the same account. I run multiple sites and want to put a store on each of them. Can’t do it it seems. I have one link to the store with one associate id… Damn…

If there’s a way around it i’d like to hear

By: Amazon aStore

Amazon aStore — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 03:36:49 +0000

Hi! I think that the only way to be successful with the Amazon aStore is to use frames like I did (just click on “Amazon aStore” above to see the result). I included some ads on the right and I am currently testing how customers response is. Basically this is a much better way to earn money than Self-Optimizing-LInks are because they don’t really work in reality.