Building an Affilistore Travel site #3 - Join the programme and find the product feed

Posted by Stephen Pratley in Saturday, November 17th 2007

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This is a quick viedo to talk you through signing up to the Shoestring Affiliate Programme and finding the product feed.

It also has all the correct settings you’ll need to make the product feed work with Affilistore.

This is my first attempt at a video for this blog, so please give me any feedback, good or bad on whether this is how you’d like to see me demonstrate how to build your Affilistore site later this week.

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Affiliate Newbie said in April 3rd, 2008 at 6:14 pm

Is there a chicken and egg situation with getting affiliate registration.

If like in this case you are building your first site and want to base it on a particular merchant’s products, do you go ahead and build a mock up of the intended website first with example content and then give them that site in your application or can you have either no website or an empty website when you apply.

The downside is if you go through the time and expense of buying a keyword related domain name and building an example site and they refuse, then its wasted effort etc.

What’s the normal procedure when your building your initial accounts with no working website for your affiliate applications ?

Stephen Pratley said in April 3rd, 2008 at 6:28 pm

There is a bit of catch 22 what I’d do is build a site like this one on a generic domain name, which has alternative merchants. Don’t put too much effort into redesigning it for one merchant, that way if you get rejected you can apply to another merchant with a site in place.

After that it’s easy to show other sites to a merchant and say “here’s what I’m planning to do, but using another domain” basically ask first.

Stephen Pratley said in April 3rd, 2008 at 6:29 pm

Brings up another point. Talk to your merchants before you start building. most merchants are starved of contact with affiliates so they’ll be happy of the interest. If they can’t be bothered to discuss your plans and give pointers, don’t promote them. It won’t be a good relationship.