How To Manage Tons of Affiliate Links
Let’s say you have a site about automobile parts. It might be an article site that you want to monetize with affiliate links, or you might even fulfill orders yourself but want to supplement your offerings with affiliate sales. Affiliate sales can be a great way to supplement your income, but if you have a lot of specific offerings, it can get hard to keep your links current if you don’t have the technical know-how or the time to set up customized RSS feeds or other scripts on your own. Sometimes affiliate offerings disappear, the links change, prices change, or specific product lines are dropped. If you have hundreds of different links, it can be a full time job just to keep up!
A way to handle this is to have an automated affiliate program feed, and PopShops is an excellent way to go. You choose your products, grab some code and insert the code into your blog or website. The process is so simple that a three-year-old was able to construct a “pop shop” in minutes.
After you pick your products, customize your site, and “pop your shop” into your website or blog, PopShops will automatically update your prices and product offerings. For those of you with Web 2.0 blogs and Squidoo pages, PopShops has special widgets for Blogger and Typepad blogs, WordPress (the plugin is in is beta stage) and Squidoo widgets.
You can get a free Pop Shops account or upgrade. Generally, Pop Shops subscriptions include:
- The Basic Plan - absolutely free. Create up to 10 different “stores.”
- The Pro Plan - $5 a month. You get unlimited stores, plus access to an auto feed (allowing you to build thousands of pages automatically) and the ability to build RSS and XML product feeds.
- The Enterprise Plan - $30 a month, which includes all of the above options plus the ability to create SEO rules for your pages and a search function.
- The Max Plan - coming soon, at $60 a month, with all of the above options plus access to coupon feeds and more.
The above list touches just a few of the features. To compare all of them, take a look at the Pop Shops account comparison.
With over 37 million different items available for your affiliate sales, Pop Shops is an excellent solution for monetizing your web site or blog. I’m in the Enterprise Plan because I like offering a search feature for my website visitors; however, when I was using the free and pro plans to test out the system, I had some sales with those feeds as well.
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