what is the best Amazon script to install ?

sji2671

Jul 11th 2005, 3:57 pm

I would say based on experience many could/would.

however: http://www.c3scripts.com/amazon/docs3.html

The above script pulled $1k commission for me in one month (it's first month) with one link to it, there are a lot of other variables involved though that affect its spidering and performance, thats the only one I have used.

Blue

Jul 11th 2005, 4:32 pm

what is the best Amazon script to install ?

thank you ahead of time for you taking the time to answer my ? :)

Seriously, have you seen how many Amazon affiliate sites are out there already?

GTech

Jul 11th 2005, 4:49 pm

I use Amazon Shop from www.ghostscripter.com .

Despite the number of amazon affiliate sites out there, if you do it right and treat as if your site is your business and promote it, there's money to be earned. I wouldn't say retirement money, but it's not bad considering the most effort you will have to put in is creating a decent design and getting links to your site.

Boston_JM

Jul 11th 2005, 5:57 pm

thank you all for taking the time to answer my ?'s :)

honey

Jul 11th 2005, 6:43 pm

ghostscripter.com is good, but Mr Rat's script is good as well Juls with mod_rewrite, but all these are being used by so many people. I feel we just need an adsense type amazon script, which can show amazon related products based on page content.

Nintendo

Jul 11th 2005, 8:26 pm

http://www.mrrat.com/aws/ is king.

honey

Jul 11th 2005, 8:47 pm

and Nintendo's http://www.codeshq.com/webmasters/ is the Queen.
Together, they make the Amazon Kingdom.

yo-yo

Jul 11th 2005, 9:16 pm

and Nintendo's http://www.codeshq.com/webmasters/ is the Queen.
Together, they make the Amazon Kingdom.

Except that it's overpriced (not to mention a site:codeshq.com reveals no title / description for the pages). Hire a guy out of america to do it for $10. ;)

RectangleMan

Jul 16th 2005, 12:36 am

I use a custom. I would not recommend using a common script. You will just be penalized in the serps.

skattabrain

Jul 16th 2005, 8:35 am

mr ratz script is nice and all ... but it's products are so deep ... 3 .. 4... 20 clicks ... you'll have a hard time getting traffic to it ... even with the mod rewrite

anton-io!

Jul 16th 2005, 8:47 am

by using some of these scripts,

do you get ding-ed for having similar content?

skattabrain

Jul 16th 2005, 9:05 am

oh yeah baby ... welcome to aws.

the trick is getting past the filters. they tend to work fine for a period ... then bam ... the filter hits and you go from 2000 unique visitors a day to 100.

one particular site i had running since january, built up to 7,000+ unique visitors a day. google then tossed out my pages in May ... I was devastated ... i went from daily 3 digit adsense #'s and upper 2 digit amazon #'s to almost nothing overnight.

basically ... to play this game you don't have 1 amazon site ... you have 10 ... and if you really want to make good money you start at 10 and just keep hammering out sites.

the script should be simple.

skattabrain

Jul 16th 2005, 9:07 am

here is a screenshot

yo-yo

Jul 16th 2005, 1:04 pm

That's a jackload of bandwidth :eek: , but i guess making $100+ a day would be well worth it :D

skattabrain

Jul 16th 2005, 1:16 pm

:) yes it does

RectangleMan

Jul 16th 2005, 1:20 pm

Nintendo

Jul 16th 2005, 4:14 pm

Blarg. Back in Q3/Q4 03 I made $13,000 total. Now I'm at about $1,000 a quarter. Tip: If you ever discover something that'll bomb you with orders, shut up about it. Don't generate more competition. Now there's hundreds if not thousands of AWS sites, hince the crashes.

bloodwrath

Jan 20th 2006, 12:10 am

I use a custom. I would not recommend using a common script. You will just be penalized in the serps.

so you made your own script or had one made?

alph

Jan 20th 2006, 10:10 am

yep same thing - amazon site ran sweet for a couple months, then the traffic dropped like 75% almost overnight...easy come easy go :)

JesterMagic

Jan 20th 2006, 2:20 pm

Interesting to know what the number of clicks you need roughly to earn $100 per day from Amazon. I'm not even close :)

For those who felt the crash what happened? Did you go from say 100,000 pages in google to 0 or did you have a page rank of 7 that went to a 2 (or a combination of both)?

Nintendo

Jan 20th 2006, 3:26 pm

Back in the Amazon gold rush days I was geting almost 10,000 pageviews a day, got to having a high of about 1,000,000 AWS URLs indexed in Google, and made $12,500 in six months, one quarter being the holiday season. Now I get a few hundred pageviews a day. So far this quarter I've made $296.75. Only reason I kept the sites after the crash is because you don't have to do any work on them, but just let them just sit there generating orders over time. Odds are my earnings would be higher if I wasn't too lazy to make the stores unique. They all use MrRats script using the original template with no design change. Now I'm guessing I have maybe 300,000 URLS indexed, and most have been downgraded to being Supplemental Results. On the plus side, they give me about 100,000 in CO-OP weight! :D

When they say make a lot of sites, they really do mean a LOT. I got 27 AWS domains and about five video game sites that have a store.

Seiya

Jan 20th 2006, 3:49 pm

Damn Wacko King :/ 27!! Thats too much :/ But hey if it gave you all that earning at the beginning then you had your reasons ;) Good job.

Nintendo

Jan 20th 2006, 6:13 pm

To make a profit, all you need to make per year is about $10 per domain!!!! I made over half of those domains AFTER the AWS crash!!!! I had less than 10 AWS domains when I had the Amazon Gold Rush!!!

Christopher

Feb 19th 2006, 6:37 pm

Nintendo, if you don't mind a question about this.......

Do you have all these aws sites on the same server, or to you get different hosting accts for each?

skattabrain

Feb 19th 2006, 10:22 pm

On the plus side, they give me about 100,000 in CO-OP weight!

even after the supplemental results you get that much weight?

tthmaz

Feb 20th 2006, 5:12 pm

Wow! Congrats to those who r earning high with Amazon.

Hey, I can do the same thing on my site... :D

Thanks for sharing!

zhisede

Feb 24th 2006, 5:36 pm

You can have a try of MrRat.com

Nintendo

Feb 24th 2006, 8:58 pm

And he's da King at making AWS scripts!!!

dinodino

Feb 24th 2006, 9:21 pm

Hi all, just in and introducing myself,

Thought I might mention that I am using a free affiliate script script from http://www.affiliate-developer.com - seod, installs in a couple of minutes and quiet adapt at setting up niche product stores.

dinodino :

skattabrain

Feb 25th 2006, 3:48 pm

i personally didn't like mr ratz script that much, partly because i hate perl, but i found it kinda clunky.

i've done much better on sites using my own scripts. i've always wanted to try this - http://www.affiliate-developer.com, however ... here is what is destined to happen - http://www.google.com/search?q=site:asm.freekrai.net - 41,700 Supplemental Results

aix4200

Feb 26th 2006, 6:08 pm

I recently purchased Ghost scripter and few problems for two days but i was able to figure out. It's feels very easy now..

Based on Gtech posting .... i prefered ghostscripter.

I would say if you know little bit of php and mysql ghostscripter is pretty good ....
:)

JesterMagic

Mar 5th 2006, 11:12 am

noppid

Mar 5th 2006, 1:30 pm

Has anyone heard from ghost scripter lately?

I've tried a few emails but no reply. We have been at version 5.0.5 for awhile now and their are a few bugs that I would like to see addressed (like the wrong price coming up for some products in the search results for one).

I just converted my amazon book store FREEBS from WDSL 3 to WDSL 4. Assuming the app you cite is WDSL 4, it's easy to see how pricing can get fudged. The XML return records are not consistant. It sucks in fact IMO! Had to write too much code to deal with the differences.

For instance, if you get customer reviews and there is only one, you get this array back...
$item[CustomerReviews][Review][Rating].

If there is is more then one review you get...
$item[CustomerReviews][Review][0][Rating]
$item[CustomerReviews][Review][1][Rating]
etc.

I'm not impressed with that.

Pricing is confusing too. There are several places to draw from such as special offers.

SamOwen

Mar 5th 2006, 8:12 pm

Tip: If you ever discover something that'll bomb you with orders, shut up about it. Don't generate more competition.Excellent advice.

JesterMagic

Mar 6th 2006, 2:05 pm

I know what you mean. I've done a fair number of changes to ghostscripter and I have spent a few long nights stepped through the code dealing with pricing. When you return a list of products (from a search or a node selection) You have list prices for an item and then the FormattedPrice from different offers. YOu then have to find the merchantid for amazon in the offers array and it may not always be there so I then use the list price. Then when you do a detailed view of the product you may get a different amazon price again (it may not even match there price listed under there merchant id). I've checked a few nodes at ghostscripters demo site (which must be a newer unreleased version) and they are bringing up different product prices that I have some of the time and they are correct (not always but a lot more than my site currently runnin 5.0.5)

I just converted my amazon book store FREEBS from WDSL 3 to WDSL 4. Assuming the app you cite is WDSL 4, it's easy to see how pricing can get fudged. The XML return records are not consistant. It sucks in fact IMO! Had to write too much code to deal with the differences.

For instance, if you get customer reviews and there is only one, you get this array back...
$item[CustomerReviews][Review][Rating].

If there is is more then one review you get...
$item[CustomerReviews][Review][0][Rating]
$item[CustomerReviews][Review][1][Rating]
etc.

I'm not impressed with that.

Pricing is confusing too. There are several places to draw from such as special offers.

noppid

Mar 6th 2006, 2:12 pm

I know what you mean. I've done a fair number of changes to ghostscripter and I have spent a few long nights stepped through the code dealing with pricing. When you return a list of products (from a search or a node selection) You have list prices for an item and then the FormattedPrice from different offers. YOu then have to find the merchantid for amazon in the offers array and it may not always be there so I then use the list price. Then when you do a detailed view of the product you may get a different amazon price again (it may not even match there price listed under there merchant id). I've checked a few nodes at ghostscripters demo site (which must be a newer unreleased version) and they are bringing up different product prices that I have some of the time and they are correct (not always but a lot more than my site currently runnin 5.0.5)

Thanks for the reply. When I posted that, I honestly was wondering if it was me not seeing something right. At least now I know I'm not crazy!

Amazon really blew it IMO. They need to make the return objects consistant by getting the ladder consistant.

noppid

Mar 7th 2006, 12:02 pm

Well I lost the thread it seems. But someone suggested trying the Pear::Services_Amazon class to use the api. Well I coded a class to use this and I am amazed at how well it works and how fast it is! It blows nusoap away!

But it does not solve the inconsistant object return, ya still gotta code to deal with that. However, for the speed and ease of use, it's a winner!

Thanks to whoever that was.

Nintendo

Mar 7th 2006, 1:15 pm

Do you have all these aws sites on the same server, or to you get different hosting accts for each?

All on the same server and same IP address. Google themselves have said they don't bann IP addresses.

tomzx

Mar 21st 2006, 9:24 pm

fun to see I participated in the active modification of Mr Rat amazon scripting ;)

jonhy.pear

Mar 29th 2006, 2:12 am

41,700 Supplemental Results

Just a silly question off the topic: what does mean "Supplemental Results"???

Sorry for my ingorance :),

Thanks,

JP

Nintendo

Mar 29th 2006, 3:39 am

It means the only lower you can go is...banned!!!!

jonhy.pear

Mar 29th 2006, 5:59 am

Seems bad!!!

And how/why/when can one can go with "Suplemental Results"?
I must prevent my self from going with "Suplemental Results" :)

JP

dinodino

Mar 29th 2006, 7:27 am

Just a silly question off the topic: what does mean "Supplemental Results"???

You can look at "Supplemental Results" as the place where BigG places all the 'orphaned pages' from your sites. Orphaned pages are pages that exist with no links to it, or dosen't really exist on your sites because they are created dynamically by scripts..

jonhy.pear

Mar 29th 2006, 12:16 pm

Does that means that the freekrai script for amazon have a lot of suplemental results, since the pages are created by scripts?

JP

dinodino

Mar 29th 2006, 5:26 pm

Hasn't stopped me from using them.

dinodino

Apr 12th 2006, 6:49 am

Just an update for number of supplemtal pages at Freekrai's : http://www.google.com/search?q=site:asm.freekrai.net

buzincarl

Sep 22nd 2007, 5:27 am

how do you get the stock through :S? are there places where you can buy like 1000 games for a cheap price then sell them to make profit?

ala101

Sep 23rd 2007, 3:13 am

buzincarl, they r using Amazon Affiliate program :)

GeorgR.

Sep 25th 2007, 7:07 am

to reply to the subject...the majoroty of scripts out there are using the old and outdated ECS 3.0 API which amazon will stop supporting in a few months anyway !

I built my own custom script based on the simple SimpleStore.php

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?entryID=498&ref=featured

It has everything you need and with a few modifications you can write your own store, assuming you have some understanding of PHP.

It also uses ECS4.0 - dont use the old scripts around using the old ECS 3.0 code since they wont work anymore in a few months !

georg.