Adding Amazon to a thematic site for Search Engines and users alike

Hi Everyone,

I am planning to launch a thematic web site, and I thought it would be a good idea to include a subselection of Amazon's books on my site. This (I reckon) would have two benefits. First it would provide content to Google (and other search engines), and finally it would give users the added value I required for that specific subject. Am I wasting my time on this? I would appreciate your thoughts and if you know of any php scripts that might help me I would be delighted.

Remember I am not trying to spam any search engine, just providing specific and relevant information for the web site visitors as well as google.

Thanks

Krilin

 

Specific product links with good long descriptions from your site, that has a great deal to do with your content can only help your site be properly indexed/categorized by Google.

As far as the other question, please refer to this new post below. I just posted it in the affiliate programs section concerning my Amazon Merchandise Feed.

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=10944#post10944

 

The "Freebie" package exactly answers your questions and your need.

It was developed to do exactly what you ask about: to SEO-augment your site by adding about 9,500 extra "pages" (dynamic php made to look static), plus all listed books are relevant to your theme (because you select the Amazon search phrase).

My opinion is that 9,500 extra pages, on topic, changing content daily, with no effort beyond a modest one-time setup, is a pretty good deal (granted, I have a biased viewpoint).

You can find out more here--

SEO Tools, Toys , and Packages ​

--by looking at the "Freebie" package description.

The install takes very little time, save for as much or as little customization as you care to apply to two HTML pages.

 

Many thanks!

I will look into this and I will let you know shortly

krilin

 

(Pallavi Bhattacharya is a freelance journalist with published articles in Outlook, Rave, Readers' Digest, India Today Plus, Hindustan Times etc. Pallavi relishes the freedom of expression through her journalistic pursuits, which to her is means of self-discovery and understanding life.)

Whoever had made the proverb `Don't judge a book by the cover' would have surely changed his mind if he came across a copy of Soul Search Engine by Al Raines. Honestly, this is the first book I have ever come across, which so crisply captures the whole essence of the novel with its cover page design. No, this book doesn't have an expensive and glossy cover. Rather it is a sweet and simple cover.

Your foremost glance at the cover will give you the impression of the google homepage. However you will soon realize the title, hyper links and search button logos of this google page look-alike, actually read different. In bold colourful font this page is titled `Soul Search Engine' which also happens to be the book title. The words keyed in this search box read `life times'. The indices or cross-sections of search offered are `time' and `space'. You are given the options of an indepth infinite search or a simple nostalgic search on the whim. The web links indicate that you can savour your search through your five sense organs in terms of images, sounds, tastes, textures and fragrances. This book can't be accessed with a mouse click as it is after all not an online book nor is its cover page a real web page. Just start turning the pages and read on- the novel will take you on a lovely trip down the ages.

Thematically Soul Search Engine is `a brief story of life, the universe and everything in ninety-nine pages: a story fourteen billion and thirty six years in the making'. The novel traces the history of the world from its inception till the modern times. It simultaneously unravels one of the greatest and touching tales of friendship through the story of two souls who strengthen their bond of friendship through the successive life times they share together. The front cover illustratively captures this very thematic concept.

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Those of you who think, "What's the use of a book without pictures or conversations?" let me gladly inform you that Soul Search Engine has soft pencil shade sketches of dinosaurs, prehistoric men, cave sketches and artefacts symbolizing the modern age. The conversations between the protagonists are sometimes sad, sometimes funny, sometimes highly philosophical and sometimes so naïve, sweet and simple.

The protagonists of the novel are the adorable Stegy and Rex, who despite being poles apart become best buddies, in fact soul mates. They meet for the very first time when both are dinosaurs. They are reborn as Neanderthal men and later as modern men. As they bump into one another over several births they renew and develop on their friendship every time they meet.

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