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Building a store

Discussion in 'Commission Junction' started by Mmecca, Oct 2, 2007.

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    I have a site and I am looking to add a CJ store to it. Currently I am using joomla as my portal but the script doesnt have to be a joomla extension. What scripts are out there that allow you to set up a store using CJ? Do they use RSS to automatically update, can they filter each product into a category automatically? Any info and scripts/sites would be much appreciated as I am new to the store concept.


    Thanks
     
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    Kerosene Alpha & Omega™ Staff

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    There's a few Joomla plugins that can import CJ products into your shop. I haven't personally used any of them (Joomla freaks me out), but I've seen some pretty nice CJ/Joomla stores. Do a search on DP for CJ and Joomla - there's a few people here with nice stores.

    You could also use eBay's RSS feed, or BANS to setup an eBay store.
     
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    Yeah, I have been seeing a lot of posts with BANS mentioned in them. Not to sure about ebay though, isnt the cookie only 7 days?

    I will do a search for joomla/CJ and see what I can find, thanks.
     
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    Kerosene Alpha & Omega™ Staff

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    Yes the cookie is only 7 days. But honestly, 7 days is pretty good - if you can drop your cookie on a 'family' computer, you've got the chance of getting commisisons for a lot of sales regardless of the niche (e.g Dad gets your eBay cookie while looking for boats, but Mom buys a dishwasher 4 days later).
     
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    Haha, I wish they were buying boats and dishwashers :D

    Can you link me to this BANS thing you are talking about?
     
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    Kerosene Alpha & Omega™ Staff

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    It happens! I sold a car a few days ago :D

    Big blue affiliate link in my sig ;) :p
     
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    Nice! How can you trace what items you have earned from?



    Ahhh, Build A Niche Store, BANS, it all makes sense now :eek:
     
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    Kerosene Alpha & Omega™ Staff

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    I made a tool that does exactly that :) > here
    You just run a CJ report through the "CJ report analyzer" and you'll get a sales summary that looks something like this:

    [​IMG]
     
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    Wow, just installed BANS and clicked roughly 20ish buttons and had items in my 'shop'. This is pretty cool. Any tips for optimizing the script, layout etc?

    I used your aff link from your site since you helped me :)
     
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    There's not a lot you need to do to optimize BANS. Make sure you have a pretty header image :p And once you've got your first store up and running, set up another one... and another. As long as you can get some traffic you should be set.

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    Thanks for the aff purchase :D
     
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    Do you find bookmarking traffic effective or it it just a waste of time? Yeah, I was looking throught the settings and there isnt much I can do apart from the layout and some page content. Keeps it simple though, and less work.


    No problem.


    EDIT: Also, it there anyway to include html into the homepage so that I can put some of my other CJ ads there?
     
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    Bookmarking traffic is better than nothing - sites like onlywire.com are a good place to start.

    Tweaking the BANS layout probably won't get you anymore sales ... just make yourself a nice header pic - the auction items themselves are what people generally pay attention to. I've got some terribly ugly sites that focus the users attention to the auctions, not the site design - it's not pretty, but the CTR is high.

    Welcome aboard the eBay/CJ bandwagon :D
     
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    Ok, thanks for the tips. I have had a look around but cant find where I change the header image. I have put together one but not sure how to display it, also, is there restrictions on the header size or can I adjust the size of it?
     
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    Don't use the "normal" bans layout, a lot of bans stores are poping up, and soon or later google will begin to decrease the importance of a bans store.
    Like any other script you need to change everything, including make more unique layouts.
     
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