FREEBS - Free Book Store Release

Hmm, interesting, one's back to 52,000 and the other is over 23,000, all with full titles and descriptions.

Another, however, is in the dumps...

 

I think the old freebie bookstore has been hacked or myabe owlcroft pulled a fast one

its hanging up pages on the servers its on and sticking hidden links into into the book pages

 

I'm still getting better then a 10% return on my FREEBS Amazon Books stores.

How's everyone else doing?

 

My stores get hot then go cold...but they're definitely worth keeping around. Minimal effort effort once set up and they more than pay for themselves. I have a 9.3% conversion rate per Amazon. My hosting service has expanded the number of databases so I'll probably add a few more stores. I was running into size limits with 3 stores sharing a single DB.

Thanks for the script noppid!

 

Thanks Noppid.....as sagetips said, the stores run hot and cold depending on how many pages the search engines index. At the moment one store has 75k pages, another 68k, then 14k down to one with 228. The number of pages yo-yos around quite a bit.
They bring in anywhere from 100 to 300 a quarter, closer to 300 though.

The big thing for me is the COOP weight they bring, currently about 90k in total which has put the very popular terms I am pointing it to on the first page of Yahoo.

 

That's great news! I stopped letting my book stores be dynamic in version 1.15. There is no doubt that the number of indexed pages went down as a result. But, alot of people complianed about the off topic thing. So, It's a trade off.

I lost some of the benefits to the coop, but I keep that steady 10-11% conversion rate, so I'll take the money either way I can get it.

P.S. Just a reminder, prior to version 1.15, I had a badly written query in FREEBS Amazon Book Store. It was table walking. This was bad. A few DBs of 100K books could bring a sever to it's knees if there were bots surfing the book stores.

 

It's working well for me...

I'm getting a 16.6% conversion rate.

 

I don't understand that.......a sale is a sale no matter where it comes from....and a page is a page, lol.

Yes I have had a problem with two sites going over the bandwidth limit but it worked out as they now have a lot of pages indexed.
Ask Jeeves sems to be the culprit.

 

Is this thread still going? I need a store on www.frogengine.com

 

Yeah, I'm maintaining this code. There's not been much activity cause, to the best of my knowledge, it's stable at 1.15.

But in a nutshell, this will sell books via amazon for you and will add indexed pages to your site.

The link to the forum with the code for download is in my sig. I keep the forum registration necessary for the download cause I have to notify users of amazon TOS changes that effect the use of AWS if necessary.

 

Thanks, I will make sure I will add a big "Book Store provided by *something*)

 

Thanks for the consideration. We do ask that one link to us be left in the book store. But the code is free to download.

Thanks again, we appreciate it!

 

You can't even let noppid get a moment of deserved limelight for his freeware product/service without blasting the thread with more blatant self-promotion for another one of your pathetic sites, can you Toots?

 

That's a cool idea. I'll see what I can do after the new year.

Thanks

 

Is there a way to control the amount of comments that are shown? I'd like to make an adjustment to this, but after looking over the code, it doesn't appear that there's any sort of static value in book.php, or at least I'm missing it.

 

Comments are from the Amazon call. The only way to know if there are any and how many is to check the array.

book.php line 365.

				// get the comments
				// check for reviews
				if( is_array( $item[Reviews][CustomerReviews] ) )
				{
					// if we have reviews, stuff um in an array at top level
					foreach ( $item[Reviews][CustomerReviews] as $rev )
					{

PHP:

I'm sure you could do something in the foreach loop to limit the comments.

 

Thanks for your "comment", Toots, but it doesn't change the facts, does it?

 

Noppid,

Good to see you around my bookstore is doing very well glad I pestered you so much all those months ago!!

 

You should seek some professional help yourself Minstrel. This is turning into an obsession of yours like DMOZ. It's getting pretty annoying for the rest of the community.

 

Being annoyed about you hijacking every thread you can to promote your pathetic sites isn't an obsession, Toots. It's a matter of common decency, something you apparently don't understand.

Just knock it off.