Help - Considering becoming an Affiliate

Discussion in 'Affiliate Programs' started by dazfree, Mar 10, 2008.

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    Hi,

    I have a web site about designer clothing which is in the top 10 of Google for most of the keywords.

    The site is built on OScommerce and I am considering using a product feed from one of the major designer clothing online stores as an affiliate.

    A few questions in regards to becoming an affiliate:

    1. Can my oscommerce site handle the product feed and sort the products into the correct manufacturers? As I am page 1 in Google for a lot of manufacturer search terms I do not want to change the manufacturer URLs. Will I need to modify my Oscommerce site to handle the feed?

    2. What is Google´s view of affiliate sites? I have heard people say that my site will fall in the rankings if it becomes an affiliate site. Is this true? Basically I want to make sure becoming an affiliate does not destroy the good work I have done getting onto page 1 for a number of search terms.

    3. Can I hand pick the products? For example for each manufacturer the product feed may have 300 products whilst I just want to show 30 products for each manufacturer, can I hand pick the products I want to show?

    4. Just confirmation that I can still edit the site (add articles, blog posts, change logos etc...) if it is an affiliate site?

    Cheers in advance for the help guys.

    Darrell :D
     
    dazfree, Mar 10, 2008 IP
  2. dazfree

    dazfree Active Member

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    Any advice at all on this guys would be appreciated. Totally new to affiliate marketing/schemes
     
    dazfree, Mar 10, 2008 IP