Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Amazon astore code: php to include astore

Below is the absolute basics of a php include script to include an amazon astore into your own site:

=========index.php==========

<?php


$url=$url2."/".$url3;

ob_start();

function replace_for_mod_rewrite(&$s) {


$s = str_replace("</title>","</title><base href='http://astore.amazon.co.uk/'>
",$s);

$s = str_replace("a href=\"/YOURID-21/detail/","a
href=\"http://www.YOURDOMAIN/page/YOURID-21/detail/",$s);

return $s;


}




include("http://astore.amazon.co.uk/YOURID-21/".$url);


?>




<?

$contents = ob_get_contents(); // store buffer in $contents




ob_end_clean(); // delete output buffer and stop buffering


echo replace_for_mod_rewrite($contents); //display modified buffer to screen


global $dbg_starttime;

?>

=======end=index.php===========


===========.htaccess file===========

Options +FollowSymLinks
rewriteEngine on
rewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^page/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ index.php?url=$1&url2=$2&url3=$3

=======end = .htaccess file===========

demo store: - http://www.flavour-shaker.co.uk/
This site is for a .co.uk amazon astore - but should work for a .com / .ca etc astore.
Code is just a snippet and may not work on all servers. no warrentees etc.

Let me know if you find this useful

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Monday, December 18, 2006

£1000 LCD tvs - Discounted to £100 at Woolworths

Woolworths were offering a 'too good to be true' offer on LCD TVs
Blast a pricing blunder though.
Orders for the TVs exploded - some reports have it at around 1000
It seems that a mixture of computer error and human inputting may have led to a zero being left off the end of the TVs' retail price.

This sort of thing has happened previously with mixed results - some retailers have let offers through, others have not.

I am unsure exactky which model TV it was but here is a link to their main LCD TV page - Woolies LCD TVs

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Skype users to get lie detectors

From The BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6179117.stm
Callers using internet phone system Skype who might be tempted to tell a few porkies should beware - the user on the other end may have a lie detector.
Skype is to offer the KishKish Lie Detector, which is made by BATM, as an add-on for customers.

It analyses audio streams over a Skype call in real time and illustrates the stress levels of the other person.

Skype's software lets computer users talk to each other for free and make cheap calls to mobiles and landlines.

'Greatly enhance'

Paul Amery, director of Skype developer programme said: "This is a really excellent application, and the kind of thing we want to see more of.

"Lie Detector is the latest in a variety of product in our premium add-on programme which greatly enhance the Skype communication experience."

No price has yet been set on the application, or a roll-out date.

The lie detector is the latest products which Kishkish has designed for Skype users, with others including voice mail and call recorder.

BATM says it hopes to be able to provide Skype users with further additions in the near future.

As well as operating in real time the KishKish device can also record calls for analysis later.

Internet auction firm eBay bought Skype - which says it has 136 million users - in September 2005 for $2.6bn.

.com and .Org Domains Names Nearly Half Price - Last few Days

Domain special offer ends this Sunday!
Save 48% when you buy a .com .org. net for £4.89 a year
Hurry only a few days left to take advantage of the cheapest prices in the UK. Grab yours today while this amazing offer lasts. Sign up for .com, .net or .org top level domains and you can still pay the reduced price of £4.89 instead of the regular price of £8.99 for the first two years after sign-up. Click Here for more info

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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Amazon Affiliate Blog

I have just spotted this blog today - http://affiliate-blog.amazon.co.uk/
An official amazon blog. Potentially quite useful (atm reading how 13 digit ISBN numbers will affect linking to amazon - if you have a book site that links to amazon you need to read this - http://affiliate-blog.amazon.co.uk/2006/12/13digitisbn_how.html
All those who use feed readers the blog rdf file is here

Also a point of interest with the amazon astores. I have just noticed that they link back to the associates program using the affiliate tracking id of this store. I must ask the question then - will affiliates start getting referral bonuses for referring new affiliates to the amazon associates scheme?

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Thursday, December 07, 2006

Taking The wii

The Nintendo wii has been a bit of a sucess story amongst some affiliates this year.

Amazon.co.uk famously sold out of their entire pre order stock in 7 minutes, creating a good many sales for affilites. Now with the official nintendo wii release date tomorrow gamers who haven't ordered a console yet will probably be dissapointed.

Profiteering on the wii has begun alreads with many selling their safely preordered wii on ebay.co.uk and ebay.com Many going for excess of £350. Where the original console price was nearer half this price mark.

I have set up a wii Console RSS feed that can keep you informed in price and availability of wii games consoles

Add to Google
Subscribe in NewsGator Online
Subscribe in Bloglines
Add to netvibes
Add wii Consoles on Ebay UK to Newsburst from CNET News.com
Subscribe in FeedLounge
Subscribe in Rojo
Add to My AOL


Pick from the services above to subscribe to this wii availability notification service.

Some people are making a killing with wii.

I have also set up a PS3 console RSS Feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/Ps3Console for exactly the same thing will happen once the PS3 is released in the UK

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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Amazon Astore Site Intergration - Use Your Own Domain Name

I have been toying with aSensibleStore.com in order to add extras to an amazon astore.
There service is ok and you may want to check it out.
What I wanted though is an astore that had my domain name, without doing any framing or 301 redirects.
What I came up with is this -
http://www.flavour-shaker.co.uk/ which is based on the new Jamie Oliver device of the same name. It is essentially an astore included in my domain. This is useful for two reasons.
I can further control Layout and extras (extra links - adwords rss feeds etc) and urls are resolved to my domain - http://www.flavour-shaker.co.uk/jamie/flavour-shaker-21/detail/B000INFF9A/
I can track traffic using google analytics or server logs
WHen a product is added to the shopping cast though the site jumps to the astore.
The script is very simple but powerful.
I will be tweeking the script and will eventually post it here. So if you want this free powerful script just subscribe to this blg using your feed reader

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New Amazon Web Services ECS Script

Pagerank10 has released 2 new exciting amazon affiliate / amazon associate scripts

Free version

£19.99 version

Features:
Simple to install - requires changes to only two lines of code
Fully customisable - you get the full source code
Category 1 and subcategory 2 can be edited through the categoryList.php file so you can add or delete the top level categories
Subcategories 3, 4 and 5 are generated automatically
Define which products appear on your homepage
Easily add extra pages - help, contact us etc
Built in shopping cart (icart version)
Add products direct to Amazon's shopping cart (ecart version)
No database required
You keep 100% of any commission
One off Payment - nothing more to pay

Friday, December 01, 2006

AffiliateWindow - 2 Great Clothing Progs Netted

Affiliate Marketing Network Affiliate Window have caught 2 great exclusive UK Clothing Programs

EVANS CLOTHING

And Rumour has it NEXT!!! But I cannot find this through their control panel