ReviewAZON Add Amazon Affiliate Product Review Demo Video
Due to overwhelming demand, I’ve added a YouTube video that shows you how easy it is to add Amazon product reviews to your blog using ReviewAZON.
I’ve had numerous emails asking to see a little of the interface and posting process. I am still tweaking and styling the interface a bit, but it is more polishing it up than anything at this point.
I’ve really tried to focus on usability in regards to the interface so that adding these reviews are a simple and straight forward process. Yes, there are lots of “power user” features in this release, but for those who are looking for the “choose a product and post” simplicity, the out of the box functionality gives you that and more.
Check out the video and let me know what you think. I’d love to hear what you have to say!
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Wow, this thing looks incredible! I’ve been dreaming about a plugin like this for over a year. one question though: can you use a plugin like phpbay or wordbay to also list Ebay products in the same post?
Thanks, Jim.
Right now, it can integrate with PhpbayLite since it is free. I don’t have the other programs so I’d have to get them in order to write an integration for them. They are great tools and lots of folks have them. If the demand is there, I would certainly consider adding some level of integration for them.
-Brad
Awesome product! One question – Are the Amazon prices and user reviews always current and automatically updated, or do they stay static once the page is built.
Thanks, Kim!
You basically have two modes that you can run the content in: Dynamic and Cached. Dynamic is the default and all product information, customer reviews, pricing, etc is automatically updated via the Amazon web service. In cached mode, you can choose to store certain pieces of content like the product description and customer reviews and those will not be updated. This gives you the flexibility to add additional content to what Amazon gives you and not have that overwritten. This comes in handy for product reviews because not every product review has a detailed description and in some cases is only one line of text.
Pricing is one of those things that you do not want to cache and you want it to always be updated. It is currently not part of the caching strategy at this time.
Hope this helps,
-Brad
Alright already, stop teasing! I cannot wait to get my hands on this plug-in! It looks even more awesome than I imagined from the earlier peeks. You have a real winner here.
Susan
Thanks, Susan!
I appreciate the positive feedback and I can’t wait to release it. The time it has saved me in creating links has been incredible and I know that once you use it, you will feel the same way.
-Brad
Looking forward to this. Not sure if this was covered, but will the plugin have the option to be humanized? Meaning not all posts will show up at the same time on the same day. Would we be able to set up the review posts to drip in at future dates automatically?
@Jay: There is a separate interface that you can use to “bulk” add product reviews rather than the one at at time approach that I show in the video. In this interface, you can add as many product reviews as you want and schedule them to post at specific dates and times. You can also assign them to specific categories and re-arrange them to post in any order regardless of the order you added them in the queue.
For example, if you are promoting Wii video games and you want to add 10 of the Mario Wii games that Amazon is selling to a specific category called “Mario Wii Games” and have them post every day at 1pm you can certainly do that.
I am recording a video this week that will show you more about this functionality. Stay tuned!
-Brad
That is awesome Brad. Being able to put them into categories and having them post over time will make it look more human and keep a site looking active on an automatic basis.
Release this already will ya
Thanks, Jay.
I’m working really hard to get it done by the end of the month. I want to make sure that you get a solid and tested product!
-Brad
Wow, So awesome Plugin.
It’s quick and Nice looking
When you launch this plugin??
Thanks, Peter.
I am looking to launch the 1st week in April.
-Brad
I’m glad someone finally got around to building the dream Amazon plugin.
Looking forward to it.
Thanks, Marcus.
After launch, I will be putting up a requests/features page so that I can get some feedback on adding new features that did not make it in this release.
-Brad
Good content and Excellent way to make money with amazon.
…Thank you so much
Looks like a very nice plugin.
Looking forward for this if it has an reasonable price and is not encrypted (so we can easily add/change codes ourselves).
Please integrate a affiliate link cloaker to hide the affiliate links.
Thats a must.
Thanks, Robert.
I am looking to incorporate the link cloaking functionality in either this release or an add on release a bit later. As of now I am looking at the option of not encrypting the source code.
-Brad
CooL
Can I set auto Post
@Paul:
Yes, you can setup automatic posting of products just like you would any Wordpress posting.
-Brad
I was searching Google for something like this and I must say this looks like the ultimate plugin for Wordpress users. I have several “review themes” created for affiliate marketing and I can’t wait to get my hands on this to use with them.
Hi Brad,
I’m anxiously awaiting the release! By the way, I’m a huge fan of the Flexibility theme too – been using it for a couple of months, and can’t find any fault with it. By far the best free Wordpress theme available, in my opinion.
Anyway, I had one question…I assume the plugin will work with pages as well as posts, but just wanted to confirm. Also, have you decided want you are going to charge for this plugin? It sounds like you are going to release it soon, so I need to start budgeting for it
@Dawn:
It will work with pages as well and you can post one product review per page. Yes, the price has been set and will be in my next email to everyone who has signed up for updates. ReviewAZON will launch the 1st full week in April and that is rapidly approaching.
Right now I am fixing a few issues, creating documentation and re-working some stuff based on Amazon’s latest Terms and Agreement updates on March 12.
-Brad
Hi brad,
Your program is interesting. I wonder if i use your program, after it posted on the blog, will i be able to edit the post? Or will it show just the short script when I look through edit mode?
Thx,
@tanya:
Basically the way that this plug-in works is that you have a base template of HTML and tokens (little pieces of text that is a placeholder for the real data from amazon). The template is then put through a custom filter that looks for those tokens and replaces them with the appropriate data.
You have complete control over the template and how it will look. You also have some control over the data coming in from Amazon, but not much. Thinks like the product title and description are editable, but that is about it. The reason is that some products do not have descriptions and you will need a way to enter text for those. The title is editable because they are sometimes way too long and need to be shortened.
As for the rest of the data, you can’t modify it at all.
Why you might ask? Well per Amazon’s terms of service, you may not modify certain Amazon data or you risk being banned from using the service.
From Amazon’s TOS:
So, things like customer reviews must never be modified or altered in any way.
So to answer your question, if you want to make a change to a post, you will most always go and make that change in the template. That change, however, is a global change and will affect other posts as well.
-Brad
Brilliant, I always want to have nice tool for me to use Wordpress sell Amazon goods.
Wow, this thing looks incredible! I’ve been dreaming about a plugin like this for over a year. one question though: can you use a plugin like phpbay or wordbay to also list Ebay products in the same post?
There is PhpBay integration, but not WordBay. Yes, you can show listings in-line or in the custom eBay widget that ships with ReviewAZON.
-Brad
Wow it’s Great plugin
How about seo support?
ReviewAZON has image and link SEO masking capabilities. In other words, it turns those ugly long urls into user friendly links.
I hope that is what you wanted to know!
-Brad
This looks great. Can you run programs like infolinks or Kontera on the Amazon text?? Or even InLinks??
Thanks for doing this. This is going to be an amazing product.
@Steve: I haven’t tested anything like that on the text, but I can’t imagine that it would be an issue.
-Brad
Would I be correct in assuming that you CAN intregrate phpbayPro with ReviewAzon?
Thanks
Scott
@Scott:
Yes you are correct. You can use phpbaypro with ReviewAZON with no issues.
-Brad
amazing plugin Brad ,but should it always combine with flexibilitytheme? or common themes ok too ? because I don’t know how to modify wp themes.
Thanks
Cathrine
@Cat: You can use ReviewAZON with any Wordpress theme. It’s hard to get the out of the box templates to look 100% with all Wordpress themes, so some tweaking of the stylesheet may be necessary.
It doesn’t require any Wordpress theme modifications though some people to modify them to suite their needs.
-Brad
Hi Brad,
Incredible! Any chance you can mask all the href links and image links to Amazon? If you look at phpbay, all href links are masked (even image links), so search engines probably like it a lot better if the content does not appear as a front for Amazon.
By mask I mean all links are internal, not amazon links.
Can you?
Hi Brad,
If we cannot truncate bulky reviews, then the content looks too much of a duplicate to search engines. Anyway we can at least truncate, and then say “… read more”.. that way it stay with TOS of Amazon, I would think.
@Steve: Yes, ReviewAZON had SEO friendly links for both the images and the affiliate URLs so you are good there. On the bulk reviews, once you add the bulk reviews, you can easily go back in and add to the content descriptions if you want.
Typically what I like to do is add unique content before and after the description, but I do not alter the descriptions in any way per the Amazon TOS agreement, but per that agreement, you have the option to take away from the description if you need to truncate it and add the “Read More” link. By Default, the excerpts that are generated are based on the product descriptions and are already truncated to a specific character length that you specify in the Advanced Settings page.
I wouldn’t worry so much about duplicate content so long as you use ReviewAZON as a supplement to or in conjunction with quality articles or content and you should be good.
-Brad
Hi,
This plugin looks great.
At the moment I am using a free plugin for a few of my affiliate sites.
I am only wondering one thing,what about the Amazon changes?
It seems that Amazon will change some things in August,does this effect the plugin,or do you update the plugin?
I look forward to hear from you.
Richard
@Richard:
Thanks for the kind words. Version 1.1 has officially been released and it is updated to comply with Amazon’s new request signing requirements.
Best,
Brad
thank you very much for this amazing product , you are the king
this is the master amazon script i have ever seen
and thanks again
Like I mentioned to Brad earlier through PM in his Forum,
I have been longing for something like Brad’s Product ReviewAzon, coupled with WP Theme Flexibility 2.
ReviewAzon in my eyes, cut down major time in copying and pasting, keyword stroking, etc. to promote Amazon products.
Plus, what I’ve always been wanting was to customize my own blogs the way I want them, not being condoned to the traditional restricted and very limited changing of a PHP WP Blog. Unless you’re good at PHP (unlike me)you would have more flexibility.
But, now with “Flexibility2 and ReviewAzon” I have much more control over my WP Blogs, than ever before.
Plus remember, I mentioned I was PMing him a lot, (sorry Brad)through his Forum, well, he was very patient with me, in helping me get over some of my hurdles, which in the end turned out to be a mistake on my part anyway. Big Dummy
But he stuck with me all the way, and I greatly appreciate the great customer service he provided to me.
Plus in the Forum, there have been many answers to my questions, already posted, which helped me greatly as well.
Then to top it off, Brad keeps you in the loop of upcoming changes whether it’s his program updates or Amazon’s guide lines changing. Great Stuff!
Thx Again Brad
Best,
Dirk
@Dirk:
You are quite welcome. Best of luck on your sites!
-Brad
@ ahmed:
Glad you like the software. I wish you all the success with your sites!
-Brad