ReviewAZON Add Amazon Affiliate Product Review Demo Video

Posted:  March 12th, 2009 by:  Brad comments:  44

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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    • 44 Comments

    Posted By: Jim Martin On: March 12, 2009 At: 1:43 pm

    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?

    Posted By: Brad On: March 12, 2009 At: 2:51 pm

    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

    Posted By: Kim On: March 13, 2009 At: 7:00 am

    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.

    Posted By: Brad On: March 13, 2009 At: 7:32 am

    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

    Posted By: Susan On: March 13, 2009 At: 8:51 am

    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

    Posted By: Brad On: March 13, 2009 At: 10:57 am

    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

    Posted By: Jay On: March 16, 2009 At: 9:14 am

    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?

    Posted By: Brad On: March 16, 2009 At: 4:29 pm

    @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

    Posted By: Jay On: March 17, 2009 At: 10:35 am

    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 :)

    Posted By: Brad On: March 17, 2009 At: 5:16 pm

    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

    Posted By: Peter On: March 18, 2009 At: 11:11 am

    Wow, So awesome Plugin.

    It’s quick and Nice looking

    When you launch this plugin??

    Posted By: Brad On: March 18, 2009 At: 11:24 pm

    Thanks, Peter.

    I am looking to launch the 1st week in April.

    -Brad

    Posted By: Marcus On: March 19, 2009 At: 2:52 pm

    I’m glad someone finally got around to building the dream Amazon plugin.

    Looking forward to it.

    Posted By: Brad On: March 19, 2009 At: 11:12 pm

    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

    Posted By: Tanakorn On: March 20, 2009 At: 2:16 pm

    Good content and Excellent way to make money with amazon.
    …Thank you so much

    Posted By: Robert On: March 20, 2009 At: 5:03 pm

    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.

    Posted By: Brad On: March 22, 2009 At: 11:40 am

    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

    Posted By: PAUL On: March 22, 2009 At: 12:47 pm

    CooL
    Can I set auto Post

    Posted By: Brad On: March 24, 2009 At: 7:15 am

    @Paul:

    Yes, you can setup automatic posting of products just like you would any WordPress posting.

    -Brad

    Posted By: Wendy On: March 24, 2009 At: 11:52 am

    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.

    Posted By: Dawn On: March 24, 2009 At: 4:58 pm

    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 :)

    Posted By: Brad On: March 24, 2009 At: 5:23 pm

    @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

    Posted By: tanya On: March 31, 2009 At: 10:24 pm

    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,

    Posted By: Brad On: March 31, 2009 At: 11:24 pm

    @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:

    You may edit Text Materials only by deleting text from and reducing the length of the Text Materials and only if, in doing so, you do not materially alter the meaning of the Text Materials or cause the Text Materials to become factually incorrect or misleading. You may not add additional information to the Text Materials (e.g., you may not insert words into a customer review or supplement a wish list or Listmania® list with new items). You hereby irrevocably assign to us any and all intellectual property or proprietary rights in such edited Text Material.

    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

    Posted By: GettyCash On: April 14, 2009 At: 9:08 am

    Brilliant, I always want to have nice tool for me to use WordPress sell Amazon goods.

    Posted By: DEvid On: April 30, 2009 At: 12:50 am

    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?

    Posted By: Brad On: May 01, 2009 At: 9:38 am

    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

    Posted By: bizlil On: May 01, 2009 At: 4:14 pm

    Wow it’s Great plugin
    How about seo support?

    Posted By: Brad On: May 01, 2009 At: 9:36 pm

    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

    Posted By: Steve On: May 02, 2009 At: 9:01 am

    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.

    Posted By: Brad On: May 02, 2009 At: 9:41 pm

    @Steve: I haven’t tested anything like that on the text, but I can’t imagine that it would be an issue.

    -Brad

    Posted By: Scott On: May 03, 2009 At: 1:50 pm

    Would I be correct in assuming that you CAN intregrate phpbayPro with ReviewAzon?

    Thanks

    Scott

    Posted By: Brad On: May 03, 2009 At: 9:48 pm

    @Scott:

    Yes you are correct. You can use phpbaypro with ReviewAZON with no issues.

    -Brad

    Posted By: cat On: May 18, 2009 At: 1:10 am

    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

    Posted By: Brad On: May 19, 2009 At: 4:48 pm

    @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

    Posted By: steve On: May 28, 2009 At: 12:03 am

    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?

    Posted By: steve On: May 28, 2009 At: 12:09 am

    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.

    Posted By: Brad On: May 28, 2009 At: 8:34 am

    @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

    Posted By: Richard On: July 06, 2009 At: 9:13 am

    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

    Posted By: Brad On: July 09, 2009 At: 11:34 pm

    @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

    Posted By: ahmed On: July 15, 2009 At: 4:21 am

    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

    Posted By: Dirk On: July 16, 2009 At: 8:52 am

    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

    Posted By: Brad On: July 19, 2009 At: 8:07 am

    @Dirk:

    You are quite welcome. Best of luck on your sites!

    -Brad

    Posted By: Brad On: July 19, 2009 At: 8:08 am

    @ ahmed:

    Glad you like the software. I wish you all the success with your sites!

    -Brad

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