Wanted: Website Review Affiliate shop creation

[osxkris]

I'd welcome your thoughts on a new site that I have just launched - Affilipark. Basically, it allows you to create affiliate shops by selecting some categories and pointing a domain name at it.

The project initially started out as a closed tool for just myself to quickly create affiliate shops, but half way through development I realized that I could build a front end for it and open it up for anyone to use (and potentially earn a little more from it).

The feature set is relatively basic at the moment, as I was hoping to focus on it on being a quick and easy process for creating a shop - However, there are more features in the works (both for the shop creator, and the created shops themselves) that will be optional if a user wants more control over the end result.

I'd be interested in your feedback, thanks.

 

[Joeyl]

It seems good, just wondering how often feed is updated as one item has different price to the site when I had a quick look

 

[rob]

I am never keen on users whos first post is to offer their own services with a link to their site ( http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/services-wanted/56718-prices-photography-website.html#post205904 )

Then return several months later to a few posts inside 24hrs then offering their new service. Just seems abit cynical to me


As for the site / product, I googled a few product snippets and there is a few sites displaying the same content. Such thin aff sites have been booted out of google, and this is happening more and more frequently.

IMHO it looks like a 2008 product being launched tail end of 2010 - whats in it to stop the above happening?

 

[osxkris]

It seems good, just wondering how often feed is updated as one item has different price to the site when I had a quick look

The feeds are pulled from the affiliate network every day - How often the merchants update their feeds is a different matter, and unfortunately one I can't control.

I am never keen on users whos first post is to offer their own services with a link to their site ( http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/servic...tml#post205904 )

Then return several months later to a few posts inside 24hrs then offering their new service. Just seems abit cynical to me

I can understand where you are coming from - I guess it comes down to being a long time lurker, then registering (to read the hidden forums) but continuing to lurk, and then only "contributing" when I have something to offer. It doesn't look the best, I suppose, but I'll try to get more involved elsewhere on the board!

As for the site / product, I googled a few product snippets and there is a few sites displaying the same content. Such thin aff sites have been booted out of google, and this is happening more and more frequently.

IMHO it looks like a 2008 product being launched tail end of 2010 - whats in it to stop the above happening?

The initial idea (and hence the name of the site) was to use it as a more useful alternative to traditional domain parking that just contained a bunch of links to external sites with some vague categories down the side containing more links. I leave these sites as soon as I land on them as they don't actually contain what I was expecting. The thought was, that if a user was presented with a site full of relevant products (to the domain name), that it might maintain their interest a little longer, and in turn, convert.

So, to begin with, I didn't consider the SERPs, but I am currently planning a feature that allows the creation of content pages on the sites, hopefully to combat this issue.