Testing out an Amazon affiliate site

So I finally have my Amazon site basically set up. It is Electric Guitar Store. It is not completely finished yet but let me fill you in on what I am doing.

First, I really like related search terms to be listed on my site. I could not find an API like this with Amazon and I did not want to use eBay’s API to populate those results. So I did a little digging and found out that Yahoo API has a what I was looking for. So this is something new with this site. Yahoo is returning the relative search terms for me.

I also wanted to make this site 100% Amazon for testing it out, but I quickly found that I was getting alot of no results pages. So to save that traffic I decided that the only time I would show eBay on the site was when Amazon had nothing to show.

I am also using a new theme that I thought looked pretty cool. It kind of has an apple feel to it. No I am not a crazed apple fanatic… but I do own an iPhone.

The part that is missing in my eyes is the auto posting. I love the auto posting on my epn blogs because it gives the search engines new stuff daily to chew on. I have not figured out what the best way to auto post is yet. Since the products on Amazon are not changing as nearly as much as eBay this becomes more difficult. I guess I am going to have to setup a mysql database and keep track of what I auot posted  to avoid duplicates. That will not be too hard. The hardest part in my eyes is to figure out how to make the call to Amazon to get a new item to post. Eventually after a hundred items or so I am always going to get the same items back. I still need to put a little thought into this. With eBay I simply request recently listed items and check against a log to make sure I did not already post the returned item.

This is a work in progress… feedback is always appreciated…