RSS Marketing Feeds - Amazon RSS Feed Creator

Years ago when I got started in affiliate and Internet marketing I used several tools daily to promote my sites. Those were frontpage, search engines (to find link partners, do research, ect) and a few other very basic tools. At the time their were more advanced tools out their like datafeeds, however their were not nearly as many of these types of tools as their is today.

It seams like each week new software apps come out promising marketers a simpler path to riches. Over the next few weeks I am going to start introducing some of the tools, apps, scripts and other goodies that I use daily.

Just last week the creator of RSS2BLOG released the Amazon.com Rss Feed Creator to be used in conjunction with blogs and particlurly Rss to blog. Funny thing was I have been waiting for these types of tools for some time now and even spent some time on several of my favorite marketing forums asking “are these available”. I guess I should have created the software myself!

Regardless, this internet marketing software is great and makes formating products from amazon.com quick and easy. The program creates nice product “show cases” complete with images, product descriptions and even customer reviews (giving you more “content”). I got started with this new product several days ago and have been able to quickly automate rss feeds complete with my affiliate id featuring products from amazon.com

Understand that the feeds this product creates are rss feeds, you will need to import these feeds into your websites or use a product link rss2blog to automate blog posts. However one real neat feature is that the program can also generate html code in the form of text files that contains all the great products your need for your site, the customer reviews, images and more. You can get this formated via a search box, first you select the category you want to pull products from and then you enter in a search phrase. This is an idea product for quickly getting nice product reviews to go along with your website as well. I have used this myself for other sites and it has worked great. Bottom line, my amazon stats are up

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Below is an example of the the product output:

Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress

Content management, blogs, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these trends.

Drupal is a full content management system that allows you to create any type of website you desire, from an e-commerce to a community-based site. phpBB enables you to set up a bulletin board or forum. And WordPress is the software of choice for the exploding blog community. All three technologies are based on PHP and MySQL.

Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and Wordpress is authored by a team of experts. Robert T. Douglass recently created the Drupal-powered blog site NowPublic.com. Mike Little is a founder and contributing developer of the WordPress project. And Jared W. Smith has been a longtime support team member of phpBBHacks.com and has been building sites with phpBB since the first beta releases.
Customer Review:Like Having A Guru Watching Over Your Shoulder
When I picked up this book I knew what phpBB was (my main reason for getting the book), but the other two applications were foreign to me. So, let me start off by briefly pointing out what each application is and does:
- Drupal is a CMS, content management system, (think Wikipedia) that allows users to input and update information
- phpBB is bulletin board software (very much like Invision or Jolt from surface appearances)
- WordPress is blogging software (do I really need to say more after 2005, the year of the Blog)

The publisher has chosen to group what amounts to three separate books on three open source applications together based upon the ‘community’ aspects that they engender, allowing groups of users to come together to post, comment and counter-comment.

The book is effectively a collected user manual for these three applications, but that does not really go far enough. Yes, the material for each is available online, but this book collects the documentation together in a user friendly manner. Anyone that has tried to install and operate a complex piece of software based upon the canned manuals can appreciate the complexity involved. Using this book is essentially like having an experienced guru looking over your shoulder offering advice as you go through the process. This can be the difference between 30-60 minutes of simple work and 5-6 hours of confusion, frustration and ranting.

Add to this the advice on configuration and usage/management for avoiding pitfalls and achieving best case results, and this book can pay for itself in no time (I bill at $50 an hour and consider my personal time even more valuable).

Bottom line, if you want to keep users on your site (i.e. not farm out these services), and want to use a CMS, bBoard, or Blog using open source software, it is worth your time to check out these options. If you then decide to use one of them, this book can save you a chunk of time and frustration.
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Customer Review:

Good book
I have not yet finished reading it, but so far it has been a great experience. Find More Marketing & Software Books At Amazon.com

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