Those of you on my list have heard a bit about this new tool, I’m pumped to have an interview with Edwin Boiten, developer of products like Amaniche and now “Affiliate Product Dominator” – what is that?
Well, it’s a productivity tool that has sped up my own reviews for physical products by over 300%, but we’ll stay conservative and call it that. I’ve been using it this week and can’t believe the time savings – so I know it’s worth sharing.
I try not to get overly excited about hypey launches, but if there’s a genuine value to my time or money savings (this tool provides both), I’m there – sign me up!
Rather than spill the beans, let’s get on with the Edwin Boiten interview, and what the hubbub is all about with Affiliate Product Dominator.
1. I have never used auto-blog tools, largely because I enjoy writing and the entire creative process – so I may not be your typical customer – I’m not an auto-blogger.
Is Affiliate Product Dominator just for auto-bloggers? Who is your “target market”?
APD is not only for auto-bloggers, it’s for anybody that does affiliate marketing for physical products.
2. Can you describe what your product does for my readers, and why they might be interested in it?
APD in it’s core is a tool to quickly find an affiliate product to write about and then gives you all relevant data on one page with some additional features; like a product attribute comparison box and soon there will be an update which holds the option for a price comparison overview.
In the research part you can either enter a keyword and you will be shown the bestselling products based upon that query or you can alternativly select categories from Pricegrabber, Shopping.com, eBay and Amazon and you will see on one page the bestselling products and most searched for words in those categories at those sites.
When you select a product that fits your criteria you will be asked what aditional data you would like besides the product description, images, features and reviews and have the option to have the Top 10 results from Google including the number of backlinks, Reviews from various sources, related keywords, Wonder Wheel results (LSI terms), YouTube videos, Yahoo! Answers, and that product comparison module.
It’s a matter of checking a few boxes and hit the “submit” button – at the next page you will get all that data on one page, without leaving your admin panel in WordPress.
It cuts down your research by leaps and helps you to create good quality posts fast.
3. Totally agreed! I’ve been excited about this product and told my wife and kids about it – they all think I’m crazy, but they have no idea how much time you’ve just saved me.
Since there are already auto-blog tools out there, like WP Robot, your own Amaniche and the like, why did you develop this tool? Specifically, what makes it different than Amaniche?
Where I left off at Q2 is what to do next…and this is where you can go “auto-blogging style” and only click the buttons below each module and have that in the post and publish as is or you can use the data and create a unique article by adding your own words, mixing things around.
Basically, you have the option to go into more detail than the original description – because you now have all the relevant data in front of you. I would suggest going for the later and add a bit creativity of your own.
The idea behind APD is different then being an auto-blog type of product. It’s meant to help you create product-related articles that add value to your visitors. It’s much more oriented to Paula and Wanda’s Amazonian Profit Plan, for instance, then that it’s meant to be a competitor to WP Robot.
4. You already know about the Google Panda (Google Farmer) update, where article directories and other content “farms” were hit with an algorithm shift.
A lot of people will wonder – “Isn’t this just duplicate content? Can Affiliate Product Dominator hurt your rankings?”
The Panda / Farmer update is just the reason why I made an update to this plugin and released it again. The idea is not to copy/paste the complete data, although you can, but to use it to make a great product post much faster than it would normally take.
5. I’d agree 100% since using it this past few days myself – I’m in love with it! Really, it’s made it so I can actually get done with 5-6 reviews in a day, the more I use it, the faster I get.
It took all week for me to do 4 manually, this is a huge improvement for me, Edwin.
Another question: Is your tool good for SEO – if so, how?
When you add your own wording and make it more unique than the original content, then this is always good for SEO.
But to answer your question - I also have added the Google “related keyword” (or “Suggest”) results as well as the Google Wonder Wheel. So it gives you on a platter what Google expects to see in relation to your product.
6. That’s another reason I bought – this way, I can focus on getting the content published and then get to backlinking a LOT faster – and I find those keywords when they’re product-related are usually low-competition. I still run Market Samurai to double-check, but this is still a huge time savings for me.
Does your tool work with other affiliate programs besides Amazon?
At this moment the product focuses heavily on Amazon. The major part of the product data comes from Amazon. That does not mean you need to use your Amazon affiliate links, as you can just as well add other links or even AdSense as a monitization if you like.
But – I have an update where I will add support for other affiliate networks like for instance CJ.com, Linkshare and Tradedoubler.
7. I’m impressed with Affiliate Product Dominator as it stands – you keep talking about adding onto it! Sounds like you plan on increasing the price – is that part of the plan?
It is part of the plan indeed. I am Dutch from nationality – but also mentality and like things cheap, but this product is priced so low at this moment that I honestly believe it’s worth a lot more. [Editor's Note: Me, too!]
In the next update I will add support for more affiliate networks and more sources for data which will make it even better. Lots of ideas and plans to make APD even more a tool that will be in your “can’t do without” list :)
8. What do you think you’ll develop next?
Tough question!
I have a lot of projects but I will first work on the updates of my current products. One of the things I want to do is add a price comparison module and I have a plugin called WP Secret SEO that I will upgrade in the coming period.
My main focus is on how to give more value to the visitors of the sites which in turn mean more and better ROI for my customers that buy my products.
Spoken like a true professional – because it always boils down to good customer service. Thanks for the awesome tools, Edwin, and for allowing me the opportunity to interview you!
What Edwin forgot to mention – or what I forgot to ask – is that this comes with a 90-day money-back guarantee, and it’s affordable! Compared to similar tools, it has a lot going for it, and from the sound of it – Edwin is backing it up with future updates planned.
As it is – this thing has made me a productivity fiend, along with Action Enforcer and having a system to follow: this is going to be my most profitable year in my life.
If you’re anything like me and you’re picky with these hype launches and “Magic Bullet” software – this isn’t like that – this is a productivity tool that really has me excited because of the value it’s added to my time spent.
If you have a system down where your money-making reviews are only taking you a few minutes to do – this is NOT for you, but if you take time to do it right and write like it counts: this cuts way back on research time.
For the value (low price and high ROI), I’m impressed in spades with it! (Can you tell?)
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You got me drooling and I just signed up.
Can’t figure out the shopping or yahoo APIs though. I can’t find the first – and the Yahoo one is asking me for loads of info about the app. Care to share?
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NP, Clare – I have a drip-fed review coming out about the tool and I’ll edit it to answer these two questions. In the meantime:
Shopping.com offers their API to affiliates as I understood it – they’re a PPC program, I didn’t bother. Just not my style of income.
Filling out the details of the Yahoo! API was something along the lines of, “I have a WordPress plugin that compiles research from various sources, including Yahoo! Answers for a better shopping experience, I need an API key to compile the data.”
Something really vanilla / dead honest like that. :)
I’ve used their API keys for other plugins, like the Sitemap generator, so it’s no biggie. I think if you filled it up with Pig Latin it would still give you a key – it happens in 5 seconds.
But regardless of the Shopping.com API, it still returns your results from their service – so I think it’s good for actually showing their ads if you want (not sure).
And meant to say: thanks for the sale, I was wondering about Reviewazon myself: is it just the Amazon data? Do you use it as an auto-blog device? If so: how are your rankings for those reviews?
I prefer APD only because I have no plans to auto-blog a review, I can’t see those would rank well, but I don’t know that for a fact.
The new reviewazon (pro version, in RC1 status), is fantastic.
It can make auto posts, but there is a new feature that basically lets you integrate any amazon data into your posts. So you can pull images, descriptions, customer reviews price points and saving percentages plus whatever else you can think of into your posts all by using shortcodes (or clicking a button that adds it for you).
Thanks for the recommend, Chris – I was going to get it until I got APD, now I’m not so sure it’s a need, but it does tickle my fancy – I might just have to splurge. :)
Yes its definitely worth considering, especially since the new version caters more towards those that want to provide unique content but still take advantage of all the cool things you can do with the amazon API.
As far as APD goes, I am loving it. Both the wordpress and the php version.
One caveat. I signed up to get the software updates after purchasing, but it looks like it’s the typical marketers list. I won’t name names (he is a marketer I respect), but, I honestly just want to know about updates when they come out, not when the next ‘shiny object’ webinar is being announced (just 3 more hours! just 2 more hours! we are here!).
I hate having to be put on a list that gets marketed to heavily just because I want to make sure I get notification of an update).
Just a small rant from me.
Yeah, that marketer (if it’s the same list I’m on) is pretty interesting…some of the products have been really up my alley and affordable, but the other stuff I just glance over.
Agreed on list abuse! So now I AM curious – I was wondering if the two would go well together: Reviewazon + APD…
Are you glad you have both? (If not then you have 90 days with APD, just for the record: don’t keep it if you’re not happy with it.)
I didn’t get Reviewazon just because I thought it would be redundant to do so – what do you think?
well you can’t really compare the two plugins because they don’t do the same thing… sort of. APD is awesome for what you do, so given that you do what you do so well, you might not even need reviewazon.
Reviewazon is just cool for making your blog look more like a review site by auto creating some nice looking amazon posts (they look pretty professional). It creates great looking post excerpts too. Thats the auto blog part of it. It can also pull youtube videos for you and display the customer reviews (through an i-frame)
It also its own set of widgets to display product data on the sidebar. you can also use shortcodes to display a single product any where you want or multiple products (like a comparison), but you don’t have FULL control over what products are displayed with all of the features. You pick a base product but then it shows you more based on that. Thats amazon’s limitation, not the plugin.
It can also display a list of products in a GRID fashion. It has a top rated products widget (with the fancy stars too) that links to your product posts. It can track product clicks too, which is nice.
It can also create tooltip pop ups, that look pretty professional. You can place this anywhere you want. With the use of some functions built into the post editor you can create an AFF link on the fly, insert images, product details such as price, availability, free shipping or not, discount percentage. All the data you can pull from APD, you can pull with reviewazon, but it automatically places it for you.
And the best part is all of this is completely customizable by accessing the templates. You can decide what data to show and how to show it if you know basic HTML in your widgets, product posts, GRID displays, mutli-inline product displays, tooltip displays. Everything.
For the unique content creator, like yourself, it can still be useful because it is completely customizable. If you just want the information to write your own reviews by looking at customer reviews, and display youtube videos, stick with APD. If you want a fully functional review plugin that plugs into the amazon API, check out reviewazon.
I feel like I’m leaving some stuff out. There is a lot to it (in the latest version especially, which isn’t official yet.)
I’m willing to set up a test blog and give you access so you can tinker around with it. From reading your posts, I’d guess that you would really appreciate the work the developer has put into it, but I’m not sure if it’s what you need for your style of work.
hope this helps
tooltip popups explanation: not a pop up, but when you hover your mouse over a picture or link, a nice looking pop up is displayed right above your mouse pointer.
Thanks for the detailed reply – I do prefer customizing my own posts, but definitely like the way it looks on the demo blogs. Still deciding (I think I’ll try Edwin’s AutoPress though, since it works with other APIs other than Amazon, like CJ).
Much appreciate your 2 cents, Chris.
Is APD something I can download to my desktop?
(I don’t have wordpress blog.)
No, unfortunately – it’s a WordPress plugin. So I guess the answer is, “Yes, you can download it to your desktop,” but you can’t use it w/o WP.