Using affliate product feeds make it spectacularly easy to create a money making site in minutes. However, you need software that will be able to pull in the affiliate products for you. One such a program is the RSS Site Builder (RSS Gadgets). This little program is small but potent, and it can create a site in any niche you choose and populate it with products from places such as Clickbank, Ebay and Amazon. So, if you have ever wanted to make money selling products as an affiliate for these places, now you can. You can see a few examples of the pages it builds here: RSS Niche Sites
If you are using the RSS Site Builder all you have to is unzip the downloaded script and make a few changes to the config file. In this file is where you will enter your own affiliate names and numbers for Clickbank, Ebay and Amazon as well as how many products you would like to display per page.
The first thing you have to do, is open the Config.php page and look for this line:
$strKeys = “1234567890″; - it should be right at the top of the document
Here you should enter the registration key that you were given when you purchased the program.
Next you are going to decide what niche to target, how many products you want displayed per page, as well as how your pages are going to look.
$strKeyword = “Toy Trains”;
$intRssQty = 25;
$intLength = 100;
$intPages = 1;
$strColor1 = “#E8EEF4″;
$strColor2 = “#FFFFFF”;
$strHilite = “#C7D7E5″;
You can change these details to anything you like. If your niche is going to be Kitchen Renovation etc, then change the keyword “Toy Trains” to Kitchen Renovation.
The #E8EEF4, #FFFFFF”, #C7D7E5 determine the color of the alternating lines on the page, which at this moment is white and blue. You can change it to suit your own purposes.
Next, if you are going to be using product feeds from Amazon you need to change the variables to your own:
// ———————————————————————|
// AMAZON CONFIGURATION (Associates ID and Search Mode) |
// ———————————————————————|
$strAssociatesID = “youramazonid-20″;
$strMode = “All”;
You need to insert your Amazon ID here and also tell it what products you want to be able to display. If you want to display every product related to your keyword, leave the mode as “All”. However, if you would like to display only books for instance, then change it to “Books” or any of the other categories that Amazon has available.
Next, you need to change your Clickbank ID if you are going to create a Clickbank niche site.
// ———————————————————————|
// CLICKBANK CONFIGURATION (ClickBank NickName) |
// ———————————————————————|
$strClickBankID = “yourid”;
Obviously, here you will just enter your Clickbank ID.
Next is the Ebay configuration:
// ———————————————————————|
// EBAY CONFIGURATION (Ebay Partner Network Campaign and Custom ID) |
// ———————————————————————|
$strCampaign = “5337948912″;
$strCustomID = “Dolly”;
Here you need to enter your own details if you are an Ebay affiliate.
If you don’t have an Affiliate ID for any one of these sites, and you don’t intend using it to build a rss niche site, then just leave it empty.
The next thing to configure, is the Youtube details. This is only if you are going to be building a video niche site, or if you are going to create pages to complement your site.
// ———————————————————————|
// YOUTUBE CONFIGURATION (Keywords & relevance|rating|viewCount|updated)|
// ———————————————————————|
$strKeyword1 = “Dogs”;
$strKeyword2 = “Comedy”;
$strSortedBy = “viewCount”;
Here you need to enter the keyword for the kind of videos that you want to be able to display, as well as the category.
To add a generic newsfeed to your sites, add your keyword for the feed to the next configuration:
// GENERIC NEWS FEED CONFIGURATION (News Feed URL) |
// ———————————————————————|
$strNewsLink =”http://newsapi.bbc.co.uk/feeds/search/news+sport/<KEYWORD>”;
Where KEYWORD equals your niche keyword.
Next you need to add a line of code to your .htacess file to have it display php code in your html pages. Add one of these lines of code:
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(PHP 4.x) AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html .htm
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(PHP 4.x) AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php .html .htm
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(PHP 5.x) AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php .html .htm
or, you can just use the sample .htacess file that comes with the program.
That’s it!
You are now ready to upload your script files and to create your RSS affiliate feed niche site. You need to upload the script files in “binary” code. Create a directory on your server called RssGadgets or whatever you want to call your folder, then ftp the scripts to your server.
The next step is to create an html page to display your rss product feeds. Create your page in your favourite html editor and add all the elements and images that you want to use. Then call the scripts using the following:
<?php
$strPath = “../RssGadgets/”;
include($strPath.”Amazon.php”);
?>
You can use this code to add the rss feeds to any existing pages. Obviously if you want to use Clickbank products, you would replace Amazon.php with ClickBank.php in the above script. Ditto for Ebay.
Or, if you are going to use the rss feeds as your main content, you can call the scripts with a php includes statement like this:
<?php include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].”/RssGadgets/Ebay.php”); ?>
again, replacing Ebay.php with Clickbank or Amazon etc.
Then upload your newly created pages to your server, and voila - you now have a fully functional money making rss niche site!
The nifty thing about this little script is that you can also use it with Wordpress. There is a special plugin that it uses to run in Wordpress. Installation is a breeze and you can quickly and easily populate your WP site with money making products. Look at this example page: Make Money
There is a comprehensive installation tutorial available when you purchase RSS Site Builder.
