Amazon's new aStore can be embedded on your site so when visitors order they never leave your site and it appears as though the shopping cart is right on your domain. One of the ways Amazon suggests doing this is with an iframe. Here are some tips and tricks to optimize this new affiliate marketing concept that Amazon does not tell you.
FYI: I was never an Amazon affiliate and joined just to try out aStore and this experiment was only a test.
Check out my 5 Star Internet Marketing Book Store. Below are some tips I came up with while building my little store that may help you leverage your aStore for more success.
Click a book on my site as if you were going to order and then add to cart. Notice since everything is in an iframe, it appears you are still on my site but in reality you are on Amazons secure server. HOWEVER a consumer would not know this. They may look and see that "add to cart" and "check out" is not on a secure page on your site. So I added some copy to the top of the page to let shoppers know the purchase is secure.
Linda's Amazon aStore Tips
Tip #1 - Add some copy about the secure shopping process to the top of your aStore if you embed it on your own site. Here is the copy I added. "Order Internet Marketing Books Here. All orders go through Amazon's secure order server." If I really wanted to sell stuff to consumers I would probably add a link to bottm of page to explain more about why there is not an https in the address or a "lock" icon showing the site is secure.
Tip #2 - Since the iFrame does not provide any spiderfood at all, I did a copy and paste of the titles in my store and put them in plain text below my store for spiderfood. Check my source code to see why this is important.
Tip #3 - Be sure to select the widget that adds an "Amazon Wish List" to the sidebar. That way even if your visitors don't buy one of your recommended products, you could remind them of something they have been wanting to buy and possibly get commission for that sale! ;-)
What do you guys think of the aStore concept???
Anyone tried it yet?
Show us your aStore here.
(Note: Normally affiliate link drops are not allowed in the discussion forums, but when I ask you to link drop for the purpose of sharing ideas, its OK.)
