HOT! Add Reviews, Ratings, Comment to your Affiliate Site - Like Amazon

[Linda Buquet]

I blogged this Thursday but forgot to post it here.

Discovered a service that offers a cornucopia of FREE affiliate tools that could:
.:. make your site stickier for visitors and more bookmarkable
.:. turn a thin affiliate site into a FAT affiliate site for Google
.:. give you the ability to add lots of user generated content to your site
.:. last but not least give your visitors value-added features and a voice
Sound like a lot? It is! Read on.

This could be an Affiliate Goldmine!

When I saw JS-Kit I immediately could picture affiliates being able to turn their site or store into an ecommerce experience like Amazon offers. Add Reviews, products ratings, comments and polls as easy as you add an affiliate link. No programming, just cut and paste the code.

The company is planning to add advertising and publishers can opt-in to rev share the profits or pay to have no ads displayed on their sites.

I discovered the product when I read Billy Kay's post over at Affspot a couple days ago. He goes in the the benefits for affiliates and shows an example of how he has implemented the tools onto his own site. He ends the post by saying "There was NO learning curve - lol"

So head to JS-Kit, to check it out - then go to AffSpot to read Billy's post and see his example.

DISCLAIMER: There may be other services like this, so shop and compare. I'm not endorsing this particular product (although must say from a quick scan it looks good). I don't know the people there. Just think it looks like it's worth it for affiliates to check out - but as always, do your own due diligence.

Billy is a member & is here now, so I'll nudge him to see if he wants to add anything.

[Billy Kay]

LOL - you "nudged" me to add something... but your post was great by itself!!!

Even though it was designed for bloggers, I think it's perfect for affiliate sites.

It was easy, customizable, free... and it will make my sites more valuable... (read: better then my competitors)

The support is amazing. I never actually met them at blogworld. I asked someone if there was such a thing as a rating system I can add to an affiliate site rather then a blog and was given an email address to jskit

I emailed and asked, and the owenser was soooooo helpful, proactive, responsive, offered suggestions etc.

It should have ended there, but he forwarded my email to someone else (I assume the developer or coder), and he contacted me and offered ideas and suggestions

I put it on my site, they saw it and emailed me for my input so they can make it even better.

I wish these guys were affiliate managers, because they "get it"!!

If you use it (on an aff site) make sure you change the default "Was this article Helpful" to something more relevent like "Rate this Product"

and when you first use it, there are NO reviews obviously, and it looks lonely. 1000 products on your site and none have reviews.

SO I changed it to "New Feature!! Rate this Product"... so visitors know why there's no reviews yet

[Linda Buquet]

Originally Posted by Billy Kay

LOL - you "nudged" me to add something... but your post was great by itself!!!

SO I changed it to "New Feature!! Rate this Product"... so visitors know why there's no reviews yet

LOL I meant to tell you right away but assumed my trackback from the blog would have hit you over there. Also meant to thank you for the great info, because I'm always looking for something to blog about and that was a great tip!

Great point on the "new feature". I wondered the best way to start so you would not have a bunch of empty ratings and reviews.

I'm actually thinking about starting an affiliate site. I mean I have a couple orphans out there that are doing absolutely NOTHING. But there's one I really have a passion for and have been planning for a long time. These features would be perfect to add to it. No idea when I'll get time to even think about starting. Right now I'm too busy and still in the dreaming stage.