It’s been about 6 weeks since I last posted about SENukeX. In that time I’ve been away on vacation and engaged in some other projects for myself and clients and haven’t had too much time to devote to SENukeX.
You may remember that I mentioned in my previous SENukeX post, that I thought the software was buggy, had been released too soon and lacked decent documentation.
So what’s changed in the intervening time?
First, several new upgrades have been released. It now stands at V1.0.49 (it was V1.0.28 when I wrote my last post about it).
Second, the only new training I can see that’s been made available is an SENukeX Training Webinar. I haven’t had the time to watch this so can’t comment on its usefulness.
Adding products from Commission Junction advertisers to a blog has not been one of the easier tasks for affiliate marketers, especially not as posts for individual products.
One way to do it is to use the datafeeds provided by advertisers but you need a plugin like CVSPig or EZ EmpireBuilder to convert the datafeed into posts. And there may be some massaging of the datafeed required to remove unwanted products for example.
I just became aware of a brand new Commission Junction plugin that takes a different approach. What you do is select the advertisers you want to work with (only work with advertisers who’ve approved you) and select the products based on a keyword search. The plugin will then convert each product that it finds into a post on your blog.
This video will give you a better idea:
You get the developer licence version which means you can use it on as many of your sites as you want and you can sell sites that use the plugin (but you don’t have resell rights to the plugin itself).
Sounds like that’s a link to a pirated version of the plugin, doesn’t it? It’s not. The author wants to get word out about the plugin and build a sizeable list of testimonials so he’s offering it to Warrior Forum members at that surprisingly low price. If you’re not a Warrior Forum member, you can still buy it for $9 using this link.
[Update June 14th] I’ve had a bit of time to play more with this plugin so here are some more observations:
1. The plugin publishes posts immediately. There is no option for scheduling posts. This means you’ll have to manually select a number of products to post on a daily or near daily basis.
2. The plugin does not filter out already published products. They are marked as “Already Posted” but they still appear in the search results.
3. A typical search could produce thousands of products. The only way to navigate through these is via the Prev and Next links on the search results screen. Since it only shows 20 products at a time, it takes forever to navigate through a large set of results. And when you return to the search screen the next day, you have to start at page 1, wade through the already published products till you find more you can publish. In other words, it will take you longer and longer each day to find products to post.
4. The keywords box (for searching) only allows 20 characters. Not enough to add negative keywords to help refine searches.
5. This plugin isn’t yet ready to command a high price as it’s lacking what I consider to be some essential features. However, it is worth $9 to have a play with. I built this Laptops Price List site using the plugin. I did beef it up a bit by adding eBay listings with PHPBay and Amazon listings with PHPZon. However, all the post content is provided by the Prodo CJ plugin.
I modified this plugin for my own use to add the following features:
1. Already published products are filtered out of the search results.
2. 50 products are now displayed per page instead of 20.
3. I extended the keywords box so it can now take 100 characters.
4. I’ve added paging to the search results. Instead of just Prev and Next links, links to 10 pages of information are also listed along with links to the First and Last pages. Whatever page is selected for viewing, the links update so that the links to the next 10 pages are displayed. This makes it much easier to find products to post.
I’ll send my modified version of the plugin to anyone who buys the Prodo CJ plugin from my link above. Just email me with your transaction details and I’ll send the mods on to you.
The only other Commission Junction plugin I know of is this CJ plugin which adds products from Commission Junction into your posts but doesn’t create posts based on CJ products the way Prodo CJ does.
I just released the latest edition of my site building tool, SiteBuilder Elite.
SiteBuilder Elite is a PHP script that builds affiliate websites with ease, so if you know nothing about how to build a website, HTML or PHP, it’s a tool that will suit you.
The script runs on your webserver, so it doesn’t matter if you use a PC or a Mac. All site building is done online, through your browser. Any changes you make to a site are site wide and instant, so there’s no need to modify multiple files to ripple a change across a site.
In the new version, I’ve added support for more article directories from which articles are downloaded to build content on pages.
Building a website is only part of the equation for making money online. The other part of the equation is in building backlinks to your sites and driving traffic as a result.
One of the hardest things for any Affiliate Marketer to do is to pick a Niche that will allow them to build a successful and profitable blog or website. This is especially true for Auto Blogs. “How do I find the best Niche?” or “What is the Best Niche to Start with when building Affiliate Websites or Auto Blogging?” are the most common questions asked by affiliate marketers.
It’s actually quite difficult to explain this process as it’s more art than science. We all know there are great tools out there like Micro Niche Finder and Market Samurai, but these tools can’t tell you if a niche is good until you find it yourself, right?
The great news is that today, a new tool has been released that will search and find 100s of new niches each and every day. Each day, 20,000 new keywords (that are evaluated for profitability) are added to the system’s database and there are currently now over 500,000 keywords in the system.
Niche Reaper is the name of the system and it has a “Live” ticker that actually shows you the results of the Niche searches as they are going on in Real Time. This new tool actually uses the same criteria that Mike Johnson sets out in his Autoblogging Blueprint course for finding Niches.
The system uses a number of sites for Niche research. It’s well worth watching the video on the sales page to understand how the system works. And it won’t require a big learning curve.
I am sure you understand that the single most important factor in deciding if your sites make you money is the Niche you build you build your site on.
Right?
So if this has been your single biggest hurdle to success so far, this tool is going to be the single most important tool you have gotten your hands on this year.
Niche Reaper will not only show you the Primary Keywords for the Niche, it will also tell you what Domains are available and if the Facebook Name is available as well. There is so much to it. You really need to see it yourself.
Now For The Bad News
They are only letting 1,000 people join Niche Reaper to keep the Niche’s valid and with 20,000 new keywords beings added each day, that means there’s more than enough to go around.
Plus, Niche Reaper requires a monthly subscription of $67. Only you can decide if the time you normally spend doing niche and keyword research is worth less than the $67 per month subscription fee. (Fill in your details in the top right of the sales page to access the order page).
A couple of days ago I was contacted about a new bit of software available through the Warrior Forum that would find high-PR pages on blogs on which comments could be left to garner high-PR backlinks to my sites. At $9, Backlink Loophole was a steal.
While the software will identify and list high pagerank pages, you still need to manually write and post comments on the pages it finds. So it’s a semi-automated solution. However, finding high-pagerank pages has never been an easy task and Backlink Loophole takes care of that onerous task. You don’t need to go backlink mad. Writing about 5 comments a day should be possible for anyone and won’t take long. The value of the backlinks you get in return will be worth that small investment in time.
