If you’ve ever wished you could build an online affiliate store easily, without having to mess with coding, product feeds or maintaining virtual inventory, your wish has just been granted by the magicians at Pepperjam Network. In their quest to put the best tools in their affiliate publisher’s hands, Pepperjam Network sent out an update announcing the beta launch of their newest monetization tool, “Pepperjam Store Builder”…
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We are excited to announce the official BETA launch of our next generation product feed technology called Pepperjam Store Builder™, which is available exclusively through Pepperjam Network for FREE to all advertisers and affiliates. Can’t wait any longer to see Pepperjam Store Builder™ log-in HERE.
Pepperjam Store Builder™ allows you to quickly and easily manipulate Pepperjam Network product feeds in real-time to build product storefronts on your Web site. You can use Pepperjam Store Builder™ to easily link to specific products, create dedicated product feed Web sites, supplement your existing content or blog, add additional value to your coupon or incentive site, or for just about anything else your imagination will allow. With Pepperjam Store Builder™ you have access to millions of products from hundreds of Pepperjam Network advertisers. You can automatically create storefronts by selecting any combination of merchants, categories, or keywords. The more merchants and / or categories you select the more products that will be available to your Web site visitors. However, you may also choose to use the Pepperjam Store Builder™ search filter to refine your search to a specific kind or type of product. For instance, you may select CostumeKingdom.com as your merchant, but only want to display “pumpkin” costumes. No problem! Simply use the search filter and type in “pumpkin” to refine the feed to show only the products you want. You want to know what’s even cooler? Creating a feed is so easy that you can build a storefront for virtually anything in less than 30 seconds and we’ll even show you a LIVE Demo as your building it! All you have to do is create your storefront, copy a small amount of code into your Web site, and voila - you have a fully functional product feed storefront. Take a look at the screenshot below of Pepperjam Store Builder™. To get working with Pepperjam Store Builder™ immediately simply log-in to your account at www.pepperjamnetwork.com and start generating some feeds. |
I have to admit that I was very eager to test this new tool out, so I logged into my Pepperjam Network account and took the PJNSB for a test drive. Within 5 minutes, I had a basic store built and within a half an hour of experimenting with the tool, I was beginning to see the unlimited potental that this tool releases. If you want to see a functional example store I created within a half an hour (including graphics and CSS layout), click the following link : Gift Ideas - Music Boxes
The Store Builder allows publishers to select merchant programs to build links from, you can then select specific categories from the merchant’s stores and then you can filter the results to get only the products you’re looking to display. The output is fully customizable to match your website and you can even add a search box that will allow visitor to your site to search your chosen merchants catalogs and it will display the results to them with your affiliate links in the output. How cool is that? Here’s a glimpse of the Store Builder interface…
The only thing I see that is missing from the Store Builder is the ability to add an SID for tracking purposes but hopefully Pepperjam will add that to the interface asap.
One specific tip I will give you for creating an extensive store using this tool is that you might want to create mini-stores for each page of your site with minimal amounts of items. This will allow you to create multiple pages where you can do some SEO work and add appropriate keywords for each page because the Store Builder works with JavaScript and the output will not be picked up by search engines as content on your pages.
Overall, the Pepperjam Store Builder functions flawlessly and Pepperjam deserves a thumbs up for rolling out a beta release that is not full of bugs and issues. As with everything PJN does, a lot of thought was put into this release and they are really trying to put quality tools into publisher’s hands to help PJN affilaites monetize their sites to their fullest potential.
Compared to Amazon’s store builder and other tools that operate similarly, the Pepperjam Store Builder beats them all hands down. I’m sure both affiliate and merchants alike will benefit from this fantastic tool. Just think of all the ways that it can implemented, the possibilites are limitless. I could see it being used to create custom sidebars with products, custom banner ads, mini-stores and full blown stores.
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Pepperjam affiliates, you’ll definitely want to check this out…
Have you gotten this to work yet? I don’t have any options to create a store, even though I have programs with feeds. I am looking around for someone using it - other than Pepperjam.
Can I use this on my Blogspot blog ?
@Eric - Yes, I have it working on one of my domains, it’s just a test domain I’ve been meaning to build out a gift store on but you can see it here…
http://www.thepewtermug.com/store/music-boxes/
I’ll post back to this thread as soon as I have the store fully setup so you can see what I’ve done with it.
@Aisha - I don’t think you can embed Javascript into a blogspot post so I’m really not sure that you could use it there.
I am blown away by your thoughtful and well-written review of Pepperjam Store Builder - best one yet - Thank you!
We hope your readers take the Pepperjam Store Builder for a spin.
BTW - the suggestion for adding SID tracking to the technology is great - it has been added to the top 3 action items for our next update. The other two items are (1) the ability to automatically insert your affiliate ID into the Pepperjam Store Builder link at the bottom of the feed and (2) allow the affiliate to mask the actual affiliate link if they choose.
Some of the other things we intend to do proactively are provide further options for refining results, such as by price, color, etc. Also, within the next few days we will release the ability for the affiliate to download all of the products they selected through Pepperjam Store Builder as a flat file. Finally, we fully expect to widgetize the Pepperjam Store Builder technology so that affiliates can deliver PJN “products” in various attractive and innovative ways.
Let’s keep in mind here - the idea of Pepperjam Stor Builder is to provide affiliates with yet another way of monetizing Web traffic through Pepperjam Network.
Thanks for your tip and outstanding review.
Do not hesitate to contact us with a list of suggestions for future updates.
Kris Jones
CEO,
Pepperjam Network
Looks like an interesting program, might look into it.
How long does it take to be approved into this affiliate network? I signed up yesterday and am still waiting ?
This looks great. My one question is how well received are these web sites with search engines.
Great review helped me a lot. Thanks a lot
I’m a big fan of the pepperjam store builder, it works pretty well :D.
Ive been looking for a good store builder facility for absolutely ages, great post, thank you!
I was planning on adding some amazon product feeds onto my new blog but wanted to search around for other similar options. I new nothing about the Pepperjam network until I came aross your blog, so thanks for the informative post!
A friend of mine uses Pepper Jam, and he is very happy with the results of it :)
Pepperjam store builder is fantastic tool.I think it is most beneficial than others because it has many good advantages.That’s why its my first preference.