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There are Multiple ways WP Zon Builder can Help you Monetize your Websites and Blogs.  With WP Zon Builder you can quickly and easily build Complete Websites filled with Amazon Products.

In Addition, you can also use it to add Products to existing websites.  It allows you to add sidebar products widgets, add inline product links anywhere inside your existing posts, create a Store category.  And more see details below…

Easily Build Stand alone stores in minutes, Watch video where Alex built a site in about 10 minutes using WP Zon Builder.

Stand alone Website Types

Build Stand alone stores – A site mainly dedicated to products of your choosing, see this link for an example.  Here the site is focusing on popular Cell phones and has a store look and feel.

Build Stand alone Review sites – There are several different review types you can put on your site:  your personal reviews, other people’s reviews, Youtube or video reviews, Outsource someone to write short reviews for you ($5-$10), etc.

Build complete Niche stores – Amazon sells just about everything, so there are 1000′s of products and Niches to choose from. Go shopping on Amazon and you will find many great ideas.

Build Content or Review site and separate Store site – Different URLs, sub domain or a sub directory. One site focusing on content and the other on products, both working together and pointing at each other. See example here.

Build Content or Review site with a Store as a Category – Normal content site about your niche, and have one category called Store, Products or Shop.  Put all of your products in that section and link to them from the content areas. See example here.

Build a Hub store – Where many of your content sites point to one store site. Like spokes on a wheel pointing to the Hub.

Build and Sell Sites – Build complete websites made with WP Zon Builder. See our Developers License for more details.

Niche Checklist Sites – Examples: top 5 items needed for a camping trip, top 10 products needed for survival, top 8 things children need for school, etc.

Ways to Monetize existing Websites

• Add Similar Products sidebar widget (Universal or post specific) (more info)
• Add Accessories sidebar Widget (Universal or post specific) (more info)
• Add Inline single product listing – add a product anywhere inside a post (more info)
• Add Inline Multi product listings - add multiple products anywhere inside a post (more info)
• Add Inline single and Multi listings to the bottom of all posts automatically – If you have several key products you want to place at the end of every post, you can.
• Add a Store/Products category to existing site – here you could have all your products listed (more info)
• Add links pointing to your store – either a category on existing site or a new URL
• Add WP Zon Builder Affiliate link – when someone clicks and purchases our product, you get paid, very easy.  Click here for details.

We hope this post has given you some good ideas on how to Monetize your Websites and Blogs.

Here is an excerpt that I thought was insightful.

Another site I reviewed had inadvertent duplicate content because they had too many similar but slightly different categories for their products, such as these:

http://www.example.com/bear-cave-photos/2428/dept

http://www.example.com/bear-cave-photo-gifts/1290/dept

They had more than 20 different URLs that all had pretty much the same products on them. Interestingly enough, many of them were bringing direct Google traffic. While that sounds like a good thing on the surface, I believe that if all the URLs had been consolidated into one, they’d have acquired even more weight and overall Google PageRank. This in turn would have provided the one main URL with an even better chance of showing up for even more targeted keyword phrases.

It would be a good idea to make a copy of the Amazon Theme Template Set you are using like suggested on the this video at about 4:28. http://www.wpzonbuilder.com/blog/how-to-modify-a-wordpress-template/

Or you can attempt to modify the Theme Template Set your are using now by going to:

http://www.yourSite.com/wp-admin/plugin-editor.php?file=amzn/templates/default/inlinemulti.html

Replacing the /default/ with the Theme Template Set you are using as shown on the “WPZonBuilder General Settings” -> “Template” page in the “Template Set” drop down box. Once you have the URL set up correctly you can copy and paste it into your browser and hit enter. You will be brought to a page where you can edit the HTML code right in WordPress and not have to use FTP.

Copy and paste the code below into the edit box replacing the existing code and click the Update File button. Create a post with an In-line Mutli to see how the results will display within your theme’s layout.

The CSS code below my need some adjustments to work within your theme’s layout. The 2 to watch are the width and height. Those setting should get you close to a 3 column layout with a uniform height. If you want a 2 column layout you can change the width to somewhere around 44% and the height would need to be adjusted or removed. You will see that adjusting the width to a smaller percentage can give you more columns if needed.


<style type="text/css">
<!--

.amzn_inlineColDiv {
width: 29%;
height: 260px;
text-align: center;
margin: 1%;
padding: 1%;
float: left;
border: 1px solid #CCC;

}
-->

</style>
<div class='amzn_inlinediv'>
<div class='amzn_inlineColDiv'>
<a [relnofollow] [targetblank] href="[DetailPageURL]" class='amzn_multititle'>[Title]</a><br /><br />

<a [relnofollow] [targetblank] title="[Title]" href="[DetailPageURL]"><img alt="[Title]" src="[SmallImage]" /></a><br />

<span class='amzn_ratingtext'>Average Rating:</span> <span class='amzn_rating'><img src='[StarURL]' style='border:none;' /></span><br />

[TotalReviews] total <a [relnofollow] [targetblank] href="[DetailPageURL]">customer reviews...</a><br />

</div>
</div>

Amazon’s API only returns certain sets of information.  The API does not return all of the information available on Amazon’s site itself.

Let us say that the Sale Price is not available through the API.

Recommended solution:

On the “WPZonBuilder Language Settings” page in the “Empty Data Returned By Amazon Web Services” section you can change the Empty Data fields with statements like this:

<a href=”[DetailPageURL]” target=”_blank”>Click here for Best Price!</a>

This will make the statement a link to the Amazon product page with your Tracking ID and cookie.  Getting the cookie set as soon as possible is a good thing.  So I feel this is a great solution for the situation when Amazon does not return data for a particular field.

Placing your own content before or after the [amzn_product_post] shortcode, found on the Edit screen of a Post or Page, will place the content either at the beginning or the end of your product post.

To change or modify the Product Description from Amazon you can edit the “amzn_ProductDescription” Custom Field of an individual WP Zon Builder product post.

To display the Custom Fields go to the Edit screen of the product you want to modify, then in the upper right corner of the screen you will see a tab labeled “Screen Options”.  Click that and check the box for “Custom Fields”.  Now when you scroll down the page you will see the “Custom Fields”.

You can modify or replace the content in the text field next to the ”amzn_ProductDescription” Custom Field.  Plain text or HTML can be put into the text field.  When done update the post and your new content will be displayed.

Put content like Reviews, Articles, Videos or images about your niche on the home page, then use WP Zon Builder to create a Store or Product Category filled with all of your Amazon Affiliate Products.

You can make your home page what ever you want. I like the idea of putting reviews and articles about your niche. Make sure you are targeting your keywords and the home page SEO is good for the search engines.

Many People already have website, so they can use WP Zon Builder to create a Store or Product category.  Here you can add 100’s of products to your existing site.

In WordPress go to the “Settings” -> “Reading” page.  There is a section called “Front page displays”.  You can make your choice there and save the changes.

Here is a quick video on how to make a static homepage.

WordPress 3.4 changed the way they handle Thumbnail/Featured Images.  This caused most sites to not show these images.  This is not a WP Zon Builder issue.  Here is a Google search for wordpress 3.4 images problem, which shows the problem.

The Solution

Download newest version of WP Zon Builder 2.5L or greater.  As of 2.5L, WP Zon Builder is coded to conform to the new WordPress 3.4 standard.  (Note – 2.5L will also work on older versions of WordPress)

Instructions:

New users, installs and websites:

• Use WP Zon Builder 2.5L or greater and Install like normal, no worries.

Existing WP Zon Builder sites that have already upgraded to WordPress 3.4:

If you already have sites set up with WP Zon Builder posts and have made the switch to WordPress 3.4 you may see that your Thumbnail/Featured Images are not working properly.

1. Upgrade to WP Zon Builder 2.5L or greater (see upgrade instructions here)
2. To auto update old images to the new WP 3.4 standard, go to this page on your site

   http://[SITE_DOMAIN]/wp-admin/admin.php?page=amzn_migrate_3_4

3. You are done

Existing WP Zon Builder sites that have Not upgraded to WordPress 3.4 yet:

If you have sites made with previous versions of WordPress and WP Zon Builder you can install the latest version of WP Zon Builder 2.5L or greater and not notice any changes.  But if you update your WordPress to 3.4 or higher at a later date you may/will encounter the Thumbnail/Featured Images problem for your posts that were made with previous versions of WP Zon Builder. The following steps will update the affected posts and you will be set to work with WordPress 3.4 or higher.

1. Upgrade to WP Zon Builder 2.5L or greater (see upgrade instructions here)
2. To auto update old images to the new WP 3.4 standard, go to this page on your site

   http://[SITE_DOMAIN]/wp-admin/admin.php?page=amzn_migrate_3_4

3. You are done.

It was just released and it either has a bug or they have changed the way they handle Featured Images and they will not be visible.

Here is a Google search for wordpress 3.4 images problem, which shows the problem.

Hopefully this will be resolved soon.  We will update this post when we have more info, so check back here.

New update and solution click here.