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PopShop redirect all links to your domain

admin — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:14:39 +0000

I like to have all external affiliate links point back to my domain. I don’t want to advertise lots of external links to search bots so I do some basic link cloaking back to my domain and redirect. I wanted the same effect with my PopShop products. Luckily, PopShops provides this as a feature for Enterprise users.

A little background, PopShops is a great tool to quickly add products across various affiliate networks (CJ, ShareASale, GAN, etc). There is NOT easier way to add products to your site than PopShops, and I’m a huge fan!

To add link redirection you will need to do two things.

#1 Add a piece of code on all pages that have PopShop products.

ob_start();
if (isset($_REQUEST[‘psps_product’]))
header(‘Location:http://r.popshops.com/’.$_REQUEST[‘psps_product’]);
ob_end_flush();
?>

#2 Adjust your PopShop shop (via PopShop’s interface) to allow Link Redirection
- Open your shop
- Click Preferences
- Click the Link Redirection tab
- Check ‘Have all product redirects point to your own domain.’

What this will do is convert links to look like this:

http://www.yourdomain.com/?psps_product=sp/130854/2970123463/my-product-item

When a user clicks the link, they will be redirected to the same page where it was created, but the hunk of code will detect ‘psps_product’ and redirect the user to the r.popshops.com domain and on to the designated affiliate.

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Dynamic XML/RSS Feed using PopShops

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:37:45 +0000

Well, I noticed that I haven’t added any code examples in a while, so here is a new one I’m working on now. PopShops is a great tool to display products from different merchant networks like Commission Junction, LinkShare, ShareASale, etc. You can quickly create product pages and have them delivered using multiple methods. Methods include javascript, PHP, XML, etc.

I’ve been using the Pro account for a while on a single site. With my continuing efforts to become more diversified I’ve been focusing on more PopShop stores, so I upgraded my account to the Enterprise level. This is important if you want to have unlimited affiliate PIDs, etc. Currently the free or Pro option allows for one affiliate ID / merchant. So if you have many domains listed with CJ, you can only provide one PID to track. That’s a problem, and was an obvious choice to upgrade the account. If you upgrade you also get additional features like XML/RSS options for your store.

With this option you can easily create dynamic XML/RSS feeds. The example below is using XML, since I wanted price and image URLs to be parsed out of the content. RSS includes these directly in the ‘description’ and would require additional, non-needed parsing. My example is also using PHP5′s simplexml_load_string() function. You will need to make sure that PHP is compiled with simplexml support for this to work. If you’re using PHP4 you’ll most likely have to use domxml_open_mem() for this to work. I will not cover/support PHP4 in this post.

You will need to follow these instructions listed at PopShops (http://www.popshops.com/faq/affiliate-rss-xml)

What you will need:
1. A enterprise account

How you do it:
1. Go ahead and create your shop the normal way by searching and adding products.
2. Go to the ‘Pop it in’ tab.
3. Select the ‘RSS2′ or the ‘XML’ option in the code drop down.
4. Copy the link to the rss version of your shop, and paste it into the address bar of your favorite browser (FireFox). It should look something like this:
http://shops.popshops.com/shops/c49…59d6dc61a73.rss
5. You should see an RSS/XML version of your shop.
6. Now just add ?psps_search=KEYWORDS obviously replacing KEYWORDS with whatever term you are searching on. You will now have a keyword driven RSS/XML feed. So for example:
http://shops.popshops.com/shops/c49…earch=ipod+case

function send_request($rest){
global $rootpath;
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5; // set to zero for no timeout
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $rest);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$file_contents = @curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $file_contents;
}

$count = false;
$url = ‘http://shops.popshops.com/shops/0snmheiasfasdeadsff_search=star+wars’;
$rss_feed = send_request($url);
if(strlen(trim($rss_feed)) > 0){
$resp = simplexml_load_string($rss_feed);
foreach($resp->product as $item) {
$count = true;
echo $item->name."
";
echo $item->price."
";
echo $item->description."
";
echo $item->url."
";
echo $item->large_image_url."
";
echo "

";
}
}
if(!$count){
echo ‘no records found’;
}
?>

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popshops

admin — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:56:43 +0000

In my constant search for finding ways to monetize sites, I started hearing the buzz about PopShops. Okay, I’ll bite. Basically, PopShops is a aggregator of datafeeds from multiple affiliate networks out there. Basically, they take in datafeeds from merchants within affiliate networks and gives you the ability to add products (across networks) and present that within your web site. They currently offer a “free” plan which gives you 10 pages/store/showcase, whatever makes sense to you. Also the free account only gives you javascript delivery method. Immediately, I didn’t like the free account, since I want bots to be able to read my pages, and javascript won’t cut it.

I upgraded to “Pro” which costs $5/month. I thought I’d give this a shot. With this option, you have unlimited store pages and most importantly, you can deliver the products via PHP (or other scripting languages). My first concern was related with security. I didn’t want any type of url fopen() type code, where potential PHP could be embedded into my site auto-magically. I was glad to see that they’re using cURL to send a created URL and return a HTML content block back from their server. This block is basically your theme (defined at PopShops) in raw HTML. This is great since this will be easily read and indexed. If you do not have cURL functionality on the server they provide a initial check for cURL and next it will fall back to fread() to fetch/receive the HTML content.

Currently, they’re members of the following affiliate networks: Commission Junction, LinkConnector, LinkShare, Performics, Red Galoshes and ShareASale. I’m running into a few issues with LinkShare’s encrypted ID that we’re working through, but I was able to create a large store in about an hour. The Pro account has some problems (which they solve with the Enterprise account… I wish they wouldn’t constantly hold the carrot in front of me!). Basically, Pro provides unlimited store/pages, but you’re restricted to one PID or account ID. My brain wants to create many PopShops where I can track each site separately. This is available in the Enterprise model for $30/month. That’s a bit more than I want to spend at this phase of the game. If the site I just created looks promising, and I see a decent return, I’ll push to the Enterprise level. Along with PID management, you can manage the SID value as well. Which is important to me for keyword tracking.

One thing that I don’t like with PopShops is the inability to provide ‘paging’ within the result sets returned. They offer a “related items” addition to your products, and with that you are provided with paging. Not sure why they can’t offer that with basic product pages? I was thinking about parsing the HTML result set and making my own page handling, but read post on a forum where they stated that they’re looking into this functionality.

My initial plan with my first PopShop is to promote with light PPC to see what kind of traffic I can get to it, and to see what kinds of returns I can hope to see. With this experiment, I’m going to go straight PopShop items only.. no eBay, no Adsense.

I’ll be sure to report my findings.

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