Affiliate Programs

Goldencan Affiliate Marketing Program Review 

For those affiliate markerters such as myself who are code and database challenged, Goldencan offers us the chance to use data feeds and create huge online stores with hundreds or thousands of prodcuts from many name brand merchants, all with only a few lines of code.

If you can cut & paste, you can have an online store with thousands of products almost instantly

Goldencan offers affiliate marketers data feeds from many online retailers. They’re not retailers no one every heard of either. Stores like Amazon, Circuit City, Overstock.Com and Shoes.com. (there are many, many more)

I’ve used Goldencan for a few years now. You’ll first need to be signed up for you choice of merchants under one of the affiliate marketing networks like CJ, Shareasale, LinkShare, BeFree or Performics. Once you’re signed up for the merchant of your choice, and been approved, you then create a free account on Goldencan.

Select the stores from your Goldencan account, fill in the information on the form that Goldencan request, and voila! Goldencan will generate the necessary codes in your choice of Javascript, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET or ASP.NET C#.

Now there is one small catch with using Goldencan. (you knew there had to be for something that sounds this good) That is, some of the merchants are what they call “4th Click” merchants. What this means is that Goldencan will receive credit for every 4th click.

For example, let’s say you had 4 clicks from customers. The first 3 clicks on affiliate links, you’ll get your normal credit for if they buy something. Now when the 4th click is made, Goldencan get the credit for that click, whether the customer buys something or not.

Not all merchants operate this way under Goldencan, but many do and you can see a list of “Free Merchants” and “4th click” merchants on Goldencan’s website.

So why do they charge the 4th click? It’s a way for Goldencan to make money of course. They don’t just sit around and write code to make things like this work. They need compensated for their time just like anyone else. It’s either that or learn to deal with massive data feeds and program coding to make your online stores! For me, that 4th click is well worth it. It lets me create huge stores with thousands of prodcuts that I wouldn’t have otherwise had. (unless I paid someone a LOT of money to code it for me)

I have several different types of stores running under Goldencan. I have a few sites with nothing but products on them. They do sell some products, but my most successful pages are the ones that have good content on them. Stories, reviews, how-to articles, etc. I add affiliate product links from Goldencan at the bottom or at the side of the content pages. These products are relevant to the content.

For example, you wouldn’t have a story about blue trashcans and put affiliate links to womens make-up on the page. You’ll make a lot more money with links about blue trashcans on that page!

Another nice feature about Goldencan, at least the merchants I’ve used, is that the prices and descriptions automatically updates when the merchant updates their database. Sweeeet! (unless you love downloading and tweaking data feeds from merchants)

You also have the feature of making a huge integrated store from many merchants. Let’s say you an affiliate for Circuit City, Amazon, Ritz Camer and Wolf Camera. You could have a storefront featuring all of these Merchants together. All with a few lines (generally less than 5 and in many instances, only 1 line) of code.

Goldencan allows those of us smaller and beginning affiliate marketers to have huge online storefronts that we wouldn’t otherwise have. They make it quick and easy.

Give ‘em a try or just drop by and look over their program at Goldencan.Com.

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