ukescuba,
Good luck to you and best wishes for your family.
To rest of the folks,
Can you tell me if this script will help me achieve what I described at this thread:
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/affiliate-programs/184327-creating-deals-website-affiliate-links-joomla-wp-custom-made.html
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Hi everyone,
I would like to know if you guys know how to:
1. Create a website that will feature daily deals from various merchants (PCs, cell phones, electronics, camera,, you name it)
2. There should be a backend management interface to add, delete deals etc
3. The admin should be able to add affiliate links to the urls going out to the merchants' product
4. There are lot of examples of these site out there: http://www.deals2buy.com, http://www.fatwallet.com, http://www.slickdeals.net etc
Questions:
1. Does Joomla lend itself better for such site?
2. WP is great for ease of use , may be there are plugins out there that will allow me to do, not sure if the WP site can scale well when have thousands of deals?
3. How does the website receive deals from merchants? I'm assuming one signs up as their affilaites wither through CJ etc or directly and then gets their datafeed. Data feed will have to be parsed and converted into display blocks? How do I do this? Any plugins/scripts to do that?
4. Heard of Jeff Johnson's ATM Pro http://www.affiliatetrafficmachine.com/ , is that something that can fit the bill?
5. Should this kind of site be developed somewhat from scratch?
Please share you thoughts on how best this could be done.
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