Using Skimlinks with Drupal to build product databases and affiliate links to retailers.

1. The Automated Money Making Machine*
Using Drupal 7 to monetize content
(which you don't even have to create)
*Your mileage may vary

2. Affiliate Marketing
How it works (in brief):
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You mention a product or service on your site.
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You link off to the supplier (Amazon, Play etc.).
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They pay you a referral fee as a thank you.
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It can get messy managing multiple suppliers.

3. Skimlinks
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Skimlinks does all the hard work.
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Links are automatically affliated using one bit
of JavaScript.
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One central place to collect your earnings from.
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http://skimlinks.com

4. Drupal's Skimlinks Module
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Simple embedding of the JavaScript snippet.
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Node input flter to re-write links.
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Supports masked redirect domains.
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Available from
http://drupal.org/project/skimlinks

5. Skimlinks module demo

6. Everyfeed API
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Aggregates 18 million suppliers products.
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Unifed API to search.
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Some what categorised data.
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Still beta in the Skimlinks Lab.

7. Everyfeed Data for 'Beer'

8. Drupal's Everyfeed Module
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Simple install and go, No confguration mess.
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Supports multiple search keywords.
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Restrict searches to categories.
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Automatic product node generation.
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Easy add and removal of resulting products.
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Can update existing product nodes.

9. Everyfeed module demo

10. Finishing moves
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Generate content and link to suppliers using
Everyfeed API
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Use Skimlinks to replace the supplier direct
links with the affliated redirection link.
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Use Drupals other tools to add value and drive
traffc to the site.
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Blog posts, RDF, Views, Taxonomy

11. Demo of a live site
dinocrunch.co.uk

12. Mike Carter
drupal.org/user/13164
@buddaboy
www.ixis.co.uk