WPZONBuilder Review: Just Another Amazon.com WordPress Plugin?
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May 25, 2010
As an avid auto blogger and affiliate marketer, I am very picky about the tools and plugins I use when I create my blogs, content, and then monetize the sites. When I was asked recently to review the WordPress Plugin WPZONBuilder, my expectations were very low as I have seen the home page of the WPZONBuilder site and I fully expected the plugin to JUST be able to auto post Amazon.com products to a blog.
For some of you, you might think that this is an unreasonable expectation. You might think that is enough and for some people it might be. I am very picky about how content is presented on my sites, especially sites that use auto generated content. The problem with these types of sites is that content needs to be mixed and changed from it’s original form in order to be productive. With Google only getting smarter, I need more from a plugin other than straight duplicate content. Especially content that comes from Amazon.com. Amazon’s content is the most over used and abused content on the web and the need to create something original is important.
I should have known better considering this plugin is from the same person who also created WPReviewEngine, but out of the box, WPZONBuilder looks like it has nothing special. It will gather Amazon.com products via the Amazon Web Services API and quickly populate your site with products. It will also allow you to post the Reviews from Amazon.com as comments (with some nice options for manipluating the Reviews that are posted). After testing just this basic set of posting tools I was not very impressed, but then I looked a little deeper. One of the components that I find to be essential as I already stated, is a template system that will allow you to change how the content is displayed on your site. WPZONBuilder has this. It is not as easy to use as I would like (easy to use for me, but may be harder for a beginner), but you can quickly change the templates and load them into your plugin folder after making new template files based off the default.
The templating system is not the only way to change content. In the language settings, you can manipulate how content will appear if the standard content (like product details) does not exist in the Amazon listing. You can easily change what you want your post to say when this happens. Then, in the Integration area, you can easily add content to automatically appear either right before or immediately after your Amazon product listing. The ability to add WordPress shortcodes and WPZONBuider template tags to these content areas are great as you can quickly add in eBay auction listings via phpBay or more Amazon lstings via phpZON with their shortcode template tags.
All of this in itself appealed to me and showed me that this Plugin is a first rate tol for monetizing your WordPress blogs, but it also has a few more essential features that will make it appeal to almost everyone who wants to add Amazon products to their blogs as posts, but even more so to those who want to add products to pre-exisitng content or other posts they are creating. WPZONBuilder has it’s own WordPress shortcodes and this makes it easy to add Amazon products to any other blog templating system that accepts them, but there is also an easy to use inline product addition tool that is added to your Post Editor page that allows you to either add in an Amazon.com ASIN or to Search for Amazon products and create a list of products in your post based on this search with the click of a button.
WPZONBuilder also comes with a host of Widgets you can add into any widget area on your blog, adding in valubale content and even YouTube Video Reviews of products you are listing. There is a Click Tracking feature as well that allows you to see how many clicks your products are generating and from what posts.
Take a look at the video I created which shows you exactly what I have talked about here. It will give you a better idea of exactly how all of these features are laid out and how this great WordPress Plugin works:
The bottom line is that on the surface this WordPress Plugin for Amazon affiliate product promotions might look very basic, but after a deeper look you will find that it has a great set of advanced features that make it one of the best Amazon.com product promotion Wordpress Plugins on the market.
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Comments
Richard
June 2nd, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Hi Mike,
How do you compare it with ReviewAzon? I remember that it has template system too. Did you find anything it can do while ReviewAzon cannot do? Thanks.
MarketingCrazy
June 2nd, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Hey Mike!
Great review. I'm also wondering how it might compare to ReviewAzon, and which might have an edge over the other.
Thanks.
Article Wizard
June 3rd, 2010 at 4:36 am
Yep same here – ReviewAzon or WPZon or even vs. WP Robot Amazon module?
Chris
June 4th, 2010 at 6:13 pm
Too bad that Amazon “fired” all their affiliates in the state I live in due to sales tax. Can't make money from them anymore (darn politicians). Don't need that software …
Mike Johnson
June 5th, 2010 at 2:21 am
The main difference is that WPZONBuilder will post the Amazon product
reviews as Comments where ReviewAZON posts them as part of the actual Post.
Also, ReviewAZON has templates for about every part of the API you can
imagine (and an easier Templating process), where WPZONBuilder just has the
single Posting Template you can change to as many versions as you want.
WPZONBuilder has a lot more options for sidebar widgets of different content
than ReviewAZON does though.
They are very comparable. Which one you pick is determined by the features
you are looking for.
Mike
Mike Johnson
June 5th, 2010 at 3:04 am
It is all in how you use them as to how they perform. Both are very
comparable.
Mike
Mike Johnson
June 5th, 2010 at 4:11 am
No, the WP Robot Amazon module isn't anywhere close to having the features
of the other 2 plugins.
Mike
Mike Johnson
June 5th, 2010 at 6:23 am
Yes, that is about the weirdst thing I have seen in Affiliate Marketing so
far.
Mike
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John MacDonald
June 28th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
I lived in that State and was “fired”, back on Amazon now, Stuff the Politicians
Love your reviews and blog, Thanks.
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