Installing and running an Amazon Affiliate Store is very quick and easy using ASM2 (Amazon Store Manager Version 2), a free Ammazon Affiliate Store script. You could be up and running within a couple of minutes literally.
Beyond this basic is the need of many webmasters to develop their stores into a specialized or as a niche product store. This is a bit more time consuming as each has to to select the correct product range to complement the contents of their sutes, and subsequently do a collection of the nodes (product category number) for inclusion in the script/nodes/*.inc files.
Harvesting these nodes for ASM2 webmasters is now very much easier with the introduction of BrowseNode.name, a browsennode lookup facility specially configured for ASM2. It comes with a very simple interface and facilities for you to browse not only product nodes from Amazon.com, but also from Amazon.CA and Amazon.CO.UK.
The product nodes are displayed in three different formats, each corresponding to a specific use within the script. The sample 'harvest' used below corresponds to the Men's Apparel & Accessories shop of Amazon.com.
Browse nodes for the *.inc file
This is a sample of the 'basic' harvest of the nodes from the category or subcategory that you pick from the menu column. Copy this list directly to the correct node category your *.inc file. Edit or add nodes from tha same store category to this list to complement you sites niche target.
Browse nodes for the *_browse.inc file
This harvest is normally used for a store that is customized only to carry these category of products. The list is 'copied' to the script/nodes/*_browse.inc file. This listing will be displayed as you main menu items.
Browse node links for hardcoded menu
This harvest is used as a hard-coded menu items, and is copied to the script/templates/header.tpl (or whatever file the menu column is assigned to) file. It can be used to replace the %%leftNav%% variable of the script or can be added to as a supplementry list of menu items.
BrowseNode.name is authored by myhart, also the webmaster of another Google top ranking website, Antique Furniture by My Hart. myhart is an active member of the Affiliate-Developer Forum and is always with a concise and precise answer to specific support queries by members of the forum.
