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ABB will be back and it’s getting better then ever before

In April last year I created a tool called Affiliate Blog Builder (ABB) which imports products from CJ.com into wordpress. It worked good until WP 2.5. What I intended to build was what I had named project WP Octopus. It would be a tool to build affiliatesites that would have comparisontables, reviews, images, questions & answers and would work not just with CJ.com but also with Linkshare, Amazon, ShareASale, Tradedoubler and many others. ABB as I sold it then was the first step. But until 5 months ago I never had the time to develop it futher and make it up to date to work with wp 2.7. That was until January….as you might have read I went away in December 2008 and when we got back in January I made a drastic change in our company. I wanted to be 100% internet related and not depending on product of actual products. I created the prebuild sites and templates in mentioned before just to keep the cash flow comming as I knew I wanted to bring ABB back to live and finally make the product I intended all along.  In the mean while I had been working on ABB. The last 3 months it’s been almost daily and during my visit to Suriname (the country my wife comes from) I took the laptop with me and wrote a lot of code. ….the result…. :)  the new ABB is in Beta now I think it’s the ulimate tool to build affiliate sites around actual products. It has a ton of features that I always looked for myself but never found. Just to name a few…

• automaticlly updating prices
• autmaticlly adding new products
• automatic link products together that are the same
• modulair layout. You decide which modules to show in the post

Works with

• Amazon.com
• Amazon.co.uk
• Amazon.de
• Amazon.jp
• Amazon.fr
• CJ.com
• Linkshare
• Tradedoubler
• Affiliatewindow

I am working on adding

• Shareasale
• Clickbank

Networks that will follow asap are

• Pepperjam
• Webgains
• Linkconnector
• Google Affiliate Network

The modules that you can use in the post are

• adding Youtube video’s on the fly
• adding eBay listings (all countries and advanced options like zipcode targetting if you like)
• adding reviews
• adding images
• adding adsense
• adding specifications/features
• comparison table
• description
• Questions & Answers

You decide once which module to add and with every post it’s added automaticly.

I will publish a few screenshots in the comming week. I expect to have it out of Beta next week and I’ll do a promotion for my current customers, friends and people that entered my newsletter. If you want to be updated enter your name and email and I’ll send you the updates and the special promotion when it’s ready.

I have restored almost all posts with the help of msn and the waybackmachine http://web.archive.org. I need to upload the templates I made and the images so those can be unavaiable for a day or two.
If you find some error 404 page not found let me know.

Backup backup backup…. I know and should do it but if I ask you …when was the latest backup of all your work?

Two years ago my computer crashed and all my work was gone. That computer was the one I used for my business and all pending orders, images, and emails were on it. I did have the habit of printing every order so i did had most of the emailadresses of customers. After that I promised myself to make a regular backup and so i did …for a couple of months

3 weeks ago I went away for a trip of 2 weeks. Before it I had a lot of work with the mug priniting business plus I released the software of ABB (affiliateblogbuilder.com ) …it was hectic. I also cleaned house with hosting and got rid of several hostingaccounts and a dedicated server and switch almost everything to hostgator.  I made several mistakes … 1. I DIDN’T backed up 2. I thought I downloaded everything and when i uploaded it to the new server I assumed all was the same as it was on the old servers 3. I didn’t checked everything (nameservers, files etcetc)

STUPID …what happend was first during my 2 weeks I had no access to the internet. Second I forgot to download and upload this domain so all posts were gone . I will use http://web.archive.org to get some things back but I guess some posts will be lost forever. But the worst thing was that at affiliateblogbuilder.com some files weren’t uploaded which caused new customers with an error and as I was away and not aware of the problem I got some nice(not) comments of several forums.

So the lesson learned : Backup everything and never try to cramp things in a few days just before a holiday or trip…you will make faults which will hurt you.

I started I new site at www.deblogging.com where I will post code and templates that are “deblogged”. What I mean with it is templates that have a less bloggy feel and touch but are run on Wordpress as backend. The reason why is that I love Wordpress as a cms but I do not always want to have a blog when I build a website.
Wordpress is a great tool and I use it alot on my sites but out of the box it is not everything I want and with these templates I want to include the following

• SEO friendly
• Static Homepage
• Different pages for categories
• Contact and Privacy page included
• Sitemap

If you go to deblogging.com you will see a layout of what I have in mind and I expect to have it ready this week.