AliExpress Affiliate Plugin
- Thread starter MikeAus
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no, it's not about CJ, it's about an independent AliExpress affiliate program with access to its API.
Building the plugin. I want to create a product that can be setup in just few clicks using WordPress platform and can import products directly from AliExpress.
Here is what I have created for this moment:
Dashboard - a user can find information about the total number of products uploaded to his site, total number of views and most popular products.
Configuration section stores data about user's API key and Tracking ID got from AliExpress.
Import Products will have two options - bulk importing and importing particular products.
What do you think? Any recommendations regarding features and functionality?
Here is what I have created for this moment:
Dashboard - a user can find information about the total number of products uploaded to his site, total number of views and most popular products.
Configuration section stores data about user's API key and Tracking ID got from AliExpress.
Import Products will have two options - bulk importing and importing particular products.
What do you think? Any recommendations regarding features and functionality?
It looks pretty awesome! Are you thinking about selling it later? What do you do with links back to Aliexpress? Do you hide the refferer somehow?
Thank you! I have not decided yet about selling the plugin. The primary task now is to create a good product that can work and bring profit. I am going to apply the option that will shorten the affiliate links but when you are romoting a whole web store with hundreds of products the type of the links don't play a great role.
Great news that AliExpress API gives a possibility to collect very interesting data that will be very helpful for future affiliates.
For example, you can filter products by their commission rates (from 1% to 50%), Purchase Volume (how many times a particular product was sold for the last 30 days), Commission Expense (how much commission was earned by affiliates who promoted a particular product for the last 30 days).
It means that we can select and import the most popular and only high-earning products.
Here is a video about how Selective Importing module works:
AliExpress Plugin testing - YouTube
For example, you can filter products by their commission rates (from 1% to 50%), Purchase Volume (how many times a particular product was sold for the last 30 days), Commission Expense (how much commission was earned by affiliates who promoted a particular product for the last 30 days).
It means that we can select and import the most popular and only high-earning products.
Here is a video about how Selective Importing module works:
AliExpress Plugin testing - YouTube
They have launched a full-fledged affiliate program recently, but I know some people who are already making thousands monthly with it.
A plugin like this is sure to start popping up on the various usual places in due time. The first few may try to sell it, but it'll eventually be free. That's how it always works out. Then you'll find better ones being sold once the free ones hit. I've seen this so many times since I started dev'ing WordPress some 7-8 years ago. It's a cycle.
On the 11th of November there will be a shopping festival on AliExpress - it is considered as the world's biggest shopping event. If someone wants to try AliExpress affiliate program, I think it's the best time, because of huge sales and possibility to earn good commission.
There is a special promotion also available to partners of the new AliExpress Portals platform:
There is a special promotion also available to partners of the new AliExpress Portals platform:
Hi Mike, could you send me by PM the link of your independent affiliate program?
I don't want to go through CJ.
The plugin is almost ready. Everything works fine. Now I am developing several universal templates that could be used with the plugin and could be setup through the plugin settings. Soon I will present the first website built with the help of this plugin.
I have alos added a very useful feature - Scheduled Import.
Using this module the system will automatically import and update products on your site according to given parameters. So, you can just set all necessary filters and your site will get new products and updates on regular basis without any assistance.
I have alos added a very useful feature - Scheduled Import.
Using this module the system will automatically import and update products on your site according to given parameters. So, you can just set all necessary filters and your site will get new products and updates on regular basis without any assistance.
Interesting stats:
Alibaba holds promotions and sales each year on its shopping sites on November 11.
The company says it sold $2bn of goods in the first hour!!!
For Alibaba, last year's holiday translated into $5.75 billion in sales, breaking the previous year's record of $3.14 billion. It dwarfs the US's biggest online shopping day, Cyber Monday, which reached $1.46 billion in sales in 2013.
This year the figures are much higher.
That's a pity I could not finish the plugin before this date((( Some of my friends who are affiliated with AliExpress are reporting about huge commission they earn at the moment.
Alibaba holds promotions and sales each year on its shopping sites on November 11.
The company says it sold $2bn of goods in the first hour!!!
For Alibaba, last year's holiday translated into $5.75 billion in sales, breaking the previous year's record of $3.14 billion. It dwarfs the US's biggest online shopping day, Cyber Monday, which reached $1.46 billion in sales in 2013.
This year the figures are much higher.
That's a pity I could not finish the plugin before this date((( Some of my friends who are affiliated with AliExpress are reporting about huge commission they earn at the moment.