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I don't think you understood my question. I know I can join multiple affiliate networks, my question is more getting at whether there is an ecommerce platform, that you can put on a website, that would compare products across different networks (for the user).

HI, Personally I would stay away from satellite sites - very dangerous ground that can back fire very easily. What I would suggest is focus all efforts that are you planning to put into the satellite sites and build one single competitor site for your main site - and don't inter link (at least not just yet). Build this new site - you can call it a satellite domain if you want - but act like is a stand alone site with his own path in life When this site will have authority and only then, link to sites in the industry including yours if you still want to send most of the PR to your current main site. You can even link to competitors if you want to but don't link to the pages that you fight for

I use shareasale.com to track the performance of affiliates. I think there is no best affiliate network out there. What works for you is the one for you.

Amazon have "astore" which you can incorporate (embed) into your own website.  I think you need seperate affiliate accounts for US and UK. http://astore.amazon.com/

Hi Nakul, Thanks for your advice but here I have lots of content for free and very week keywords. Plus the fact that I dont have competition. Another thing what I like local is that the seoed sites dont need maintenance. If I go global I will have to pay writers because english is not my primary language and I will have huge competition. I Have already one lead generation site and one affiliate which are working local. The lead site is working very well (each lead is 150 dollars and bring in 1 every 1-2 days) plus I discover now another local niche for leads which can bring in 1500 dollars per lead. As for the affiliate site is very low the conversion (1 per month, if I am lucky) but is not well marketed. So I was thinking where to spend my time...I have also few adsense in english but brings very few coins...Here I can create many kind of lead generation sites because I know many people who dont know what is seo and this stuff and they dont like to pay for them...so they prefer to pay on leads....

I got this reply from the  the webmaster regarding this Crawl issue, after I copy paste your reply. Please read what he said "All the links on the splash page and other pages on the site are standard html href tags (except search and login which is a form) so please can you clarify what you mean." So what you think we could do to fix the crawl issue?

Hi Saeed, Don't bother with the Hubs or Squidoo. Focus your efforts on creating great content for your own site and blog. I noticed the blog - http://giftbaskets4kids.blogspot.com.au/ - is quite spammy looking and probably not content that is going to get shared. What I would do is create a Christmas gift guide on your site with several different categories and pages, and then go about creating a plan to write great content for your site and blog that will promote these gift ideas. When writing content for you blog, make sure it's going to be useful to the customer. Don't be afraid to link to outside sources. Thanks

If I understand this correctly, you are the merchant, and you have some affiliate software.  Your affiliates will come to your software and get these links to use, which are not clean?  You then want the affiliates to have a clean URL to use to link to you? That's actually done very commonly by many experienced affiliates already.  In terms of SEO, most affiliates that I know set their affiliate links to go through a sub directory link like /go or /jump.  That directory typically gets blocked in the robots.txt file, so that those links will be completely ignored by spiders - so as a merchant, you'll still get the clicks, but won't get any SEO benefit from doing that. It really is better if you can just use an affiliate program that gives your affiliates clean links in the first place.  The cleaner your links are, the less likely that affiliates will think to cloak the links on their own websites, and use some techniques that reduce any SEO value of those links for you.  For your affiliates, the simpler / easier you make it for them - the better results you're going to see from your program.

Is that the source or target of the redirect? When I check the header on that page, I'm seeing a regular 200 (OK). Since you use the non-www version of the URLs, I tried them with "www.", but those seem to be 301-redirecting properly. I'm not seeing any 302s offhand.

.....since "real" ecommerce sites don't run ads as well? Sure they do.  Haven't you seen ads on amazon.com?  They are called "product ads from external websites" (look low on the page on right side).   Ebay has lots of ads.  Hayneedle stores have ads (look at bottom of page). I run ads on my ecommerce sites and block ads from direct competitors.  I vary their position depending upon how much I want to throttle my sales. ....I have a site now on precious metals which is high-content, low amount of adsense... Adsense does better for me with precious metals content than affiliate links.  But, then it will depend upon the type of content that you have.  Some topics inspire shopping more than others.  Of, course the PM sites will gladly buy links from you.... but I am not a seller. I was thinking I might choose one metals broker affiliate link (like a Goldbank or someone) and place it in the sidebar. Would that small change screw up my rankings? Probably not... if you nofollow the link. And, "a site with a shopping cart operated by the affiliate program" I'm not clear on this. Why is that? It makes you look like a retailer instead of an affiliate.

A common practice is to provide a page for affiliates to access that has unique content, images, banners, etc for affiliates to use.  This can be anything from descriptions, to blog posts.  Affiliates are pretty busy and appreciate short-cuts, so providing that information to them makes their job easier, and prevents you from the possibility of any duplicate content penalties.

"Your site wont get any penalties as long as your site was indexed first." Who is indexed first  does not matter.  What matters is who has authority.  Authority often wins even if last published.

Thanks rango I think you're right. It's a strange one, though, they have a new URL but I wonder if they treat it as duplicate content?

Keep in mind that, even if the nofollow does block that path (and I agree with others that that's dubious - I've seen Google take a lot of liberties), there are still potentially other paths to those deeper pages, including old, inbound links. Even if there are no paths at all, but Google previously indexed this pages, they may keep indexing them. Ultimately, you'll probably a need some stronger medicine here.

don't use meta refresh. Use a 301 redirect. Google 301 and htaccess. If you're using a CMS, there are plugins for that.

I've no idea what would be a good commission rate in that sector. It's not an area I've worked. However, if competitors are on networks then that might provide some indication. Tracking sales is very straightforward. You just need to drop a cookie whenever one of your affiliates sends a visitor and check those cookies when enquiries are made.  Depending on how complex your systems are and what numbers you are working with reporting can get fiddly though. There are lots of scripts out there that will do this all for you. We're big on custom building stuff, so I don't really know any of the 3rd party solutions well enough to mention by name. However there are a few and some seem to be quite well respected. What sites would I target? The regional focus means that I'd definitely start with local sites.  I'd dig out a list of every town and city in my area and see which have local community sites and start finding contact details for them.

Sometimes a rebuild is the only way but that isn't always the case.  I would start by cleaning up your titles etc... you can hold off on the dup content - if yours was there first it may not be affecting you, it could just be affecting those who stole your content (that is what is supposed to happen...)

Thank You, this is helpful

Hi Mat. Thanks for your input and suggestions on this. Some very useful points, especially about adding an extra paragraph in at the end. I will try this. It's a very new website, so just trying to build on the traffic and get established in the niche right now. All the best