Affiliate Page Pro Review

Thursday, May 24th, 2007 at 5:00 pm

As most of my subscribers and customers will attest, I don't just recommend Internet marketing products to line my pockets.

It's very important to me that I provide you with objective reviews so that you can truly make the best decision for you and for your business. Sure, I do make money selling Internet marketing products as an affiliate. But... I will only endorse something and put my name behind it if I am completely confident that the product lives up to, and/or exceeds, its stated values.

So what does that mean to you? It means I review Internet marketing products before or after they are released to the public, and I share my honest opinion with my customers so they can make an informed decision.

This week's review is on a new software product called Affiliate Page Pro.

When I was first asked to take a look at this site I was frankly a bit weary... because there are so many software programs out there, surely this one couldn't do anything different.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that this software does something that, in my opinion, all product owners with affiliate programs need. Basically it generates an affiliate page which...

1) Collects your affiliates contact details...

2) Automatically add them to your favorite autoresponder to follow them and send them announcements for competitions, more promotional material and general motivation.

3) Automatically embed the affiliates name and affiliate links within the promotional material so there are no more accidents such as, , being sent to the affiliates subscribers.

This concept makes a lot of sense because imagine you're a big company with hundreds of sales people but you expect them to do everything themselves and you don't/can't talk to them at all. That would be ludicrous.

Ok affiliate pages make sense... but can't you do this by yourself. You sure can. But personally I'm not a programmer and I don't have the time and the resources to hire somebody else to create me an affiliate page which will do all this for me.

Affiliate Page Pro was designed to make the generation of affiliate pages ridiculously easy.

Ok lets talk about the software.

The software runs on your PC but is only for Windows users (sorry Mac owners) and has it's own installation program so it installs right in your start menu.

When you run the program it's nothing fancy, no eye popping graphics here, all you see is a long form to fill out, which takes you step by step through everything you need to create your own affiliate page.

You start with your affiliate program, if your using ClickBank all you need is your vendor ID, if not all you do is put your basic affiliate link and put #AFFILIATEURL# where the affiliate number or user name usually goes (eg. http://www.YourDomain.com/affid=#AFFILIATEURL#)

Then you fill in your autoresponder details, once again if you are using Aweber, GetResponse and 1stShoppingCart you fill in your normal form details and it works with an "invisible form" but if you are using something different you just put in your autoresponders email.

Ok, once that is done, you now have a series of fields for promotional material. It has the basic ones such as solo ad emails, forum signatures, email signatures, reviews and a few more and you can choose up to 5 of each. Then all you have to do is copy and paste your promotional material within the form fields and put #AFFILIATEURL# and #AFFILIATENAME# where you want the affiliates URL and name to appear. But the thing that I didn't like was that you couldn't add your own general fields, you were stuck with using theirs, hopefully they fix that in version 2, we will see.

From there you choose from 3 templates (very basic but all CSS, so you change the style.css file and it changes everything) and then you can preview your work and create it if you like what you see. The software then spits out a PHP file which you simply upload to your website and then link to it for all your affiliates to use to promote your products.

I especially liked how it automatically saves your project to load up whenever you want but once you have your PHP file and styles.css you can then change it however you want (even if you don't know PHP) all you have to do is open the file in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) html editor.

Overall the software is very good and does just what it says it does. Very intuitive, very quick and easy to use. Once again it's nothing pretty to look at but it does the job, and the current version is not as flexible as I would like it to be, but if I really wanted to I could change the completed PHP file which is A LOT easier then starting from scratch.

So in conclusion if you have any type of product and you market it via an affiliate program then you need an affiliate page and the easiest way to create an affiliate page is with Affiliate Page Pro.