FREEBS - Amazon Book Store Software

Here is FREEBS - Free Book Store.

Add hundreds or possibly thousands of relevant content pages to your site!

Feel free to download the code for testing purposes, review, or use.

When installed and setup the FREEBS install program will make SOAP calls to Amazon for your keyword and populate a MySql database with book information. You can set the number of book results to return in the search for your keyword in the config.php file. 100 search return results may be a good test. But feel free to go for it, no matter how many returns the search engine claims there are, we will only get the first 250 pages or 2500 returns. From testing at that point we find most books are discontinued or duplicate returns anyway. That is about a six minute pull. Then the database update occurs and that is very fast too. About 2 minutes. You will then be told how many books you will list.

The 250 page 2500 result limit is an Amazon thing. Nothing we can do for now. They talked about 3200 or even unlimited, but this gives an average of about 800 book pages to list. Not too shabby for content.

Please do not redistribute this code in any way shape or form in whole or in part. For quality control please refer folks here to download the latest code.

Demo:
FREEBS - Free Book Store Configured Demo (http://www.familyseekers.org/genealogy-books/)

FREEBS - Free Book Store Back End Demo (http://www.familyseekers.org/amazon/freebsbedemo.php)

Download:
Download FREEBS - Free Book Store (http://www.cpurigs.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=29)

To Install and Test:

Download and unzip the files.

Create a MySql database or use an existing one.

Run the queries in freebs.sql to create the freebs tables.

Edit the includes/config.php file with your amazon associates ID (http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/ref=gw_bt_as/103-0066583-4095040?node=3435371), amazon developers token (http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/103-0066583-4095040?node=3435361&), database and keyword info.

You may use our Associate ID and Developers Token for testing this package. You may use our Developers Token when running the package with your own Associate ID.

Create a folder on your web server for the FREEBS book store.

Upload the p3.php, index.php, and book.php files. Also uploade the images, templates, and includes folders and all the files in them.

Execute p3.php to populate the database. Delete this file from your server when done. Maybe even rename it before uploading it so it's unique too.

Enjoy your book store.

Thanks

Please see the Amazon Web Services License Agreement (http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/103-0066583-4095040?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=3435361) as well as the Amazon Associates (http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/ref=sc_fe_c_2_3309511_1/103-0066583-4095040?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=3435371&no=3309511&me=A36L942TSJ2AJA) information before installing and using the software.

FREEBS utilizes the NuSOAP - Web Services Toolkit for PHP (http://dietrich.ganx4.com/nusoap) and the Amazon Search PHP Class from the ECS 3.0 SDK (file:///C:/webfiles/amazon%20parser/kit/AmazonWebServices/API%20Guide/index.html) including a custom method in the AmazonSearch.php file included with this package.

This software is issued with no warranty or guarantee of any kind.

Per Joey's suggestions, FREEBS 1.03 is posted with dynamic header capabilities.

See the download link above.

Yep - Great hack Noppid. Everyone should install this. Why? Because it is a revenue producer for your site and costs you nothing to have it.

1.10 has been out a week with about 30 installs and no complaints.

G has walked hundreds of book at my Home Repair (http://www.buyhomerepairbooks.com/) site.

I have it on 5 sites, Google hasn't indexed any pages yet which is a bummer, it would have been great for this weeks Google update......anyway I will be ready for the next one :D .

I have it on 5 sites, Google hasn't indexed any pages yet which is a bummer, it would have been great for this weeks Google update......anyway I will be ready for the next one :D .

Yeah, we all missed this update, but more will come.

Build your incoming links and the spiders will visit. Several other users have have seen results already.

Thanks for checking in.

Can one use more than one keyword?

Ok, I'm having the same problem with the SEO optimized version as I am with the EZ archive hack, and I bet it's related.

When SEO is enabled, I get 404 errors when calling "http://www.domesticmuscle.com/books/key-l-1.html" for instance.

The pages are not dynamically being created. Is this a limitation of IIS? I made the appropriate changes to .htaccess, but I don't think it is relevant to IIS.

IIS can't do the required mod-rewrite with .htaccess file we use for SEO mode.

The php urls are short, they will be spidered just as well I'm certain. There is no session hash in the URL or in effect for that matter, so they are short.

I bet ya can do similar in IIS, I just have no clue how.

Can one use more than one keyword?

Yes, set your main keyword in the config.php and then add more books with different keywords using the keyword overirde in p3.php.

ok... I think I found something similiar

http://www.isapirewrite.com/

Now I just have to figure out how to rewrite the rules appropriately.

Boy, I've been annoying today, haven't I? :D

Looks like it may help if your host goes for it. Good luck.

But please, don't be scared of the php urls, they work fine.

I know they work... I've tested that out. I am just hoping for the search engine optimization. :)

Ok, another question. I'd like to list all the books in a store (it's a small store), instead of a letter index. This is because many letters don't have any valid links. What can key= in the url to display all? * doesnt work.

PHP URLs are just as spiderable. I should have left the mod re-write out to prove it.

But moving on, no there is no show all. Your book store will grow even if you do nothing and that page would become too big eventually.

My computer store went from 4K to over 16K books in 3 weeks and I did not touch it.

Oh I thought it was static, and you had to re-run p3.php to pull down new additions. Am I incorrect?

On a side note, a recommendation for later versions would be the ability to easily remove information from the database. For instance, one of my keywords is 'mustang' and it pulled down many books about horses instead of the car :)

On another side note, I got the SEO mode to work with IIS. I can provide you the information if you'd like to include that in your distribution for others who wish to use SEO under IIS if you'd like.

Thanks again

Oh I thought it was static, and you had to re-run p3.php to pull down new additions. Am I incorrect?

On a side note, a recommendation for later versions would be the ability to easily remove information from the database. For instance, one of my keywords is 'mustang' and it pulled down many books about horses instead of the car :)

On another side note, I got the SEO mode to work with IIS. I can provide you the information if you'd like to include that in your distribution for others who wish to use SEO under IIS if you'd like.

Thanks again

For removing books, using phpmyadmin and deleting by asin would be as fast, if not faster, then any form I could code to do it. If you wait and let them expire, p3.php will eventually remove them.

If you would make a post at the FREEBS (http://www.cpurigs.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=29) forum about the IIS mod_rewrite, I can make it a sticky.

Thanks

Will do.

School me on phpmyadmin. What is it?

Will do.

School me on phpmyadmin. What is it?

It's a MySQL Database tool. If you are hosted on cpanel, you will see a link to it at the bottom of your databases page.

You could select the books DB and then delete all records from each table with the ASIN you need gone. There is page view so you can find it, check it, then delete it.

Ah, thanks. I'll look into installing that.

Ah, thanks. I'll look into installing that.

Hope you get good milage from it.

Honestly, I've heard about it, but I haven't ever had the defined need. I took a break from the php world tonight. I'll look into it tomorrow.

FYI to anyone else running IIS, I posed the instructions on how to enable SEO mode under IIS on the FREEBS forum. Follow the link in noppid's first post.

Honestly, I've heard about it, but I haven't ever had the defined need. I took a break from the php world tonight. I'll look into it tomorrow.

FYI to anyone else running IIS, I posed the instructions on how to enable SEO mode under IIS on the FREEBS forum. Follow the link in noppid's first post.


It's a sticky, should be easy to find. :)

Thanks

Hey guys, is there someone around these parts named Noppid, Owlcroft hired me to come rough the guy up a bit :eek: :eek: :mad:

How ya doin Noppid :wave:

Hey guys, is there someone around these parts named Noppid, Owlcroft hired me to come rough the guy up a bit :eek: :eek: :mad:

How ya doin Noppid :wave:

He's not that type guy. He'll defend his ground, but he's a nice guy in general.

Leave him out of this. :)

Oh, you think so :eek: :eek: :confused: :wave:

Oh, you think so :eek: :eek: :confused: :wave:


Well yeah, what's your point?

I will send you the data by PM :eek:

I will send you the data by PM :eek:

OK.

My people will call your people.

We can do lunch.

Because of the great user feedback we have recieved, we have been working hard on FREEBS Amazon Book Store to improve it and enhance it.

The result is FREEBS Amazon Book Store version 1.15.

The biggest asset being that we can still display any book on file with Amazon and sell it from our sites. However, the new additions to FREEBS enable that to happen without the database growing out of control and your FREEBS Book Store stays on topic.

Using the new version stock will ensure that we stay on topic and none of your already indexed pages in the search engines will be lost. Folks that still want the database to expand and go off topic still have that ability too.

The p3.php program now has output to tell you where it is while running too.

FREEBS - Amazon Book Store (http://www.cpurigs.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=29)

FREEBS is an excellent program to use to expand your income possibilities from your website by selling products, primarily books, from Amazon. There is little work to do, install it and link to it. Then watch your profit margins grow!

Did the admin of this site use the hack ? I like how you have your little vb book there. Is it a hack, or simple to do?

Its a script.... Yes - thats what the vbfaq bookstore is.

How do we get revenue? Do we have to be an Amazon Associate to avail this program

Yes - you have to be an Amazon Associate