Step by step guide creating a voucher code site

[Leeky]

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For those of you who don't realise how easy it is to create your own auto updating icodes hosted website i've created a step by step guide :-)

iCodes - Getting Started

I will be adding more tutorials to show you the more advanced things you can do within your icodes admin area in the next few days.

Lee

[befuddle]

Step 11 ... if you stop at this stage then you wont make any money

So so true. An automated site has to be so different to the others. It not only is jostling for a limited space in the organic search results but then has to grab a users attention from the crowd and then convert potential shoppers to purchase.

One of the reasons I don't like the guidelines floating about as it encourages sites to be clones of one another, when it's best they're innovative and completely different.

Ray: Step 101 ... if you stop at this stage then you wont make any money

[Leeky]

Yeah it is so so true as you say, the reason is not because its an automated site though, an automated site can make money if you manually help it along with hard work and unique ideas... the automated side just gives you more time to concentrate on the other manual hard work required.

At the end of the day a voucher code, the site the code links to, the expiry date, and the basic code description is the same whether its entered manually or fed automatically, its then upto the automated site owner to add further descriptions (or a webservices user to enter their own descriptions if you require a completely different one.),

Pagerank10 is an automated site, we don't list a single merchant, offer, voucher code, logo, description or even an affiliate link, its run by the icodes webservices, this allows us more time to concentrate on other areas of the site.... and that site makes money from the voucher codes.

The iCodes hosted sites can do ok in search engines with a combination of lots of hard work and a sprinkle of luck, but they were never designed nor promoted to do well in search engines, but due to expectations regardless of what we say, we enable facilities so those who try, will get better results in search engines.

Voucher codes are just ads which should be used along side content and so perfectly fine to be automated... just like yahoo ads (if you had a choice would you manually enter or be automatically fed yahoo ads?)

Lee

[dougs]

Voucher codes are just ads which should be used along side content and so perfectly fine to be automated

Knew we would agree Leeky

Doug

[Leeky]

[INDENT]

Knew we would agree Leeky

Doug

I would be surprised if anyone with a logical brain could disagree with that one, unless they were threatened by automated voucher code feeds and kept pushing the 'clone site' argument.. which doesn't hold any water.

Yahoo provide an automated xml feed for ads, if everyone placed the yahoo ads on their sites with no added content then those sites would be cloned also.. just like voucher code feeds. You then add content to your site and then your site is unique irrelevant of if the ads are manually inputted or feed inputted.

Befuddle appears to have an issue with automated voucher code feeds, but I suppose if your relying on the actual voucher codes to be the site content then I would be worried also, but keeping a history of expired voucher codes for content back to 1963 would help I suppose.

Lee

[confuscius]

[SARCASM]
Surely coupons and vouchers were available prior to 1963?

Now if I could just get my hands on those pre-1963 expired codes then that would give me some really unique content to slap some links around.

Thinking about it then I might as well try to also get my hands on the expired deals and expired offers with no expiry date as well for a right good triple whammy.

Anyone fancy a 5% discount on a Billy Fury 45 or two? Use code 'EXTRACTINGTHEMICHAEL' at the checkout.
[/SARCASM]

[Leeky]

Your luck is in.... I've found one on ebay... pre 1963!!! :tup

Exclusive Woolworths Voucher Code... EXPIRED!!!!!! on eBay, also, Other Collectables, Collectables (end time 22-Mar-09 17:49:43 GMT)

Lee

[Leeky]

I've just found a site (no prizes for guessing which one) that has woolworths voucher codes not marked as expired, and also has at least one that ive seen that doesn't expire till 12/05/09

This maybe a daft question but have woolworths got any valid voucher codes running at the moment???... I must really keep upto date with the news!

Lee

[confuscius]

Your luck is in.... I've found one on ebay... pre 1963!!! :tup

Exclusive Woolworths Voucher Code... EXPIRED!!!!!! on eBay, also, Other Collectables, Collectables (end time 22-Mar-09 17:49:43 GMT)

Lee

I would have been interested in this but you do not seem to have the original glossy packaging anymore.:td

[Leeky]

Thats a shame because if you used your creativity you could make it look brand new by packaging it in the middle of a nice glossy vc site, simply put the expiry date on a [more] link and you would never know the differemce... thats the latest trick BTW :tup

http://www.myvouchercodes.co.uk/disc...olworths.co.uk

Lee

[confuscius]

Is omitting the date the merchant expired against the IAB rules?

[Leeky]

Is omitting the date the merchant expired against the IAB rules?

Well, if you omitted the dates you would make more commission and become a big affiliate, then once your a big affiliate the rules don't apply :-)

//Edit, just read your post again... the date the 'merchant' expired... There are probably no rules for expired merchants, so I don't know.

Lee

[ash]

Thats a shame because if you used your creativity you could make it look brand new by packaging it in the middle of a nice glossy vc site, simply put the expiry date on a [more] link and you would never know the differemce... thats the latest trick BTW :tup

htt p:/ /ww w.m yvouchercodes. co.uk/ discounts/ woolworths .co.uk

Lee

If you don't like the way MVC operates, why link to them and trickle a little more link juice in their direction?

Not getting at you specifically, but hes capturing enough links, they don't need any more.

[Leeky]

Just to clarify... I'm actually not that concerned with the way MVC operates, I just don't like the way he is allowed to operate.

The traffic / link juice to his site is irrelevant now, its what he is allowed to do with the traffic which is the problem, whether its 100 or 1 million visits a day.

I must admit though, I shouldn't have linked to MVC because thats a bit 'out of fashion' now, but it just so happened that MVC had a page which fit in with my and confuscius' tongue in cheek sarcastic posts.

This whole voucher code debate is past a joke, and so you have to be sarcastic about it, the sarcasm from me in this case is directed at the guidlines and not the affiliate.

Lee

[befuddle]

Befuddle appears to have an issue with automated voucher code feeds

"Chill Ray Chill"