Frequently Asked Questions

Your Own e-Commerce Site Powered by Amazon

I can use aStore directly / in IFRAME / redirect to it. Why do I need StoreBrander?

You should provide sufficient traffic to your resource and turn as more visitors as you can into shoppers to maximize income in affiliate marketing.

Of course, you can get all traffic from your site with excellent content. But why don't benefit from landing of customers from search engines to your aStore directly? Own domain name for all pages and in all links can help in it very much. StoreBrander is easiest way to do it. This allows you increase traffic to your store.

Following links or redirects to aStore visitors see aStore as separate site having no relation to your magnificent site. More over, standard aStore look is not too distinguishable and it is difficult to change it using standard means. Using custom StoreBrander templates you can enforce your aStore look to exactly match to your site. You can make it visually a part of your site. This allows you to increase percent of visitors becoming shoppers.

Really StoreBrander service is not necessary: you can go without it. It is just possibility: you can benefit from it.

Do you inject any your materials into my store pages?

No, except one text or small image link to www.storebrander.com.

Why do you require CNAME DNS record?

StoreBrander is intelligent Amazon aStore proxy. We should process each aStore page to make URLs SEO-friendly and to include your customizations into it. On the other hand we should process all your Branded Store links to retrieve data from aStore. Therefore we have no choice: CNAME DNS record is only approach suitable in the case. But nothing to worry about: it is safe. Your domain remains under your control. You can change or remove CNAME record at any time.

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How can I create CNAME DNS record?

There are a lot of DNS providers in the world. And each of them have own DNS management interface. Therefore we can't give you recommendations in general case. You can find instructions for some major DNS providers below.

Instructions for CNAME record creation at GoDaddy

  1. Login to GoDaddy
  2. Select `Domains > My Domains' from top menu
  3. Click your domain name in domain list
  4. Click `Total DNS Control and MX Records'
  5. To use domain name in the form MyDomain.com find record with @ in Host column in A(Host) or CNAMES(Aliases) section and click [x] - Delete (if record exists)
  6. To use domain name in the form www.MyDomain.com find record with www in Host column in A(Host) or CNAMES(Aliases) section and click [x] - Delete (if record exists)
  7. To use domain name in the form subdomain.MyDomain.com find record with subdomain in Host column in A(Host) or CNAMES(Aliases) section and click [x] - Delete (if record exists)
  8. Click `Add new CNAME record' (You may need to wait until previous request will be completed)
  9. In the form opened enter the following values:
    • Enter an Alias Name: @ or www or subdomain (See description above)
    • Points To Host Name: www.storebrander.com.
    • TTL: 1 day
    Click OK

You may need to wait up to 24 hours before your changes will be propagated over Internet.

Ipconfig /flushdns command in Windows command prompt may speed up the process in some cases.

I have aStore in IFRAME. How can I switch to StoreBrander?

If you have aStore in IFRAME it is very simple to switch to StoreBrander.

  1. Take html of page, containing aStore in iframe. (Open the page in IE, from top menu select View -> Source)
  2. Select content between <body> and </body> tags and replace <iframe> tag, linking to your aStore with <BrandedStore/> tag and use the code as template.
  3. Review tags between <head> and </head> tags. Select tags you think are necessary and use them as <head> extension of branded store.
  4. Test your branded store. Some minor changes in your template and css may be necessary. We recommend to place your css tuning code in <head> extension within <style></style> tags.

If you have difficulties with Step 4 we are glad to help you.