Jeff's Overall Rating
If you’re just getting started setting up online stores, or if you only want to test a product on your site, you may want to consider GoldenCan Store Builder for quick set up of stores ranging from one category to multiple merchants.
GoldenCan Store Builder Features
I would have to say the speed with which you can create stores is probably GoldeCan’s chief selling point. The stores are not particularly attractive and can actually look sploggy if you’re not careful.
While it is possible to make some stylistic changes to your store’s appearance which register immediately in the preview the options are somewhat limited. Newbies may find the customization interface overwhelming as well.
GoldenCan does offer Javascript, PHP and ASP.NET code variants but Javascript is probably the easiest for a newbie to implement.
Pros and Cons of GoldenCan Store Builder
Pros of GoldenCan Store Builder
- If you are signed up with all of the networks they support, you only have to get approved for the merchant you want to promote.
- A wide selection of merchants from Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google Affiliate Network(formerly Performics), ShareASale, and LinkConnector.
- Free to sign up with no subscription charges.
- Many merchants’ feeds are free to use.
- You can get a store up and running in 15 minutes.
- There are multiple types of stores you can set up.
Cons of GoldenCan Store Builder
- Some of the store types look cheesy as is.
- Many more merchants’ feeds cost you every 4th click to use.
- Support is slow and requires monitoring and constant follow-up.
- It requires another level for all of your merchants which can be cumbersome. You should check the network your merchant is on to see if they provide dynamic datafeeds before using GoldenCan.
About the GoldenCan Store Builder Developers
GoldenCAN Data Feed Integration™, Store Integration™, Coupon Integration™, Search Integration™, Keyword Stores™ and Keyword Category Stores™ allows you to display millions of data feed products, thousands of coupons and recent price drop products on your website from one or multiple merchants, across networks with only one line of code.
Cost and Licensing of GoldenCan Store Builder
- Free to sign up!
- Some datafeeds are free to use.
- Other datafeeds will cost you every 4th click to your site.
Don on Fri, 13th Feb 2009 4:20 pm
I’ve used GoldenCan before to test out product offerings. I’m not particularly crazy about external datafeed sources or clearinghouses. Their sign up was quick and painless and I could get the code on my site very quickly. If the product was a fit for my site I would try the affiliate network directly to get a datafeed for the permanent pages I would set up.
POed on Tue, 15th Dec 2009 10:13 am
Duplicate page titles or no page title will just P.O. the robots and potential customers. Not to mention no benefits. Not really SEO benefits if the robot detects 30,000 duplicate titles what do you think will happen?