Jeff's Overall Rating
When it comes to affiliate marketing, time is money. The quicker we can get our concept from idea to functioning website the more time we’ll have for brainstorming new money making ideas.
Anybody who has used any store building software knows that it’s very easy to substitute quality for quantity when putting up affiliate sites.
With StoreStacker, you no longer have to make that sacrifice.
Features of StoreStacker Niche Store Builder
From the moment you start building your store you realize this isn’t some flimsy spam site producing machine. It’s a well thought out, logical system for putting together your affiliate site with all the bells and whistles you see on professional sites. Want videos? Just add them. Need articles? Just pull them.
Probably the most impressive part of this system for me was that you’re not stuck by some rigid content creation system. You can get up the bare bones and upgrade it later or you can put the whole shooting match together as you go.
It’s really up to you how rich you want your site to be.
Pros and Cons of StoreStacker
Pros of Store Stacker
- Simple installation – create a database, FTP some files and you’re off!
- Base install is good enough to get started.
- No recurring monthly fees.
- Templates are clean and professional looking.
- Plugin system means you only pay for functionality you WANT!
- Easy to pull and customize articles and videos with the StoreStacker interface.
- SEO friendly URLs created by system for all categories, products and content.
- You can list and sell your own products along side product feeds.
- Full library of easy to follow video tutorials.
- Superb usually same day email support.
Cons of Store Stacker
- More than 12 templates would be nice.
- Cron jobs for pulling products must be set up in cPanel – not difficult to do; I just wish there were a way to do it inside StoreStacker
- Template customization can be tedious.
About the StoreStacker Developers
Halfagain LLC, with offices in Portland, Kiev, and Bucharest, was established by three partners (Scott Trimble, Marius “Omar” Oancea and Kirill Bystryakov) in the latter months of 2005. Since it’s inception and with 6 in-house developed applications, Halfagain has risen to be one of the industry’s premier software developers and helped tens of thousands of internet businesses get more from the web.
Halfagain’s array of products address traffic acquisition, content creation, search engine optimization, website development and most importantly, revenue generation.
Cost and Licensing of StoreStacker
- Plans range from $97.00 to $222.00 depending on plugin combination desired. Base package already has YouTube, Amazon and Ebay plugins.
- You can try it for two weeks for $1.00! If you like it, you’ll be billed for balance. If not, tell them to cancel before two weeks and owe nothing!
- Develop as MANY Websites as you like with a single license!
- Free Forum Access for Registered buyers ONLY!
- Top-notch often same day support at no additional cost!
Mark - Script Critics on Mon, 9th Mar 2009 10:44 am
I used StoreStacker to put together one site several months ago, and truly, it did exactly what it advertised itself to do, but I was not 100% impressed by it.
For me, I found the setup and build time to be a pretty long process that would deter some of those just getting into affiliate web marketing or those without much technical experience, shy away from it.
Once setup however, it was pretty easy to continue building more pages and adding fresh content to the site.
The site I originally put up with it did OK and Ultimately, I pulled it down and sold the domain name… The content and SS was not a part of the sale, but it did make a difference in making the site a bit more valuable due to the indexed content.
Mark
Cherie on Tue, 10th Mar 2009 11:41 am
I have had storestacker for a while now. Yes it’s easy to use but I have found that you have to be careful of what hosting package you use. I use HG babycroc which is fine but there are a limited number of processes that you can have running, too many and the programme won’t run the cronjobs so you have to be careful to spread the timings out so that they don’t clash
Mark on Tue, 10th Mar 2009 1:22 pm
Hi Cherie – Good to see you stopped in!
Thanks for the tip on the crons for SS! Have you checked inside your php.ini config inside your cPanel, to check and see if there is a way you can increase the process tree, so there are no conflicts?
Thanks again for stoppin in!
Mark
Chris on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 8:26 am
I’ve been using storestacker for 5 or 6 months now and I’m thrilled with the results I’m getting. With a little promotion, my sites have been picked up by the search engines and the traffic is already coming in, as well as affiliate commisions.
Anyone having a hard time setting things up or worried about server usage.. thoge guys have another product called blogprofitz that does the same thing but needs a wordpress blog installed on your host. Easy to use and so far, effective.