Comments on: Kirsty’s Easy Content Units Test – Great Tool To Integrate Products In Affiliate Sites

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:24:29 +0000

Hey Scott, with over 1200 pages and rising it is hard to make sure everything is updated – especially old blog type posts.

I’ve decided that my strategy for this will be to wait and see which ones get decent traffic down the line and then go through and update using the ECU. If it works well I’ll then spend further time updating the products.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:15:40 +0000

Kirsty – do you keep those pages updated much? For example, your “Sexy Tankini Styles for Tall Women by Long Tall Sally” post has products that are now sold out.

By having the ECU unit at the top of the page and the featured products and descriptions after, are you thinking that most visitors will click on a product in the ECU before they reach your handcrafted product layout and descriptions? Therefore meaning it doesn’t really matter too much if those products are no longer in stock?

Scott.

By: Dave B

Dave B — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 23:59:25 +0000

The speed issue is only for the free version as far as I know, the paid for version is a lot quicker. Also the paid version you can get the units in XML format and then you can lay them out any way you want.

Only problem I have with ECU is when you have loads of units, keeping them upto date can be a pain.

Dave

By: Andy Symonds

Andy Symonds — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:56:02 +0000

Thanks for this Kirsty. I have used Easy content units for a few sites and they are great for a few products at a time but I just wanted to make you aware of our WordPress plugin. It adds a full SEO price comparison service to your WordPress based blog or site. Currently you can choose the UK mobile phones module but we plan to have a UK Video Games module within 4 weeks and welcome suggestions for other markets and niches you guys would like to see?!

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:21:34 +0000

Thanks for that resource Chris, it’s much appreciated. Will come in handy when I get around to adding ECU’s to more of my outdated site pages!

Shane – yes I do have the Pro version. I think the conversion rates would have been higher but for the World Cup, things really dropped off then. I was on track for well over 30 sales earlier in the test… but then the football started.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:16:54 +0000

Just tried it again and its alot quicker now…possibly my internet connection, although its normally better in the morning.

Have you got the Pro version? If not the conversion rate could be 20% higher due to 80/20 split.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:30:47 +0000

I also found the slow load times a problem but here’s a nice idea that displays a loading image for a much better visitor experience. http://www.pauldixonwebdesign.co.uk/blog/2009/09/05/ecu-loading-idea/

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:08:06 +0000

Thanks for the tip on URLs Shane, I’ve not been able to get familiar with everything you can do with ECU yet. I’ve not noticed any real slowness on my connection – maybe someone else can elaborate if it’s an issue for them also??

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:57:20 +0000

I have a domain which may lend itself to this quite well, just checked its ranking and im up to 5th for the main keyword (I only chucked an article on the domain and left it there). Might give it a go. The only problem I can see is its VERY slow to load. The rest of the page had loaded and it took another 5 seconds+ for the ECU to load…seems the same on a few sites.

Also, Im sure you would have done it anyway Kirsty, but you might want to look at rewriting the URLS: http://www.easycontentunits.com/more/726/rewriting-your-ecu-urls-with-php/

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:04:02 +0000

Glad to hear such positive feedback on the ECU’s – I’m clearly behind the times only having given them a proper crack last month.

Typical of me really

I’ll take a proper look at your site page this week Keith – it seemed to be generating some kind of runtime error when I checked it??

If anyone has quick hints and tips for the ECU’s do please post them below!