If you have some programming knowledge, you can do some cool stuff with affiliate datafeeds. But I got to thinking a while back about coming up with a tool that allowed affiliates with no programming knowledge of server side languages to create large websites using a datafeed. I had a particularly requirement for it myself because I'm from a MS-centric background and don't know how to do a .net equivalent of mod_rewrite which is available in PHP (well, I don't know how to do it on a shared hosting platform where making changes to IIS is limited), so I wanted to create a large volume of web pages with great looking directory structures.

I decided to create an application which would generate a static HTML document for every row in a datafeed, not dissimilar to how mail merge works in a word processor. I also wanted it to make it particularly simple to create nice directory structures which would be particularly SEO friendly.

I called it EssEeeO - SEO Made Simple. The point of it is to allow affiliates with little or no knowledge of server side technologies to build large websites, with SEO friendly URLs that will work on any hosting package and don't need a database back end.

I made it. It works and I use it. So what to do with it now? There are other off the shelf solutions for affiliates without programming skills, and I understand an application called Webmerge does what my app does and more, but I think that costs $99 and my app would be a fraction of that, or maybe even free.

I have done about 98% of the project. Now I'm trying to get an idea if there's a demand or interest in me making that final push to get it completed for resale or to give away. So if you think you might be interested, trundle over to EssEeeO.com and check out the demo and register your interest.

Apologies that the video has come out hopelessly blurred - I tried to make it clearer but that was the best I could do.

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