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iTunes Affiliates Can Link to Apps

Posted on March 10th, 2009 steve Comments

I don’t know when this changed, but developers can finally deep link to their applications on the App Store and earn a 5% commission on sales. When I first signed up as an affiliate last year (because of the badge in the Program Portal, mind you), the iTunes Link Maker would create links to any media type on the iTunes Music Store, except apps.

5% of the surely minuscule traffic from a web site resulting in a sale on the App Store is probably next to nothing, but there’s no sense in leaving money on the table. Plus, if a visitor to your site buys something else in the same session, that should qualify for a commission, too.

Which brings up an interesting idea I’d shelved a while back: now there is some money to be made by offering a web-based app store. Purchasing still happens in the App Store, but at least there is a possibility for innovation in browsing/searching.

App Store, Business
- mike_at_codethephone
  
  Here is a cool one that just monitors price drops and new apps:
  
  http://www.148apps.com/price-drops/
- stevemadsen
  
  Of these, only 148apps uses the affiliate links.
- mike_at_codethephone
  
  Steve, I've seen a couple of these type stores. I'll try to post links to some of the better ones here.
  
  Have you found any resources about scraping the iTunes app store?
- mike_at_codethephone
  
  Here is another interesting one:
  
  http://www.appshopper.com/
- mike_at_codethephone
  
  Here is a that clones the app store in its entirety:
  
  http://app-store.appspot.com/
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