We build and ship the page engine affiliate marketers need
A fixed-scope programmatic SEO build for affiliate marketers: we design the data contract against Amazon PA-API, ship 378 reviewed URLs in the first tranche, and hand you the templates, gates and runbook. Modelled at 1,302 indexed URLs earning roughly 444 commissions a month at affiliate marketers' typical rates.
- Pilot
- from $2,400
- Build
- from $6,200
- Scale
- from $13,000
132–378 URLs
2,100 URLs
8,400+ URLs
The build, not the theory
Affiliate SEO changed permanently. Pages assembled from merchant descriptions rank for nothing. What still works is comparison surfaces backed by data you actually gathered — specs pulled from source APIs, prices tracked over time, testing notes, availability by region. We build the data pipeline first and the pages second, because in this vertical the pipeline is the moat. That is the strategy. This page is the service: what we actually do, in what order, at what price, and the conditions under which we tell you not to buy it. Every engagement starts by pointing at one real system you already run — usually Amazon PA-API, sometimes Impact / CJ / ShareASale — and asking whether its rows can answer a query shape better than a human writing prose. If the answer is no, the engagement stops at the audit and you keep the findings. If the answer is yes, we write the data contract, design one template family against real rows, publish a gated first tranche, and only widen the axis after Search Console proves the pattern indexes. Nothing about this is a retainer: the engine installs on your WordPress, and the commission path is wired into your funnel, not ours.
- Amazon PA-API
- Impact / CJ / ShareASale
- Ahrefs
- Google Analytics 4
- Cloudflare Workers
- Airtable
- Lasso
Affiliate comparison builds with normalised feeds and daily price checks.
Four phases, each with something shipped at the end
Feed normalisation
Merchant feeds and APIs merged into one attribute schema with unit conversion, deduplication and confidence scoring per field.
Normalised product dataset with fill rates.
- A written data contract mapping Amazon PA-API fields to every rendered block, with null-handling rules per field.
- One production template family with 10 blocks, of which 3 vary per row beyond string substitution.
- 378 published URLs with schema, internal links, sitemap entries and IndexNow pings.
- An index-eligibility gate that refuses to publish rows below your evidence threshold.
- Search Console cohort reporting split by template family, not by page.
- A refresh job that rewrites stale rows on a 14-day cycle.
- A affiliate marketers-specific runbook: how to add an axis, how to kill one, how to roll back a bad batch.
- Handover session with Impact / CJ / ShareASale and Ahrefs wired into the reporting loop.
- Amazon PA-API export or API accessRequired
The rows are the product. Without them there is no page family, only prose.
- One named approverRequired
A single person who can sign off a template without a committee round.
- WordPress admin or stagingRequired
We generate into your environment; we do not host your pages.
- A working commission pathPreferred
Each page hands the visitor to a real commission flow — form, checkout, booking or trial.
- Search Console property accessPreferred
Cohort-level indexation data is how we decide what widens and what gets cut.
- Review capacity: one page per family, per batchPreferred
A human signs the sample before the batch publishes. That is the scaled-content defence.
Quote and payback estimator
Defaults are this seat's modelled economics. Move them to your own numbers — the build estimate and payback window recalculate live. It is a model, not a quote; the fixed proposal comes after the scoping call.
- Indexed URLs (62% gate)
- 521
- Clicks / month
- 5,731
- commissions / month
- 178
- Pipeline value / month
- $4,272
- Indicative build
- $2,700
- Payback
- <1 month
The 62% index rate is the conservative figure we plan against, not a promise. Batches that gate harder index higher.
Three ways to buy this build
Pilot
from $2,400
132–378 URLs
Proving the data moat axis exists before you fund a build.
- Data audit + contract
- One template family
- Gated first tranche
- Indexation read at day 30
Build
Most boughtfrom $6,200
2,100 URLs
Affiliate Marketers with a proven dataset and a live commission funnel.
- Everything in Pilot
- 3 template families
- Schema + internal link graph
- Refresh job + rollback
- Runbook handover
Scale
from $13,000
8,400+ URLs
Multi-axis surfaces where one bad batch would be expensive to unwind.
- Everything in Build
- Multi-axis expansion plan
- Release drip + quota control
- Quarterly axis pruning
- Named delivery lead
The shape of the surface before a single page is written
/affiliate-marketers/Hub. Human-written, links every axis, never generated.
/affiliate-marketers/{data}/Primary axis — one page per Amazon PA-API row that clears the gate.
/affiliate-marketers/{data}/{modifier}/Second axis. Only published where the pair has its own evidence.
/affiliate-marketers/compare/{a}-vs-{b}/Comparison family. Capped at pairs with real query volume.
/affiliate-marketers/updates/Change log for the dataset — freshness signal, not filler.
Rules that decide whether a row earns a URL
| Gate | Test | If it fails |
|---|---|---|
| Row completeness | ≥ 75% of contract fields present | Below threshold the row renders as a directory entry, not a URL. |
| Evidence density | ≥ 2 unique data points not shared with a sibling row | Fails → folded into the parent page as a section. |
| Demand | A measurable query shape in Search Console, Semrush or paid data | No demand → the axis is dropped before templates are written. |
| commission path | A working commission destination for the row | Missing → the page publishes noindex until the path exists. |
| Human sample | One page per family per batch reviewed and signed | Unsigned batches do not leave staging. |
What the first weeks look like
- Week 1
Scoping call and data review
We look at what affiliate marketers already hold — systems, exports, APIs — and score each axis for demand and defensibility.
- Week 2
Contract and template design
The data contract is written and the first template is designed against real rows, not placeholders.
- Weeks 3–5
First tranche live
315–735 URLs published with schema, internal links, sitemap entries and IndexNow.
- Weeks 6–9
Read, widen, hand over
Indexation and impression data decides what widens and what gets cut. Templates, gates and runbook transfer to you.
8,900 vs-pairs refused, 2,100 published
- Setup
- A niche gear site with 340 products and a plan to publish every possible comparison.
- Mechanism
- The gate required both products to share a category and differ on at least six measurable attributes. 8,900 of 11,000 theoretical pairs failed.
- Result
- 2,100 published pairs, 61% indexed within 90 days, and no thin-content cleanup after the following core update.
Cases where we will not take the build
- Your Amazon PA-API data has fewer than 340 usable rows — a hand-written hub will outperform a thin page family.
- The query shape is dominated by one brand's own properties and no third party ranks on page one.
- There is no commission destination, so the pages would earn traffic you cannot bank.
- You want volume as the goal. We size to evidence, and evidence usually caps the count lower than you hoped.
Buy the whole build, or one piece of it
Auto-generated vs pages
Comparison pages that pass the gate: shared category, six differentiating attributes, real testing notes.
Scope this workstreamCTR optimisation
Where the money actually moves: placement, phrasing, table layout and offer ordering, tested per template.
Scope this workstreamAffiliate case studies
Three niche builds with gate rates, index curves and post-update survival data.
Scope this workstreamBuying questions affiliate marketers ask us
Pilot engagements start at $2,400 and cover the audit, contract, one template family and a gated first tranche. A full build for the 2,100-URL surface starts at $6,200. Pricing is fixed at proposal — we do not bill by page or by hour.
Other seats we scope builds for
Want the affiliate marketers surface scoped before you build it?
We'll audit the data source, size the first batch, set the performance budget and tell you honestly if programmatic is the wrong tool for your category.
