Hey Sal, we'll have a test site using vbulletin3 hopefully up by tomorrow, so I will play with that, and get it working on there. I'll keep you updated on that.

I was wondering if you have a vendor list. I'm in a small market and before installing would like to see if relevent products will show up. Thanks.

Hey morrow, you can go to either of these sites to lookup vendors that we use

Prosperent Merchant List

http://api.prosperent.com/api/mercha...ppos&dBug=true

The first list will show you all the merchant we use while the second one will show you a specific merchant; just change Zappos to the merchant name.

OK... So I signed up and installed... figured what the hell... So my forum resides in http://www.njflyfishing.com/vBulletin

I placed the code into my Navbar template and made the necessary change. It shows exactly where it's supposed to. Hover my mouse over it and it points to http://www.njflyfishing.com/product.php rather than http://www.njflyfishing.com/vBulletin/product.php.

Attempted to copy the files to the root of my site but that just comes up with another error.

I'll leave it installed for now to see what you guys come up with.

Thanks.

No problem, I've got you covered.

open productSearch.php, and on line 44 change
to

Then it will send it to the right page. :)

Perfect.. Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

We have merchants in pretty much every vertical you can think of. For fishing we work with large vendors like Bass Pro Shops, all the way down to the smaller shops.

Remember, we have over 50 million products from more than 3,000 retailers. We work with huge names like Best Buy, Zappos, QVC, REI, Overstock, Auto Anything, Kohl's, Cabelas, Gap, Banana Republic, and on and on and on :). If it is sold online, we probably have it in our system.

Has anyone made any money yet?

Let me give you (and others a few tips). Most of my sales that were made during testing came from actual organic searches from search engines, not from the members of my own forum. I would start by promoting the feature on your site to your users. Mention that it is a way for them to help support your site since you earn a commission on every purchase. This goes a long way since members are often ready and willing to help support their favorite forum.

Next, get some organic traffic coming into the search pages. For this, you need to get some backlinks to some of the search result pages. This is as simple as displaying a few search url's in your signature on your forum, and encouraging your users to do that same.

We may also be able to create a side block that perhaps stores and shows the most popular searches? Doing this has the benefit of drawing attention to the search, but also gets some links in which helps get pages indexed and ultimately leads to sales.

Last but not least, be patient. It took me several weeks to start getting search traffic to my product search. After that, sales started to roll in slowly, and now I get several per day and have almost 7 million pages indexed. It went from my forum struggling to make money to being quite the money maker for me, but it took time :).

I just finished making this add-on work on vBulletin3. The thread is located at Prosperent Product Search vb3