> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://ae-docs.keywordrush.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://ae-docs.keywordrush.com/getting-started/choosing-your-setup.md).

# Standalone or with Content Egg?

There are two honest ways to use Affiliate Egg, and neither is wrong — it depends on what you're building.

## Affiliate Egg on its own

The appeal is simplicity. You create a storefront, paste a few product links, drop a shortcode into a post, and you have a product block. Prices update on their own, and your affiliate links are applied automatically. There's almost no learning curve.

It does more than single products, too: add several merchants' links for the same item to one storefront, choose a price-comparison template, and you have a self-updating price table. What Affiliate Egg *doesn't* do on its own is **find** those merchants for you or let you **search by keyword** — you paste each link yourself.

This is a good fit if you:

* want to add a handful of products to a post or a small site,
* like the paste-a-link-and-go workflow,
* are happy choosing merchants yourself, rather than having them found and pulled in for you.

If that's you, the rest of this guide is all you need.

## Affiliate Egg with Content Egg

[Content Egg](https://www.keywordrush.com/contentegg) is our larger plugin, and most Affiliate Egg users pair the two. Content Egg becomes the front end; Affiliate Egg is one of the data sources it can read from. Together they add:

* **Keyword search** across products, right in the post editor.
* **Automatic price comparison** — Content Egg gathers many merchants for the same product for you (not just the ones you paste), sorted by price.
* **More networks and feeds** — Amazon and eBay APIs, CSV/XML product feeds (via Content Egg's Feed module), and many affiliate networks, alongside the shops Affiliate Egg reads.
* **Richer output** — structured blocks, comparison tables, and automation.

The trade-off is that there's more to set up and learn. If you're building comparison pages or larger affiliate sites, or want product data from many sources, this is the route — and [Content Egg's own docs](https://ce-docs.keywordrush.com/) cover it in depth.

{% hint style="info" %}
A useful rule of thumb: if a shop offers a **product feed or an API**, Content Egg can use it directly — cleaner, and never blocked. Affiliate Egg is for the shops that offer neither, where reading the page is the only way to get the data. Plenty of people run both together for exactly that reason.
{% endhint %}

## Which should you pick?

| If you want to…                                 | Use                                                |
| ----------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| Add a few products the simplest way             | Affiliate Egg on its own                           |
| Compare a handful of merchants you add yourself | Affiliate Egg on its own                           |
| Search products by keyword in the editor        | Content Egg + Affiliate Egg                        |
| Compare many merchants, gathered automatically  | Content Egg + Affiliate Egg                        |
| Pull from feeds, APIs, and many networks        | Content Egg (with Affiliate Egg for no-feed shops) |

You can start simple with Affiliate Egg and move up to Content Egg later if you outgrow it.