Tuesday, October 7, 2008
New users purchase Associate-O-Matic all the time, and often the same questions pop up. Some of these have been covered before in this blog, but to save time and frustration, I’ll recover them here, along with a few that haven’t been mentioned before. So in no real order…Filed Under: General Tips Comments
Sunday, January 8, 2012
As anyone who has shopped around for web hosting will know, almost every site will offer ‘unlimited’ features. You can get ‘unlimited’ space; ‘unlimited’ subdomains; ‘unlimited’ email accounts, and so on. In truth these are not actually ‘unlimited’, but they will usually offer you more than you could reasonably use. The dirty little secret they [...]
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Recently a user in the Associate-O-Matic forum asked about the caching system in AOM and how it worked. It seemed like a good subject to cover in more detail, so let me expand here on my original reply. The purpose of the cache system is to reduce the number of calls made by AOM to [...]
Saturday, November 5, 2011
While previous versions of AOM allowed you to use Google’s Analytics tracking code, integrating information from the shopping cart was always a mystery. The building blocks were there, yet few people understood how to put the pieces together. But now with v5.x, the process has been internalized, resulting in a much simpler application of the [...]
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Version 5 of AOM introduced templating to the system, as well as many new changes. Every day more and more stores are upgrading from v4.x, but many of them are experiencing some difficulties. When v5 was first rolled out in the Summer of 2011, it was clear that sites that had been extensively customized in [...]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Associate-O-Matic is the most popular Amazon affiliate script out there; there’s no doubt about that. True, there is competition, and that’s fine; a little elbowing can make for a better product. But in an effort to make some of the also-rans look better, claims are made that may not be accurate. Many times a competitor’s [...]
Thursday, August 11, 2011
As they have for the past few years, Amazon is making changes to the way their API data feed operates. And as with previous changes, some will have a huge impact on how AOM performs. Let’s take a look at what they’re planning, and how it will (or will not) affect your stores. Also we’ll [...]
Monday, July 18, 2011
By now many of you have upgraded to v5 (currently v5.0.2) with little or no difficulty. As expected, the most troublesome upgrades have involved AOM sites that were already heavily customized. This post is going to discuss various aspects of completing the upgrade process, and what it will entail for some sites going forward. For [...]
Saturday, June 4, 2011
This month marks the release of the long-awaited Version 5 for Associate-O-Matic. Two years of planning have culminated in this incredible upgrade. Gone are the bulky HTML tables, replaced by smooth CSS coding, allowing for unprecedented control over what appears on the page. After devoting the last two months discussing almost everything about this upgrade [...]
Thursday, May 12, 2011
The upcoming version five of Associate-O-Matic will introduce many great new features. Templating will be the most obvious addition. Last month we discussed some of the other additions, such as Image Cloak, Integrated Search Within Results, etc. As it enters the final stages of Beta testing, I would like to balance out this preview look [...]
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
As this post is being written, we are only a few weeks away from finally unveiling the long-awaited Version 5 of Associate-O-Matic. Full-scale Beta testing is scheduled to begin on April 30th; the date for the final release will be a few weeks later, depending on how many fixes are required in the Beta. It [...]
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