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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Recently in the forum I expounded upon the use of keywords in filtering category results. I would like to repost and expand upon the information here for the benefit of anybody who missed it. Keywords are entered in the Keywords box for each category under the Categories tab of the AOM control panel. If you [...]
Monday, November 8, 2010
With Amazon now imposing usage restrictions on their API data feed, it becomes more important than ever to make sure you’re not wasting resources on unwanted visitors to your sites. By ‘unwanted’ of course, we are referring to search engine spiders who comb your site, indexing hundreds (if not thousands) of pages, and give you [...]
Sunday, August 22, 2010
While the basic install process for Associate-O-Matic is not difficult, sometimes problems do crop up. These can have a variety of reasons, from errors in uploading the files, server configuration, or just overlooking the obvious. Many times, actually reading the error message shown (if any) will give you everything you need to sort it out. [...]
Monday, July 19, 2010
When Ioncube encryption was first added to Associate-O-Matic, many users had a hard time getting to grips with it. If your server was already equipped with IC, and kept everything up to date, then there were no problems. However, many people were not so lucky, and a great deal of time was spent in installing [...]
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Associate-O-Matic version 4.4.0 is currently in Beta testing as I write this. So I thought it would be a good time to discuss some of the new features you can expect to see, and how they will help enhance the online shopping experience for visitors to your sites. Note that this will not be all [...]
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