Associate-O-Matic lets you build a custom Amazon Associate store with thousands of items in minutes! This blog offers helpful tips, examples of successful sites, and general discussion about the program and how to get the most from it.
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, December 6, 2009
One question that seems to crop up all the time concerns marrying AOM to WordPress. I just want to briefly discuss some ‘hot-to’ and ‘not-to’ situations concerning making these two systems work together.
The first point I want to emphasize is that Associate-O-Matic is not a plugin for WordPress. I see a lot of questions come [...]
Monday, November 9, 2009
As many users are no doubt aware, Amazon operates throughout the world, with each locale acting almost like a separate company. Associate-O-Matic can be selected to operate in most of these locales. Currently, you can set up an online store for the following markets: The United States, Canada, Great Britain, France and Germany. Eventually we [...]
Saturday, October 24, 2009
New users of AOM may often be overawed by the sheer number of options available when setting up their first store. This post will outline the basic steps required to make a site operational. It will not delve into advanced techniques or fancy addons to enhance the visual style of the typical layout. Many of [...]
Monday, October 12, 2009
When you’ve got your store set up and functioning correctly, it’s always a great feeling when you start to see a little traffic coming in. Then a few cart reports begin showing up in your email. You will probably then discover that cart reports do not equate to final sales and commissions. In fact, far [...]
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Recently, a number of new users have written in to mention that they have had difficulty logging in to the Associate-O-Matic download area to obtain the software. And the extra license file required for the Trial version has also been causing some confusion. So here’s a short pictorial designed to help with navigating this part [...]
Sunday, June 7, 2009
With the release of version 4.2.0 for Associate-O-Matic, we move into a new phase. One of the landmark changes in this upgrade is a head start on Amazon’s requirement for increased security and more accountability. In order to reduce the number of server calls and general abuse of the system (which make it run slower [...]
Sunday, May 24, 2009
I’d like to answer a few questions that have popped up. None of them warrant a long answer, so hopefully covering all of them here will more or less ‘clean house’ and possibly provide help to other people wondering the same thing(s). So in no particular order…
1. Why does the ‘Buy’ button appear with some [...]
Friday, May 8, 2009
Recently in the forum somebody asked about meta tags and how they work in AOM. So it seemed like a good topic to cover this time round.
The term Meta commonly means ‘about’ or ‘beyond’. In HTML, a Metatag is a directive in a web page that is located in the < head > section, and [...]
Monday, April 20, 2009
A lot of people have asked for an example of a custom header file, to help them get the ball rolling on their own sites. I’ve been hesitant to do it, because you can do so much with a custom header, that a basic bare-bones example might inhibit more people than it helps.
However, the other [...]
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Many people use ASIN lists for their sites, instead of the default Amazon categories; this allows for a true ‘niche’ store, with a handpicked selection of items. The Amazon Stock Information Numbers (which often contain letters too) can be pasted directly into the category keyword box, or contained in a text file, with the URL [...]
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