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, 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 [...]
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
This month we’re going to go over five more commonly-asked questions from new users. Many of these have been discussed in detail in previous posts, but for those who may have missed them the first time, it may be of some benefit to touch on them once more. 1. What is the ‘aomtrial.license’ file? How [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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