Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The latest AOM upgrade, v5.3.0 is now available. As with past upgrades, this release introduces some new features and fixes some bugs. One of the more interesting additions has to do with an enhancement in filtering categories. There’s also a way to deal with missing thumbnail pictures for products in various areas around a site. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
From time to time I get questions on various aspects of AOM that do not merit a full post, but should receive some sort of answer (otherwise I get them over and over again). So I will attempt to catch them up here, in no particular order. Some questions come from this blog, but most [...]
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
In July of this year Amazon announced changes to their data feed (the API). Since then, additional changes have been revealed, and overall there will be an impact for AOM. How much it affects you will depend on which features you use, and how much traffic your sites get. Since many people will have questions [...]
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
With the release of v4.4.1, an interesting new design feature has finally been added to Associate-O-Matic. And that is the ability to incorporate rounded corners throughout the table layouts. This exciting new option can be accessed from the Layout tab of the AOM control panel. As can be seen in the image below, you have [...]
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
Recently there was a post in the forum with the questions below. I thought I’d expand a bit on the answers and include them here for the benefit of anyone who might have missed it the first time around. These are all questions that have to do with adding the last little bit to a [...]
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Friday, June 26, 2009
In the previous post (‘The Secret Key of Amazon’) I outlined the procedure for obtaining the AWS keys that Amazon will now be requiring for calls to their data feed (like AOM uses). This time I want to run down a few other wrinkles in version 4.2.0 that will be part of Associate-O-Matic going forward. [...]
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Monday, November 24, 2008
I’ve had a few questions pass through the support desk and in the forum that I’d like to address here. Generally if I see the same question asked more than once, I try to make a note to include it in the blog, so anybody else who might be wondering about it can hopefully find [...]
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