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
Saturday, July 25, 2009
With Associate-O-Matic now incorporating IonCube as part of the initial setup or upgrade process, some users are experiencing difficulties in getting IC to load properly in their server environment. The following procedure has been found to work with GoDaddy servers only. I am unable to recommend it with other webhosts because it has not been [...]
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
The Home Page of your Associate-O-Matic site is usually the first page your customers will see. It sets a tone for the rest of your store, and must make visitors want to stay, explore, and hopefully buy. A home page that sets a poor example will almost certainly not succeed. It is your first impression, [...]
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.
The [...]
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 [...]
Friday, April 10, 2009
The Search function is probably one of the best-known but least understood features of Associate-O-Matic. It’s obvious to everyone what the search box is for, but how it works and what the options are that govern it are shrouded in mystery. Hopefully this explanation will shed some light on the details.
At first glance, the ability [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, March 12, 2009
I admit to being confused about the actions of many AOM users regarding the shop.php file. Specifically the need to rename it, usually to index.php. I understand why some people may choose to rename the file in this way; a directory is generally designed to display an index file during a call. So if you [...]
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