A Basic Store – The Basic Steps

Saturday, October 24, 2009

A Basic Store - The Basic Steps

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 [...]

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A Click is Just a Click

Monday, October 12, 2009

A Click is Just a Click

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 [...]

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Beat the Download Blues

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Beat the Download Blues

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 [...]

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Categories: A Users Guide

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Categories: A Users Guide

For many new users, once they get the Associate-O-Matic files set up and functioning, they log into the control panel and wonder: now what? For all the available options to customize and define their stores, many struggle with the most basic question of how to get started putting products into their site. This process starts [...]

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Content for Contention

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

In any field, some themes occur over and over again. Mainly because they illustrate certain truths that bear repeating. In the AOM world (and affiliate marketing in general), one of these themes that you hear like a mantra is content is king. If you frequent any website where SEO strategy is debated, it may appear [...]

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Ioncube: A Users Guide

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Ioncube: A Users Guide

Since its introduction into AOM with V4.2.0, Ioncube has probably been one of the most misunderstood components of the entire program. Certainly, people who were originally attracted to Associate-O-Matic because of its ease of use were horrified at the level of programming complexity that seemed to suddenly be required. I will admit that I found [...]

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IonCube and GoDaddy

Saturday, July 25, 2009

IonCube and GoDaddy

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 [...]

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Home Page: A Users Guide

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, [...]

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Disclaiming V4.2.0 (and other goodies)

Friday, June 26, 2009

Disclaiming V4.2.0 (and other goodies)

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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The Secret Key of Amazon

Sunday, June 7, 2009

The Secret Key of Amazon

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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