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
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
To many new users of AOM, the ASIN is a confusing concept, mainly because its usage in categories is very different from nodes. Let’s take a detailed look at what it is, and how it works in Associate-O-Matic. The Amazon Stock Information Number is simply a nine to thirteen character string assigned to each and [...]
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
A question I hear a lot from new AOM users is “Why isn’t my site indexed yet?”. People with little or no Internet-savvy may have some preconceived ideas about affiliate marketing in general, and AOM in particular. This month I would like to discuss some of the general realities of indexing, hopefully to separate fact [...]
Thursday, January 20, 2011
This month we have a guest column written by AOM site owner Joe Quarta. His site ExerciseLine.com is a well thought-out store that consistently performs well. Joe is also quite knowledgeable regarding AOM and is frequently found in the AOM forum, helping new users, critiquing sites and offering insight into search engines and how they [...]
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Recently in the forum I expounded upon the use of keywords in filtering category results. I would like to repost and expand upon the information here for the benefit of anybody who missed it. Keywords are entered in the Keywords box for each category under the Categories tab of the AOM control panel. If you [...]
Monday, November 8, 2010
With Amazon now imposing usage restrictions on their API data feed, it becomes more important than ever to make sure you’re not wasting resources on unwanted visitors to your sites. By ‘unwanted’ of course, we are referring to search engine spiders who comb your site, indexing hundreds (if not thousands) of pages, and give you [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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