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, 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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Monday, February 23, 2009
One of the most searched-for questions regarding AOM is, How do I install it? Which is interesting, since I think the online documentation explains it pretty well. However, some people might prefer it worded differently, so I will supply that here. We will assume that you have decided which flavor of AOM you want to [...]
Thursday, February 12, 2009
I recently received the following comment (edited for clarity): Hi, I stumbled upon your blog while doing some research on AOM. I am new to AOM and still looking for more tips and tricks. I found your blog to be very handy. A few questions: 1. How to drive traffic to your store? Do I [...]
Friday, January 23, 2009
It seems lately that everyone is talking about duplicate content penalties, and how they only have adverse effects on your site, be it AOM or anything else. I’ve talked before about the DCP, and made some suggestions to help. Another thing that you should have in your arsenal is a robots.txt file, so we’ll discuss [...]
Friday, January 9, 2009
As I mentioned in an earlier post, many Associate-O-Matic users have problems with GoDaddy as a hosting service. And I’m not keen on it myself – I think their control panel is so simplistic as to actually make it more difficult to use, and they don’t make simple tasks any easier by dumbing them down [...]
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