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
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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 [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, August 13, 2009
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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