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Analytics: A Users Guide

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Analytics: A Users Guide

While previous versions of AOM allowed you to use Google’s Analytics tracking code, integrating information from the shopping cart was always a mystery. The building blocks were there, yet few people understood how to put the pieces together. But now with v5.x, the process has been internalized, resulting in a much simpler application of the [...]

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Mythbusting, AOM Style

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Mythbusting, AOM Style

Associate-O-Matic is the most popular Amazon affiliate script out there; there’s no doubt about that. True, there is competition, and that’s fine; a little elbowing can make for a better product. But in an effort to make some of the also-rans look better, claims are made that may not be accurate. Many times a competitor’s [...]

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The Myth of Indexing

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 [...]

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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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