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, April 18, 2010
The options available under the Site tab of the AOM control panel are often misunderstood. Setting them up properly can avoid many common errors and make your Associate-O-Matic store operate smoothly. This brief guide will attempt to explain what each option is for, and how to fill them out correctly. Site Default Keyword – This [...]
Sunday, December 6, 2009
One question that seems to crop up all the time concerns marrying AOM to WordPress. I just want to briefly discuss some ‘hot-to’ and ‘not-to’ situations concerning making these two systems work together. The first point I want to emphasize is that Associate-O-Matic is not a plugin for WordPress. I see a lot of questions [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
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, December 12, 2008
Setting your AOM site up for mod_rewrite can be a crucial step towards making your site both more user-friendly, and search engine-friendly. But to many people, especially those without much experience, it can seem like a daunting task. We’re going to break the steps down, and make this important area look like the easy setup [...]
Monday, September 15, 2008
There was a post in the AOM forum recently about sitemaps and the dreaded duplicate content penalty. It made me stop and think that there are several conflicting schools of thought regarding these areas, and I’ve touched on my perspective a few times in the forum. Perhaps I should expand somewhat on my viewpoint here. [...]
Thursday, July 10, 2008
A recent poll on this site indicated that one of the biggest problems for Associate-O-Matic users is getting traffic to their sites. And of course, what’s the point of slaving away, getting your store just right, when nobody bothers to come see it? How’s a guy supposed to make a few bucks with no customers? [...]
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