AOM Talk

V5.3.0 Roundup

2012-05-15T10:26:59Z

The latest AOM upgrade, v5.3.0 is now available. As with past upgrades, this release introduces some new features and fixes some bugs. One of the more interesting additions has to do with an enhancement in filtering categories. There’s also a way to deal with missing thumbnail pictures for products in various areas around a site. [...]

Get Your Move On

2012-04-09T16:01:24Z

There can be several reasons why you might wish to move or copy your Associate-O-Matic store. You could have an existing setup that you’d like to copy, rather then redo from scratch. Or you might be moving your store to a different server. We’ll examine some methods to help you achieve this, hopefully with a [...]

Share And Share A Like

2012-03-12T09:55:31Z

A question that comes up often through Support is How do I add… Usually it involves AdSense, or Facebook ‘Like’ buttons. We’ll explore this question in more detail, using Social Bookmarking in general. For anyone who may be confused by that term, ‘Social Bookmarks’ are the now ubiquitous icons found on webpages that allow for [...]

Color Schemes: A Users Guide

2012-02-15T15:36:56Z

Color schemes are a relatively new feature of AOM that allow you to change the color combinations of a site with just a click or two. Many are now included with v5. You can also save your own custom color layouts as schemes. We’re going to take a look at how color schemes work, and [...]

Brake The CPU Cycle

2012-01-08T20:22:18Z

As anyone who has shopped around for web hosting will know, almost every site will offer ‘unlimited’ features. You can get ‘unlimited’ space; ‘unlimited’ subdomains; ‘unlimited’ email accounts, and so on. In truth these are not actually ‘unlimited’, but they will usually offer you more than you could reasonably use. The dirty little secret they [...]

Cache: A Users Guide

2011-12-08T11:22:52Z

Recently a user in the Associate-O-Matic forum asked about the caching system in AOM and how it worked. It seemed like a good subject to cover in more detail, so let me expand here on my original reply. The purpose of the cache system is to reduce the number of calls made by AOM to [...]

Analytics: A Users Guide

2011-11-05T17:01:09Z

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 [...]

Converting to v5

2011-10-22T14:55:30Z

Version 5 of AOM introduced templating to the system, as well as many new changes. Every day more and more stores are upgrading from v4.x, but many of them are experiencing some difficulties. When v5 was first rolled out in the Summer of 2011, it was clear that sites that had been extensively customized in [...]

Mythbusting, AOM Style

2011-10-03T16:46:41Z

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 [...]

V5.1 And The API

2011-08-12T10:20:27Z

As they have for the past few years, Amazon is making changes to the way their API data feed operates. And as with previous changes, some will have a huge impact on how AOM performs. Let’s take a look at what they’re planning, and how it will (or will not) affect your stores. Also we’ll [...]