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brianritz
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 Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:04 pm Post subject: Sync with NATS Affiliate Program? |
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Hi Katsuken,
First of all, I just would like to say thanks for such a great program. I've heard lots of good things about Blog Organizer and I'm excited to get over the initial kinks and on my way to smooth blog sailing.
That being said, there are a few kinks I'm concerned about.
I have a remote blog that is run on Wordpress. I have PM'd you the login info. This is the domain I have specified for my Blogs Organizer. My goal with this website is to make it into a blog updated with original content with links that automatically populate with an affiliate's linking code, to be used as an RSS feed through my affiliate program (with NATS 3). I assume this is possible via the Affiliate Module's {AFF} code, though I wonder how this could possibly work if the Affiliate Module is not connected to my NATS program. I've heard from other people who have your program who have been able to create an RSS feed for affiliates like the one I mentioned above using NATS 3--can you please assist me in doing the same?
Secondly, I plan to create a network of RSS blogs, all also hosted on the same FTP as above. I tried to create a non-remote blog out of another domain I have and was unable to do so successfully. Although the blog updates its PHP file on the original domain, it does nothing to the actual site.
I hope I have made myself clear. If not, please feel free to contact me either through here or through AIM (rubberbandboard).
Thanks again,
Brian |
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Atanasis
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Joined: 22 May 2004
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| Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:13 am Post subject: |
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hi there,
you can't use your Wordpress blogs as an affiliate rss feed, because BO is handling affiliate blogs/rss just for its own blogs and not remote ones.
about the BO own blogs, i suggest you take a look at the video tutorials i have in here so you can learn how to make them. If there are problems yet you can ask
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Kaktusan
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brianritz
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| Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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Alright, even so, disregarding the wordpress blog... How do I connect the blogs I create through BO to my NATS affiliate program, so that the {AFF} in the links populates with an affiliates' code?
Additionally, I have lots of domains parked and ready to go. I know how to create blogs (I have watched the tutorials many times). My problem is that when I try to create a blog at a domain, it does NOT populate the domain itself, only the /bo/boblogs/blog2.php file. Does this make sense?
If you'd like to take a look around my FTP to further assist me with this, I would be so grateful. Again I can be contacted via AIM (rubberbandboard) or e-mail (brianritz@rocketmail.com) or PM.
I await your response.
Thanks again,
Brian |
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Atanasis
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Joined: 22 May 2004
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| Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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i see.. well, you missed the part in the video then 
Once you create the blog in BO, you need to grab its linking files and upload them to your blog location. That is done manually, because BO is not holding any ftp details... So when you build a blog, go to "regular blogs->linking codes" and grab the files for your blog and upload them to your blog location. Take in mind thats done just once, when you initially create the blog.
Once you upload the files, your blog should be fine. If problems again let me know.
About NATS.. You must first install the Affiliate module in BO. Then create a new blog. Upload its linking files. And everywhere in your posts or in your blog template where you will put affiliate url that you want the webmaster ID to change, simply put {AFF} in the place of the ID itself.
For example if a link looks like this:
http://domain.com/something/tour.php?nats=1233:ID:2:2
you put it like:
http://domain.com/something/tour.php?nats=1233:{AFF}:2:2
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Kaktusan
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brianritz
Joined: 30 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks!
Last edited by brianritz on Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:57 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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brianritz
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| Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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Alright, back again. I figured out how to make EVERYTHING work. Except for one problem. I accidentally deleted my /bo file and had to reupload everything. I totally erased my entire database of everything bo-related so as to have a clean slate when re-uploading. I did everything step-by-step and now, when I try to access my install file, I can fill it out fine, but upon clicking the "install" button I stay on blog.cockyboys.com/bo/bo-install.php but the page goes empty.
Please help. I really do like what I've seen of this program and I consider myself a fairly adept web person but this is getting ridiculous!
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brianritz
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| Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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Here is the correspondence had with our server manager:
Hi,
This domain is set up on nat232.
The log is at: /var/log/apache2/error.log
The error is:
Wed Sep 01 15:18:26 2010] [error] [client 157.130.6.90] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: error in /web/sites/bruce/blog.cockyboys.com/bo/bo-install.php on line 300, referer: htt
p://blog.cockyboys.com/bo/bo-install.php
However, this is a zend encoded file, so I can't tell you why that variable is undefined.
Thanks,
Tomas |
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Atanasis
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:30 am Post subject: |
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oh thats bad..
about the white page, probably you didn't uploaded everything in BINARY mode. Please reupload all script files in BINARY mode again and try the installer
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Kaktusan
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brianritz
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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Back to square one, I guess.
The affiliate code isn't working. My links look like this:
http://signup.cockyboys.com/track/{AFF}/viewvideo.php?id=342
but every time it populates with MY affiliate code. I had my friend who is an affiliate try out the blog and when she clicked the links they had MY code in them. Will the {AFF} not work until an affiliate syndicates the feed?
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Atanasis
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Joined: 22 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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when the blog/feed is access without any affiliate code, the script puts the default affiliate ID you have set in the affiliate module.
Your blogs/feeds need to be accessed like
http://blog.com/rss-feed.php?aff=ID
when accessed like that with the ?aff=ID
then script uses that ID
Try it out and let me know if still problemable..
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Kaktusan
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brianritz
Joined: 30 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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Accessed from where? In NATS, it asks for a link to the RSS feed--should I put "blog.cockyboys.com/rss-feed.php?aff=ID" there?
And what about the links in each post? The format of those is currently
http://signup.cockyboys.com/track/{AFF}/viewvideo.php?id=342
and it populates {AFF} with my affiliate code. To test things, I changed the config.php file and deleted my code from the default affiliate ID--it still continues to populate with my affiliate code. |
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Atanasis
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Joined: 22 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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In NATS I don not know what you should put, since i am not familiar with the backend.
To get the ID rotation in BO you simply need to put {AFF} in your links when making posts or in the blog template. And your webmasters should link to your blog/feed by adding ?aff=THEIR_ID to the end of the url. It is that simple.
About the example you are giving that is not working for you, have you accessed the url of your blog/feed with ?aff=ID at the end?
Maybe better will be if you pm me url and pass to your BO admin so i can see if everything is setup properly and quickly find your mistakes..
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Kaktusan
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