“Amazomatic - Amazon Affiliate Plugin for WordPress” Help by CodeRevolution

---

“Amazomatic - Amazon Affiliate Plugin for WordPress Help”

---

Table of Contents

1. About the plugin
2. Wordpress installation
3. Plugin Settings
4. Summary
5. Sources and Credits

---

Introduction

Getting Started

You can start using the plugin by following these steps:

Step 1 ' Become an Associate

The Amazon Associates Program is one of the original affiliate marketing programs. Available in geographies across the globe, the Amazon Associates Program has been partnering with content creators to help them monetize their passions since 1996. To learn more about the Amazon Associates Program, please click here.

To become an Associate, create an Amazon Associates account using URL for your country:

• Brazil https://associados.amazon.com.br/
• Canada https://associates.amazon.ca/
• China https://associates.amazon.cn/
• France https://partenaires.amazon.fr/
• Germany http://partnernet.amazon.de/
• India https://affiliate-program.amazon.in/
• Italy https://programma-affiliazione.amazon.it/
• Japan https://affiliate.amazon.co.jp/
• Mexico https://afiliados.amazon.com.mx/
• Spain https://afiliados.amazon.es/
• United Kingdom https://affiliate-program.amazon.co.uk/
• United States http://affiliate-program.amazon.com/

Your Associate ID works only in the country in which you register. If you'd like to be an Associate in more than one country, please register separately for each country.

Step 2 ' Sign up for the Amazon Product Advertising API

Sign up for the Amazon Product Advertising API by following the instructions listed here. The Amazon Product Advertising API is a popular e-commerce service, powering Amazon-integrated experiences around the world, serving tens of thousands of applications and more than 1 billion API requests every day. It exposes a web-service, which allows Associates to programmatically search and look up items in the Amazon product catalog. This plugin integrates the Product Advertising API, allowing you to access Amazon.com product catalog data without requiring additional software development.

Step 3 ' Install the plugin

To install this plugin:

1. Log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New.

2. Click "Add new" -> "Upload Plugin". Upload the plugin you downloaded from the Envato Marketplace.

Step 4 ' Configure plugin settings

Use the Amazomatic Post Generator -> Main Settings screen to configure the plugin.

1. Set Access Key ID and Secret Access Key in the Settings section. These credentials are used to invoke requests to the Amazon Product Advertising API for fetching information on an item. 

2. Set default Associate ID. Associate ID is used to monitor traffic and sales from your links to Amazon.

Tip: You are recommended to create a new tracking ID in your Amazon Associates account for using it as Associate ID in the plugin.

3. Set the default Amazon marketplace based on the Amazon Associates Program for which you are registered (for example, if you've signed up for the Amazon Associates Program in UK, then your default marketplace selection should be United Kingdom) and select an appropriate template for rendering your ads.

Tip: Be careful while selecting your default associate id and marketplace combination. Make sure the associate id is valid for the selected marketplace.

4. Hit 'Save Info' and you are all set.

That's it! You're all set to start adding Amazon affiliate links to your posts using the Amazomatic plugin!

Basic Plugin Information

This plugin will allow you to build from scratch an affiliate marketing referral website for Amazon Marketplaces. This plugin provides one solution to the ongoing search for new referral content. It not only provides a steady stream of rich, searchable content, it also helps to keep your website up to date with the latest news from the Amazon Markets. You can build rules that will generate posts that are near to unique in website crawlers's eyes. They require none to very little customization.
The goal is to achieve the following:
Amazomatic Amazon Affiliate Plugin will import items from Amazon Marketplaces you define to your blog. Resulting blog posts are fully customizable and rich in content. List of customizable stuff for each post:

• import resulting items from custom search queries, to WordPress posts
• import custom defined ASINs, to WordPress posts
• import similar items to given ASINs, to WordPress posts
• post author user name
• post status (published, draft, pending, private, trash)
• automatically generate post categories or tags from marketplace items
• manually add post categories or tags to items
• generate post or page
• automatically generate a featured image for the post
• enable/disable comments for the generated post
• customize post title and content (with the included wide variaty of relevant post shortcodes)

Other plugin features:

• Supports all Amazon Markeplaces
• Using Amazon Market API
• Link hiding using Goo.gl link shortener
• Automatically update generated posts
• Keyword Replacer (replace relevant keywords with referral links)
• Random sentence generator (relevant sentences - as you define them)
• detailed plugin activity logging
• scheduled rule runs
• 'grouped post' creation (more items are grouped in one post -> 'Check out these 5 interesting plugins on Amazon Market')

Plugin requirements:

PHP DOM -> how to install it (if you don't have it, but probably you already have it): http://php.net/manual/en/dom.setup.php

Wordpress installation - top

Youtube video tutorial:

I also provided a Quick Install Guide to feature an easy plugin installation for everyone.

To make this plugin work, first, you'll need to install the plugin. The easiest method is to take the .zip file you've downloaded and upload it via Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin in the WordPress Dashboard. Once the plugin is installed, be sure to Activate it.

Now that you've installed and activated the plugin, you'll see a new menu item created inside WordPress called 'Amazomatic Amazon Affiliate'. First thing first, let's head over to Settings > Amazomatic Post Generator and take a look at what options are available.

Plugin Settings - top

Refreshingly, Amazomatic Amazon Affiliate plugin has a super-simple settings screen. Let's look at first at the settings panel:

Here you can find the steps needed in configuring your plugin even if you have no HTML knowledge at all. You can find options for:

HINT! Don't forget to click the Save button every time you modified your settings, otherwise the modifications will be lost!

Main Settings:

• Amazomatic Amazon Affiliate Plugin Main Switch: Enable or disable the Amazomatic Amazon Affiliate Plugin. This acts like a main switch.
• Amazon Associate ID: Insert your Amazon Associate ID. Learn how to get one here.
• Amazon Access Key ID: Insert your Amazon Access Key ID. Learn how to get one here
• Amazon Secret Access Key: Insert your Amazon Secret Access Key. Learn how to get one here
• Amazon Target Country: Select the country where you have registred your affiliate account.
• Show Extended Item Information Metabox in Post: Choose if you want to show an extended information metabox under every plugin generated post.
• Automatically Shorten URLs: Choose if you want to cloak URLs with goo.gl link shortener. To lean more about this, please visit this link.
• Goo.gl API key: Insert your goo.gl api key. To lean more about this, please visit this link.
• Strip Links From Generated Post Content: Choose if you want to strip links from the generated post content.
• Enable Logging for Rules: Do you want to enable logging for rules?
• Enable Detailed Logging for Rules: Do you want to enable detailed logging for rules? Note that this will dramatically increase the size of the log this plugin generates.
• Automatically Clear Logs After: Choose if you want to automatically clear logs after a period of time.
• Timeout for Rule Running (seconds): Set the timeout (in seconds) for every rule running. I recommend that you leave this field at it's default value (3600).
• Send Rule Running Summary in Email:  Choose if you want to receive a summary of the rule running in an email.
• Minimum Title Word Count: Set the minimum word count for post titles. Items that have less than this count will not be published. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Maximum Title Word Count: Set the maximum word count for post titles. Items that have more than this count will not be published. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Minimum Content Word Count: Set the minimum word count for post content. Items that have less than this count will not be published. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Maximum Content Word Count: Set the maximum word count for post content. Items that have more than this count will not be published. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Banned Words List: Do not include posts that's title or content contains at least one of these words. Separate words by comma. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Required Words List: Do not include posts that's title or content does not contain at least one of these words. Separate words by comma. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Featured Image Resize Width: Resize the image that was assigned to be the featured image to the width specified in this text field (in pixels). If you want to disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Featured Image Resize Height: Resize the image that was assigned to be the featured image to the height specified in this text field (in pixels). If you want to disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Strip HTML Elements from Final Content by ID: Strip HTML elements from final content that have this IDs. You can insert more IDs, separeted by comma. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Strip HTML Elements from Final Content by Class: Strip HTML elements from final content that have this class. You can insert more classes, separeted by comma. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Skip Posts That Do Not Have Images: Choose if you want to skip posts that do not have images.
• Skip Posts Older Than a Selected Date: Choose if you want to skip posts that are older than a selected date.
• Automatically Translate Content To: Do you want to automatically translate generated content using Google Translate?
• Hide Google Translate Popup: Do you want to hide the Google Translate Popup that shows when hovering on the resulting translated text, containing the original text before translation?
• Spin Text Using Word Synonyms: Do you want to randomize text by changing words of a text with synonyms using one of the listed methods? Note that this is an experimental feature and can in some instances drastically increase the rule running time!
• 'The Best Spinner' User Name: Insert your user name on 'The Best Spinner'.
• 'The Best Spinner' Password: Insert your password on 'The Best Spinner'.
• First List of Possible Sentences (%%random_sentence%%): Insert some sentences from which you want to get one at random. You can also use variables defined below. %something ==> is a variable. Each sentence must be sepparated by a new line.
• Second List of Possible Sentences (%%random_sentence2%%): Insert some sentences from which you want to get one at random. You can also use variables defined below. %something ==> is a variable. Each sentence must be sepparated by a new line.
• List of Possible Variables: Insert some variables you wish to be exchanged for different instances of one sentence. Please format this list as follows:Variablename => Variables (seperated by semicolon)Example:adjective => clever;interesting;smart;huge;astonishing;unbelievable;nice;adorable;beautiful;elegant;fancy;glamorous;magnificent;helpful;awesome
• Custom HTML Code #1: Insert a custom HTML code that will replace the %%custom_html%% variable. This can be anything, even an Ad code.
• Custom HTML Code #2: Insert a custom HTML code that will replace the %%custom_html2%% variable. This can be anything, even an Ad code.
• Search Keyword This keyword will be replaced with a link you define.
• Replacement Keyword This keyword will replace the search keyword you define. Leave this field blank if you only want to add an URL to the specified keyword.
• Link to Add Define the link you want to appear the defined keyword. Leave this field blank if you only want to replace the specified keyword without linking from it.

Each Rule Type has the following settings in it's own settings screen:

• ID: This is the ID of the rule.
• Keyword Search: Input your queried keyword. Posts will be generated based on these keywords.
• Schedule (Hours) Select the interval in hours after which you want this rule to run.
• Max Posts At A Time Select the maximum number of posts that this rule can create at once. 0-50 interval allowed..
• Post Status Select the status that you want for the automatically generated posts to have.
• Item Type Select the type (post/page) for your automatically generated item.
• Post Author Select the author that you want to assign for the automatically generated posts.
• Del: Do you want to delete this rule?
• Active: Do you want to enable this rule? You can deactivate any rule (you don't have to delete them to deactivate them).
• Info: The number of items (posts, pages) this rule has generated so far.
• Actions: Do you want to run this rule now? Note that only one instance of a rule is allowed at once.

From here on, each rule type will have an advanced settings panel. Each rule type will have the following advanced settings:

• Generated Posts Title: Set the title of the generated posts for user rules. You can use the following shortcodes: %%random_sentence%%, %%random_sentence2%%, %%item_title%%, %%item_description%%, %%item_content%%, %%item_cat%%, %%item_tags%%
• Generated Posts Content: Set the content of the generated posts for user rules. You can use the following shortcodes: %%item_get_intro%%, %%item_binding_category%%, %%item_brand%%, %%item_features%%, %%item_color%%, %%item_is_adult_product%%, %%item_height%%, %%item_length%%, %%item_weight%%, %%item_width%%, %%item_price%%, %%item_offer_availability%%, %%item_offer_is_free_shipping%%, %%item_offer_is_prime%%, %%item_manufacturer%%, %%item_product_group%%, %%item_product_type_name%%, %%item_size%%, %%item_studio%%, %%item_publisher%%, %%item_offer_price%%, %%item_customer_reviews%%, %%item_label%%, %%item_technical_details_button%%, %%item_add_baby_registry_button%%, %%item_add_wedding_registry_button%%, %%item_add_wishlist_button%%, %%item_tell_a_friend_button%%, %%item_all_reviews_button%%, %%item_all_offers_button%%, %%author%%, %%author_link%%, %%item_show_image%%, %%item_buy_now_button%%, %%item_all_images%%, %%item_sales_rank%%, %%item_media%%, %%custom_html%%, %%custom_html2%%, %%random_sentence%%, %%random_sentence2%%, %%item_title%%, %%item_description%%, %%item_content%%, %%item_content_plain_text%%, %%item_img_url%%, %%item_url%%, %%item_cat%%, %%item_tags%%
• Amazon Category: Select the Amazon Category you want to search in.
• Min Price in Pennies: Do you want to set a minimum price for the imported items? Price is in pennies: 1000 is 10$.
• Max Price in Pennies: Do you want to set a maximum price for the imported items? Price is in pennies: 1000 is 10$.
• Browser Node ID: Do you want to set a browser node to search in?
• Actor Name: Actor name associated with the item. You can enter all or part of the name.
• Item Rating: Movie ratings based on MPAA ratings or age, depending on locale. You can specify one or more values in a comma-separated list.
• Actor Name: Actor name associated with the item. You can enter all or part of the name.
• Brand Name: Brand name associated with the item. You can enter all or part of the name.
• Composer Name: Composer name associated with the item. You can enter all or part of the name.
• Director Name: Director name associated with the item. You can enter all or part of the name.
• Conductor Name: Conductor name associated with the item. You can enter all or part of the name.
• Manufacturer Name: Manufacturer name associated with the item. You can enter all or part of the name.
• Orchestra Name: Orchestra name associated with the item. You can enter all or part of the name.
• Publisher Name: Publisher name associated with the item. You can enter all or part of the name.
• Book Power Search: Performs a book search with a complex query string. The parameter can be used only when SearchIndex is set to Books.
• Min Percentage Off: Specifies the minimum percentage off the item price.
• Only Items Sold By Amazon: Filters search results and offer listings to items sold by Amazon. By default, the plugin returns items sold by merchants and Amazon.
• Item Condition: The Condition parameter filters offers by condition type. By default, Condition equals New. When the Availability parameter is set to Available, the Condition parameter cannot be set to New. When Condition is set to All, ItemSearch returns one offer per condition. Condition can be used with every index, except All and Blended.
• Adult Product Filter: Set if you want to filter results by their adult rating category.
• Item Availability: Returns available items only. This parameter must be used with the Condition parameter. When Availability is set to Available, the Condition parameter cannot be set to New.
• Artist Name: Artist name associated with the item. You can enter all or part of the name.
• Sort Results By: Select the type of sorting of the returned results.
• Generated Post Format: If your template supports "Post Formats", than you can select one here. If not, leave this at it's default value.
• Additional Post Category: Select the post category that you want for the automatically generated posts to have.
• Automatically Add Post Categories From Items: Do you want to automatically add post categories from the Amazon items?
• Automatically Add Post Tags From Items: Do you want to automatically add post tags from the Amazon items?
• Additional Post Tags: Select the post tags that you want for the automatically generated posts to have.
• Automatically Add Post Featured Image: Do you want to automatically add post featured image from the Amazon item?
• Default Featured Image if No Image Available for Item: Insert a link to a valid image that will be set for the featured image for the posts that do not have a valid image attached or if you disabled automatical featured image generation. To disable this feature, leave this field blank.
• Enable Comments For Generated Posts: Do you want to enable comments for the generated posts?

How to customize resulting posts with built in shortcodes?

You can use the following shortcodes in post title and content editing:

• %%item_get_intro%% - generates an item intro card, with the item main image and some relevant links with your affiliate account name added
• %%item_binding_category%% - the category of the item
• %%item_brand%% - the brand of the item
• %%item_features%% - feature list of the item
• %%item_color%% - color of the item
• %%item_is_adult_product%% - is an adult product?
• %%item_height%% - height of the item
• %%item_length%% - length of the item
• %%item_weight%% - weight of the item
• %%item_width%% - width of the item
• %%item_price%% - price of the item
• %%item_offer_availability%% - item offer availability
• %%item_offer_is_free_shipping%% - does the item have free shipping?
• %%item_offer_is_prime%% - is this a prime offer?
• %%item_manufacturer%% - item manufacturer name
• %%item_product_group%% - product group of the item
• %%item_product_type_name%% - product type name of the item
• %%item_size%% - size of the item
• %%item_studio%% - studio name of the item
• %%item_publisher%% - publisher name of the item
• %%item_offer_price%% - offer price for the item
• %%item_customer_reviews%% - customer reviews iframe
• %%item_label%% - label name of the item
• %%item_technical_details_button%% - technical details button for this item
• %%item_add_baby_registry_button%% - baby registry button for this item
• %%item_add_wedding_registry_button%% - wedding registry button for this item
• %%item_add_wishlist_button%% - add to wishlist button for this item
• %%item_tell_a_friend_button%% - tell a friend button for this item
• %%item_all_reviews_button%% - all reviews button for this item
• %%item_all_offers_button%% - all offers button for this item
• %%author%% - author of the article
• %%author_link%% - link of the author
• %%item_media%% - item image
• %%custom_html%% - the #1 custom html that you defined in the plugin settings
• %%custom_html2%% - the #2 custom html that you defined in the plugin settings
• %%random_sentence%% - the #1 random sentence generator that you configured in the plugin
• %%random_sentence2%% - the #2 random sentence generator that you configured in the plugin
• %%item_title%% - the title of the item
• %%item_description%% - the description of the item
• %%item_content%% - the main content of the item
• %%item_content_plain_text%% - the title of the item in plain text
• %%item_img_url%% - the image url of the item
• %%item_url%% - the url of the item
• %%item_cat%% - the categories of the item
• %%item_tags%% - the tags of the item
• %%item_buy_now_button%% - get a buy now button for this item
• %%item_show_image%% - show the featured image for this item
• %%item_all_images%% - show all images for this item
• %%item_sales_rank%% - show the sales rank for this item
• %%item_image_URL%% - show the image url for this item

How to work with 'Random Sentence Generator'?

You can use the Random Sentence Generator by inserting list of sentences to the 'First List of Possible Sentences (%%random_sentence%%)' text field. Here, you can add full sentences, or sentences with variables. Variables are structured as: %something. A possible list of sentences can be:

• Meet this %adjective %noun %sentence_ending
• This is the %adjective %noun ever%sentence_ending
• I %love_it %nouns , because they are the %adjective %sentence_ending
• My %family says this plugin is very %adjective %sentence_ending
• These %nouns are quite %adjective %sentence_ending

You can define variables in the 'List of Possible Variables:' textfield. Here you can define values to variables, values which will be used in the random sentence forming. Variables can be defined as follows:

variable_name1 => variable_value1;variable_value2;variable_value3

variable_name2 => variable2_value1;variable2_value2;variable2_value3

You can also use variables in variable definition. Example:

noun_with_adjective => %noun;%adjective %noun

An example of variable definition:

adjective_very => %adjective;very %adjective;

adjective => clever;interesting;smart;huge;astonishing;unbelievable;nice;adorable;beautiful;elegant;fancy;glamorous;magnificent;helpful;awesome

noun_with_adjective => %noun;%adjective %noun

noun => plugin;WordPress plugin;item;ingredient;component;constituent;module;add-on;plug-in;addon;extension

nouns => plugins;WordPress plugins;items;ingredients;components;constituents;modules;add-ons;plug-ins;addons;extensions

love_it => love;adore;like;be mad for;be wild about;be nuts about;be crazy about

family => %adjective %family_members;%family_members

family_members => grandpa;brother;sister;mom;dad;grandma

sentence_ending => .;!;!!

These random sentences can be used in post titles or post content, by adding the %%random_sentence%% or %%random_sentence2%% shortcode.

Results: If everything is configured well, you can go to plugin administration page, and you can wait to see it's results in your posts admin page (and in plugin control panel where you can see logs of your user submitted posts)!

Here are some examples of Amazomatic Amazon Affiliate plugin features:

An automatically generated blog home page:

A post example:

Another post example using the item card feature:

Item reviews example:

Item images example:

Another basic example:

Example source of generated post:

Example list of plugin generated posts:

Summary - top

Amazomatic Amazon Affiliate plugin is a simple, yet powerful tool you can use to create a profitable affiliate marketing webpage. The setup and settings of the plugin couldn't have been easier. Now, let's go and enjoy the results of this great plugin! Have fun using it!

Sources and Credits - top

This component was made by Szabi CodeRevolution, for more information and support contact us at support@coderevolution.ro

Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this item. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions regarding this plugin and I'll do my best to assist.

CodeRevolution

---