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Amazomatic - Amazon Affiliate Plugin for WordPress Help

Created: 29/01/2017
By: CodeRevolution
Email: [email protected]

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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:

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.

3. After installation, activate the plugin.

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:

Other plugin features:

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:

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


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

How to customize resulting posts with built in shortcodes?

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

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:

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 [email protected]

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