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Customer Support Area => Support for Affiliate Site Quick / Affiliate Hijacker => Topic started by: Georg on October 01, 2008, 08:22:50 AM
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Dear Customers,
about 99% of the questions i get in regards of how to work with Affiliate Hijacker is actually not related to Affiliate Hijacker itself, but usually an issue of the targeted site. Remember that AH basically makes a "clone" of the targeted site. Most issues or inconsistencies in regards to the content, how things are displayed etc. are basically coming from the targeted site. AH essentially only "pulls" a site and displays is "as is". AH does not really modify or add content.
The second bunch of questions i get is *usually* rather related to hosting problems, eg. some misconfigured PHP hosting not allowing the script to work properly. (In 99,9% of standard PHP hosting environments it does work.)
Also...i cannot emphasize enough that you do not need to use any of either .htaccess or robots.txt, you can safely ignore anything said in the book regarding those two files. Just keep in mind to upload your Affiliate Hijacker scripts as "index.php".
.htaccess or robots.txt is for advanced users only, it is not a requirement to use/have any of those files to use Affiliate Hijacker.
Q: I get an error message "Warning: file_get_contents(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /[path].../index.php on line 2".
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Q: Blank Page comes up when using ASQ
A: This message means that your host/server is configured not to allow fetching remote contents via script. Please ask your server administrator to change this and show him the error message. The majority of hosts are configured for this to work.
If your host/admin can not or does not want to change this then i advice changing hosting providers where this is configured to work.
Q: On my pages i see an empty white line at the top and a button with an "X".
A: This is the banner, but it shouldn't show if you didn't type anything in the editor. Try resetting the code, generate the site again but do not type *anything* in the editor. Addendum: There seems to be an issue using Internet Explorer on the Affiliate Hijacker interface. If you get the empty banner line with the "X" even if you did not use the banner feature - try FireFox instead. We are looking into this issue.
Q: I thought AH hides my affiliate links, but i still can see my affiliateID in the URL?
A: This is by design in V2 to be 100% conform to clickbank TOS. You can either use V1 where you will never see your ID in the URL, or you can disable the "forced redirect" so the hoplink is only executed once a user clicks on your page. Clickbank has a policy that hoplinks need to open in a new, unhidden window.
Q: AH redirects, where is my site?
A: See above. You can use various ways to use AH, either with a forced redirect after a certain time, with a redirect after a user clicks on your page, or no redirect at all using V1. V1 always stays on your URL and the cookie is fetched in a different way.
Q: How can i actually test whether my sites work?
A: If you get to the actual vendor page and go to the payment link, in case of clickbank you see your affiliateID at the bottom of the screen which looks like [affiliate=YOURID]. If this ID is in fact your ID this means that everything should work all right. The ID shown on the bottom of the payment page is proof that you got the commission cookie and your affiliate link was executed in the right way.
Q: My AdWords ads get disapproved because of different display URL.
A: Use V1 of Affiliate Hijacker or uncheck "redirect after" so the URL changes only after a user clicks on the page. This is to make sure to keep your real own URL as long as possible and not make Google think that your site is only a redirect.
Q: I have bad quality score in Google Adwords.
A: If the site in question already has a bad quality score, AH cant make the site better. AH cant also help you getting good quality score for keywords which are just not related to the site, or overcome other factors which could cause bad quality score but which are related to the target site in the first place, like bad navigation, no privacy policy and many more factors.
First try another way of using AH, maybe use V1 and observe your quality score. After you deleted the "bad" Adwords Campaign and keywords alltogether, re-create a new site using the different method and re-create the campaign and keywords on Google. As a last resort try creating a site on a different domain name.
Q: My Ads get disapproved (Data Collection, Spam etc..)
A: Affiliate Hijacker is only the "messenger". If a targeted site is indeed disliked by google and ads get disapproved, then it is because how google sees the targeted, "cloned" site. Another reason could be your ad wording in adwords. Here i can only recommend the extensive tutorials Google has for Adwords.
Q: Domains, Subdomains, Folders, index.php....How To?
A: On your server each domain usually has its own folder. If you created subdomains on your server, say "site1.mysite.com", "site2.mysite.com" and similar, you should have separate subfolders on your server for each of those single sites.
Log in to your main site using ftp like "filezilla" and look for those folders.
Each of those folders can and should have their own index.php, per site you create. Upload the appropriate with AH generated code in the right subfolder which belongs to the right site.
Q: The banner does not actually "hide", it's all the way on the bottom?
A: Again, this is by design. If you *do* use the banner but want tohide it from view, say you only use it for adding links to articles and more content. Everything really "hidden" is not seen by the search engines - but you for sure want them to pick up your content and links, right?In addition real "hidden" site elements could get your sitepenalized. Google doesn't like any hidden site-elements.
Note in regards to .htaccess:
.htaccess is not necessary for AH to work. If you upload your generated code always as index.php you dont need to mess with .htaccess, you dont need it at all. Just make sure you dont have another index.html on the server.
You only need .htacces if you want to incorporate other tweaks and/or if you upload your code under another filename (not "index.php") - then you need it to specify which file to load as default webpage.
Georg.
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Hi,
I followed the directions step by step and generated the code, which I saved via notepad and then uploaded to my subdirectory using filezilla.
The problem? The site displays the generated php file in code instead of showing the host page....what happened?
I'm looking at raw code here when I access index.php on my server.....very frustrating!
thanks
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Hi,
I followed the directions step by step and generated the code, which I saved via notepad and then uploaded to my subdirectory using filezilla.
The problem? The site displays the generated php file in code instead of showing the host page....what happened?
I'm looking at raw code here when I access index.php on my server.....very frustrating!
thanks
Never mind, I found the problem....I had used Word Pad instead of Notepad and it put some junk into the page code, which screwed up the php code......use notepad.
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it should work if you use wordpad and save as plain text. But yes, notepad is more than sufficient and usually always works.
Georg.
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I think it would a nice addition to the forum if you could do a step by step layout for converting amazon.com pages and commission junction. You wouldn't have to go into great detail as everyone know the main steps but the actual setup for the links and what ever else you would think appropriate. The other idea is to do a nice slow video of the setup.
jchawaii
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If you could do a step by step layout for converting amazon.com pages and commission junction. You wouldn't have to go into great detail as everyone know the main steps but the actual setup for the links and what ever else you would think appropriate.
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