What is an Affiliate?

In its simplest form, an affiliate is a person or company that sends visitors to a website in exchange for commission. See Wikipedia

What is the purpose of Affiliates4u?

Affiliates4u brings together the Affiliate Marketing community, where anyone with an interest in the industry can utilise the many sections of Affiliates4u to find the latest news and blogs, join in discussion, search for and list jobs, view company profiles and find key industry events thanks to our leading portal.

The Website

How much does it cost to join?

Affiliates4u is currently free to become a member. You can register here.

How do I create a company profile?

If your company is not already listed you can create a new company listing in your account under the company tab.

How do I join a company?

Under the company tab of your account, type in the name of your company. If your company already exists it will notify you and allow you to join. Once you have joined, the company administrator will review your request to join and either accept or reject your request.

How do I add my blog to the blogs section of Affiliates4u?

Add your blog feed to the your feeds field of the basics tab in your account.

How do I remove my blog to the blogs section of Affiliates4u?

Remove your blog feed to the your feeds field of the basics tab in your account.

Where do I add my other Social Networks such as twitter, facebook, linkedIN to my profile for others to see?

You can add other social networks in the social networks tab in your account.

Can I hide my contact details to prevent others seeing them when viewing my profile?

Yes, this is done in the privacy tab in your account.

How do I change my contact and profile details?

You can edit all of your contact and profile details within the your account area.

How do I add a picture to my profile?

Add a picture to your account in the picture tab of your profile. Pictures should be no smaller than 200x200 pixels.

How can I become a featured blogger?

To become a featured blogger please contact us with some background about yourself and the topic of the article you would like to write about

How do I get my tweets to show in the member tweets area on Affiliates4u?

Simply add the hashtag #a4u to the end of your tweets for them to be displayed on the site.

Code & Affiliates4u

Can I use HTML when writing comments/adding jobs/entering info?

No. In the interests of security and page styling HTML is disabled across the entire Affiliates4u website, excluding the forum. Instead, we ask that you use Markdown.

What is Markdown?

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, which is then converted and displayed as HTML.

Basic Markdown syntax

  • Italic Text: — *text surrounded by one asterisk becomes italic*
  • Bold Text: — **text surrounded by two asterisks becomes bold**
  • Making links: — Make links like this: [link text](url). — For example: [Click here for Google](http://www.google.com) would look like this Click here for Google
  • Bulleted Lists: — To make bulleted lists, put a dash before each bullet item, for example, typing this:
    - Bulleted list item 1
    - Bulleted list item 2
    - Bulleted list item 3
    • Bulleted list item 1
    • Bulleted list item 2
    • Bulleted list item 3
  • Numbered Lists: — If you start a line with a number and a period, Markdown assumes you are making a numbered list, for example:
    1. Numbered list item 1
    2. Numbered list item 2
    3. Numbered list item 3
    1. Numbered list item 1
    2. Numbered list item 2
    3. Numbered list item 3
  • Headlines — Dictator already has headline fields (so you may not need to read further), but if you want to make your own headlines in the body copy just insert pound signs on the line you want to be a headline, like this:

    #This is BIG OLD headline

    ##This is a sub–headline
    ###This is a smaller headline.

Of course, the # signs would not appear with the headline, but they are shown here just for demonstration purposes. The actual size of these headlines will be determined by our style sheet.

Form more info: Visit John Gruber's Markdown site

The forum

Can I Use HTML in my forum posts?

No. In the interests of security and page styling HTML is disabled across the Affiliates4u forum. Instead, we ask that in your forum posts, you use BB Code.

What is BB Code?

BB Code is a set of tags based on the HTML language that you may already be familiar with. BB Code allows you to add formatting to your forum posts in the same way as HTML does, but has a simpler syntax and doesn't interfere with forum page styling.

Basic BB Code

  • [b], [i], [u] = Bold / Italic / Underline
  • [color] = Colour
  • [highlight]= Highlight
  • [email] = Email Linking
  • [url] = URL Hyperlinking
  • [html] = html code
  • [quote]= quote
  • Visit http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/misc.php?do=bbcode for more BB Code and further instructions on how to use.

How do I edit my forum signature?

You can edit your forum signature under the forum tab of your account. Please remember that BB Code must be used for your forum signature.

When do you release the 'nofollow' from my Signature links?

We release the 'nofollow' on your signature links when you have reached 100 forum posts.

When do I get access to the 'inner forum'?

Access to the inner forum will be added to your account when you have reached 500 forum posts.

Where can I find information about advertising on Affiliates4u?

Please visit our Advertising page for more information.

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