Easy Content Units - Fully Customisable, Multi-Network Content Units

[EyeOfTheTiger]

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Great news on the pro version, however, few queries.

I have multiple domains that i wish to use pro units on. AS TD and CJ and maybe others required seperate Site ID's or PIDS and thus requiire a seperate ECU login to attribute these, I dont really see a way to avoid £19.99 per month for each login am I correct.

So far I have about 12 sites i'd like to use units on ?

Any help or advice welcome...

Thanks

Mike

[hobbsy]

Hello ECU team,

Just gotta say that after messing around with ECU units for the past week it's really fired my imagination on new sites to create

I've been through this whole thread and roadtested a few units -- I've made a lot of notes, and come up with a lot of new feature suggestions. I think they probably deserve their own blog post (as it's become rather lengthy) so I'll let you know when I've put them online.


Just a quick request today though:- will you consider making your SCRIPT include code XHTML valid?

currently we have:

<!-- BEGIN EASYCONTENTUNITS.COM CODE --><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript" SRC="http://www.easycontentunits.com/js_unit.php?ecu_mid=ECUID&ecu_uid=4366"> /* Unit: MacWarehouse */ </SCRIPT><!-- END EASYCONTENTUNITS.COM CODE -->

Validator W3 - XHTML 1.0 Strict

Line 87, Column 90: Attribute "LANGUAGE" is not a valid attribute. Did you mean "language"?
Line 87, Column 184: element "SCRIPT" undefined. Did you mean "script"?
Line 87, Column 107: Attribute "SRC" is not a valid attribute. Did you mean "src"?

Could this be changed so :
- it's lowercase (eg. SCRIPT becomes script, SRC becomes src?
- type="text/javascript" is added
- & becomes &

eg, so it could look like:

<!-- BEGIN EASYCONTENTUNITS.COM CODE --><script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.easycontentunits.com/js_unit.php?ecu_mid=ECUID&ecu_uid=4366"> /* Unit: MacWarehouse */ </script><!-- END EASYCONTENTUNITS.COM CODE -->

[John]

@nts123 - good stuff, fingers crossed the commissions keep on coming for you!

@EyeOfTheTiger - should be able to sort you out - gimme 10 mins, and I'll drop you an email.

@hobbsy - Looking forward to the blog post! I see no reason why we can't make those changes to the code - i'll add it to the to-do list (techies will be happy with me lol)

[wilsonf1]

Hey!

im just creating one for my F1 site - its gonna look the NUTS! like my own shop but without the work haha

a request from weeks ago was, can we reset the impressions on an ECU? you said no but i dont see it being difficult - you'd just need to pass some parameters via a button to a short SQL statement and boof..... 0.....

i only ask as its useful because of us webmasters testing and refreshing all the time

but hey - your the bosses and im on the free version so i wont get grouchy

[John]

i dont see it being difficult - you'd just need to pass some parameters via a button to a short SQL statement and boof..... 0.....

LOL - that sounds like me having a meeting with the techies:

ME: It seems really simple. I mean, how hard can it be?
TECHIES: [MUCH FROWNING AND SHAKING OF HEAD]

We normally get there in the end though!

On the Pro version you can see stats broken down per day, so rather than re-setting the stats, you can look at your post-testing stats by themselves, without losing the pre-testing data should you wish to compare it.

I'll have a look and see whether we can add a rest button to the free version - I mean, how hard can it be?

[wilsonf1]

Haha thanks John i appreciate the reply

i just put my first unit live and maxed out the 30 products:

enterf1.com/f1-merchandise/ferrari.asp

products range from £7.99 up to £2750.00 - guess which one i'd like to nail a sale for!

this isnt very targeted i know but this is just a general page about Ferrari - i intend to break it down on other pages

feel free to comment on what you think - i like feedback!

[John]

lol - you've certainly got something for every pocket there! Keyrings and stickers, or a 1/8 exact replica of an F1 car - hopefully the car sale will be on one of our clicks (only joking!)

Design-wise I think you've got the units pretty much spot-on: Loving the custom buy now buttons! Obviously targeting of the products is the key thing (unless someone happens to stop by and buy a £2750 car on impulse!), but I think you should see very healthy CTRs from the units (the average CTR is around 10%, but I reckon you should beat that)

[John]

A quick heads-up on a fantastic new feature that we've just launched for ECU (both Free and Pro versions) that will help you maximise your Amazon commissions:

The performance plan for Amazon is great - it gives you a fab tiered commission structure meaning the more you sell, the more you earn. There's only one downside - On the Performance Plan, any Electrical items are capped at £7 commission, meaning if you sell a £1,000 TV, you get £7 commission (less than 1%)

If you sell the same TV through the Classic program however, you get a flat rate of 4%, meaning you'd pocket £40 commission - £33 more for the same product!

We've now set up ECU so that if you have seperate Amazon IDs for Classic and Performance, you can enter both of them into ECU, and the system will automatically use the best link for you.

It'll use the performance link as default, however any items in the electrical category priced over £175.00 will automatically switch to the Classic plan, ensuring you don't miss out the full commission for on any big ticket electrical items!

[wilsonf1]

good lads - i kinda know what this is about but will investigate further wheb my blu ray dvd player website gets more traffic - fingers crossed!

[Jason]

@ Hobbsy

We've made the changes you suggested, can you let me know if all is well?

Thanks

Jason

[wilsonf1]

@ Hobbsy

We've made the changes you suggested, can you let me know if all is well?

Thanks

Jason

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language="javascript" is not needed on an javascript now as it doesnt validate - just the type="" is needed

[lufc]

Hi,

I would just like to say how great this service is and it is something that I am looking at using on a new website I have in mind.

I am having one problem however, would it be possible to add SportsDirect.com - Home Page, Football Boots, Trainers, Football Shirts, Sportswear, I believe that they are on tradedoubler

Thanks in advance,

Darren

[John]

would it be possible to add SportsDirect.com - Home Page, Football Boots, Trainers, Football Shirts, Sportswear, I believe that they are on tradedoubler

Thanks in advance,

Darren

Hi Darren,

Just had a quick look, and it appears that there isn't a product feed for Sports Direct on TD - if they add one of course we'll be happy to add them to ECU

Cheers,

John

[hobbsy]

Does anyone know how to tell the browser to load the ECUs last when a page loads?

I have quite a few on the page and the page can appear broken for a few seconds as the ECUs load. If I could get them to load last the page would look OK sooner.

Any ideas?

Place the unit in a div at the very end of your page code, then reposition using css - within theory it should load the code above ie your design first. That being said, thats not full proof, the best solution is some more complex javascript coding.

Does anyone have a simple tutorial on how to do this above?

I'm finding on a few occasions that ECU makes my page stop loading until the ECU is loaded, and then it continues. Ive seen my whole site pause for a good 5-10 seconds sometimes... making it look like my site is only half-built (sidebar and footer and content won't load until ECU is in place)

I've tried putting an Ajax loader GIF animation in a div underneath the ECU (as the background) which looks quite nice... but I think the only way to stop the site freezing is via the method sabian hints at above. How do you reposition the DIV using CSS?

[Jason]

Hi Hobbsy

We're working on a couple of solutions for you. Will let you know when they are done.

Jason