Affiliate Control Panel - Update January 2007

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<p><strong>Affiliate Control Panel - Update January 2007</strong>

<p><strong>New Content Units</strong>
<br>At present Affiliates are limited to Content Units from Merchants that feature only a handful of selected products, at best you could select the products yourself. Now Paid On Results is changing that, with incredible plug-in dynamic content giving the opportunity for Affiliates, big or small, to integrate Content Units which are little mini shops using the latest Web 2.0 technology. You can even customise many aspects of the Content Units.

<p><strong>Announcements - Improving Communication</strong>
<br>Email communication between Affiliate, Merchant and Network has reached the point where it is less productive than previously. Emails concerning new programs, program changes, closing merchants, suspended merchants can be missed and it is easy to lose track of promotions and offers from Merchants. The new section in the Affiliate Control Panel called "Announcements" changes all of that by grouping all such information into one area. You can quickly see the latest information every time you login. Not only does it list important network information, but Merchants can populate the Promotions and Incentives sections with offers, competitions and more to help Affiliates promote their program.

<p><strong>New Home Page</strong>
<br>The Home Page - the first page you see when you login, has been updated. You can quickly see your current balance, next payouts and an overview of the last 7 days and 3 months.

<p><strong>Improved Design</strong>
<br>The design of each table has been improved to make them easier to read. Each report has a number of additional options for the more advanced users and can be found by clicking "more options" in the Customise Report box.

<p><strong>Dynamic Table Headers</strong>
<br>Commission, Clicks, Impression, Ratios - they all look the same! Just a bunch of numbers and as you scroll down a large table its easy to lose track of what column contains what information. Not anymore, when you scroll down a long table the header will follow you allowing you to find what your looking for much more quickly.

<p><strong>Your Activity - New Report</strong>
<br>A new report allows you to find the date of the last sale, click, impression, validation and void of your Merchants. This is your own personal information based on your activity. You can use the options in the "more options" tab to refine the page, for example to find Merchants who you are sending traffic to but are no longer converting.

<p>We hope you like the changes we have made.

[drivetowin]

Hi Clarke

First impressions - very good - looks excellent - now I just need to find out why one merchant has last click of 12 Dec but last sale of 7th June - looks like either one of my site needs a revamp or a merchant needs a kick

[morleymouse]

Fantastic! some of the styles of the new reports (the tabs mostly) seem to look a bit off in firefox - not tried IE) but no biggy still usable!

Reports all fine as per usual! Everything great!


... you guys going to float anytime soon

[Supercod]

Fantastic! some of the styles of the new reports (the tabs mostly) seem to look a bit off in firefox - not tried IE) but no biggy still usable!

Could you fire me off a screen shot example to my email address, as I did check it in Firefox and the pages looked fine to me but hey maybe I got testing blindness.. None of the beta testers picked up on that and I know half of them where using Firefox.

Thanks for your other feedback, we aim to please

[Supercod]

First impressions - very good - looks excellent - now I just need to find out why one merchant has last click of 12 Dec but last sale of 7th June - looks like either one of my site needs a revamp or a merchant needs a kick

Thanks, that's what it's all about. No point in hiding this type of information as the way we look at it the Affiliate can try to improve what they are doing or move on and do more work with the Merchants that are working for them.

Everyone’s "Your Activity" is different as it's your activity , you can use this report in conjunction with the "Performance" reports and graphs to really get an idea on who is worth doing a bit more work on and who is not worth the effort. I am sure it will raise a couple of questions for some Affiliates as to why they are promoting so and so and this can only be a good thing.

[morleymouse]

my bad, was just that my browser was too small and made them go all over the place!

one Q, in the revenue report, the HTTP Referal saying Google - xxxx xxxx I take it this is just instead of displaying the google search string, extracting the keywords out?

[graeme]

one Q, in the revenue report, the HTTP Referal saying Google - xxxx xxxx I take it this is just instead of displaying the google search string, extracting the keywords out?

Yes thats right, we also do it for a number of other search engines.

[KieronD]

Nice one guys, I know you work very hard to make things as easy for us affiliates as possible and it shows.

Cheers!

[renegade]

Nice enhancement without compromising usability.
I can still find everything quickly and some things are easier to find and the new activity report is useful.
Overall, no fuss, no hassle and a worthwhile upgrade, other networks take note.

[jess1]

I would just like to add my pennies worth…
If you have never had a look at the affiliate interface and reporting take it from some one that hammers their software on a daily basis, from an affiliate’s perspective, I don’t think you can get a more user friendly network, I hate using the word seamless but I can’t think of a better way to describe it. So much thought has been put into navigation, ease of running reports and linking methods are a doddle. If you think I am raving about the affiliate interface, don’t get me started on the merchant interface its just as slick, seriously saves me a huge chunk of time from all sides of the fence.
Those content units… very clever. Well done!

[Mogga]

Very nice - but a tiny thing - in the closing merchants page can you put their id number so I can easily track down remaining links

cheers

[Supercod]

Very nice - but a tiny thing - in the closing merchants page can you put their id number so I can easily track down remaining links

Good idea, will put that down to get added.

[Supercod]

Hi Mogga, this has been added.

[Mogga]

Fantastic Clarke!
Cheers

[Tyson Pearcey]

Congrats Clarke and Paid On Results!