Webgains - Hoseasons Update

[Ryan Gilbert]

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This is a message from Hoseasons keeping to update you with their scheduled upgrades: Affiliates of Hoseasons, please read:
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Dear Affiliates,
As of today we will be gradually launching sections of the new Hoseasons site. We will keep all affiliates notified as to the progress of updating the site etc. Please read the Hoseasons Blog at http://hoseasons.blogspot.com/ to stay updated. During this period of time, we will be closely monitoring all Affiliate sales to make sure everything is working properly. Please do however keep an eye on your stats. If you notice anything unusual, please let us know immediately.

What’s going to happen?
Because of the major overhaul we have had internally, the site will not be switched on completely as of day one. It is going to be a gradual process spread over three weeks. The site functions have already been tested internally, however, we will be having a further 3 weeks external testing.

What you need to know?
19th October 2007 - We are launching the 2007 products for UK Cottages , UK Parks Only and Europe Parks. These will be served under a URL http://2007.hoseasons.co.uk/thenamehere. This will be temporary. The new pages will point to the main URL http://www.hoseasons.co.uk/thenamehere after 2 weeks.

All 2006 Products will still be available on the current URL's
20th October 2007 - Launch of Home Page. The new home page is set to go live. All current banners will link to this page as it will be served on the main URL http://www.hoseasons.co.uk

Last Week October - UK Boats will be launched.
Second Week November - Europe Boats will be launched.

Note: All commissions - whether sales for 2006 or 2007 will still be tracked irrespective of where the client entered the site from

What you need to do?
PPC Affiliates and Deep Link Affiliates: All affiliates using PPC and DeepLink Methods will need to Change all their URL's to point to the new 2007 URL's. However, please note, that the current site and URL's will work in Parallel, so all current links will still work until the 15th of December 2006.

Banner Affiliates: Affiliates simply using the Hoseasons banners do not need to do anything. All banners will be changed, together with the pages they point to.

Anyone who needs any assistance or information is kindly asked to contact me on my MSN messenger or email me at marcel.ellis@hoseasons.co.uk. You may also reach me by calling on 01502711485.

Regards,
Marcel
Online Marketing Manager

[Mogga]

What about the datafeed?

[trigger571]

Hi Diane,

We will be having datafeeds of all products in CSV and XML in a few weeks. We just need to get the site running to 100% efficiency first, get rid of any bugs, and have all the products up and running. Ryan will let you know when these are avaialble, but in the meantime please also follow any developments on the Hoseasons Affiliate Support Blog.

Thanks

Marcel