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Tips for building a sound Online Store with Computer Manuals Affiliate Scheme.
Computer Manuals offers more than 250,000 products and is the leading online computer bookstore retailer in Europe. We offer excellent customer service, international delivery and have experience that impresses even the largest International online retailers.
1.
Perhaps the easiest starting point would be to browse through the computer-manuals.co.uk web site to see which Images and Logos would best suit your Web Site, and products you would like to sell.
Remember it is much more effective to have particular products displayed at appropriate places on your site, than just a banner or button linking through tour site. The aim for you is not to publicise our name and logo but to sell and earn yourself those fees!
2.Simply logon to the affiliate login page and choose the Generate HTML and shop, add the contents to your affiliate basket and let us do the rest.
You can build an online bookstore in a matter of seconds, it is that easy. View an example of what can be generated using GHTML
Or for the more traditional way
To copy the Images right mouse click on the image which you wish to use then choose Save Picture As.
Then select the folder that you wish to save the image in. Then Add the Image to your Web Page, using your usual editor.
For Linking purposes this image will be hyper linked using a unique URL which you will be told about when your application for the Affiliate Scheme has been successful. This unique URL will be your portal to earning serious money on the Computer Manuals Affiliate Scheme.
3. After the basic insertion of the product image and name/description, remember that you are trying to sell rather than just display these products.
So, to make it clear, you can call this section of the site a shop or store. And next to each product you have featured you can put a link (either text, image or button) saying "buy", "order now" or something similarly unambiguous. In fact, a good way is simply to have a "Buy Now from Computer Manuals". This takes advantage of Computer Manuals' reputation for good service and fast delivery.
4. If your selling the products via a special page or section of your site, make sure people know it's there by linking prominently from your home page, and other popular pages.
Also, keep in mind that over 40% of sales of computer books are of new titles in their first months after publication. in order to stay up to speed with your customers needs, ask for notifications on the relevant subject areas and we'll send you details of the relevant new books as soon as they come out.
- For Linking
purposes this image will be hyper linked using a unique URL. This unique URL will be your portal to earning serious
money on the Computer Manuals Affiliate Scheme.
Links to Computer Manuals Web Site are generated as follows:
Straight through to the Computer Manuals Web Site: http://www.compman.co.uk/affid/youraffiliateid
- Or to browse more information on individual products, just need to
replace your affiliate ID and also the Reference of product depending
on which product you are displaying on your Web Site. This
reference number is Computer Manuals 6 digit reference and not the
ISBN Reference.
http://www.compman.co.uk/scripts/browse.asp?affiliateid=youraffiliateID&ref=reference of product on Computer Manuals Site Not ISBN
OR
http://www.compman.co.uk/scripts/browse.asp?affiliateid=youraffiliateID&isbn=ISBN Number
- Adding contents to the Computer Manuals Shopping Basket:
http://www.compman.co.uk/cgi-bin/basket.cgi?affiliateid=youraffiliateID&isbn=ISBNNumber&action=add
OR
http://www.compman.co.uk/cgi-bin/basket.cgi?affiliateid=youraffiliateID&Ref=reference of product on Computer Manuals Site Not ISBN&action=add
Adding a search facility on your Web Site using Front Page or HTML:
- Insert a single one line text box
- Double click the text box and give it the name searchterms leaving the initial value blank. Press OK
- Right mouse click on the text box and select form properties then activate the send to other radio button.
- Click on the Options button and in the Action field type: http://www.compman.co.uk/scripts/search.asp and for method choose GET. The Encoding type is left blank. Select OK.
- Click the Advanced button and choose Add, type affiliateid in the Name field. In the Value field type in the Affiliate ID number that you have been issued with by Computer Manuals, when you signed up and received the confirmation email with the Affiliate ID on it. Click OK
- Add another using the Add button. In the Name field type log with the value of 1 click OK
- Add another with the Name field as searchtype with the value of all and click OK
The HTML below is for the form above with the image go as a submit button.
<form method="get" action="http://www.compman.co.uk/scripts/search.asp">
<input type="hidden" name="affiliateid"
value="YourAffiliateID"><input type="hidden" name="searchtype"
value="all"><table border="0" cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#000000" nowrap><div
align="right"><img border="0" src="http://www.compman.co.uk/images/search.gif"
align="top"></td>
<td bgcolor="#000000" nowrap width="100"><nobr> <input
type="text" name="searchterms" size="20">
</nobr></td>
<td bgcolor="#000000" nowrap><input
type="image" src="http://www.compman.co.uk/images/go.gif" name="I2"
alt="Go" border="0"
align="middle"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
This is the HTML for the Form above using Submit and Reset.
<form method="GET" action="http://www.compman.co.uk/scripts/search.asp">
<p><input type="text" name="searchterms"
size="20"><input type="submit"
value="Submit" name="B1"><input
type="reset" value="Reset"
name="B2"></p>
<input type="hidden" name="affiliateid"
value="YourAffiliateID"><input
type="hidden" name="searchtype"
value="all">
</form>
Comparison sites:
If you are running a comparison system on your site and require a real-time data feed please let us know, as we can provide custom scripts to generate the data in the easiest form for your software to interpret and provide future-proofing against problems caused by future design changes on our site. Contact webmaster@compman.co.uk for more details.