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Offers Blog

The Offers Blog is the ideal place for your incentive to be seen by affiliates. Whether you have a consumer focused competition, commission increase or voucher/discount codes to promote, this tool will help your get your programme and incentive noticed.

The Offers Blog has been created using a Wordpress template. If you have used Wordpress before you will be familiar with the process, however if not, please follow the instructions below.

The Offers Blog itself can only be accessed by merchants and affiliates joined to the Affiliate Window network, those not already signed into the administration area will be directed to the log in area. There is also RSS capabilities for every category of the blog, allowing affiliates to receive the information they want as soon as it becomes available.

Before you can take advantage of the Offers Blog you will need to set up a username and password.

Your username should be that of your programme or agency – click here to register and have your very own Affiliate Window Offers Blog account!

Note: Wordpress strongly dislikes content "copy and pasted" from MS Word documents. Avoid errors occurring when you preview your offer by using the .txt templates given in the documents box found on the homepage of the Merchant Admin area.

To post your information onto the Offers Blog simply follow the step by step instructions below:

Step One

Login to the Offers Blog Admin Area by clicking the Post New Offer button above and entering your uername and password.

Step Two

From the WordPress Admin Area select the Write feature by clicking on one of the links circled in red below:

Step Three

There are 4 main sections to complete before posting your offer:

1. Title

You should ensure this includes your brand name and 3 - 6 word offer summary. Please DO NOT put the title in block capitals.



2. Body

Here is a breakdown of what should go into the Body copy:

• Merchant logo
• Use HTML code
  
  Example:<img src="image_URL_here" />
  
  OR for standard logo use: <img src="http://www.affiliatewindow.com/logos/insert_mid/logo.gif" />
• Expiry date and time DD/MM/YY HH:MM
• Offer in full
• All relevant details of the offer including which products it covers, the customer or affiliate benefit, whether there is bespoke creative, etc.
• Landing page (optional)
• Identify the page that affiliate traffic should be sent. This may be your home page or a specific page within your site. Be sure to include the <pre> </pre > tags around each link you supply. Example: <pre>your_web_site_or_landing_page_URL< /pre>
• Product tracker links (optional)
• This is only appropriate where you are promoting specific products that have dedicated product pages within your website. Be sure to include the <pre> </pre> tags around each link you supply.
  
  Example: <pre>your_web_site_or_landing_page_URL</pre>
  
  
• Relevant creative (optional)
• You can include examples of relevant creative. Either upload images from your PC by clicking the "Add Media" button or if you know the URL where the creative is hosted you can use it as shown in the example text below.
  
  Example: <img src="your_URL" />
  
  NOTE: ensure the image is less than 590 pixels wide or your post may break the layout and be deleted
• Terms & conditions
• Bullet point format is the most effective.
• Programme summary (optional)
• Include a line about you, what you stock and why affiliates should promote you.
• Contact Details
• As a minimum you should include your company name, an e-mail address and where possible a phone number.






3. Tags

Here you can add key words in your offer for example "Voucher Code" or "free".



4. Categories

You must categorise your post by both type and sector. If a post is not corrected assigned to a category it damages the integrity of the RSS feed and will be deleted.

Step Four

If you would like to check how your post will look you can click on the Preview this Post button (circled in red below).

Step Five

If your post is long you can finish before the fold and add a 'more' button for the reader to see the rest of the post. To do this simply select the cut off point in your article and press either of the buttons circled below.

Step Six

When you are happy with your post click on the Publish button and your promotion will automatically made live on the Offers Blog.

FAQs

My offer is live but I want to edit it

To edit your post you need to simply log in and click on the Manage tab, this will take you to a list of posts. Find your post and click on the title to edit, once you are happy with the changes click on the Save button.