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Archive for August, 2009

Feedback on Shopzilla’s Dynamic Content

Friday, August 28th, 2009

As you all know, we released our long-awaited Dynamic Content a couple of weeks ago and encouraged you to try it out for yourselves. Thanks to all those who have already integrated it!  If you haven’t got around to having a look just yet, now’s the time to see what the new feature can offer you. Read more about our Dynamic Content*.

And if that doesn’t inspire you, we had some great initial feedback from some of our Publishers about the adaptability and efficacy of implementing these customisable assets:

Shopzilla's Dynamic Content - something to shout about

Shopzilla's Dynamic Content - something to shout about


“Great chance of getting more revenue…customer service is great” britishbay.co.uk

“very useful and could be used instead of data feed related to the page content” shopire.com

“easy to integrate, looks fantastic and I was able to create a dynamic banner with exactly the content I wanted” dutchovenmonkey.blogspot.com

“very pleased with the result” drmventurestrading.co.uk

“love being able to colour the ads” herfashioneye.buy.co.uk

“I was able to find the matching products for my blog post and  add shopping experience” love-handbags-for-life.co.uk

“the cutomisable aspect is great, you can integrate it seamlessly into your website” Skylia.com


Your opinions are highly valued by us here in the UK Shopzilla Publisher team so if you have any questions or comments whatsoever regarding our Dynamic Assets please do not hesitate to get in touch. We are continually striving to improve our program so that you as Publishers get the best experience possible!

Try it for yourself; we’re sure you’ll give it raving reviews!

*Find it under the Get Content tab when you log in to your account on the portal.

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Shopzilla’s cricket banners

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

We all know the results from the weekend after a dramatic 7 weeks during which England managed to make a triumphant come back and take The Ashes by storm. We’re sure many of you out there were holding your breath for a good part of the weekend! Here at Shopzilla we like to keep up-to-date with the latest news and events and take pride in being able to provide our Publishers with great ideas for banners. So, to join in the celebrations for one of the most talked about current events, why not show your support for the boys by implementing one of our cricket banners? With our dynamic content you can customise the asset to really create your own. To design your cricket banners simply go to the Get Content tab in our Publisher portal and click on the Dynamic Assets option. ‘Howzat’ for an idea?! Advertise Shopzilla's cricket banners

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A4U Forum - C U There!

Monday, August 24th, 2009

The A4U expo website is a social networking site designed to keep you up-to-date first hand with all the news and events happening in the Affiliate Marketing world.

Affiliates 4U - THE place to network

With hundreds of members already on board, the forum reunites affiliates and merchants alike and provides a gateway to the current hot AM debates.

This forum has long been established and we here at the Shopzilla Publisher team have been a member since earlier this year when our affiliate program launched.

On the main page you’ll see some of the most recent Forum and Blog posts.  To begin, create your own profile and then click on the “Forum” tab at the top. This will bring you to the buzz of the site -  there are many different threads and posts going on here at the same time, it’s just a case of browsing and selecting the threads which interest you.

The best way to get yourself seen and heard on this social networking site is to read the various articles in your chosen field and contribute to posts which have been insightful/offered an interesting slant to the way affiliate marketing works. Of course, you’re also allowed to express your opinions, whether you agree or not with an author’s article.

The UK Shopzilla Publisher program regularly surfs and contributes to these online discussions and would encourage all of our Publishers to do the same.

You can find us under Shopzilla Ltd in the “Users” search category.

Keep up with our threads and use it as an alternative tool to reach us if you have any questions regarding the Publisher program!

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Problems with Earning reports

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Hey Publishers. 

You have probably noticed by now that we are experiencing some technical difficulties with our earnings report.  We understand how frustrating it is to all of you who login to your accounts but are unable to view your clicks and earnings.  Please be assured that your traffic is being tracked accurately and that we are logging all impression, redirect and earnings data in our database.

This is a very high priority problem and our team are currently working on rebuilding the entire earnings report structure. In the meantime, please feel free to contact us if you need a certain report, and we can manually pull it from the system for you. To request an earning report please contact Diana Scharpenberg at dscharpenberg@shopzilla.com

We thank you all very much for your patience and understanding while we work through this issue.

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SmartPricing

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

To us here at Shopzilla it’s very important that we send quality traffic to our merchants. We closely monitor the quality of all traffic sources.  It would be unfair if the poor sources were subsidised by the better sources, which is why our SmartPricing is in place. It is a system designed to give well-performing Publishers an incentive to reach the maximum CPC rate possible with Shopzilla.

Do you know what smartpricing is?

Do you know what smartpricing is?

What exactly is SmartPricing?

SmartPricing is a model employed by Shopzilla to ensure the sending of high quality traffic to our hundreds of merchants. The clicks to merchants are adjusted according to a publisher’s overall traffic performance.  This means that the amount we charge a merchant for each click will be based on the publisher’s overall traffic quality.

We evaluate the quality of traffic from our distribution partners by measuring the conversion rate; the merchants’ click charges may be discounted based on the value of that traffic.

SmartPricing will be applied if your traffic quality does not meet our expectations. So if your traffic quality concerns us then we’ll inform you before we make any adjustments to your SmartPricing, and try to work with you to help ensure higher quality.

Don’t forget that if you continuously send us quality traffic (visitors who buy/are likely to buy products on the merchants’ sites) we will review your SmartPricing banding and may increase it so that you receive higher revenue for your efforts.

Using our affiliate program there are a few steps that you can take to ensure the highest quality traffic:

  1. Ensure that the BizRate content which is displayed is relevant to the content on your site.
  2. Try linking to BizRate rather than to merchants directly (if you are not already using this method)
  3. Geo-target BizRate content to UK-sourced traffic only.

As the Shopzilla’s affiliate program is based on sharing revenue, if you earn less, we earn less; so it’s in our best interests to help you increase your traffic quality. Although your potential earnings may drop if we have to make SmartPricing adjustments, this does not mean your Rev-Share percentage has changed.

If you would like any further information regarding smartpricing or this blog post, please send your queries through the Contact Us tab at the top of the page.

UK Shopzilla Publisher team

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Payment information needed in order to get paid

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Just successfully activated your Shopzilla Publisher account and eager to start earning money? That’s great and you can start earning revenue immediately by choosing your ad from a large selection of shopping content and pasting the HTML code onto your site, it’s that simple.

We do encourage you  not to forget to enter your payment information sooner rather than later.  As we don’t ask for this information during the registration process, we know from experience that people tend to forget to enter these.  It’s important because we wouldn’t know where  and who to send the money to.

When trying to enter your payment information as the first thing you do on the portal, you may find that the  button “Enter your payment details” in the account section will be missing which makes it impossible to enter any payment information. This is not a technical issue on our portal.  Note: It may take 20-30 minutes from the time of your account activation for us to fully complete your account processing and enable you to enter your payment information. After this short time, you won’t encounter this problem anymore.

In the meantime, please don’t worry and feel free to start exploring our different banners and searchboxes.

Once your account is fully activated, the “Payment Information” section is fully loaded and you will be able to see the green “Add Payment Info” button.

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If you have any other questions regarding the payment process please check out our dedicated payments & reporting section on the blog. You can also always contact us, if there are any questions.

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