Affiliate Unique Article Feeder Merchant Tutorial

Today, one of the most important aspects of effective Affiliate Marketing is creating and distributing fresh, original article content to all of your affiliate marketers – the main challenge that keeps your affiliate campaign from reaching its fullest potential.

Unfortunately, writing unique articles is tedious and extremely time consuming process. You also need to provide or embed custom backlink URLs of 100s of affiliates within so each click and each sale can be tracked and remunerated.

What would be most beneficial for Affiliate Merchants is – a tool that can enable them to provide their affiliate marketers with off-the-shelf marketing material, including unique articles with embedded affiliate links so the affiliates can directly use these articles for promotion.

Affiliate Unique Article Feeder is a WP plugin especially designed to help merchants to generate hundreds of UNIQUE articles for their affiliates, each embedded with affiliate links within.

In this tutorial, you will learn how you can use Affiliate Unique Article Feeder on your WordPress website and distribute UNIQUE articles to your team of hundreds of affiliates without any extra effort.

You will learn how to:

1. Set Up Affiliate Unique Article Feeder On Your WP Website
2. Create Tagged Articles using AUAF
3. Distribute AUAF Articles to your Affiliate Network

How To Set Up Affiliate Unique Article Feeder On Your WP Website

If you have WP installed on your website, you can set up AUAF in 2 simple steps:

Step-1:

Download Affiliate Unique Article Feeder (AUAF)

Step-2:

Install AUAF on your WordPress website

To install AUAF, go to the Plugins -> Add New -> Upload page of your WordPress admin panel, upload the downloaded AUAFeeder archive, and activate the plugin.

If you prefer FTP, simply unpack the downloaded AUAF archive into your WP /plugins folder.

That’s it! You are done. You have now installed AUAF successfully.

Tagged AUAF Article Quick Example

It is not a bad idea to copy this example and start creating your first article with it.

  <!--   If you go to http://yourdomain.com/auafeed/any-affiliate-code/ - 
	you will get RSS2 feed articles. The output articles are different 
	for different affiliate codes. For the same affiliate code the 
	output articles are always the same (they are cached after the 
	first call). This can be changed by Admin through the plugin WP 
	settings page - RSS Cache - Delete  -->

<!-- 	List below terms that you want to be randomly replaced in the 
	body text. Not all words will be replaced but only those that 
	meet your listed ones (case sensitive) and are taken in {# #} 
	construction  -->

{rotate* 
	term-to-rotate-1||term-to-rotate-2||term-to-rotate-3||term-to-rotate-4,
	buy||purchase, Buy||Purchase, 1st||first, 
	site||website, e-mail||email
*}

<!-- 	List below titles that you want to be randomly assigned 
	to the post  -->

{title* 
	Your First AUA Post Title||
	Your Second AUA Post Title||
	Your Third AUA Post Title||
	Your Forth AUA Post Title||
	Your Fifth AUA Post Title||
*}

<!-- 	AUA Post Body. Use not recurring {*  variant1||variant2||variantN, 
	another-term1||anotherterm2, etc||etc.  *} syntax to rotate any 
	content. Mark any terms you want to be replaced as {#term#}  -->

<p>
	{* 
	The {#1st#} variant of the {#1st#} sentence of the first pragraph.||
	The 2nd variant of the 1st sentence of the first pragraph.||
	The 3rd variant of the 1st sentence of the first pragraph.
	*}
	{* 
	The 1st variant of the 2nd sentence of the first pragraph.||
	The 2nd variant of the 2nd sentence of the first pragraph.||
	The 3rd variant of the 2nd sentence of the first pragraph.
	*}
</p>

<!-- 	Every entry of the #aff_code# in the text is replaced with any 
	line that follows http://yourdomain.com/auafeed/ . So, if you 
	subscribe to RSS via your URL 
	http://yourdomain.com/auafeed/MY-affiliate-code,  all the 
	entries of #aff_code# will be replaced with MY-affiliate-code -->

<A HREF="http://yourwebsite.com/#aff_code#/" TARGET="_blank">Click Here - Link Example</A>

How To Create Tagged Articles Using AUAF

Once AUAF setup is complete, you will see “AUA Posts” appear on the left side of your Dashboard. You will see the links: AUA Posts, Add New and AUA Tags. Use them to manage your new CUSTOM post types – AUA Posts.

Using AUA Posts, you can see all the tagged articles you have created to distribute to your affiliates. All articles will appear in the same order as they appear on your AUAF posts section.

To create a new AUAF post or a Tagged Article, you need to follow a syntax that we define below:

Step-1:

Open “Add New” in your AUA Posts section in the dashboard.

Step-2:

The most important step! Write your articles in the following syntax:

{ – Used at the start of the section } – Used at the end of the section rotate* – Used to specify keyword declaration for the tagged article title* – Used to specify the title of the tagged article # – Used to specify the use of alternative keywords from the rotate section || – Used for adding more alternative keywords/phrases for a keyword/phrase

NOTE: AUAF allows you to add html tags within your article content like <p>..</p>, <h1>..</h1>, <br/> and so on.

1. Give a Title to your post. This is the title to your group of first set of articles to be distributed to your hundreds of affiliates. This is NOT visible to affiliates.

2. In your post content section, write your article starting with the rotating keywords first. This is like a declaration for your tagged article. Start with {rotate* and then include all keywords and their alternative keywords separated by ||. Enter one set of alternative keyword terms in one line followed by a coma (,). Once you have entered all the keyword terms for your tagged article, close the section with a }.

   Like this:

   {rotate*
   …||…||…,
   …||…||…,
   }
   

   Example:

   {rotate*
   Great||Super,
   AUAF||Affiliate Unique Article Feeder
   }
   

   Now you have already specified your rotating terms for all the keywords within your article.

3. Next, you need to specify the rotated title for your tagged article. This will help you give Unique Titles for each of your affiliates. To do this, simply add {title* followed by alternative titles each separated by ||.

   In order to generate hundreds of unique titles, you can also use the tags defined in the rotate section earlier. To include a tagged keyword, simply use {#keyword#} instead of the keyword in your article content and the keyword will be replaced by the rotated term automatically.

   Like this:

   {title*
   …{#keyword1#}...||
   …{#keyword2#}...{#keyword3#}..||
   …
   }
   

   Example:

   {title*
   My Great Article About Affiliate Unique Article Feeder||
   His {#Super#} Article About AUAF||
   Her {#Super#} Article About {#AUAF#}
   }
   

4. Next, you can start writing the content for your tagged articles. You can use html tags as well as tagged keywords (as discussed above) within the article. Use the tagged keywords meaningfully so as to avoid final article to appear as junk. Here are a few things you may make a note of while using AUAF to create your tagged articles:

   • Be careful while using special characters.

   • Do not forget to close your html tags. If the closing tag is missing, the article won’t appear the way you want.

   • Use #keyword# carefully and meaningfully.

   • You can use a special string #aff_code# to embed affiliate IDs into links within the article like <a href=”http://YOUR-SITE.com/#aff_code#”> … </a> where #aff_code# is the Affiliate Code automatically taken by AUAFeeder from the URL – the URL part that goes after /auafeed/ – and added to the link.

5. Once you have written the tagged article, you can save it or publish it. You can also add post tags if you need. Then, you can view the article to see if it appears correctly.

   Try different versions of your articles at:

   • http://YOUR-SITE.com/auafeed/1/,
   • http://YOUR-SITE.com/auafeed/2/,
   • http://YOUR-SITE.com/auafeed/whatever/

   Review and make sure the content is rotated accordingly and does not produce any nonsense rotation or gibberish (AUAF can identify most of the special characters but if your final article shows junk for a special character, please replace it with a common character like dash (-), comma (,), full stop (.), etc.)

   Do not forget to clear the AUAFeeder cache when done.

That’s it! Now you can create as many tagged articles as you want to distribute unique set of articles to your affiliates.

How To Distribute AUAF Articles to your Affiliate Network

Once you have created your set of tagged articles using AUAF, you can simply share the link with your affiliate. Multiple versions of UNIQUE and UNLIMITED affiliate articles are created by AUA Feeder automatically and each affiliate should just add his affiliate code to the end of the link after the “/auafeed/” to get his/her set of articles with his affiliate code embedded within.

Thus, by AUTOMATICALLY creating multiple unique versions of your article content and inserting each unique affiliate marketer link in each one in the appropriate place, AUA Feeder helps you to transparently send a unique article to each and every affiliate marketer (with their specific affiliate CODE) in your network.

AUAF creates a set of unique articles for each affiliate code and saves them to your cache. Now every time your affiliate would click on the link of published articles, he/she will see the same set of articles available for him. In fact, every affiliate will see his/her set of unique articles with embedded affiliate links within each article.

Simple Tips to Use AUAF Effectively:

Tip #1:

If you are using images in your articles, always use absolute or complete URLs to avoid distributing broken links to your affiliates.

Tip #2:

If your articles cite references within, it helps to put absolute or complete URLs so your affiliates get the exact reference links.

Tip #3:

Not only can you use AUAF for creating and distributing unique articles, you can also create a quick WP blog for your affiliates and post the AUA Feed automatically. This can help in maximizing from your affiliate marketing program.

Tip #4:

It is best to create a bulk of rotated articles (>10) at one time and then share the AUAF link with your affiliates so they can get a bulk of articles in an instant.

So, now you have just learnt about how you can utilize AUAF to create and distribute UNIQUE and BULK articles to each of your affiliates AUTOMATICALLY!