Drive top Christmas gifts with ContentEngine and HeadlineOffers!!

Don’t miss out on the chance to boost your sales this festive season, by presenting your site visitors with the products and services they want to buy! ContentEngine, launched in September, has proven to be a huge success with affiliates and is an ideal tool to integrate dynamic content into your site or newsletters, to drive even more sales this Christmas.

We will be working with our merchants to ensure that they are pushing their top Christmas offers through ContentEngine using the HeadlineOffers feature. This means that by integrating the HeadlineOffers feature into your ContentUnits, you are pushing the best buys this Christmas. And all you have to do is tick a box!

Affiliates can fully customise their ContentUnits from the type of products and descriptions displayed, to the look and feel (colours, fonts and layout). One line of code is generated by the ContentEngine Wizard to be added to an affiliate’s site, in XML, JavaScript or using server side languages such as PHP, to maintain the SEO value of the site content.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to email me at enginesupport@buy.at.

Noaf Ereiqat
Affiliate Development Manager
buy.at

Come find out more about buy.at & ContentEngine

If you are visiting the a4u Expo over the next couple of days, make sure you stop by stand 14 to visit buy.at, meet the team and find out more about our technology and about buy.at as a company.

This year we are exhibiting with a twist… instead of a regular stand we are bringing you a bar and a chill out area, so make sure you stop by, say hello and enjoy a drink with us!

See you there,

Noaf

Drumroll…

After careful analysis and consideration, we are happy to announce that we have a winner in our ContentEngine Competition!!

Our Winner, winning a weekend trip to Paris for two, is:

Shopsafe

Our Runner-Up, winning a Driving Experience is:

TvNowAndNext

Congratulations to our winners, who have both been using ContentEngine succesfully across their sites.

And the winner is…

Thanks for everyone who has been working with ContentEngine. We have had some fantastic feedback from our affiliates  so far and hope that you will keep telling us what you like and don’t like about it so that we can continue to build easy to use and useful tools to make your life easier.

Our ContentEngine Competition has now come to an end and we will be announcing the winners shortly; so watch this space…

Noaf

Thank You!

buy.at, the UK’s largest independent affiliate network is delighted to announce that they have been nominated for two awards at the A4U Expo Awards 2007 – Innovation in Affiliate Marketing and Publishers’ Choice of Network. We want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has voted for us so far.

We want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has voted for us so far!

The last couple of years for buy.at have been extremely exciting for our team, clients, and the industry. Our journey has included:

· Massive investment from dfjesprit (formerly Cazenove Private Equity);

· The appointment of former match.com MD – Kevin Cornils as Chief Executive;

· Tripling the size of our work force to ensure that we have a leading team of affiliate marketing specialists dedicated to providing our clients with bespoke solutions, unmatched strategic relationships and industry leading technologies;

· Launching a number of industry leading innovations such as the new Management Area V3.0, ContentEngine, LinkEngine and the Affiliate WidgAt; and

· Winning the Travolution Award 2007 for Best Use of Affiliate Advertising for the Laterooms programme

If you think buy.at should be recognised as the Publishers’ Network of Choice and/or for Innovation in Affiliate Marketing at the A4U awards, ensure you vote by the 5th October 2007. Place your vote by visiting www.a4uexpo.com/a4uawards.

The awards ceremony will take place at the UK’s very own industry-specific educational Affiliate Marketing Conference & Exhibition - the a4u expo, on the 25^th and 26^th October.

Visit www.a4uexpo.com for further information.

ContentEngine 101

If you just clicked on a ContentEngine banner and landed here, you might be thinking “Where’s the ContentEngine??”

Don’t worry; you are at the right place. Welcome to our ContentEngine blog, where we provide you, our affiliate, with detailed information and insider tips on buy.at’s ContentEngine and its uses!

In order to start building ContentUnits:

Log into the Management Area –> Click on the “Content and Creative” link from the left hand menu –> Select ContentEngine.

This will take you to the ContentEngine wizard, which will allow you to create fully customizable, dynamic ContentUnits which can simply be added to your site via the insertion of one line of code.

If you have any specific questions, check out our FAQ Section or email us at enginesupport@buy.at.

ContentEngine Competition – Coming to an end

Our ContentEngine competition is nearly at its end!

As you know, we are giving affiliates the chance to win some superb prizes simply for implementing the ContentEngine on their sites.

With only 12 days to go, this is your chance to win a fantastic weekend trip for two in Paris by adding ContentEngines on as many of your domains as possible; the runner up gets a superb driving experience.

So get implementing!

For full terms and conditions of this competition, please visit this link.

Top Tips – 2

• To get the most benefit from your ContentUnits, make sure you insert the code using a server side language, such as PHP, ASP or ColdFusion rather than using the JavaScript, so that it can be crawled by the Search Engines
• Download the PDF manual available in the Management Area to get a quick overview of the ContentEngine
  • To get a full explanation of all variables in the code and their use, see page 17 onwards
• If you are not getting a specific required result, you could try:
  • Adding or removing the sub-category
  • Selecting a price range by setting a min and max price
  • Widening your search term

a4u Awards Nominations

Nominations for the a4u awards will close on the 10th of September 2007, which is only a few days away. Have you submitted your nominations yet?

For those of you who don’t know much about the awards, the a4u definition might help:

“The a4uAwards will Recognise and Reward those companies and individuals who contribute to the rapid growth of Affiliate Marketing, bring Innovation to the industry and demonstrate Good Practice; and will be purely driven by nominations from within the industry. “

So who do you think has contributed to your Affiliate growth this year? We would like to encourage you to make your nominations to make sure your opinions are heard!

http://www.affiliates4u.com/awards/vote.php

ContentEngine – What do YOU think?

The ContentEngine has been live for a couple of weeks now and we have already received some great feedback, comments and questions, but we would like to hear from YOU!

• What do you think about the ContentEngine?
• Have you had a chance to try it out?
• Is there anything you would like to see improved in the next release?

Let us know what you think!

I look forward to hearing from you.

-Noaf