Adding Perfect Audience Tracking to Yahoo Merchant

To add perfect audience tracking to your yahoo store, do the following; add the tracking code to all pages through the ‘store manager’ by editing the store ‘variables’. This code should look something like this. <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { window._pa = window._pa || {}; var pa = document.createElement('script'); pa.type = 'text/javascript'; pa.async = true; pa.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:' : 'http:') + "//tag.perfectaudience.com/serve/<strong>YOURTRACKINGID**.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(pa, s); })(); </script> Now, to track conversions, you’ll want to add the following code , by going to the checkout manager, and editing the ‘order confirmation’ page, and adding the tracking code to the specific box for tracking....

March 10, 2015 · 1 min · 177 words · Matt G

Quick Howto – Adding Google+ Authorship Support to your WordPress Blog

Here’s a quick and dirty process for adding google+ support to your wordpress blog. Setup google+ Account Add any email addresses you want to your personal or company profiles Make sure on blog / site that your account is setup for whoever is posting to blog, using email that is on google plus. Now visit https://plus.google.com/authorship and put in your email address Wait for verification email and verify you own the email Go to wordpress, and install the Yoast seo plugin Configure the G+ options in your profile following this tutorial (http://www....

September 13, 2012 · 1 min · 118 words · Matt G

Problems Migrating Prosper202 Between Two Linux Hosts?

Today I was faced with migrating my P202 installation from one host to another. As normal, I ran the mysqldump command on the old server to dump the database and scp’d it over to my new host – went to import and I got a bunch of errors like this; ERROR 1016 (HY000): Can't open file: './202_SITENAME/202_locations_block.frm' (errno: 24) ERROR 1016 (HY000): Can't open file: './202_SITENAME/202_locations_block.frm' (errno: 24) ERROR 23 (HY000): Out of resources when opening file '....

December 7, 2010 · 3 min · 478 words · Matt G

Why I switched from OpenX to Google DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP)

Why would I do such a thing??! Pretty straightforward really – I’m sorry to say this about OpenX because I really did like them for a number of years. Lately, they’re just shit. Yup, completely and utterly shit. Ever since the name change to OpenX they’ve been going downhill, and I think nearly everyone in the community will agree with me – including some of their very own (former) developers....

October 14, 2010 · 13 min · 2730 words · Matt G

The worst mistake any affiliate can (and will probably) make.

Get cocky. Yup. I said it. And on top of that I also admit that it happened to me. Rewind about to about 2 years ago when I first got into this industry and I kept saying ‘oh, $500 a month while I sleep would be good enough for me’ and I truly meant it – at that time. People kept telling me once I reached that point I would want more, and of course I didn’t believe them....

October 13, 2010 · 4 min · 803 words · Matt G