Affiliate Genie Review, Case study & Success Thread

Would love to see a sample website in action. Thanks

This looks very similar to Affilorama Blueprint, in fact I cant see any difference apart from the wordpress aspect. I have an AB site that is virtually identical to one of the AG demos - scarily so, same products, similar reviews etc.

I have always liked Chris Rempel's style, have quite a few of his products and this looks a good product too. However he is not renowned for step by step methods and there are always lots of "what you need to do" and not "how to do it" tactics, maybe this is different, so if you are a newbie be careful.

So, basically, you started this thread which is neither a review, case study, or success thread, to get people to visit your affiliate genie review blog where they can buy through your affiliate link?

As for the actual product, you'd think if it was still working so well today, the guy could put up some Clickbank screenshots from 2009 instead of using screenshots from 2007.

I have got this yesterday, there is an installation video with it, but you don't really need it. It's a quick ftp to your web folder, log in, change your password and then add your content. It really is simple. I bought it because I found myself wanting to get simple websites up with the least fuss possible. I can do it all in wordpress, but there is so much customisation to do to get it to look like a website as opposed to a blog. And with wordpress I found myself faffing around with themes and plugins etc... rather than the more important task of getting content on there. If you are doing any kind of review sites or micro niche / adsense - just get it.

Barry,

AG is independent of WP. Has nothing to do with it

Adam

As a user of Affiliate Genie I must say I am pretty disappointed with Chris and his creation of this software.

I have spent many years getting to a point where I could create Wordpress based websites for affiliate reviews that ranked well, and spent tons of time reading various SEO guides etc.

And Chris just comes along and creates this software, which after trying for less than two has already generated quite a bit of traffic WITHOUT me doing any offsite backlinks yet (due to time)

Now while I havent made any sales yet, I also havent put any effort in (other than putting up 5 unique content articles)

I didnt even make a review article! I just placed a recommended product area above each article which is already brining in links (this is handled by the software)

I also dont have to play around with CSS or HTML to customize the background or header area, as you can have a background and header/logo images uploaded and in place with a couple clicks.

So ya...

Thanks for wasting my time Chris, how come you didnt create this software 2 years ago!? Sheesh!

Haha!

Had me worried there in the first sentence...

Thanks Dexx :-)

-Chris

PS Did you get the latest build? Make sure you have it - it's way better and now allows for built in link cloaking, among other things...

Richard,

I just found your email now. Gmail had filtered it to the spam folder.

I'm sorry, but I'm not going to give out review copies for the purpose of gaining "positive reviews" in the forum.

Affiliate Genie is a product that I'm proud of and stand behind fully.

Any feedback (good or bad) I get on this forum will be used constructively to make it even better.

-Chris

My mini Aff Genie Review:

Hi everyone, I've been playing with aff genie for the last few days, and can shed some light for potential buyers. There's no aff links of mine anywhere and I'm not here to kiss Rempel's ass, I'm just going to tell it like it is.

If anyone was wondering about support, I had some issues setting the aff genie up (the problem was fixed in the latest build) and Matt Chitty, the guy who built it with Chris responded with tech support so quickly it was ridiculous. Literally a matter of minutes.

Bare in mind this was only a few days after launch, and Im sure they were getting flooded by emails. He was genuinely very helpful, and even personally fixed the problem for me on my domain.

Needless to say I'm VERY impressed with that level of commitment, and expertise.

Is it really that much better than Wordpress?

As someone who has tried to build many a review site using wordpress, including Chris's own WP conduit themes, I would have to say yes, absolutely.

The reasons for this are manifold, though sometimes subtle, but I would have to cite my major ones as:

- the ability to add (and EDIT) a site wide, top fold promotion. This is huge. It is a very unobtrusive way to monetize every single page on your site, and it blends very well with the content.

- the code is very lean, and no plugins means not having to deal with multiple plugin updates, wordpress updates, stuff breaking generally due to compatibility lag times between wordpress builds and plugin updates, mysql databases, and other wordpress issues.

- it loads quicker than wordpress in my experience, and this will play a part in future SEO as Google has added site load time to their ranking algo.

- Its user friendly, and Google Spam Team friendly. My concerns with purely product review sites was that they could be deemed as 'thin affiliate content' and as such be penalised. Aff genie makes it very easy to add tutorial content and articles, to flesh your site out a bit both for the purposes of adding long tail keyword fodder, and adding enough valuable content to differentiate your site from a typical affiliate review. It does this in a way so that you can see from any page on the site that there is both information and reviews.

- Its hella easy to use. Very newbie friendly, but perhaps more importantly makes mass scaling much less tedious.

Overall, if you want to build an affiliate site, I cannot think of a better option. Wordpress was designed for blogging, and we kind of modded it for affiliate marketing. Aff genie was purpose built for affiliate marketing.

Its like how a sports car will always handle better than sedan that has been 'sported' up. It was built from the ground up for one purpose, and doesn't need to compromise.

Limitations:

Aesthetically its functional, certainly nothing flashy. Wordpress is still obviously better for blogging and that kind of personality marketing, but for affiliate sites this kills it.

SOME THINGS I'D LIKE TO SEE ADDED

Click tracking as well as link cloaking?

I'd love to be able to see merchant CTR's for my pages.

Anyway Chris and Matt, job well done. Hope this helps some fence sitters

Gavin

Hey guys

We are looking at a way to incorporate that as we speak.

It's very challenging, since AG doesn't use a database (and auto-posting content utilizes a DB to function like that).

I'll keep you posted.

Thanks

-Chris

OK, I've gotten a few sites setup using Affiliate Genie so I want to give another unbiased review of the software. Here goes:

I am really digging the speed at which I can launch sites using Affiliate Genie. A simple upload of the files to my server, login at sitename.com/admin.php, change the default username and password, and you are good to go. I've built tons of sites using Wordpress and although I do like using WP, it takes so much longer to get a site up and running. AG has the features I needed from Wordpress built into it: namely RSS feeds and a sitemap. I got tired of tracking down Wordpress plugins to make my site work like I needed and I also got tired of the constant updating of said plugins.

I built a 25 page site yesterday with AG in less than an hour. That is awesome. And now I am so much less hesitant about launching new sites. With Wordpress I always felt like I was trying to shoe-horn my affiliate marketing style sites into what Wordpress wanted, and I didn't like it. I didn't like the blog layout of most WP themes (yes, obviously there are tons of themes that aren't that style, and I do own Flexsqueeze as well, so I am familiar with custom themes focused towards AFF marketing). I love the simplicity and straightforward view of AG.

The main feature that I think is killer is the Promo feature that simplifies and centralizes your promo offer. It sits above the fold and blends well with the content. Since I am building mini-sites with plenty of articles, this promo feature works great for drawing a visitor to my site and displaying my offer clearly and cleanly to those web visitors.

The basic structure of AG should make for some fantastic SEO results in the long run. I dig the fact that it looks current because of the date at the bottom (I hate the fact that Wordpress dates your posts and it is so hard to remove that date). I've actually built and launched 4 sites with it since I bought it and will build and launch another this evening.

Another great feature is the ability to sell your sites with a one-site use license. Very nice thinking on that one Chris. I hate (and I mean hate) transferring Wordpress sites to another host (and I am about to transfer at least 10 from my old host to Hostgator). AG doesn't have these issues at all. FTP the files back to your local computer, Zip them up, send them to the client and have them upload the files to their server and they are good to go. I am planning on flipping a few sites just to test how easy this is. The person that buys your site gets to use AG just for that site you sold them. Very cool.

Now onto things that I want to see fixed or upgraded or feature enriched (while also being aware that AG is only on version 1.01):

Longer names for articles or pages - Ag seems to be limited on how long the name of a article or page can be and it's a bit frustrating

Support for strange characters in the name or title - right now AG doesn't appear to support symbols such as commas and ampersands and I really wish it did

A better way to upload logos of headers (or backgrounds) - yes, you can make a custom header but it has to be a jpg and you have to rename it to header.jpg...I'd love it if it were a bit easier and also supported PNGs

And timed posts as mentioned above would be great. I would also love to see an easy way to add split-testing into AG as this is something that Wordpress makes so difficult.

Support has been awesome for me so far. I emailed support with a huge issue with version 1.01 and withing 15 minutes I received an email from the programmer with a fix (that is now included in 1.01) so I am happy with that so far.

Maybe in the future a bit more customization so all of your AG sites don't look too similar, but as of right now I love it (despite a few rough edges).

Can someone post a demo site by any chance?

Been using Aff Genie for a couple days now myself. I'm having a problem inserting embedded youtube videos. Just places a placeholder where the video should be while in edit mode yet if i right click and pick edit embedded media the video shows up in the preview window. Anyone else able to successfully insert youtube video into their pages?? Got a response from Matt in support stating they haven't heard of that issue. i replied with the html code on my page but no response back thus far. Just curious if anyone else is having any issues with youtube video? I am using the latest 1.01 release.

So far i think the software has some promise. It is super easy to use and can produce some simple clean looking sites. I would definitely like to see some more customization functions especially as far as menu's, layout and fonts are concerned. I realize the purpose of the software is very targeted but the sites can look a bit canned as they have that 'samey' look and feel. Would also love the ability to remove the huge RSS icon in the upper right corner of the header.. unless someone knows of a way to remove it? Would also be nice to be able to use a custom header AND be able to use a site name at the same time. Right now i have a custom header with text rendered already in the image. If i type text in the site name field in Aff Genie it shows up as text over my banner image which already has text in it. Not a good look lol. This can be remedied by just using spaces in the site name field but then the Browser shows nothing for the site name. I'm a newb but i'm pretty sure that's bad for SEO.

Hey Janet Sawyer,

I liked the look of your site.
How did you get the clickable picture in AG?
Maybe it's my version of AG, but editing pages is really not easy at all.

Thanks

Thanks Tyler99 - took a quick look - definitely sites ranking - most of them affiliate genie review sites...lol

...but at least I can see the potential and a quick look at the source code indicates these sites should rank fine - good clean code.

Not so keen on the footprint but then all the wordpress themes I've used have the same sort of thing in the footer...unless you pay for a custom blog theme of course.

Anyway we read - we bought - we're building sites - so we'll see very quickly how our new AG sites rank...

Definitely hoping for the best - sick to death of upgrades and backups in wp. Thanks to everyone for the input...

Cheers

Does anyone know if all the information in "Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate" is contained in the "Big League Traffic" eBook that comes with Affiliate Genie?Thanks for your help!

Has anyone incorporated asense? Is this a good medium for adsense or just affilate links and reviews?

I should be able to post some initial results/impressions (and a sample site, if anyone is interested) in about a week from now.

Overall AG is a charm to work with - software runs without a glitch. How Big G treats it remains to be seen!

I've been looking at this for sometime and am yet to purchase. I just wanted to see if people are actually getting some good results with their pages.

Are you just putting an aff link to the sites, or are you inserting opt in forms?

What kind of conversions are you getting from this?

Thanks,
Michael

My Affiliate Genie Review - (the good, the bad and The Support Loophole).

On the whole this software is a nice piece of programming for a version 1 and I found the ability to make comments without using a mysql database particularly clever. The program is dead simple to use and should help the user create clean (albeit clone looking) websites in a short period of time.

However ...

As others on this thread have already pointed out, there is no way to currently drip feed content to your sites. Also, the ability to customize websites is very restrictive which results in all websites looking basically the same.

In fact, the footprint is definitely a problem. I do realize the FAQ on their website says "No, they don't - anymore than Wordpress has a "footprint", or Joomla, or Drupal, etc."

But in reality that's like comparing the statements "finding a needle in a very large haystack" to "finding a needle in a miniature thimble".

To demonstrate what I mean, type the following into Google: guitar "powered by wordpress"

Look at the 1.3 MILLION+ results that come up (the very large haystack). They're all over the place. Some are obvious affiliate sites, many are not but for the most part they all look somewhat unique.

Now try searching the following: guitar "powered by affiliate genie"

Only 1,600 results (hence the miniature thimble). And since AG is promoted as the Lean Mean Grilling Machine of content management systems for marketers by marketers, you can be quite certain that ALL of those results are affiliate websites where the owners have gone through the effort of keywork research, writing content, etc.

But did you notice? With the exception of graphics, colors and backgrounds they all look like clones (at least to me). Maybe I'm just jaded by all the Affiliate Project X fake review sites of yesteryear that still pollute the web and tar all affiliates with the same brush. But I digress.

Just in case someone didn't understand the context of that last statement, I'm NOT in anyway implying that this software is a scam. Those sites simply reminded me of the potential abuse that could negatively affect all users down the road.

On the plus side though, I guess one could say: "sizing up your competition has never been easier". ;-)

To be fair, I suppose that kind of bright neon footprint may not be completely obvious to everybody.

Tip: if you know PHP, you can edit the footer file and remove the powered by footprint yourself (but it's not supported), so be careful.

But my biggest pet peeve by far is what I call "The Support Loophole".

Some background on my question that entered the SL abyss to put things in context:

My son is off to university in the fall and would like to earn some money without having to work the grill at BK. So I thought, why not teach him a simple method that doesn't require a ton of time but will still yield tangible results. Knowing first hand how easy it is to get sidetracked on the latest and greatest thing in the IM world, I didn't want my son to fall in the same trap.

Since I really liked Dave Kelly's simple, evergreen, meat and potatoes approach in the Profit Loophole. I thought it would be ideal for my son, but then I remembered Chris saying in the PL webinar to avoid XSitePro (which I use) like the plague, and that you had to must use something tool like Dreamweaver if you were at all serious, and that you could get DW4 on ebay for $30, yada, yada.

But then Affiliate Genie is launched and I see comments like the following on the sales page:

"Easily insert YouTube videos, opt-in forms, AdSense®, etc."

"Site Flipper? These Sites are Built to Be Sold - Unlike WordPress® blogs or other CMS-driven sites, selling a site built with Affiliate Genie is as easy as pie."

Maybe it's just me, but I'm really getting conflicting signals between the PL webinar and the AG sales page. In any case, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that I'm just missing something and ask for clarification before I invest a ton of time (and my son's) into a potential sinkhole. So off goes my question to the support page.

Days later ... no reply.

Ok ... maybe they're absolutely swamped because of the relatively new launch, I'll surf over and check the Warrior Forum.

Lo and behold, someone else can't get through to support, but post #16 from Chris Rempel says "That's weird... Matt and I have been diligently answering every request we get. Can you send it in again, to ...?"

Cool, I'll try that email address ... oops ... the email immediately bounces back with the following message:

"Please note that we have now transitioned ALL support to the online ticket system at:

(support page link)

This makes things easier for us AND you."

Huh? ... the reason I'm emailing in the first place is because my original question was never answered when I used that link ... but let's try it again for fun:

Can AG be used for the Profit Loophole method? In the PL webinar you say stick to Dreamweaver, etc. but on the AG site you say "Site Flipper? These Sites are Built to Be Sold - Unlike WordPress® blogs or other CMS-driven sites, selling a site built with Affiliate Genie is as easy as pie."

That implies to me AG is suitable for PL, but I just want to be sure. Can you please clarify whether AG is suited to the PL method?

Now wait for reply ...

Woo hoo! A reply within 24 hours from Matthew Chitty (but only to my two technical questions not shown above were answered).

Well at least this time I know for certain my original question was received and although Matthew was unable to answer it, he says he will forward it to Chris. :-D

That was 6 days ago as of today ... now what's the problem? I even formed the question so it could be answered with a simple yes or no in case Chris really is busier than everybody else on the planet. Can't be a brain dead question because Matthew couldn't answer it and he's obviously a pretty smart guy.

Hmmm ... or maybe this is just the Support Loophole way of saying it's already been answered in the FAQ section? Quick check ... nope ... still nothing there on this topic. :-(

Oh wait, there appears to be a new message (bold font) on the support page that reads:

"Furthermore, emails that we deem to be irrelevant, commercial or simply inapplicable within the realm of our support coverage will likely not receive a response" :-O

Guess that must be the reason my question was never answered. Clarification of a conflicting message by the seller to a buyer is deemed irrelevant by the seller.

Well since I do deem the answer to the question extremely relevant in making a decision to keep AG and whether to invest the time teaching my son the process, looks like I'll have to research this myself and draw my own conclusions.

Here's what I've found so far:

Dreamweaver 4 (full version, not just tutorial disks) for $30 on ebay? Sorry ... not even close to reality.

You MUST use something like Dreamweaver to sell to the big dogs when using Profit Loophole?

Well if that truly is the case, guess what? when using XsitePro 2 all you need to do is:

Tools -> Export to Frontpage/Dreamweaver

But if we're somehow to infer that the big dog PL buyers would rather use an AG transfer license or buy their own copy of AG instead, let's just say "I find that hard to believe". ;-)

Actually, my research results so far now makes me want to dig and test every other claim made about the product. But I've already spent way too much time waiting for a simple reply and having to dig for the answer so I've already made up my mind (which is to get a refund). I'll stick with XSitePro2 (which I already own and know). XSP already does everything I need to build PL sites despite claims to the contrary. It includes aggregate site management, full customization, works great with Adsense, comes with 2 seat licenses for unlimited websites AND it exports to Frontpage/Dreamweaver (if that even becomes a real issue down the road).

The only feature it doesn't have out of the box compared to AG is the very cool non-DB commenting. However, even if I do decide to add blogging style comments/reviews to my XSP2 Adsense/PL sites there's still a $47 plugin available that makes XSP/Wordpress integration seamless. Also, Intellimon may even add that feature to the core product in the future.
Anyway, I'm not overly excited about moderating comments as it is, so for now it's not even on my radar.

So, if anybody is still on the fence considering purchasing Affiliate Genie, here's my overall summary:


Pros:

- Dead easy to use.
- Loads very fast (which reduces bounce rate). Which isn't really a problem for WP on a reseller account anyway.
- VERY clever method for storing comments and ratings (no database required).
- Web based CMS

Cons:

- Glow in the dark footprint for your savvy competitors.
- Not very customizable (unless you truly understand PHP and CSS).
- Can't drip feed content.
- No aggregate management system for the sites you build.
- The Support Loophole. (if AG support deems YOUR support question irrelevant, too bad, so sad).


Update to my review (March 23, 2010):

At the time of writing my review I was not aware that the makers of XSitePro had already released a social proof module (commenting module) called XCommentPro until a fellow warrior pm'd me.

I have since bought XCommentPro and found it rather amazing. It works with XSitePro, Dreamweaver, FrontPage, etc. and comes with a license for unlimited sites and does some pretty amazing things I'd never even considered before (e.g. autoforward comments for approval to your BlackBerry or iPhone, etc.).

However, be aware that if you sell your site, the buyer will need to purchase an XCommentPro license if they want more comments added. However, comments already present at the time of sale have no restrictions and do not require a new license.

I'd also like to know about AG for adsense. Any experience with this?

I like Chris Rempel's approach, but in his latest blogpost he talks about people who whine....and that they should not do that.

That may be so, but if you can't run your own helpdesk properly, you should not be surprised that some people complain.

Hello,
i tried the affiliate genie and was not impressed. Wordpress does a better job in my opinion. also chris rempel's support desk sucks. i had to chase them back and forth for two weeks before i could contact them and get my money back.

I have been using Affiliate Genie since it came out and have build 20 sites so far.
The final verdict in term of Google value is still pending but here is my thoughts so far:

-

I'll try again.

AG thoughts so far:

- AG is extremely easy to use. Putting up an initial site takes no more than 30 minutes and adding new pages and content are a brease.

- The learning curve compared to WordPress is 100 times easier (especially for newbies). No add-ons or settings that demand specific knowledge to choose correctly.

- A few people have mentioned that support is bad. I can't recognize this. I have contacted support twice with technical questions and improvement suggestions and both times I heard back from both Matt and Chris within 48 hours which is fine in my book.

- SEO optimization. This is where my main concerns have been. AG have gotten some things wrong here, imo, like using multible H1 and H2's on the same page, having the site name and slogan as text on every page, having the first link on each page being name "Home", having the "home"-page located in 2 places and a few other minor things. Overall not terrible but probably lowering the onpage score of any page from 100% to 75%.

- Customization (in terms of visual appearence) is not as bad as people think. AG has some options build in, but not all that many. However the script is 100% regular php and html code (nothing is encrypted) and if you know php or html changing a few things are pretty easy without risking hurting the scripts overall function.

(So far I have added an automatic visual sitemap generator, removed the multible H1 and H2 usage, made the "Home"-link text customizable, reduced the risk of Google seing both Homepage locations (hopefully now it only sees the domain-root for the homepage location) and added www or non-www handling to the .htaccess file.

All in all AG is the best and easiest to work with sitebuilder tool I have evet used and it has increased my productivity a lot.

PS.
Should anyone be interested in a copy of my changes to the script please contact me: dond (at) yahoo (dot) dk

Don

A quick note on Google rankings:

My sites are in fairly competitive niches so any real rankings will take a little time however I have observed that the sites are getting both homepage and subpages indexed pretty quickly which is always a good sign.

My main concern with this product relates to the company attitude as is expressed in no longer taking pre-sales questions but seeming to have a negative atitude towards taking a test drive of the product and thereby possibly wanting a refund if the product wasn't a good match for the user's needs.

My business model requires adsense and an affiliate product represented ... can adsense be done without coding expertise and is there a 3 column page format that can be configured from the control panel ... easily?

Thanks for any help someone here could provide.

Adsense support is very easy - simply paste the code into either the Featured Promo box or the custom script box (for either placement at the top or bottom of all pages).
For other placement the Adsense code must be inserted on each page seperately.

3-column format is not supported. Design format is a 2-column format with menu-links on either the right or left side.

I don't know about their presale support - but it is, imho, very limited hoch much selling/presale support can be done for a $97 product if it is to be profitable.

Don

Hi

Just like to find out, what is the latest version AG is running on?
And, when was the last time AG was updated? Is the current
version stable?

Any comment from existing user?

Hi.

AG version 1.01 was releashed about 2 weeks after the programs initial release (Version 1.00).

In my opinion version 1.01 is 100% stable. I am running 20 sites with it and have so far had zero problems.

As you can see from my earlier post I have modified (improved) version 1.01 in a number of ways, so I am currently running my own version 1.01b.

Regards
Don

The "Powered by affiliate genie" link is located in the footer.php file. Simply insert something else or remove it completely from this 1 file and it won't show up anywhere on your site.

Has anyone given Site2Traffic a try and how do the two software compare?

I can be contacted at "dond_33 (at) yahoo (dot) dk"

RANKINGS:
Since most of my new sites are in fairly competitive niches it will take some time (and some new links) before I have a final verdict on how well Google likes AG sites.
My results so far are quite positive though.
Generally my new pages gets indexed in less than a week without any extra effort from me - popbably due to the automatic pinging of RSS feed aggregators.

One of my sites, www. sit-n-go-strategy.com (also a good example of most of my script changes) is starting to rank pretty decent (several targeted keywords rank in Top 30-100 with about 50.000-250.000 competing pages). I have only just begun to build some backlinks and I'll post an update in a few weeks.

SCRIPT CHANGES:
I require a copy of your original purchase receipt and a small donation to my PayPal account would also be appreciated.

My example site Sit N Go Strategy still has the Affiliate Genie aff link in the footer. (I have removed this from my current script versions though)

Hi Dredger.

Where did you hear about a new version 1.02 of AG?
I haven't heard about any new version yet. Once I get hold of it I will compare it to my list of issues/nice features to have and report back.

Don

Hi Dredger.

I have written to Matthew and Chris requestion the 1.02 version.
If they don't send it to me maybe you can, so I can figure out what changes they have made?

An official forum for AG would be great - I have also written to M & C about this. Hope everyone else using AG will do this as well.

Don

Hi.

Answer for bevmart.

To create a link-page (or any other type of page) yao can choos between a page that gets automatically listed on the top menu line (to the right of the "Home" link or one that "only" gets added to the sitemap (any other links to this page will have to be created by you).

Go to the Admin Panel, Ad New Content, choose Content Type (either TopMenu or Pages).
You now have a blank page that you can design as you like (or paste in the html code is you have a premade linkspage ready).

RESULTS WITH AG.

I have but up a number of sites in some fairly competive poker niches. I had no expectation to be able to Rank in Top20 without building some backlinks for these sites and the sites are strictly longterm projects of mine.

Goggle indexed the sites and most of their subpages pretty quickly (within one week) and before I started building a few backlinks.
I am developing the sites slowly so it takes a bit of time for me to conclude anything reliable as to AG's ranking potential.

My initial results are still very promising. On Average my sites now have 5-8 backlinks per page (URL) mainly coming from different Article Directories and I am seing promising results. Many of my keywords are now in Top40 and some have cracked Top10 and they are still climbing.

Don.

How does Affiliate Genie compare to Site2Traffic?

Any experiences with Site2Traffic site builder?

I was not happy with the customer service at AG ... response time at the early part of the week was usually ok but a support request in the mid to later part of the week was several days to never in response time. AG is designed to be applicable to several affiliate business models but there are not specific videos showing how to do this, although they say more videos are coming. Those that feel this is so simple and easy are probably very experienced but it was not 'dummy proof' even though I am university graduate. I will test S2T and report in their thread.

I am trying to figure out how to put text next to an image. I didn't have any trouble loading an image onto my page (promo page) but the text will only go above or below the picture. I want the picture on the left with the text next to it so my page isn't so long with so much open space. I have been playing with it for hours without any luck. Does anyone know how to do this?

Is anyone else having trouble getting analytics to report traffic data with AG?

Which version of the google code are people using successfully?

Hi Adam.

If you have the code for the plug-ins you can send the plug-ins to me and I will take care of updating them to v. 1.02.

For those who have requested my modified version of AG 1.02 this should be going out sometime next week.

Regards
Don (dond_33 at yahoo dot dk)

This and other SEO issues have not been fixed in the official version.

I didn't feel like waiting so I have created my own improved/enhanced version of AG 1.02 with these changes:

Affiliate Genie 1.02 db
AG v.1.02: Site Name set as H1
AG v.1.02 db: Set as new CSS style, "h1special" that supports AG-s built in Theme Options.

AG v.1.02: Site Slogan set as H2
AG v.1.02 db: Set as new CSS style, "h2special" that supports AG-s built in Theme Options.

AG v.1.02: "Home"-button text set as H3
AG v.1.02 db: Set as new CSS style, "h3special" that supports AG-s built in Theme Options.

AG v.1.02: XML sitemap have 2 different URL entries for the Home-page "www.domain.com" AND "www.domain.com/pages/home". (This is internal duplicate content to Google = not good!)
AG v.1.02 db: Removed "www.domain.com/pages/home" URL from XML sitemap.
For now my changes only works when "Home" is chosen as the homepage under preferences. (This is the default for AG)

AG v.1.02: "Home"-button text is hardcoded to "HOME"
AG v.1.02 db: Created new setting under SEO Settings that allows for user specification of this text.

AG v.1.02: .htaccess file is created automatically.
AG v.1.02 db: Added automatic support for:
### re-direct index.php to root
### re-direct non-www to www
Both to eliminate the risk of Google "seeing" duplicate versions of the sites homepage.

AG v.1.02: Affiliate Genie link in page footer
AG v.1.02 db: Removed AG link from footer

AG v.1.02: No visual sitemap
AG v.1.02 db: Added automatic generation of a standard visual sitemap. Gets build and updated whenever AG rebuilds the XML sitemap. Visual Sitemap link added to footer.

I do share this AG version with others. All I ask is to see a copy of you original purchase receipt and for a small donation to my PayPal account.

Regards
Don

Not too sure Chris will be too pleased that you are charging for a modified version of Affgenie. Have you cleared it with him?

Thx for the heads up.

I am not selling "new" AG licences though - wouldn't dream of it. I only supply people who already bought an AG license from Chris with my add-on modules (kinda like plugins for Wordpress).

I have suggested all the improvements I have made to AG to Chris but they were not interested in incoparating them in AG at the time.

Don

Just found out about AG and came here to do some research. Read through this thread and am still interested because it seems like an easy to use tool that can improve efficiency. Wondering if anyone has used both AG and Socrates WP theme and would be willing to provide a comparison?

@redw00dtrees LOL your only 2+ years late with your response.