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Cool! You’ve sure been busy again!
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Hi Ryan,
Can you make the links inside the poker book affiliate specific and an affiliate link to the book? That way we could advertise the book on our review page and also have our link in the book for our efforts to get people to sign up :colgate:Hey Guys,
re: aff links in the book … this was my first question too
The IT guys are searching for a way to automate updating the pdf with your aff links … no definite timeline, but as soon as we can … we will!That said … anybody have any experience with automating pdf creation? More specifically … taking a pdf template … putting in variables or merge place holders and then how to replace them based against a query/spreadsheet/cvs, etc ?
That beats me for sure, Ryan.
But I too would love to see affiliate specific links!
Hi All,
Ok guys, you asked for it … I have just finished creating the code to build the Poker Rewards ‘Online Poker Strategy’ ebook on the fly WITH YOUR AFFILIATE LINKS.
So, since it’s end of the week here in Oz and we don’t release new toys on a Friday evening … this will be going live early next week.
Basically it will work as follows:
You will access a php script and pass it your affiliate id as a parameter (we’ll have an easy to follow link in the members section of RewardsAffiliates.com) like:
http://www.domain.com/script.php?aff_id=affXXXXX
and that will actually recreate the ebook/pdf for you with all the links setup as:
http://www.PokerRewards.com/referral.asp?aff_id=affXXXXX
It will serve up the PDF file as a downloadable attachment so you can save it and redistribute it as you see fit … and remember it’s populated with YOUR AFFILIATE TRACKING CODE
Alternatively, you can link directly to the dynamic pdf build script I just made … I’ll set it up to cache already built pdf’s to reduce server load.
Chat on Monday … over and out.
Neat, Looking forward to it
Sounds like a great tool, Ryan!
Hi All,
Ok … I ‘really’ finished the pdf builder code this time, I got a little feature happy … man I’m a geek.
Annnnyway … here’s how it works:
http://www.rewardsparking.com/PokerRewards/OnlinePokerStrategy.php?aff_id=affXXXXX
Where ‘affXXXXX’ = ‘aff‘ How it works … basically it rebuild the book the first time you hit the url with your affiliate code. So the first time you query with your aff tag it will hang for a few seconds while it builds the pdf and then it will stream it down to you as an attachment.
Subsequent calls with the same affiliate code will be faster as you will be getting the cached [server side] version of the book. We won’t likely be making any changes to the book, so there shouldn’t be any need to build more than the first time.
My hope with the primitive caching system I hacked together is for those of you who use our server to serve the ebook … make sure you hit the url first with your aff tag so when your users visit it’s already build and a faster overall experience for them.
Finally … I literally just finished the caching system, so test it out and see if all works normally. Looking forward to your feedback…over and out.
Great job Ryan,
It looks real good. The 1st page graphic is a bit low on the resolution but that shouldn’t be an issue. We will start putting it throughout our sites for testing.Thanks!
Rick
I noticed that and set the default view at 66% to try to accomodate… lemmie see if I can get a high res version on the go…
Hi BigDaddy/All,
Turns out our initial version did have a higher res image but it put the filesize north of 2meg – current version 922k-ish. Aparently there were a lot of aborted downloads, etc and interest has improved since we reduced the filesize, so … probably going to leave this one as is unless you guys feel really strongly about it.
Let me know, thanks.
