As affiliates have been adding content units a couple of issues have arisen:

1. Where did I publish the unit?
2. How can I find it within my account?

Well with our latest developments we have addressed these two problems.

Add URL

Well I published the units many months ago, and can’t for the life of me remember where I have put it…

We were looking at putting in an automatic script to detect this information for you, but felt that it would intrude on your privacy, so instead we’ve added a box to the styling page, alongside the tracking reference so that you can paste in the url to the page where you published the unit.  By it’s nature you’ll have to do this for each content unit, but it’s a good way to keep track of your units.

Unit Tagging

I’ve created over 100 content units, the ‘My Units’ page is really long, I can’t see a particular unit…

Well we’ve made 2 improvements to this page.  Firstly there’s now a search box, so you can search for a particular unit.  The second function we have added is the ability to tag the unit.  You could ‘tag’ the unit with information like the site/type of unit/size of unit or indeed anything.  This way all the ‘tagged’ units will be grouped together and can be easily identified.  For those of you who have already made 100’s of units, we have built in a ‘tick to tag’ system, just tick the units and fill in the box at the bottom to ‘tag’ all those units.

We hope these new features will be of use to you, if you have any other suggestions, leave a comment, or send in a support ticket.

We have been a bit busy with the new search functions and haven’t had time to add some of Paid on Results newest merchants to Easy Content Units.  As I have been going through them, I have noticed a fair few were also missing.  This has been rectified with the inclusion of the following merchants:

Amaroni Homeware

Audio Technica

Bathroom Wall

Chocolate Now

Curvety

Garden Trading

Girly Heaven

Pearl & Butler

Perfumes-UK

Tenga

Advanced MP3 Players

Babyworld

Bean Bag Bazaar

C’est Noir

Ducti

Euroffice

Forget The Rest

Funmum.com

Garden Bliss

Genie Gadgets

Girlznight

Glow Girl

HQhair

La Senza

Natural Instinct

Miss Bollywood

PamperCake

Picnic Shop

Prezzy Box

Send Chocs

Sex Shop 365

Start-London

Stauer

The Designer Box

The Funky Hair Group

Yukka

Over the past few days we have added a number of new search functions which should help you find the products you are looking for.  If we first take a look at the search box and options:

ecu search box

The search term (or product name) goes in the box.  You can choose whether to perform an ‘Exact’ or ‘Broad’ type of search.  By ticking the ‘Brand’ box, you will only search through the Brand field of supported merchants.

You can now choose to search a particular merchant on a particular network, just by using the drop down menu.  Merchants are listed alphabetically, and the network is shown beside them.

Most people will be happy to get the most relevant search results first, however as it’s been asked for, you can have the results sorted by Price, Product Name, Merchant and Network as follows:

search result sorting

Let us know via a support ticket if you have any further ideas for improving this area of Easy Content Units.

This is a managed content unit, from Existem-AM for their client Oak Furniture Land.

The unit features Oak Furniture Land’s current top sellers, along with a valid discount code for your customer to use with their purchase.  This unit is updated regularly by Existem, so you know the content is always up to date.  A true ‘put up and forget’ affiliate tool.

The Code:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript" SRC="http://www.easycontentunits.com/js_unit.php?ecu_mid=ECUID&ecu_uid=3270"> /* Unit: Oak Special */ </SCRIPT>

To add this to your site:

1. Go to My Details section and get your Easy Content Units ID
2. Grab the code above
3. Replace ECUID with your Easy Content Units ID
4. Place the code on your website

The resulting content unit:

If you have any questions about the content of this unit please contact Existem-AM direct, any questions about Easy Content Units, please send in a support ticket.

This one is good for a product showcase website about furniture.

I would think you  need to add around 250-500 words about the Nero range of furniture from Oak Furniture Land.  Include the types of furniture on offer, the price range, any details of where the furniture is sourced/manufactured.  You can describe the colour of the wood/varnish, it’s appearance along with sizes.

I’d structure the page with a paragraph at the top introducing the range, something to entice the visitor to check out the range below.  Then I’d add the content unit.  Below that you can add the remainder of the text, with any purtinent links to similar items/ranges.

The content unit, and how I built it:

First up click on ‘Create a Unit’ then give it a name.

In the search box, I searched for ‘Nero’ exact match.  I applied filters to the search results to narrow the selection down to Oak Furniture Land as the merchant – there was also a choice of network too.

The products appeared below, so I ticked the boxes of the products I wanted to appear in the content units, and clicked on ‘Add Selected Products to Unit’ and then on ‘Customize Unit’

This took me to the styling page.  I added a clickref, changed the styling to ‘horizontal’, ticked the boxes to show picture, title, description price and merchant image.  Chose a Buy Now button from the Buy Now drop down, and hit save/preview button.  Noticed the unit was a little thin, so changed the width to 400 and hit save/preview again.

I took the code in the box and pasted it to appear below et voila:

Over the past few weeks we have been working with Existem-AM to set up Easy Content Units for their merchants.    What we have come up with is something quite inspirational for their merchants and for affiliates alike.

Existem-AM have created bestselling product units for their merchants which they are updating regularly with the latest discount codes and products available to use for their affiliates.   In the coming days we’ll be adding pages to this area featuring each of these content units, all in one place to enable you to find the units and the code for including them on your sites.  In the meantime, here’s a list to the pages at Existem-AM with the units on and the code required:

Advanced Mp3 Players
All Up and On
Appliances Direct
Baker Ross
Bambino Direct
Bean Bag Bazaar
Chocolate Trading Company
Cloggs
Direct TV’s
Extreme Pie
Kiddies Kingdom
Laptops Direct
Oak Furniture Land
Passion 8
Pressies 4 Princesses
Raw Garden
Stress No More
Urban Surfer
World Of Baths
Yellow Moon

Add these units to your pages and be assured that they are updated with bestsellers, and discount code information is valid for you users to take advantage of.  If you have any questions about these content units, you will need to direct them to Existem-AM here’s their contact information