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Are you an eBay Partner Network member who likes easy?
Easy setup and no maintenance? That’s what Auction Thumbs was designed to be from the beginning – eBay Partner network autopilot.
We didn’t want blogging to be a two step process each time – writing the post and then worrying about putting your eBay Partner Network links in by adding code or tags into HTML.
It was designed so that if you wanted to be lazy, your affiliate links would just default in via global settings that you setup once during installation. Product links would appear on your post with no additional effort on your part beyond writing the blog post content.
The default category and search string to the left are what drives the global display of affiliate links. All your posts, current and archive are immediately populated by these two fields.
Worried that all your content has the same products shown? Most site visitors probably come in to see 1-3 pages of your content, so who cares? They’re either a blog subscriber reading the latest post or a visitor from a search engine looking for something in particular.
If it still bothers you, then don’t worry because we have two solutions for that:
1) You can override the default category and search string at the page and post level by entering it in the Auction Thumbs configuration fields next to the post edit window. No code, no HTML. You can see this function as part of this video. By example, this particular post has been overridden so as to display Easy Buttons on eBay.
2) You can set Auction Thumbs to ignore the default keyword and use the post’s tags instead. Just check the box in the configuration settings and specify a quantity of tags for Auction Thumbs to use. Voila! Each post in your archive has unique eBay Partner Network items shown based on the tags.
So, just focus on blogging, and Auction Thumbs will take care of the rest.
