Getting closer to a release
January 17th, 2008 by Robert
The last two nights have been pretty productive for me with my niche store software. I first implemented RSS feeds which is a nice feature to have. Oh yea, it will also work for search results
You can see an example on my first site, UsedMacMini.com. Notice the gray RSS logo/button. Last night I worked on the install process which is pretty much complete now, so that is covered and naturally greatly eases things.
While working last night I uncovered a big goof on my part. Seems the way I was including the CJ ID was incorrect, so nothing was getting tracked in commission junction. Oops! No tracking, no commission! So I got that fixed and verified by checking CJ this morning that I had some clicks on the new site. Glad I found that one early!
How did I know?
How was I aware that clicks were even happening in the first place? Ah yes, I have added a feature that tracks how many clicks are going to the item detail page and how many are going from the item detail page off to ebay via the “place bid” link. This is far better than the hack I had to do for click tracking in BANS, and it happens under the covers, no javascript for this one. It tracks the item clicked by item ID and title, and the time the click happened, as well as the IP address.
What’s next?
Well I still have some admin features to work on. I need to implement a couple and clean up a few others. Hopefully sometime this weekend I’ll get most of them finished. Once I finish those I will work on building out the templates, which shouldn’t take too long.
I also need to work on a report page for that cool click tracking feature I mentioned above. At the moment I just go directly to the db through phpMyAdmin to look at it, but that isn’t user friendly.
Stay tuned for more. And if you want to be added to the beta testers list let me know!
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