As you try to navigate through the website configurator you may not understand what all the settings are or do, that’s not a problem as you do not need to go through every single setting but you do need to understand the main page. Website Configurator main page is where you enter the most important information such as you site address, contact information and most importantly your affiliate information. Let’s look at all the fields.
Site Setup:
The first thing you need to do here once you are loged in is enter your Site URL. There is already a default url that you need to change. So if your domain is “mydomain.com” then you need to enter “http://www.mydomain.com/” notice the trailing slash “/” at the end? If you do not enter that your site will not function properly.
Domain Name: Pretty self explanatory you need just the domain name “mydomain.com”. This will be used through out the site such as the footer, contact us page, tos page etc.
Contact Email: This will be used for the order form but it will not be visible so that it does not get spamed.
Site Title: This is going to be your default site title. You should come up with your own site title so it will be unique from other sites.
Enter Affiliate information:
This is where you enter all your affiliate and ad network information. If any fields are left empty, your site will not display results for that affiliate program or ad network. So if you do not want to display Adsense ads then leave “Adsense Pub ID” section empty.
When entering your affiliate info it is best to use copy and paste as you need to enter them exactly as they appear on the affiliates website or ad network. These are case sensitive and will not work if you just enter one of the characters wrong. If you don’t know where to get that information there are more detail instruction for each affiliate and ad network here, just search the site.
The site content is primarily from Amazon so you need at least enter your Amazon affiliate information.
What Ads to Display Where:
On this section you can select what ads to display where in the pages of your website. Although you need to keep in mind, Some programs do not allow other ads in the same page, such as Adsense. You can safely use Adsense and Chitika together but you must first check TOS for each program. This is very important as you can get banned from the ad networks.
You do not want to put to may ads all over the page as this also can get you banned. Example, Adsense only allowed 3 ad units on the page that is why we have only 3 sections where the ads will be displayed.
Side: This is the sidebar section of the page. The ads will be displayed under the “Related Sponsors” section.
Top: This is the header section of the page.
Middle: This is the content section of the page. It is the same section where your unique content shows up.
That’s it for the Site Configurator main page setup. If you have entered the required information your site will start to display product results and ads.