We’re still torturing sites. We’ve already run through every torture available on the affiliate’s side. Time to take on the admins. Automate and simplify everything, forcibly imposing good and inflicting affection.
Remember how, to add a site, you used to have to enter its address, pick a type, and hit “Add”? Now there are four separate buttons. That’s all, folks.
Let’s dig a little deeper: we built a site-adding wizard and packed it with the most essential, most frequent actions. Among the smaller improvements:
- The right domain for the site gets filled in automatically based on its type. If you use different domains, you no longer have to sweat it. And when you switch domains, you don’t have to stop and think about which one’s active right now.
- The site path also gets its own separate field. You’ll never forget to fill it in again. You won’t paste in a direct link instead of it. You won’t tack on extra characters for redirect sites.
- For a redirect, the destination link is entered right away, at the point of adding the site. Beginners will no longer get confused about where to paste the tracking link and where to put the virtual address.
- A TDS gets added in one single pass — every one of its parameters fits right into the wizard: the link and the traffic distribution system attached to it.
Working with site storage got simpler — we took some of the workload off human hands and handed it to automation. It’s not perfect, but it’ll take at least half the work off your plate.
- Placeholder sites now build themselves. Just pick the matching option when creating a site, or in its editor. For a lander, you’ll get a lead-submission form with the right fields added in automatically. For a pre-lander, you’ll get a page with a single button — a click-through to the lander. These sites are enough to work with API traffic.
- You don’t have to hook up to FTP to upload sites. You can set everything up on your own computer following the instructions, zip it up, and drop it in through the wizard or the site editor. The same way, you can download an existing site from one offer and copy it into a new offer — the right identifiers get written in automatically.
- When you upload a regular archive, you don’t even need to configure anything. Just drop the archive in through the wizard or the site editor, and all the necessary codes get written in on their own. The system finds the index file, inserts the header and footer into it, cleans up every form, and pushes everything to the server. Of course, it’s still a good idea to double-check behind it.
- Using the wizard, when you upload ready-made sites you can immediately generate an archive for the affiliate to download too. That way, copying sites between offers comes down to just two steps — download the site, drop it into the new offer.
But this isn’t the last bit of news on automating admin work. Stay tuned — it’s only going to get more interesting from here. As one of the founders liked to say, it’s gonna be OP!