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Each IOP webmaster hosting account
comes with your personal interactive IOP webmaster
control panel.
This is an interactive webbased panel that every
IOP customer can access online with their username
and password assigned at sign up.
Your password protected IOP Webmaster Control Panel
is devided in 5 main sections:
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MANAGE
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MONITOR
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PROMOTE
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CONTROL
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ADD
SERVICE
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1.0. Manage
Tab
1.1. Interactive
Affiliate Manager
If you own a website that has implemented affiliate
programs from which you
earn commissions on sales or leads, this tool is
designed for you.
With the IOP affiliate manager you can easily overview
and manage all your
built in affiliate programs, check on sales and
pending commission from one easy spot.
1.1.1. Add Affiliate Program
To start you have to add your site's implemented
affiliate programs to your aff.mgr. (affiliate manager).
It's quick and easy, just click on add affiliate
Program and fill in the details.
Choose a category for your particular Program, give
it a name, add the URL(s), username etc. and
click on upload. The Program will be automatically
saved in your aff.mgr. for you to check later.
If you have purchased a site from us or had us implement
some additional affiliate programs in to your
site, we most likely will have added all the programs
to your affiliate manager already.
In this case, you do not need to add any programs
and can proceed to 1.1.2. (Show Affiliate Programs).
1.1.2. Show/Add/Edit Affiliate
Programs
Here you can overview all your affiliate programs
from one spot.
To start you just have to click on "show affiliate
programs" and a new page will open that lists
all the affiliate programs that either you have
added in point 1.1.1. or we have added from the
beginning because we created your site or added
extra affiliate programs to you site.
1.1.2.A Overview all your
affiliate programs.
Click on the "Affiliate Log In URL" to
connect directly to the particular provider's login
page,
check on your pending sales or reservations/orders,
outstanding commission or payments received.
1.1.2.B. Add Affiliate Username/password/userID
(CID)
If we have created your site or added affiliate
programs to your site, the fields "username"
and "password" will be blank. You will need to add those exactly
as you signed up for the Program yourself in the
blank
fields.
1.1.2.C Sign Up at the
Affiliate Programs.
Click on the "Affiliate Sign Up URL" to
go directly to the particular provider's affiliate
sign up page.
If we have created your site or added additional
affiliate programs to your site, this is the link
for you
to sign up at the concerning affiliate Program,
assign yourself for each provider a password and
username
and submit your payment preferences and mailing
address. Each provider will email you back a confirmation
with all the access details like username, ID (CID)
number and password. This is the information you
need to
add as explained in 1.1.2.b. into the blank fields
for each affiliate Program in "show affiliate
programs".
1.2. Affiliate organizer
download
This is a tool to keep a back up on your personal
computer or notebook of your affiliate relations.
It was the first edition we offered our customers
to organize their programs, however the
brand new "Affiliate Manager" (1.1.) is
the way to go. We just did not want to exclude this
tool for
some clients who are already set up with it and
use it day by day. However, we strongly recommend
to
use the Interactive Affiliate Manager instead because
the data houses on our every minute updated
and secured server units. Your pc may crash and
loose all data you have in your Affiliate organizer.
2.0. Monitor section
Here you can check
your website's popularity and compare it to your
competitors sites.
This are a useful tools to stay 'on top' and always
one step ahead of your competition.
Use those tools regularly, at least once a week
so you will be able to react to any changes.
2.1. Link Popularity Checker
Link popularity is the total number of web sites
that link to your site.
Most of the major search engines now factor Link
Popularity into their relevancy algorithms.
As a result, increasing the number of quality, relevant
sites which link to your site can actually
improve your search engine rankings. There is still
no one "secret trick" to getting good
rankings,
but boosting your site's popularity may give it
the edge it needs.
2.2. Search Engine Rank
Checker
This tool speedily tells you on which of the major
search engines your site is listed.
Once the results appear, you may click on any of
the search engine links to verify the results.
Your search engine listings are a crucial part of
your overall success, unless you pay for advertising.
Overview your site's search engine listings continually
to be able to make changes accordingly to your site.
2.3. Alexa Traffic Ranker
This tool gives the average number of pages a visitor
browses through when he is visiting.
The number of surfers out of a million that is likely
to visit the site. The ranking of your site is
based on popularity and traffic it receives. The
sites that are among the top 100 000 are given
in a graph to see and learn how the popularity has
developed in the past.
This is particularly important for you to learn
the truth about another websites traffic if you
plan on
buying advertising on this website. It also shows
yourself where you site stands and how it does
improve.
3.0. Promote section
Here you can actively
promote and optimize your website.
If we have created or optimized your site, your
meta tags will be all in place and ready to go.
If you have not added meta tags nor optimized your
site, you may use the "Meta Tag Creator"
and"Keyword Finder" tool to optimize your
website or have someone else do it,
before you use the search engine submitter.
3.1. Search Engine
Submitter
With this tool you can submit your website to all
listed search engines with just one click on a button.
This is a selection of very effective search engines
that feed results indirectly to the larger ones
like
Yahoo, MSN, AOL and so on. Use this tool weekly
and you will have results within 2-3 months.
3.2. Keyword Finder
Keywords are important. They should describe the
services and products your site offers with the
best matching and available words that internet
surfers may use to search for certain products/services.
Sometime the obvious is not obvious and this tool
helps you to determine out of a pre-given text the
best
possible keywords for your website. Use those keywords
thereafter for Pay per CLick search engine promotion
or even in your meta tag creator (3.3.) as you can
learn below.
3.3. Meta Tag Creator
The Meta Tag Creator tool is designed for the a
little more experienced webmasters.
If you know how to connect through ftp to your site
and change files with a html editor,
you should first consider what pages (files) you
want to add meta tags to.
Once you have done this, use the "Keyword Finder"
(3.2.) first to determine and create the best
working keywords for your site. Once you have a
list of keywords, add them to the meta tag creator
and create new meat tags for your site. Then add
them to the pages you decided on earlier and
upload all of them via ftp to your the server and
your website.
4.0. Control
section
Those tools lets you
check on all the services that are included in your
particular webmaster plan
or you have ordered separately in the "Add
Services" section.
Our system updates the status for each service automatically
so you can check 24/7 on all services
you have paid for and we deliver.
4.1. Traffic Received
This tool connects you to our traffic network administration
to check on your current traffic campaigns.
You have to log in again with your email address
and the GIVEN password "exclusive" (this is important so the system knows what traffic
network delivers).
Once logged in, you see all the traffic details
of your paid campaigns in REAL TIME or
the ones that you have purchased separately in the
"Add Services" section.
You see the one that's already delivered for this
month and the one still pending.
4.2. Search Engine Reports
If you have ordered our manual search engine submission
for your site or door pages (4.3.)
in the "Add Services" section or this
is included in your webmaster plan,
here we show you every month your site's particular
submission reports.
No guesswork here if we did submit your site or
not, we proof it - right in front of you.
4.3. Door Pages Online
If you have ordered any amount of door pages or
door pages were included in your webmaster plan,
that's the place where we show you that we created
them and set them online with a particular URL.
Just click on the door page link and you will connect
directly to the page online.
5.0. Add Service section
If the "monitor"
sections shows your website does not have the popularity
yet that you expect,
You can add here additional efficient services that
our techs deliver manually for your site.
As a registered IOP webmaster panel member, you
receive all services exclusively with a 30% price
reduction on our officially published rates.
5.1. Order Network
Traffic
If this service is included in your webmaster plan
or your ordered it separately in the "Add Services"
section, we will start sending so called network
traffic to your website.
Network traffic is useful to obtain higher search
engine rankings resulting from Alexa traffic ranking
placements. Do not expect immediate sales from this
low priced traffic.
Ongoing service will usually show results within
2-3 months of your first campaign.
You can check the traffic we send in real time in
your "Control" section (4.1.).
5.2. Order Search Engine
Submission
If this service is included in your webmaster plan
or your ordered it separately in the "Add Services"
section,
we will submit your website (door pages) to over
300 000 search engines, ffa lists and link networks.
We offer 2 different deepness levels (regular/pro
submission) of submission,
depending on your budget you can choose any you
want.
You can check the submission reports for each submission
in your "Control" section (4.1.).
5.3. Order Door Pages
If this service is included in your webmaster plan
or your ordered it separately in the "Add Services"
section, we will create search engine friendly and
favorable pages so called door pages.
We will equip each door page with special researched
keywords and meta tags, submit them to over
300 000 search engines, ffa lists and link networks
ongoing.
You can check the original submission report in
your "Control" section (4.2.).
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