Frequently
Asked Questions Part 1 - the myIOP webmaster
panel:
Below explained features
are available for our hosting customers.
They are accessible through the myIOP
webmaster panel.
TO log in your myIOP panel, you need
your username and password
that you have assigned at sign up. Click
on LOGIN HERE
or in the header of this page.
1.1.Overview
Interactive Affiliate Manager
1.1.1. Add Affiliate
Program
1.1.2. Show/Add/Edit
Affiliate Programs
1.1.2.A Overview
all your affiliate programs.
1.1.2.B. Add Affiliate
Username/password/userID (CID)
1.1.2.C Sign Up at the
Affiliate Programs
1.2. Affiliate organizer
download
2.0. Monitor
section
2.1. Link Popularity
Checker
2.2. Search Engine
Rank Checker
2.3. Alexa Traffic Ranker
3.0. Promote
section
3.1. Search Engine
Submitter
3.2. Keyword Finder
3.3. Meta Tag Creator
4.0. Control section
4.1. Paid Service
Status
4.2. Search Engine
Report
4.3. Door Pages Online
4.4. Traffic Reports
5.0. Add Service
section
5.1. Order Network Traffic
5.2. Order Search Engine
Submission
1.0.
Manage Tab
1.1.
Interactive Affiliate Manager
top
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 top
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 top
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
top
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)
top
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
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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 top
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 top
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 top
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 top
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 top
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 top
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
top
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 top
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 top
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 top
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.
Paid Service Status
top
This sections shows you the status of
each service that you ordered/paid or
have included in your
webmaster hosting plan. Here can you
overlook everything from one spot if
we have delivered what we
promiss. No guess work here, every search
engine submission report is visible,
every door page and network
traffic that we send is shown.
4.2. Search
Engine Reports top
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 top
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.
4.4. Traffic
Reports top
This tool connects you to our traffic
network administration. You can see
if your campaign is
still active and check your incoming
traffic in real time.
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.
5.0. Add Service
section top
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 top
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
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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.).
