Introducing VigLink | New Revenue Sharing Partnership

Make sure you follow our instructions for the "Wizzley sign-up" for Viglink, Bev. Your previous, personal account does not work.   http://wizzley.com/viglink

I used the link in my Settings so I think I'm good to go.

JoHarrington: 17. Feb 2012, 12:38

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I've just done the non-US tax form and it was pretty painless.

I selected Account, then clicked the button for the tax form.  I said 'no' to US citizenship and it gave me a selection. I did read the confusing bumf, then decided that the first one was the way to go.

Click to fill it in electronically:

*  Name

* Individual

* Leave country blank here

* Address

* Fill country in here

* Tick item 9 to say that you're not trading on US soil

* Name at the bottom for the signature

* I put 'individual' for capacity

It's accepted it and I'm good to go. :D

Thanks, Jo - I have found your instructions very helpful. Perhaps someone else won't waste so much time than I have had if I add to item 9: 

Since I am non-US resident, I clicked a).

Grandi

Does this mean we can now use regular text links to Amazon and receive commission on any sales?

Yes, and to any of the Amazon sites that are not Amazon.com - UK, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Italy - for all those visitors that otherwise, you may have missed. You can even do Amazon Japan, although you will not get anything in commissions from that until VigLink passes it from 'On our lists' to ' 'that is available' - you may as well put it in a link list so that when it is available, all your articles will be ready to take advantage.

Janet21: 24. Feb 2012, 12:38

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Does this mean we can now use regular text links to Amazon and receive commission on any sales?

Janet, just to clarify, any links to Amazon outside of our module will be handled by VigLink, which means the sales will not be counting towards your tier levels in your own AA account.

nightowl: 24. Feb 2012, 13:40

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Janet21: 24. Feb 2012, 12:38

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Does this mean we can now use regular text links to Amazon and receive commission on any sales?

Janet, just to clarify, any links to Amazon outside of our module will be handled by VigLink, which means the sales will not be counting towards your tier levels in your own AA account.

Yes, I am aware of that.  However, if I read this correctly, we will be earning 20%  less if we use straight text links to amazon or zazzle as opposed to using the modules since we have to share with VigLinks.   Is that right?     

Janet21: 24. Feb 2012, 12:38

Yes, I am aware of that.  However, if I read this correctly, we will be earning 20%  less if we use straight text links to amazon or zazzle as opposed to using the modules since we have to share with VigLinks.   Is that right?     

That is correct. It's best for us (commission-wise) to use our Amazon and Zazzle modules, but at least we do have the option to use text links if necessary.

nightowl: 24. Feb 2012, 14:02

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Janet21: 24. Feb 2012, 12:38

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Yes, I am aware of that.  However, if I read this correctly, we will be earning 20%  less if we use straight text links to amazon or zazzle as opposed to using the modules since we have to share with VigLinks.   Is that right?     

 

That is correct. It's best for us (commission-wise) to use our Amazon and Zazzle modules, but at least we do have the option to use text links if necessary.

Okay thanks.

Hi all, I am not sure if you answered this question or not, but I am a bit confused about the clicks data on Viglink.  For instance, this week I show no clicks, but if you go down to click outs I have 15 so far for rover.ebay which is the ebay module I assume.  Those are being counted as our clicks so why aren't they in the stats?  And will the sales from the modules show up in the stat?

Paula, I'm seeing the same. I've raised this before but I don't think we have an answer yet. 

I'm just keeping on making pages using the eBay module and hoping we'll get a fix soon. 

I am seeing revenue for my ebay text links. 

I don't think we actually see sales data for eBay (although actions are recorded.) Instead we get paid based on the value of clicks (as determined by eBay.)

However, it works as long as I am making money.

I've answered in the other thread: we're setting up a webinar, probably in 2 weeks, where we all can ask questions to Viglinks tracking and linking specialists. Anne will announce the exact day and time, as soon as we get the confirmation from Viglink.

Yes, thanks. 

chefkeem: 08. Mar 2012, 17:48

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I've answered in the other thread: we're setting up a webinar, probably in 2 weeks, where we all can ask questions to Viglinks tracking and linking specialists. Anne will announce the exact day and time, as soon as we get the confirmation from Viglink.

I'm not sure a webinar is the best place to report a major bug like revenue not being reported from the ebay modules. (Speaking as a software engineer who has been on the other side of such things!) Sounds like something to be sorted out between Wizzley and Viglink engineers. 

We've been investigating on your reports, and we think it might be that VigLink doesn't recognize or process the rover.ebay links as regular affiliate links since we get them through the eBay API. The API enables us to pull all the information we need to build the module (item images, prices, bids, etc.)

We don't have a definitive answer yet but hope to have it all sorted out in the next day or so. Thanks for bringing it to our attention, and thanks for hanging in there while we work out the kinks.

nightowl: 08. Mar 2012, 18:07

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We've been investigating on your reports, and we think it might be that VigLink doesn't recognize or process the rover.ebay links as regular affiliate links since we get them through the eBay API. The API enables us to pull all the information we need to build the module (item images, prices, bids, etc.)

We don't have a definitive answer yet but hope to have it all sorted out in the next day or so. Thanks for bringing it to our attention, and thanks for hanging in there while we work out the kinks.

Yes, that matches my interpretation of what is going on. I thought you'd be looking into it. 

I'll go back to waiting patiently 

Yes, same here.  Thanks for getting this taken care of.

It seems that Viglinks now also converts words like >Amazon< that are not links into links. Not sure if I like it or not, I think I would prefer a bit more control about where links do appear in my articles and where not ...

You can switch it off, if or when it is implemented on Wizzley.