Hi there! I am not too sure what is meant by "Affiliate Ready or Affiliate Friendly." Could someone please explain and perhaps look at my store to let me know if I am? Thank you so much!

Vicky

http://forums.cafepress.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/13410351/m/505105681

Tanith, thank for this link, this information is really useful! I have a question about point 8:

8. Use a special tag and let your affiliates know it. This makes fantastic, high quality landing pages that your affiliates can use. (Adam) - A completely made up example would be something like 1464pol which might bring up all your politics designs in the marketplace. (Tanith)

Should it be one unique tag, or can it be a combination of tags? For example lets say "blabla politics" and "blabla maternity", or could it be "blabla" + "politics" (brings up politics designs) or "blabla" + "maternity" (brings up baby stuff)? Can an affiliate give a combination of tags to find our stuff?

Thanks a lot for your answer - I think I have to retag all my images

Something unique, like your shop name. It allows affiliates to search only your products - so (tag)+politics will only return your political items.

It's not vital, it's a would be good if you had one type thing.

I did put a unique tag, carennedy, on some of my designs so I could find them in squidoo. But when I search for them in Commission Junction it doesn't find squat. Am I missing something?

Searching for tags on Commission Junction is anything but a good gage of if your tags work. CJ only allows a 600k product feed which is a small fraction of the millions of products available on CafePress. If you want to check to see if your products are showing up with your tags, you'd be far better searching for your unique tag using one of the free tools that uses the CP product catalog API. You can find a list of those in the third party tools for affiliates forum.