Affiliate Ad Tools
Article Topics: Affiliates
The NATS Affiliate Ad Tools page lets you choose from a wide variety of different Ad Tools to help promote your site(s). This allows for a wide variety of different affiliate promotions – such as banners, galleries, downloadable content, interactives, and page ads.
Affiliates can use the affiliate Ad Tools pages to find Ad Tools from multiple categories to promote sites with, download the Ad Tools they wish to use, and get the necessary linkcodes to record their statistics when referring surfers through that Ad Tool.
Finding Your Affiliate Adtools
You can find the Affiliate Ad Tools pages in the "Ad Tools" section of the top toolbar, found on every affiliate-side page in NATS. Just mouse over the "Ad Tools" section and choose the Ad Tool type you want to view.
Click the “Ad Tools” tab to go to the main Affiliate Ad Tools page, where you'll see every category of Ad Tools available to you, broken down by site (or all sites).
Choose the Ad Tool Type that you want to view, and choose the site you want to view those Ad Tools for by clicking the hyperlinks available here. Clicking one of the Ad Tool types listed here brings you to a list of all available Ad Tools of that type, along with various features that let you search for specific Ad Tools within a type.
You can also edit your default Ad Tool linkcodes with the Affiliate Linkcode Settings available on any of the Ad Tool pages. This lets you change which program your Ad Tool linkcodes are associated with, as well as how each linkcode is displayed (between encoded, un-encoded, and shortname), what campaign they're associated with, and what site they point to.
Your Affiliate Linkcodes will be shown in the Ad Tools table (when available), next to each Ad Tool. Keep in mind, however, that not every Ad Tool type offered in NATS provides you with linkcodes. For more information on the linkcode settings feature offered here, please see our Affiliate Linkcode Settings wiki article.
Searching Your Ad Tools
You'll find a variety of search options at the top of each affiliate Ad Tools table, in order to help you find specific Ad Tools. Use these to search through your Ad Tools by criteria such as name, when they were added, the Ad Tool type, content type, page location, number of items, and Ad Tool height/width, depending on what Ad Tool type you're searching through.
Each Ad Tool type offered in NATS has different search options, which differ based on the Ad Tool type you're looking at. However, the actions that you can take on these different search options are similar. Just use the provided drop-down menus, search fields, and action links to find specific Ad Tools of a certain type.
Fill in your desired search criteria, then click the "Search <Adtool Type>" button on the right side of the page. Once you do, your Ad Tool list will be updated to reflect the search criteria you chose.
You'll also find several "View as:" icons on each page of Ad Tool types, which let you change how these Ad Tools will be displayed to you. You can choose to view the standard table view, a full size image dump view, an RSS feed view, a CSV dump view, and/or an XML dump view, depending on the Ad Tool type you're viewing. Just click any of the available icons to change your affiliate Ad Tool view.
The Affiliate Adtools 'View As' Icons
The provided hyperlinks on the right side of the Ad Tools table allows affiliates to perform certain actions on each respective Ad Tool, such as getting your Affiliate Linkcodes to that Ad Tool, or downloading a .zip file of that Ad Tool. These actions let you begin promoting with your chosen Ad Tool -- simply click the provided link to perform the listed action.
For more information about searching through your affiliate Ad Tools in NATS, please see our Affiliate Adtools Search article.
Ad Tool Types
NATS offers a wide variety of Ad Tool categories, in order to help affiliates get the most out of their programs and promotions. These Ad Tool categories include:
Banners – Contains standard image banners, flash banners, or geo-targeted banners. Geo-targeted banners automatically display certain information depending on the surfer's location.
Galleries – Contains free hosted galleries, which provide sample content to entice surfers to sign up.
Content – Contains Ad Tools that can be downloaded by surfers. This includes downloadable content, RSS feeds, mailers, fan signs, and flash videos.
Interactives – Contains Ad Tools that surfers can interact with and perform certain actions on, including page peels, IM popups, and footer ads.
Page Ads – Contains groups of images or videos that take up a majority of the page, such as half page ad, full page ads, hosted free sites, and overlays.
Choose one of the Ad Tool types provided for you, and grab the Ad Tools you want with the "Download" links, or grab an Ad Tool linkcode from the "Linkcode" field. Once you do, you can begin promoting sites and programs with your selected Ad Tool.
Any surfer that is redirected through the Ad Tool you're using will be counted towards your statistics, as long as you use the Affiliate Linkcodes provided to you on these pages.
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