We're always expanding, and many of our upcoming merchants are in European countries. You guys won't be left out for long! :)

Will this work for other countries or only the US? I have members from all over the world.

Thanks.

So far only a penny...

But keeping it up for now.

I'm working on an update at the moment that will help get your forums indexed and get more traffic to your forum. This will help increase earning possibilities.

We are always expanding, and we will have companies that support other countries coming aboard soon.

You would only be able to make this amount because of your affiliate link you placed in the instal instructions. You are making money off all these guys who are using your mod, maybe you should have said that too. If I am wrong remove your affiliate link.

Hi how do I put this in the same place you have on http://community.prosperent.com/

(In just the forum page in the white space opposite the bread crumbs. Below the navbar)

That isn't our affiliate link, it is for tracking. I'm the CEO of the company, the earnings above were 100 percent from the forum, not from referrals. The most important step people need to take is getting these pages some links so they can start indexing. I have almost 8 million pages indexed on my forum product search. The vast majority of the earnings are not from my forum members, but rather from organic searches. It takes a couple months for the inner search pages to rank, but once they do, it's a nice steady income stream. I detailed some suggestions for indexing and overall use of the plugin earlier in the thread. Check them out, and stop by our forums or ask here if you have any questions. Our developer Brandon is typically the one that posts in this thread, so he can help you out.


Brian

Hey, That is actually the header on Prosperents Community site. But I believe on most forums its going to be the navbar_link template, which is under the Navigation/ Breadcrumb Templates.

Just remember to change the template name inside the plugin where it is pre-registering the template. Change header to navbar_link.

The newest update has been released (v.1.4). This update includes sidebars, one that will show the 'Recent Searches' and another that will show 'Top Products'. These sidebars will be shown on your forum's main page, and will help drive traffic to your forums, thus increasing sales. This update also includes more AdminCP options. These options will toggle the sidebars on or off and set the number of products to be shown in each. Also for those who change the tempalte location of the search bar, I have now made it easier to change. You just have to change the AdminCP option for Template_Placement to whichever template you'd like. Just remember that the template name is going to be case sensitive.

I am having a really hard time installing this... I would like it in the navbar next to the global search and have edited that template and have used tht template name in the config .. but still not getting anything.

Any help would be appreciated.

The site is :
http://www.invertplanet.com/forum/forum.php

Hey, so go to edit your templates, put {vb:raw includedphp} inside the navbar template. You'll find that under Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates. Once there search for Globalsearch. Put {vb:raw includedphp} before that div. Then in the options change the Template_Placement option to navbar.

Now you'll have to play with the css a little bit to get it just right along the side of the globalsearch. So go into productSearch.php and look around line 39 for Play with the margin attribute. Let me know if you need any help with that.

ok... did as instructed and get the following error:

: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(98) : eval()'d code on line 31

?!?

Alright, well after installing this for someone on their forum, I encountered a few bugs. So this newest update fixed those bugs. I hope this update fixes any issues that anyone else was having. Plus I included images for the data to make the two sidebars that will help drive traffic to your forums. Good luck everyone, and let me know if anything comes up let me know. And if you catch any bugs I will fix them ASAP.

My email is different than the one on this account, you can email me personally at brandon@prosperent.com

:)

absolutely awesome!! Thank you so much for this. I would highly recommend this to anyone.

I am already a member of other affiliate programs through Commission Junction and this product bypasses that and makes things so much easier. Definitely 9.5 out of 10 :) Excellent excellent work, thank you!

Updated, but the setting for image and search box size is gone again.

Need to re do it again the same way, as before done?

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Yep, it will be the same way as before for that. :)

Let me know if you have any trouble.

I think line number changed, can you please tell me step by step (I think there are about three steps), and some details and in thread and few are in PMs

Thanx in advance.

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Gathered everything up that I could remember and sent you a PM.

Thanks J-P, I appreciate it. :)

How's this working for everyone, has anyone noticed any bugs? Has anyone checked how indexing is going on their forum after the last update?

I had to turn it off after the last update as it was slowing my page loading time on all pages from 0.23415 seconds to 3.41375 seconds.

What was strange while it was taking longer for pages to load the server load was normal.

By turning off the Plugin the page load times went back to normal.

I'll look into the slowdown. If you turn off the recentQueries in the adminCP options that should fix the slowdown, so you can continue to use it. I'm going to optimize it to make it work better and faster though. Thanks for the heads up, it wasn't slowing down the forum I was working with, but that doesn't meant that's how it will be for each user.

Alright, I just released v1.6. This update made drastic changes to the table that held the recent queries. Therefore it should run a lot faster, and you should not notice any change in the load time on your forum.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention Scottct1. I appreciate it. :)

Hey everyone, I just wanted to repost this from earlier.


Let me give you (and others a few tips). Most of my sales that were made during testing came from actual organic searches from search engines, not from the members of my own forum. I would start by promoting the feature on your site to your users. Mention that it is a way for them to help support your site since you earn a commission on every purchase. This goes a long way since members are often ready and willing to help support their favorite forum.

Next, get some organic traffic coming into the search pages. For this, you need to get some backlinks to some of the search result pages. This is as simple as displaying a few search url's in your signature on your forum, and encouraging your users to do that same.

We may also be able to create a side block that perhaps stores and shows the most popular searches? Doing this has the benefit of drawing attention to the search, but also gets some links in which helps get pages indexed and ultimately leads to sales.

Last but not least, be patient. It took me several weeks to start getting search traffic to my product search. After that, sales started to roll in slowly, and now I get several per day and have almost 7 million pages indexed. It went from my forum struggling to make money to being quite the money maker for me, but it took time .

So all in all, give this time. Sales will come, one just has to be patient. :)

Can not upgrade 1.6 XML file

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Do we have any type of responsibility for sale or giving search option, as they are searching through our forum?

Need to have any kind of disclaimer from our side?

G!

Nope, no disclaimer is needed.

hi,

just tried to install this in vbulletin 4.1.9 forum

and forum index now is a blank page with the following error message:

have removed all files & uninstalled the xml file so the forum will function again. any suggestions?

also the install instructions say there are 4 files and 2 images in the folder which need to be ftp'ed in but I am seeing 6 php files + 5 images in /img/

thanks :)

Hey, what is your forums url?

And that's a mistake, I guess I had forgotten to update that in the write up when I updated it. Sorry about that.

the product.php page seems to be giving an unusual amount of database errors. I get at least 10 a day with it disabled and and more when it is enabled.

There are various error messages but they all stem from the product.php page :(

Have you upgraded to the newest version yet? If not, I can do that for you real quick if that information you gave me last time works still. The newest version should fix the errors.

just upgraded.

Will let you know :)

Thank you :D

No problem. Yea that should fix any mySQL errors that you were getting, its a much more stable and faster version. :)

So how's 1.6 working for everyone?

still getting DB errors from unregistered users but not nearly as many as before. When I asked the hosting about this I received this reply:
I don't know if it is the time outs that are causing this or the cache.

Which error is it giving you. Its been running fine on a test site, whether I'm logged in or not.

This is the most common.

This one come up on occasion:
I just noticed that the request date and error dates are just a tad over the 10 second limit :(

forum url is http://inverts.com.au

thanks :)