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If you join Alawar’s Affiliate Program today, you can distribute the games in these 5 different languages. Your money benefits will be 30%. If you want to distribute games localized in Ukrainian, Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian and Mongolian, you must create new account for each market, selecting the language.

The average price of the game for these markets is:

Ukraine – up to $2.76
Serbia – up to $1.43
Slovenia – $1.156
Croatia – $0.368
Mongolia – $1.4

On casual game market of these countries the competition is still very low as the portion of localized games from other publishers is very small today. Therefore, we can anticipate a high level of conversion.

Games from Alawar’s Affiliate Program on these languages have been already added to the game base of Zamango. The users of Zamango Money Extractor just need to choose the languages and create new affiliate account into the Alawar system.

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They are:

• Real-time tracking statistics system for all markets. The system of charges in real-time has been successfully operating on the Russian market. Recently (since August 1, 2011) this very system has been launched for other markets. Now your profit is credited to your account immediately, regardless of payment method chosen by the user, and the country where the game was purchased.
• Full details of charges for sales channels. This is a useful option to view the detailed information on each transaction. But with this new opportunity for Real-time charges and Referral of charges, the information about other transactions has disappeared. Thus, the comments like “Adjustment” or “Charge” can sound rather obscure for the partner.
• The opportunity to cancel a payment request.
• Referral reward system. We have already given some details about Alawar’s Referral System. We just recall that you have the opportunity to get 10% of every new referring affiliate.
• Promotional materials for foreign markets. Recently the promotional materials have become available not only in Russian, but also in other languages. Today there are banners for the top ten English games and some other materials in 7 languages (Unfortunately, I managed to find the banners only in English and Spanish, and Russian, of course). To see the promotional materials in other languages, you need to register again in the affiliate program with an appropriate language. Multiple registration is inconvenient, of course, but Alawar is working to simplify the access to its promotional materials, and soon will solve this little problem.
• Updated and expanded FAQ.
• New and improved design.

Well, we are sure that such innovations will delight all partners who work with Alawar’s Affiliate Program. No doubt, new opportunities have satisfied the wishes of many users.

Those who regularly keep an eye on their Big Fish Games’ accounts might have noted that the statistics for July 12, which show their daily income and the quantity of newbie customers, are much lower than usual. As for July 13, there is no statistics at all. However, there is no way to despair and you needn’t try to search any issues on your website.

According to the news-fees of this affiliate program, there are some issues within the system:

KNOWN REPORTING ISSUE

We are currently experience a reporting issue within the affiliate system. Please note this does not impact your earnings.

In fact, this type of issues is rather a rare case for Big Fish Games. Let’s hope that this problem will be solved in the nearest future and won’t have any impact on affiliates’ earnings.

The latest released version of plugin is Zamango Money Extractor v.1.5.

In this version we’ve tried to correct the functioning of [zmg:post_premalink] after the auto-update.
After you update your ZME plugin, you should replace the [zmg:post_premalink] by %zmg_post_permalink% in templates and run once again the syndication of all games.

Please, download and use the latest version of the plugin Zamango Money Extractor v.1.5.

This type of block lets you mark out the best content among the mass of all modern games, and makes the searching of top-rated and high-quality games much more effective. As you can see, it increases the chance of a new purchase, and as a result you will have more customers that will bring you benefits during the whole year and increase your earnings.

If you haven’t dealt with this tool yet, we would like to add that Featured Games XML is a special XML-feed containing 5 best exclusive games which are offered according to Affiliate Program terms. According to Big Fish Games managers’ words, this type of XML involves only the bestseller games. News feed of the Affiliate Program runs on information that “these games are handpicked by us because we know from experience that they sell well”. There is a ring of truth about it as the use of Featured Games XML during several moths shows that visitors prefer to play and purchase the games chosen by Big Fish Games.

You can find the link to your Featured Games XML at your control panel board, Tools > XML. Today this tool is available for all 10 Content-Languages offered by Big Fish Games Affiliate Program. You can get the hot list of bestseller games for PC or MacOS. This XML-feed is updated everyday at 1AM – PST.

As we have already mentioned, Featured Games XML has become much more useful. Now each featured game has a big flash-banner (<hasdwfeature>yes</hasdwfeature>). Links to swf-files of these flash-banners are built by the following template:

http://games.bigfishgames.com/{foldername}/{assetname}_{dwwidth}x{dwheight}.swf

N.B! The {assetname} element can be derived by parsing {foldername} and stripping off the locale and underscore. So if foldername=”en_yard-sale-hidden-treasures-sunnyville”, then assetname=”yard-sale-hidden-treasures-sunnyville”.

By the way, if you don’t like these flash-banners, you can use big promo-pictures instead, which are also available when a game has <hasdwfeature>yes</hasdwfeature>. Links to these promo-pictures are built by the following template:

http://games.bigfishgames.com/{foldername}/{assetname}_{dwwidth}x{dwheight}.jpg

You can find more useful information about different XML-feeds of Big Fish Games Affiliate Program in the Web Services Documentation.

Thus, Big Fish Games gives us a really great tool but its effectiveness depends of our knowledge, experience and enthusiasm. To our mind, the best example of Featured Games XML usage is shown on the main page of BigFishGames. Of course, the developing of this type of promo-block requires some programming skills. Probably you will invent something new and easier.

Mind please, that the settings of your account may have the old minimum payment level, $ 50. To change the old payment level for a new one, you should make some alternations in your settings.

We have to remind you that the request for taking out your earning money could be created every week on Wednesday. All requested payments are made on every Thursday in the second part of the day.

Firstly, the rate of Referral Reward System was changed. Now a partner receives 10% of every new referring affiliate (not 3% as it was earlier).

Secondaly, the link, which we should use to attract new webmasters, was also changed. Now you should use the special tiny url (http://ala.bz/YnVfMTE), which you can find in control panel, tab “Referral”. The use of this special link reduces the probability that your ID number will be deleted or somebody will register getting around the referral system.

Additionally, the partners have a chance of getting detailed report on the use of this referral system. At page “Referrals” they can find the information covering the quantity of captured affiliates, quantity of downloads and purchases for their accounts.

Thus, giving its partners extra chance of getting money, Alawar inspires them to promote this affiliate program more active. We are glad to know that commission per referrals has grown up to 10%. It is also good news that now and then partners can always get the detailed reports on Alawar’s Referral System.

Those, who deals with BFG Affiliate Program, know that every customer which makes his purchase by affiliate link becomes a child of the affiliate at once and brings it benefits during the whole year. Upon the expiration of one year from the day of starting new BFGAP most of you can see customers drop off, mainly your active customers. This is a result of customers migration from old PNP to the new BFGAP.

During customers migration from the old affiliate program to the new one as the starting point of the binding period they used the customers’ most recent activity time.
For example:

——–Р—————————Р———————————————————–Р—–|migration|
02-03-2009             12-07-2009                                          24-12-2009

So, if your customer makes his last purchase on 24-12-2009, when his is migrated, this very date will be used as a starting of the binding period during of which he will bring his affiliate a benefit. Consequently, on 24-12-2010 this customer loses its active customers status and gets expired customers. You are able to follow all these process in Customer Reports.

Thus, the closer we get to the one-year anniversary of BFGAP, the more customers will be excluded. Another words, the more customers pass to Big Fish Games, the more Big Fish Games will get benefits from them.

The stark realities of life is: you attract a customer, you have been getting benefits from him for a year, but now all benefits will go to Big Fish Games.

In the end of 2010 Alawar’s Affiliate Program made all its partners a present – new game portals localized in Turkish, Czech, Estonian and Indonesian. Alawar definitely purposes to embrace a large audience all over the glob. Let us recall you that today Alawar offers different casual games for distribution localized in 19 languages worldwide!

Consequently, for all these languages special affiliate programs were started out, where the partner gets 30% of funds earned from sales of games. If you want to distribute localized games from Alawar on you resource, you should create new separate account for each language.

All games offered in XML from Alawar have been already added to Zamango’s base of casual games and users of Zamango Money Extractor plugin can easily distribute them on their website or blog.

Games localized in these new languages are not numerous yet, but lists are regularly upgraded. By the way, Alawar is going to start out the affiliate programs into the Lithuanian and Latvian languages. The greater audience is embraced, the higher is your earnings!