Zamango project is the set of a various content bases (now it is only casual games base), which are brought together from numerous sources, and are constantly moderated and augmented. The access to content bases is carried out by receiving the slightly modified RSS-feed. There is also our Zamango Money Extractor plugin which allows building a full-fledged website with different content based on WordPress engine (certainly, there are detailed instructions how to make it).

Besides the content base we also give you the detailed descriptions of approved partner programmes where you can earn money by using the given content. And we are ready to help and support you!

And all this is absolutely free of charge!

Why might you need it? This is very simple: you can save much time (your and your workers’ time) and money. Just imagine how much work is required to gather various content from the Internet daily. Then add the necessity to watch the content actuality. Have you imagined? And this is not the worst. Actually a lot of content (descriptions, videoshots, different reviews, translations, etc.) in our bases is made directly by us!

While working with our bases you don’t have to delve into the unique content formats of different partner programmes; it is enough to adjust your engine only once (or to use our method based on Zamango Money Extractor WordPress plugin) to work with Zamango XML format and that’s all!

And besides saving the time for content making, you get the direct instructions and help in earning the money from this content. It is very nice, that experienced people share their knowledge and even some secrets with you, and do not take any money for it!

What do we have from it? You may think that we are altruists and want to please you by sharing our work results for free. It is not so! Everything in the world costs money, and the work of experienced people as we are costs much money. Certainly we want to receive them. There are 2 ways to do this:

- (Wrong) to receive it from you, end users of our product (i.e. content bases and our experience); for example, $10 for a monthly subscription

- (Correct) or to receive more money from partner programs; that is what the given content is made for.

Certainly we have chosen the second way and that is why everything is absolutely free for you! There is only one small favor to ask of you: when you register in partner programmes, mentioned on our website, leave our affiliate link. Thank you.

If you still have any questions do not hesitate to ask us. If you don’t have, go ahead and earn easy money!

If you have any problems with moderation on Yandex. Direct, you can use Alawar’s Feedback form or contact your personal manager via e-mail.

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.

Please download and use new plugin!

List of changes:

1. Fixed: the functioning with Wordpress 3.1.3-3.2 engine, where the processing of GUID was considerably changed that entailed creation of duplicated posts.
   

   By the way, if you’re using Wordpress v.3.1.* it’s recommended to update it to v.3.2 because v.3.1.* has several bugs relating to slugs and categories; also WordPress.org say that v.3.2 is faster and lighter for the server. But first you should pay attention to the changes of system requirements which are described in all details in the WP developers’ blog

2. Fixed: the problem with the zamango-teg “[zmg:post_permalink]“, which was incorrectly functioning with some WP versions.
3. Fixed: the substitution of “[zmg:post_permalink]” in RSS-feeds.
4. It have been also fixed the theoretically existed problem with the functioning of auto-update. Since now ZME makes an auto-update every 12 hours, and the appropriate option has been removed from the control panel.
   

   It is necessary to make a remark that wp-cron (scripts autorun scheduler integrated to WordPress) works only in case of direct requests to WP engine, escaping the cache. Due to this fact, if your blog has a low traffic and you use cash, it is recommended to set up an auto-check of your blog, for example by means of the service www.pingdom.com using URL like http://example.com/?s=play (expression “?s=play” makes Wordpress search the phrase “play”). Also, this service lets you estimate your hosting reliability.

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.