I’ve previously blogged about how to add Rel Author Markup on your Thesis-themed blog, which is great for blogs run by one (or more) people. But what if you have a site that isn’t run by a person, but rather a brand? You can get your brand’s page to be listed as the “author” of the page, and include your logo in the SERPs. Here’s how:
I was excited when I read Google had released an API for their Affiliate Network, as I wanted to automate pulling sales data from GAN. But I quickly became disheartened when I realized how difficult it is to use.
Since this was for myself, and not a web-based service that would be used by others, the Simple API method of authorization was good enough. After getting it to work with Picasa, but not GAN, I asked for some help and was introduced to the OAuth 2.0 Playground. This showed me the headers I’d need to send, and how OAuth 2.0 works.
For the record: the Google Affiliate Network API does NOT support Simple API Access. You cannot access the service with an API Key and IP locking.
I now have a working script, and have written up step-by-step instructions on how you can pull orders from GAN automatically each day.
This script is not complete, as it’s up to you to do something with the data once you have it. You can also modify the final call to pull advertisers, instead of orders.
I received an email the other day asking how I added my breadcrumbs to my Thesis site.
On the site, they look like this:
But in the search results, they appear like this:
In the search results, the title is linked to the blog post, while the category is linked to the category page.
Here’s how I do it in Thesis…