Join The Affiliates Classified Program

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Bikerlink.com is proud to announce its classified affiliates program. This program will allow any web site to link to this classified program for free. This program is the best classified available on the market today. It allows ads to be searched by zip code, product type, and any other sub-classifications. It also allows the user to upload pictures, short videos, and audio. You might ask why Bikerlink.com is doing this for free. Well, we at Bikerlink.com have set our goal to build the largest biker classified on the net. We feel that if we can attain this goal we will benefit in the long term.

As you can see from this example at: www.lonestarwebsitedesign.com, and www.paintbypygmy.com our affiliates program gives the affiliate web site a complete classified program that, as far as the user is concerned, is soley identified by the affiliate web site.
If you would like to set up your web site in the Bikerlink.com affiliates program see the complete instructions listed below.

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Instructions to add Affiliate:

These instructions are our own interpretation of the written instructions available with our classified program.

STEP 1
First you need to go to our FREE CLASSIFIEDS and registed as a user. Click on MyProfile, and choose Register for an account.
When you are registered, and have you username and password you are ready to Join the Affiliate Program.


STEP 2
Now you go to the FREE CLASSIFIEDS page, you can choose the "Join Affiliates Program"
You are then directed to go to the Sign up form, where you enter you user name and password. After you have logged in, you will have to fill out a form. Here are some simplified explainations:

Short Name - any one word you want. We suggest you use a short name for your site.
Example:
Website:               lonestarwebsitedesign.com
Short Name:           lonestarweb

Long name - is the name of your web site.
Example:
Long name:         lonestarwebwebsitedesign

Email address - your e-mail address

Notify of New, Modified, Deleted Ads - this depends on how involved you want to be in the classified program. If you check the boxes, you will be informed by e-mail whenever any of these changes are made.

Send Reply to Users - this is good since it gives the user some contact from your site and it is automatic. (We recommend checking this box)

Ads Name - We recommend you type Classified here.

Site Name - put in your web address with out the www.
Example:
Site Name:            lonestarwebsitedesign.com

Administrator's Name - Your name

Administrator's Title - Your title

URL of Web Site - the complete URL of your site. This is the address that will be used to link back to your page from the classifieds. If your site uses frames, you should use the URL linking to the main frame.
Example:
                            http://www.lonestarwebsitedesign.com
Page with frames:
                            http://www.lonestarwebsitedesign.com/main.htm

Slogan - type your slogan here


STEP 3
When you have created a new Affiliate, you will be sent an e-mail to confirm this. You will also get a screen telling you that the Affiliate was successfully created. Near the bottom, you will see a long URL. This is the address for you CLASSIFIEDS. Use this URL on your website to set up the link to your classifieds page.

VERY IMPORTANT: The URL you will receive may look similar to this example:
http://bikerlink.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/classifieds.cgi?website=yourname&language=&session_key=3b28ba25300e9f04

However, when you add the link to your classifieds page, you must change the URL by deleting everything after the = sign which appears after the word language. See the example below:

http://bikerlink.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/classifieds.cgi?website=yourname&language=

If you don't do this, users will be unable to place ads.


STEP 4
Editing your Classifieds Page (You must first set up your Template).
The Template is the editable part of your classifieds page at the top and bottom, where the logo goes. You may add text, like you slogan, or company name here. Unless you edit this Template, it will default to the Bikerlink.com Template.

  1. Now when you go to your classified Page, you can go to "MyProfile" and edit your templete.
  2. First choose "Template Editer"
  3. Next choose Affiliate to Modify.
  4. Select your site (By clicking in the little circle next to it's name, and click the "Continue".
  5. Choose "Create Template" for the Default section. (After you have created this template, and you want to go back and edit it, the "Edit Template" option will be accesible to you.)



  6. You are now in the Template Editor. There are instructions to help you along here. But if you still have difficulty, please CONTACT US and we will help you.
  7. Select a Templete from the drop down menu, we recommend "Standard"
  8. Press the "Preview Template" button to see what your template will look like.
  9. When you are happy with your template, do no forget to press "Save Template".
  10. To remove the e-Classifieds logo, and replace it with your own, locate the code :

    <img src="%%GRAPHICS_DIR%%/blueline.gif" width="468" height="60" ALT="e-Classifieds"><BR>
    <img src="%%GRAPHICS_DIR%%/blueline.gif" width="400" height="27" alt="thin blue line">


  1. Replace it with code, for example:

    <img src="http://www.yourwebsite.com/YourImagesFolder/yourlogo.gif" alt="your logo">

    FOR EXAMPLE: This is the code for texaswebsitedesigns.com:



  1. View their logo on their classifieds site to see the effect of this code
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