Integration

Integrating GeoRiot into your website, iOS app, cross-promotion platform, Facebook posts, or tweets is designed to be easy so you can quickly improve the user experience for your global audience.

Overview

The GeoRiot service is a redirect service that is used in addition to each of the geographically specific affiliate programs for a specific brand. A client enables the GeoRiot service by modifying the affiliate links on their website or in their app to reroute through the GeoRiot service. GeoRiot ensures, when redirecting, that the link is translated and encoded specifically for each user that clicks an affiliate link.

Getting Started

The first step in using GeoRiot is getting an account for the GeoRiot dashboard. For a step-by-step guide to getting started, see the Getting Started section in resources.

Links

There are three standard styles of GeoRiot links: Find/Replace style, Quick Build, and Search link.

For more information, see linking formats in Resources. Find the best linking format/ tool for you by reading through Getting Started: Create GeoRiot Enabled Links.

Tools

GeoRiot offers a growing number of tools for you to quickly build new GeoRiot enabled affiliate links or convert your existing links. A short list can be found here while a more detailed list can be found in the Linking Tools documentation in Resources.

• Encoder - Copy links from the Brand's site and drop them into the Encoder tool to quickly convert them into GeoRiot links.
• Javascript Snippet - When copied into the header of your website, affiliate links that can be switched over to GeoRiot are automatically converted. This is one of the easiest solutions for our partners that run websites powered by blogging software.
• iTunes Link Maker Tool - By passing in your GeoRiot parameters to the iTunes Link Maker tool you can use this familiar tool to continue to generate links. Accessing this tool from the GeoRiot dashboard ensures your links are already GeoRiot encoded.
• iTunes RSS Feed Generator - By also passing in your GeoRiot parameters and accessing this tool from the GeoRiot dashboard you can build XML or JSON feeds of the top content from iTunes.

For more on choosing the best linking format for you, see Getting Started: Create GeoRiot Enabled Links.

Account Management

Switching your affiliate links to the GeoRiot service also allows for an easy management of your affiliate links through a centralized dashboard. By modifying your affiliate links to pass through the GeoRiot service you can then control them externally.

This is a huge benefit for our clients who use GeoRiot links in their apps. Instead of resubmiting their app for approval every time they add a new account our clients just update their links via their GeoRiot Dashboard.

For more information about account management, see the resources section.