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# Content Egg

Content Egg is a separate plugin from the same author. It pulls product data — prices, images, stock, offers — from merchants and marketplaces into your posts.

### What each one is for

**Cashback Tracker** works at the level of a **shop**: this merchant pays this rate, this member earned this much, here is their balance.

**Content Egg** works at the level of a **product**: this item costs this much at these merchants, here is a comparison table.

A cashback site is mostly shop pages. A review or comparison site is mostly product content. Sites that use both well are usually review sites that also pay cashback.

## What the two plugins do together

Two things, and they are independent — you can use either on its own. Both need Cashback Tracker 3.0 or later and Content Egg 21.8 or later.

* **Your coupons appear in product blocks.** The coupons you have imported show up beside the matching shops inside Content Egg's product tables and cards.
* **Product links become your tracking links.** Where a product points at a shop you have imported, the link is turned into a tracked one carrying the signed-in member's id, so their purchase is credited — and Content Egg can print the rate beside the offer.

### Coupons in product blocks

Switch on **Cashback Tracker coupons** in **Content Egg → Settings → Shops**. Nothing else is needed.

Your imported coupons are matched to the shops in a product block **by domain**, and the link keeps your tracking, so a signed-in member's subid rides along.

Two things to expect:

* **Imported coupons apply wherever their shop appears.** They carry no post categories and are not tied to individual products, so they show beside every offer from that shop. Content Egg's own coupons can be narrowed to categories or to a single product; yours cannot.
* **Most network coupons have no code.** Content Egg shows codes only by default, which hides them. Set **Which coupons in the row and strip** to codes and deals, or use **coupon cards**, which always show both.

A coupon typed by hand into Content Egg wins over an imported one with the same code, so the same code never appears twice.

![Cashback and coupons inside a Content Egg product block](https://3545740495-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-M69sU0hfZj3QsteYxmI%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-dbf8f5630b973ba4577945fd0ca38e34d6b58e17%2Fcontent-egg-block.webp?alt=media)

### Tracking links in product blocks

Both settings live in **Content Egg → Settings → General**, and both are on by default:

* **Credit purchases to your members** — turns product links into your tracking links.
* **Show the cashback rate** — prints "Plus 4.5% Cash Back" beside the offer.

Content Egg does the same two things the WooCommerce option does, in the same order:

1. **The link already goes through one of your networks** — the member's tracking id is added to it.
2. **The link points at a shop you have imported** — matched on the exact domain, the link is **replaced** with your tracking link for that shop.

Step 2 is what makes it work in practice. Content Egg's feed and scraper modules mostly produce a plain merchant URL — an AliExpress product link is a bare `aliexpress.com` URL — and step 1 can do nothing with one of those.

{% hint style="warning" %}
**A Content Egg product link only becomes a cashback link for a shop you actually have.**

Matching is on the exact domain, against the shops your networks gave you. A merchant you have not joined is left exactly as it is, and a purchase through that link pays the member **nothing**.

Note that domains are matched literally: `aliexpress.com` and `s.click.aliexpress.com` are two different shops, and only an exact match converts.

If your site promises cashback, a member who buys through a product table and receives none will report it as a bug. Know which of your merchants are covered before you point members at product content.
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="info" %}
**Replacing a link moves the commission.** Where a Content Egg link already carried the site owner's own affiliate ID and that shop is also in your list, the network link replaces it. On a cashback site that is the point — it is the only way a member can be credited — but it is worth knowing before switching it on.
{% endhint %}

For a shop you cannot cover this way, use Cashback Tracker's own links — the Go to shop button, or `[tracking-link]`. See [Tracking links](/shops-and-cashback-rates/tracking-links.md).

### What the rate says, and when it is hidden

Only a signed-in member has an id to attach, so the wording follows the reader:

* **A signed-in member** sees `Plus 4.5% Cash Back`.
* **A visitor who is not signed in** sees `Sign in to earn 4.5% Cash Back`. They still get the tracking link, so the click earns you through the network — there is just no member account to credit.

Content Egg hides the rate entirely when the reader could not earn it:

* your site runs with **Cashback features** disabled — a coupon site has no cashback to promise;
* **Credit the post author** is switched on, which sends every commission to you whoever is reading.

## Combining them by hand

Two patterns that need no settings at all:

**Write product content, link to your shop page.** A comparison post built with Content Egg, with merchant names linking to your Cashback Tracker shop pages, sends readers somewhere that states your cashback rate — and the click that follows is tracked as cashback. This works for every merchant, including the ones product links cannot cover.

**Show a shop's rate inside a post.** The `[cashback-advertiser]` shortcode drops a shop's card — logo, rate and tracked button — anywhere, including into a Content Egg post beside the product table. See [\[cashback-advertiser\]](/putting-it-on-your-pages/shortcodes/cashback-advertiser.md).

### Which shops need which

You do not need both for every merchant.

* A merchant on an affiliate network you have connected — Cashback Tracker handles it, including the rate and the tracked link.
* A merchant with product data worth showing — Content Egg adds the products, whether or not cashback applies.
* Both, on your biggest merchants, where a shop page carrying product content is worth building by hand.

### Related

* [Tracking links](/shops-and-cashback-rates/tracking-links.md)
* [\[cashback-advertiser\]](/putting-it-on-your-pages/shortcodes/cashback-advertiser.md)
* [Cashback Tracker Integration](https://ce-docs.keywordrush.com/integrations/cashback-tracker-integration) in the Content Egg documentation