Amazon Associate?

[Andrew Michaels]

Anyone an Amazon associate? I want to create a text link for my site that will take a reader directly to the product's detail page. All of the links they seem to want to create for me seem to be blocks. I just want the individual word to be the link, and yet the text link option does not seem to produce this.

Anyone know what I have to do?

Thanks.

[trevord92]

Hi

In your Associates panel, choose the "Build Links" option, then "Text Links", then "Link to Any Page at Amazon"

Paste in the link, type in the text you want, click "Get HTML" and then copy the ugly code that they give you into your page.

Trevor

[Andrew Michaels]

I tried that, but when I went into wordpress, selected the phrase I wanted become the link, clicked on the link icon, and inserted the HTML that amazon had given me, it gives me a link which brings me to an error message. This one. Can I not insert it that way?

What do I need to do?

[Dating Specialist]

You need to copy that code, click on the "HTML" button in your WYSIWYG editor where you are writing your post, and paste it inside.

You can't paste it inside the text box where you type the post itself. I'm using Wordpress on my domain too, and you will get the link that looks like this one.

[Andrew Michaels]

Got it! Thanks a bunch.

[Dating Specialist]

You're welcome! Glad it works

[Isis Kali]

Has anyone actually had luck with this program, or with building one of their affiliate shops?

[trevord92]

I've made some dollars with Amazon, usually by presenting their targeted links on various web sites. I've not tried an Amazon "store" yet.

Books/CDs are quite low payout as the percentage is necessarily low and the sale price is also low.

But remember that Amazon also sell a wide range of other products so you're not limited to books. They also have an option called "Omakase links" which works on a mixture of your site and the user's profile. Using the Omakase option saves time in creating the links as in theory they should be the best performing. I haven't got enough data to comment but again I'm experimenting.

If you have a good techie around, then check out Jaap's Amazon Scripts for some free scripts that allow you to closely control the results that are displayed.

Hope this helps,

Trevor

[MartialDev]

Originally Posted by trevord92

But remember that Amazon also sell a wide range of other products so you're not limited to books. They also have an option called "Omakase links" which works on a mixture of your site and the user's profile. Using the Omakase option saves time in creating the links as in theory they should be the best performing. I haven't got enough data to comment but again I'm experimenting.

I have found the Omakase products to be poorly targeted. It only takes a few seconds longer to select a specific, appropriate product or category.

[trevord92]

I agree with you on Omakase links to an extent but apparently they're supposed to take into account both the site subject matter and the user's preferences. That seems to be the case - I get different results on the same site depending on whether or not I've cleared my Amazon cookies. No cookies give me links targeted to the site. Leaving previous cookies brings in a weird mix of products I've recently been researching for advert links together with targeted links.

Whether that is good or bad for sales, I've no idea!

Trevor

[beatnix]

Is anyone using Associate-O-Matic?

[Gene]

No, I have never seen the Associate-O-Matic site before. Now I m curious about how it works for people who purchase the full version of the product.