Amazon

The Web is incomprehensibly large and growing exponentially, and any site can be linked to any other site. There are no barriers; your choice of where to link is unlimited. Amazon is trying to tip the scales by paying you for linking to them! It's...

By paying site owners 2.5-15% of qualifying item sales that are referred through those sites (called referral fees), Amazon has encouraged hundreds of thousands of independent site owners to send potential customers to Amazon. People are usin...

You can't just place your associate tag anywhere in any Amazon URL to get credit for sending visitors. Amazon's servers expect specific URL formats with your associate tag in specific parts of the URL. Once you know the URL patterns, you'll be ab...

All it takes is a standard HTML form that's been modified to include your associate tag and the product's ASIN. 60.1 Add to Cart Button The goal in sending visitors to Amazon through an associate link is getting them to add items to their ...

Instead, you can include buttons on your site that will open a new, smaller window that your visitors can use to buy items. This keeps your site in the background so it's easy for your visitors to return. Amazon has a ready-made system for this...

Amazon has dozens of premade buttons and banners you can add to your site (http://www.amazon.com/assoc-art). You can save any of the images locally, and then build an appropriate associate link [Hack #59] to Amazon for the banner. For example,...

There are several subject areas and product categories that they may be interested in: books of photographs, magazines about photography, and digital cameras. Setting a single recommended product banner for books with photographs would be fine, bu...

com is type a word or two into their search form and try to find a specific book or subject. You can speed up this process as a convenience to your visitors by placing an Amazon search box directly on your site. It also makes a good starting point...

2, it's possible to keep your visitors on your site while letting them search Amazon.com. Beyond controlling the look, feel, and experience of your site, this also allows you to point to individual product detail pages in the subject areas your v...

com (http://www.associatesshop.com/). The idea is very simple: you provide a store title, your Amazon associate tag, and a product keyword, and AssociatesShop queries Amazon via its API and builds a store full of products based on that keyword. I...

Though revenue from affiliate fees for an individual site is small, many small contributors working together can generate contributions that add up. GiveQuick (http://givequick.org/) is an organization devoted to aggregating affiliate fees for...

You can take things a step further by adding your own reviews along with each listing to give more context to each choice. If you're not familiar with web development, this can be a time-consuming process. Writing a review on Amazon is very sim...

That's the thinking behind Movable Type's plug-in system, and MTAmazon is a plug-in that can do much of the integration work for you. Amazon.com product links, wish lists, and more can be automatically inserted into web sites managed by Movable...

blosxom.com) is a full-featured weblog authoring tool written in a single Perl script. Its simplicity belies its many capabilities, and one of these is a plug-in interface that allows other developers to add features easily. Blosxom is popular am...

You could turn some of this web real estate into a money-maker with associate links. But who has time to find the top products in a given category, copy the URLs to the product detail pages, and place them all in order on your site? That's what a...

They appropriately call these alternate formats Amazon Anywhere [Hack #7]. Of course these formats are also connected to the associates program, so you can collect referral fees by driving traffic to them. Linking to Amazon Anywhere entry pages...

Amazon provides the reporting tools, but it's up to you to come up with a system of measuring your results and using that data to fine-tune your site. To get started with the reporting tool, log into your associate account (http://associates.am...

It can provide insights into other items you might want to sell, and can illustrate what's foremost on their minds (for better or worse). Just as Amazon shares its aggregated sales information in the form of purchase circles, you can create your o...

If you're new to the program, here are a few tips to get you started. Use only URL formats prescribed by Amazon. Though all of the URL patterns [Hack #59] mentioned in this chapter are known to work with the associates program at printing time, ...