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They've made available a little snippet for Firefox users who want to easily create bit.ly links to Amazon.
NB: You have to be in the Amazon Associates control panel to use this ie. it won't work with the Amazon sitebar
Thanks to @werner for mentioning it on Twitter
The latest beta release of Associate-o-matic includes a new feature that should be of interest to Wordpress users - a Wordpress plugin.
Full details of how the plugin will work haven't been finalised, but it maybe worth keeping an eye open for the final release when it comes in a few weeks time.
Full details of how the plugin will work haven't been finalised, but it maybe worth keeping an eye open for the final release when it comes in a few weeks time.
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As you browse the Amazon site you can easily link to any product you see without having to mess about with the Amazon Associates section:
The Associates Site Stripe lets you build your Associates links right from the Amazon page itself. The Site Stripe will appear at the top of every Amazon page and provides quick and easy access for building links, adding products to your aStore and even seeing your reports. The Associates Site Stripe is a convenient alternative to using some of the Associate Central linking and reporting tools.It looks like this:
I haven't had much time to play with it, but it looks like it could be a really useful weapon in an affiliate's arsenal
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As of October 14 2008 the "context links" system will be retired.
The context links system seemed like a good idea, but it probably didn't work as well in reality as it did in theory.
In case you're wondering what they were:
There's still plenty of other link methods available, so it's no great loss!
Context Links - You create the content. We'll link it. Context Links are a quick and convenient way to add links to your page and help you monetize your content. Context Links automatically identify and link relevant phrases within your page content to Amazon products
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Amazon, in common with a lot of big ecommerce site, makes use of RSS for a number of things including lists of top sellers. In case you didn't spot the post over on their official affiliate blog, you can easily generate RSS for any category AND add your affiliate ID.The RSS feed includes the title of the item and very little else (there might be "thicker" versions available if you go digging, but I haven't found them yet), so it would be quite easy to grab a feed and integrate it with pretty much any sort of site you want. Adding some basic styling etc., and you've got a nice little top list.
Amazon UK's DVD rental business has been taken over by a 3rd party (LoveFilm), so the DVD rental referrals will no longer be part of the affiliate program as of today, May 20th 2008.
If you're an Amazon affiliate with US traffic then you'll be interested to know that they've added yet another widget to their arsenal - the Mp3 widget.
It's a Flash based player which targets their growing selection of audio.
Here's a sample:
Amazon has been adding lots of "widgets" for its affiliates over the last year. The latest "toy" they've added is called the carousel.
If you frequent the "my amazon" part of Amazon US you're probably already familiar with the format
It's available in both horizontal and vertical versions and has a couple of other features that are definitely worth mentioning.
Custom products - build up a selection of products based on searching the Amazon catalogue
Update existing widgets without changing the code
Easy integration with most blogging platforms
Here's one I did up which took me about a minute:
It's not everyday that a merchant announces a significant increase in their payout levels, however IWOOT's latest announcement does just that.In what could best be described as a bold move the UK gadget shop emailed their affiliates earlier today to announce that they intended to take on their competition headon by increasing commissions across the board to an impressive 13% flat rate. Amazon, which was one of the first companies to offer an affiliate solution, for example, offers a flat rate of 4% or scaling commission system with an upper limit of 8.5%.
The new commission structure comes into play on April 1st.
Associate-o-Matic version 4.0.0 has been released.
The software makes use of Amazon's web service to offer Amazon affiliates custom shops on their own sites including shopping carts and a growing range of features.
The software supports Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de and Amazon.fr and runs on Php4 or php 5 with mod_rewrite
This is the first release of 2008:
The software makes use of Amazon's web service to offer Amazon affiliates custom shops on their own sites including shopping carts and a growing range of features.
The software supports Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de and Amazon.fr and runs on Php4 or php 5 with mod_rewrite
This is the first release of 2008:
New Admin Features
• Simplified, Tabbed Control Panel
• Backup Restore - each time you save, a backup of current settings is made and can be restored
• Reset Login - must be logged in
• New Setting: Cache Lifetime - control how many hours your pages are cached (default 24)
• New Setting: Display Availability - toggle display on home/item/category pages
• New Setting: Display Category - toggle display on home/item/category pages (e.g. Category: Books)
• New Setting: Display Date - toggle display on home/item/category pages (release dates)
• New Setting: Display Shipping - toggle display on home/item/category pages (item shipping details)
• New Setting: Images - view buttons/icons currently used in your store
• New Setting: Mini Cart Box - shows shopping cart details
• New Setting: Rating Filter - only show reviews with rating equal to or above your threshold
• New Setting: Rating Style - choose rating style icon image set (several choices)
• New Setting: Review Filter - filter reviews based on words you specify
• Enhanced Setting: Display Asins - now toggle on home/item/category pages
• Enhanced Setting: Display Ratings - now toggle on home/item/category pages
• Enhanced Setting: Display Sales Rank - now toggle on home/item/category pages
• Enhanced Setting: Information Box - now in Subcategories section - specify Target for links
• Default browse nodes updated
• Enhanced cache statistics
• Advanced settings moved to the Site and Amazon sections
• Settings automatically saved as you click navigation Tabs
• Images folder added - all images now located in the /aom/images folder
• Various other smaller improvements
New Store Features
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Newly added Amazon categories:
- Kindle Store (US) direct buy buttons to Amazon only
- MP3 Downloads (US) direct buy buttons to Amazon only
- Apparel (UK)
- Baby (UK)
- Apparel (DE)
- Kitchen (FR)
- Jewelry & Watches (FR)
• Mini Cart Box - can be customized further by editing the /aom/cfg.minicart.php file directly
• New Location for Custom Boxes and MiniCartBox - C1 for top section of Category Pages
• Expanded item image sets/views
• Various other smaller improvements
Bugs Squashed
• AOM-generated content passes W3C validation
• Rounded tab gap fixed... finally... we hope... crossing fingers... :)
• A few mod_rewrite bugs fixed
• Various other smaller fixes
Amazon have just introduced a new range of affiliate toys - widgets!
You can read more about them on their official blog
The widgets are very easy to assemble, so they're perfect for less technical users
You can read more about them on their official blog
The widgets are very easy to assemble, so they're perfect for less technical users
It's that time of the month again!
Amazon US affiliates are currently being paid, so the others will probably payout within the next couple of days.
Amazon US affiliates are currently being paid, so the others will probably payout within the next couple of days.
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