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Amazon Kills Off Context Links

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Amazon are always introducing new and interesting ways to hook into their content, however obviously not all methods work as well as others.

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:

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


There's still plenty of other link methods available, so it's no great loss!

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Text ads are no longer the exclusive realm of Google and their adsense program.

Over the last few years several companies have launched alternative solutions to adsense.

One of the latest to go into beta is NetKlix

The system won't be launching until the second week of July, but you can sign up now as a publisher and get a 20 euro bonus. Payout level is set at 60 euro.
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I mentioned the introduction of Tradedoubler's new contextual ads a few weeks ago. At the time I didn't realise that they had catered for Google Adsense publishers, so I mentioned that you wouldn't be able to use Admatch alongside Adsense.

On further investigation it transpires that you can run the two simultaneously if you turn of the contextual code.

Simply login to Tradedoubler's control panel and go to create an ad using Admatch. There's an "advanced settings" section that you can select. Once in there turn off "automatic keywords" and set your own keywords.

It's not dissimilar to Chitika's non-contextual option
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Earlier today European affiliate network Tradedoubler announced the launch of "AdMatch", which is their new contextual advertising product.


AdMatch scans the content of your webpage and then serves the most relevant ads from advertisers you've applied to. This better targets your audience, keeps your ads updated and fresh and drives performance

The solution offers three types of ad:
  • Text link ad - similar to Google Adsense et al
  • Product Ads a bit like Chitika
  • Image ads
Since it is contextual you won't be able to use it alongside Adsense

Over the past couple of weeks Google Adsense has been rolling out a new option to users which allows you to specify which sites/ domains are allowed to publish ads using your code.

It wasn't very clear initially what was intended by this, but the Adsense Blog has provided some level of clarification

It's still not 100% clear if publishers will run into issues if they fail to make use of the new option.

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