Creating Quick Amazon Links

[torontocarol]

I'm not sure if this will be helpful to anyone else, or if I'm the only one who finds myself technically challenged when it comes to adding specific Amazon links to posts on my Wordpress blog.

Here's my non-techie solution: Start a Blogger blog and under the Monetize tab, click the Amazon Associates tab. Insert your affiliate id or sign up with Amazon if you don't have one yet. Then make sure you check the box that says "Enable the Amazon Product Finder for the Blogger Editor".

What this does is add a little box beside your posts that allows you to search by keyword for products. A list of products will come up, choose one and click "link and image" and the ad you want will appear in your post. From there, click the html tag and copy the code. Go to your Wordpress post and paste it in. (Don't publish the Blogger post).

Done. Much quicker than my directions make it sound.

Carol

[Kayla Fay]

Hey cool!!

[Kimmoy]

So if I'm learning this stuff correctly, you can actually publish the post on your Blogger blog and link it to your main blog to generate backlinks yes?

[gailjrichardson]

Carol, I am going to do this right now this is very cool. One question just for educational purposes..Why do you not publish the blogger post? Thanks for the great tip. I hope you make it home OK. It was great meeting your daughter and mother.
Gail

[wade_watson]

Here's another way I ran across just the other day. You simply make a custom RSS feed of an Amazon search with your customer number at the end. If you feed it to your feed reader (like Google Reader) it will show you entries and all links will have your number in them already. Or you could just bring up the link in your browser and change the keyword as needed. You could even use an RSS posting plugin (like FeedWordPress) to feed entries directly into your blog. I don't advise that, though, since your links would not be cloaked.

Here's an example:
http://www.amazon.com/rss/tag/bobble/new/?tag=yourusername

You just make sure it ends with the "?tag=" followed by your Associate name.

This page at Amazon explains more:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/tagging/rss-help.html

Wade Watson

[torontocarol]

Hi Gail,
I don't usually do a blogger post for this since all I did was find a product from Amazon using their keyword tool. So there was no post involved, I'm just using it to get the html code so I can copy and paste it to Wordpress. I do update my Blogger blog regularly as well, this tip is just so I can get the Amazon code I need when I do a Wordpress post and want to add an Amazon product to it.

As for the RSS Wade, my eyes glaze over when I think about learning it.

Kimmoy, as mentioned, I'm not linking here, I'm just using it as a short cut to find a product by keyword and getting the html code for it plus my affiliate link without having to do a lot of searching around. If my Blogger blog and main one were related, yes, I could do a post on Blogger that linked to the main one to get a link.