I recently signed up as an associate of Amazon. I don’t know if it’s just me but I find their associate pages very confusing!
There doesn’t seem to be a way to make a feed that includes articles/books filtered for your keywords. If anyone knows how to do it please share with us! I’ve searched through the forum and haven’t found anything. The best that seems to be possible is to make a feed with their own selection of articles/books from broad categories. Even then I found it hard to sort out how to do it.
I’ve been using the free RSS Feed Reader to make feeds for some of my web sites. They recently introduced an Amazon associates feed which is super easy to use.
Making Your Feed
You’ll need a free subscription to their service before you can make a feed. Once you’ve signed up head over to the Amazon Associates feed page, add your associates id and choose the feed you would like. The selection includes books, magazines, toys, music , DVD’s, Video (VHS) and electronics.
There are many options for the content and you can customise the feed by changing the width, text color etc to suit your site. Click on the button at the bottom to obtain see your code. Copy either the Java Script or the PHP code.
Adding the Code to Your Site
To easily add the code to a wordpress blog (or other html page) copy the Java Script code, paste the code into your page (you’ll have to choose ‘code’ if you’re using a wysiwyg editor) and you’re done!
I’ve made a test page at computers & software book selection to show you the outcome.
Java script isn’t read by search engines so if you want to use the PHP option (which is) there’s a tutorial on how to do it here
See, I knew I subscribed to the right place!
I’m yet to add my associate stuff but I do love them dearly so I will and you’ve just added to the picture. Thank you! Much appreciated!
I would be curious to hear from you whether you think you are benefiting from this in a month or so. Do you plan on an update?
I’ll add the Amazon feed to some of my BANS sites and see how it goes. I’ll certainly report back!
on a slightly unrelated note, my friend was an amazon affiliate and he accidentally mispelled the name of a designer perfume on his site, but that ended up being his top selling item because other people were mispelling it too when searching for it. so he ended up getting the top result and making sales.
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thank for the mention
There _is_ an option there to get Amazon Affiliate keyword searches on your site. Look harder.
i’m their affiliate for quite sometime now, i find ebay is more effective as compared to amazon
what do you think?
ebay it is much better than amazon!
Hi essays and rumba
I agree with you rumba. I’ve put an Amazon bookstore on 6 BANS sites + link to an Astore for each and the Astore widget in the sidebars. In just over a week 0 clicks! kinda disapointing after all that work!
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good article. i will try out soon…
My experience with Amazon turns out to be earning nothing more than $20 over a period of 2 months. This may due to the fact that my audiences are mainly asians whom will prefer Ebay.