News!! Adding Amazon Associates Production Links As Well As Banners To Your Blog

This article shows the options for putting production links, banners, widgets together with page-links from Amazon into your blog-site.  

Overview

The short-lived integration betwixt Blogger together with Amazon.com, dorsum inward 2009-2010-ish, agency at that spot are a publish of ways to link your weblog together with Amazon - together with the tools that Amazon provides agency that at that spot are a broad attain of products y'all tin go exhibit together with functions your tin go render to your readers.

You powerfulness create this only to brand your weblog expect to a greater extent than interesting, or to brand coin yesteryear beingness an Amazon Associate together with recommending their products to your readers.

Basically, hence far inward Blogger's life at that spot accept been 4 options for putting a link to Amazon within your blog:

1. Use i of the Amazon widgets flora in Blogger's gadget menu.
   
2. Use the Amazon Product Finder that was available when you're using the Post Editor in Blogger  - but this is exclusively available if you've added it previously - y'all tin go no longer add together this to your blog, since Blogger / Amazon integration has ended.
   
3. Log inward to the appropriate Amazon site, honour the production that  you desire to link to, together with pick out "Link to this page", from the site-stripe at the overstep of the page.
   
4. Log on to the appropriate Amazon site's Associates page, together with usage either the Links & Banner, or Widgets tabs.

Options 1 nonetheless industrial plant - but y'all accept no way of linking the gadget to your Amazon Associates ID.  It lets y'all put:

• Amazon gadgets into whatever house that y'all tin go set a regular Blogger gadget (header, footer, sidebar, etc),
• Links to individual products from Amazon within Posts or Pages.

Option 2 is no longer available.

Options three together with 4:

• Can hold out used amongst any Amazon site (ie Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, etc), no affair what y'all did amongst Amazon previously.   
• Let y'all set the code into your blog inward the same way that you install whatever 3rd political party HTML into your blog.
• Give y'all the total code for their widgets (ie gadgets), hence y'all tin go put these gagdets into posts.    This is dissimilar gadget/widgets that y'all instruct from Blogger, which cannot hold out set into posts - at the 2d anyway.
• Can also hold out used if y'all desire to set Amazon links within other types of weblog or website that allow y'all to install your ain HTML/Javascript.

Further details for each of the options are listed below.

Option 1 - adding an Amazon gadget inward Blogger

• Go to  Design > Page Elements > Add a Gadget. 

• Choose i of the Amazon gadgets from the list.  (use the search item at the overstep of the listing of gadgets to only instruct Amazon ones).  

• When y'all accept configured the gadget (eg entered a title), press Save.  

• Then drag-and-drop the novel gadget to where y'all desire it to appear.

I strongly recommend exclusively selecting gadgets that tell "By Amazon.com" underneath their description (because I only don't trust 3rd political party gadgets).

Also, hold out careful that the gadget(s) y'all pick out don't conflict amongst whatever other tools that y'all accept - for example, inward y'all are using a Google Custom Search, i of the price together with atmospheric condition is that Google is the exclusively search provider on your site, together with this may hateful that y'all should non usage Amazon's search gadget.

Option 2 - using the Amazon Product Finder

This alternative is no longer available, because Amazon / Blogger integration is over.

Option 3: Using Amazon's Link to this Page

This gives y'all a real quick way to instruct the HTML y'all withdraw to set a product-link into your blog, which y'all tin go then put into your weblog inward the commons way.

It's particularly useful because it lets y'all link non exclusively to a product, but also to other pages, for example, together with upwards to appointment listing of Amazon sellers who are currently providing a exceptional production - Example of a link to used copes of HTML Dog's XHTML / CSS guide.

See Amazon's article explaining the site stripe for to a greater extent than data virtually this.

Also, if y'all usage widgets, retrieve that it's slowly to change the tracking-code that they are associated with, without having to re-generate the widget.

Option 4: Using Amazon's ain code builder

If y'all instruct to the Affiliates page on the Amazon that y'all accept signed upwards for, at that spot are a publish of ways (top menu, sidebar) to instruct into their code edifice tools.

These tools are fairly intuitive to use:  choose the options y'all want, re-create the code, and install it into your blog.

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Related Articles:

Amazon Integration is amongst Amazon.com

Putting HTML from 3rd parties (like Amazon) into your blog

Changing the Look of Amazon Associates advertisements

Changing the tracking code for an Amazon Associated widget

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