Amazon Niche - Best way to redirect those links?

[kentaiwan98]

I was building an Amazon Niche Site with Wordpress... and I'd like to hide the amazon URLs but it's pretty difficult;

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/XXXXXXXX?ie=UTF8&tag=dumbblogger-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=XXXXXXXX">Cool Product</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dumbblogger-20&l=as2&o=1&a=XXXXXXXX" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

I do use a cloaker on the back end. I'm guessing that the img src is a beacon of sorts... What I want to do is create a link... like this.

yourdomain.com/cool-product/ in my cloaker that redirects to the page...

1. Would that work?
2. Would I lose something not including the beacon?
3. Are there any other options for redirecting this Amazon Code?
4. Which options are more 'effective' at driving traffic?

Thanks,
Kenneth

[Shrinivas]

Hi,

If you want to redirect to just one products detaile page here is the code I use.

www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/XXXXXX/YYYYYY

where XXXXXX = ASIN or ISBN obtained from the product detail page
YYYYYY = Your Associate ID

With this you can create yourdomain.com/cool-product/ sort of link.

Hope this helps...

[kentaiwan98]

Thanks, I'm trying that as the solution. Seems to work nicely and the tag is kept nicely. Much easier than using their links.

Kenneth

[dcristo]

Is redirecting links to Amazon permitted in their TOS? I would love to be able to create the redirect in .htaccess for Amazon aff links, not entirely sure if it's allowed though.

[UMS]

Originally Posted by kentaiwan98

I was building an Amazon Niche Site with Wordpress... and I'd like to hide the amazon URLs but it's pretty difficult

Not difficult at all.

You just need the http portion from below

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/XXXXXXXX?ie=UTF8&tag=dumbblogger-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=XXXXXXXX">Cool Product</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=dumbblogger-20&l=as2&o=1&a=XXXXXXXX" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

ie:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/XXXXXXXX?ie=UTF8&tag=dumbblogger-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=XXXXXXXX"