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Amazon Niche - Best way to redirect those links?

by kentaiwan98
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I was building an Amazon Niche Site with Wordpress... and I'd like to hide the amazon URLs but it's pretty difficult;

HTML Code:
<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
#amazon #links #niche #redirect
  • Profile picture of the author 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...
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    Originally Posted by kentaiwan98 View Post

    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

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