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Amazon plugin

by Goatboy
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I'm setting up a site that I want to run as an Amazon affiliate and I'm curious to know what everyone's opinion is on the best Wordpress plugin for handling the affiliate links. (This is my first foray into the affiliate stuff and I want to make the transition as easy as possible.)

I found one plugin called "Booklinker" that is supposed to handle affiliate links from others besides Amazon (Powells and IndieBooks). Anyone worked with these other affiliate programs? Are they worth my looking into or should I just stick with Amazon for now?

Is it necessary to cloak my affiliate link for Amazon and if so why?
#amazon #plugin
  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    hello,

    You could try phpzon from phpBay Pro - Ebay Affiliate Program Software for Wordpress I am looking at this script but the api version. It runs very well with Wordpress from what I can see.

    If your going to hit amazon try ebay also and have a price comparison that seems to be working well at the moment.

    Good luck

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  • Profile picture of the author Goatboy
    Thanks, Danny. I had considered doing some kind of price comparison but not to eBay. I'll have to see if it will work out.
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  • Profile picture of the author JonMills
    Originally Posted by Goatboy View Post

    I'm setting up a site that I want to run as an Amazon affiliate and I'm curious to know what everyone's opinion is on the best Wordpress plugin for handling the affiliate links. (This is my first foray into the affiliate stuff and I want to make the transition as easy as possible.)

    I found one plugin called "Booklinker" that is supposed to handle affiliate links from others besides Amazon (Powells and IndieBooks). Anyone worked with these other affiliate programs? Are they worth my looking into or should I just stick with Amazon for now?

    Is it necessary to cloak my affiliate link for Amazon and if so why?
    Have you tried this one? WordPress › Amazon Showcase Wordpress Plugin WordPress Plugins
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  • Profile picture of the author Goatboy
    I haven't seen that one yet. The problem I'm having is that there are so many I can't figure our which ones are going to be the most useful.
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    Well I as I said previous thats the one I use you can see how the ebay one works by looking at my sig for the cars site.

    It works well on the eye and in the wallet if you know what I mean!

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  • Profile picture of the author Shannon Herod
    Originally Posted by Goatboy View Post

    I'm setting up a site that I want to run as an Amazon affiliate and I'm curious to know what everyone's opinion is on the best Wordpress plugin for handling the affiliate links. (This is my first foray into the affiliate stuff and I want to make the transition as easy as possible.)

    I found one plugin called "Booklinker" that is supposed to handle affiliate links from others besides Amazon (Powells and IndieBooks). Anyone worked with these other affiliate programs? Are they worth my looking into or should I just stick with Amazon for now?

    Is it necessary to cloak my affiliate link for Amazon and if so why?

    I have not used the plugin you are talking about, but I do know there are a ton of options out there. Here are a couple that are in the WSO forum...

    http://www.warriorforum.com/search.php?searchid=1977593

    Talk soon,

    Shannon
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  • Profile picture of the author TruWebPro
    If you would like to see what the Amazon A Store looks like on a couple of sites you can check the listing linked in my sig.

    Cheers,
    Neil
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    • Profile picture of the author SteveSch
      For another example, the HDTV Super Store on my site above is also an Astore.

      Nice sites Neil.

      Steve

      Originally Posted by TruWebPro View Post

      If you would like to see what the Amazon A Store looks like on a couple of sites you can check the listing linked in my sig.

      Cheers,
      Neil
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      • Profile picture of the author TruWebPro
        Originally Posted by SteveSch View Post

        For another example, the HDTV Super Store on my site above is also an Astore.

        Nice sites Neil.

        Steve
        Much appreciated, Steve.
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  • Profile picture of the author Goatboy
    I have considered the A store route, but I am wondering if there is any product liability for me and how I would go about handling it? If someone buys something through the A store and either doesn't like it or it breaks how much liability do I have. Will they contact me with problems or Amazon?
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    • Profile picture of the author SteveSch
      The customer is directed to Amazon to buy and pay. Having bought through Amazon I would guess that they would receive the same messages, and emails, and have to accept the same terms, when they pay. The sales pages and emails cover returns and terms of sale info. Like most places you have to accept the payment terms to make the purchase.

      As a test. You could always go to my site and buy a really nice large screen TV and after you're done, let us all know. :rolleyes:

      I'm sure that returns and problems are handled through Amazon. The Astore appears to store more product info on my local pages whereas the plugins seem to redirect to Amazon sooner. I say appears because the Astore really doesn't actually store anything on my site. At my site the postings, which are stored on my site, are using the Amazon Autoposter plugin, like I mentioned earlier. The HDTV Super Store is the Astore.

      Go click on a few different things, posts and in the Astore, and you will see all of them eventually end up at Amazon's site. There's no PPC so there is no chance of click fraud. Feel free to check it out.

      Can't imagine any difference in liability, or support, between the two.

      The HDTV Super Store may have the name changed. It will still be named XXXX Super Store and have it's own link at the top of the site.

      Just my opinion,
      Steve

      Originally Posted by Goatboy View Post

      I have considered the A store route, but I am wondering if there is any product liability for me and how I would go about handling it? If someone buys something through the A store and either doesn't like it or it breaks how much liability do I have. Will they contact me with problems or Amazon?
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      • Profile picture of the author XRay
        I've been running the free version of WP - Amazon Autoposter on amazon affiliate blogs. If you decide to use this plugin here are a few pointers based on my personal experience:

        1. even though you add published posts from plugin settings, it's better to add your posts as drafts. This will allow you rewrite or create text for your posts, create more SEO friendly post titles & URLs, refine your tags and to delete any anchor text links that Autoposter may add (every now & then there's a random anchor text link added to my post).

        2. rewrite or create post text. The plugin pulls product descriptions & images from Amazon to post as is on your blog. Sometimes there is no product description (and that's what gets posted). Even though it can be tedious at times, I always revise or create the description for SEO purposes. I place my primary keyword as an anchor text link (to your site's homepage or to a relevant sub-page) at or near the beginning of the post. Add a call to action linked to the product page at the end and add your URL at the bottom of the post.

        3. rewrite the post title & URL. The titles/urls created by the plugin can be pretty long, so I rewrite them to be more SEO friendly.

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  • Profile picture of the author Goatboy
    What I've been doing is going to the Amazon Associate "Banners and Links" page and making links for each product. Then I just paste the link script into my blog post and add my own text. The big problem I'm having with that is that I can't figure out how to get the text to wrap around the Amazon Link. So I end up with a real nice link with a whole lot of white space to the right and all of my blog post underneath it.

    I may try that A store route with a new site that I'm getting ready to set up.
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    • Profile picture of the author Radix
      ReviewAZON and WP Robot with the Amazon pack work really well for me.

      Robot can be a little quirky and takes some getting used to, but runs like a...well like a robot once you get the hang of it. I have a site I built three months ago that has close to 3000 products listed. Google digs it if you use a tweet this plugin as well. It's a terrible site, but gets well over 300 uniques a day and I spent maybe 3-4 hours setting the site up. It does make sales as well.

      ReviewAZON is more my style. The posts look better and you can configure the appearance precisely. I like to hand pick products for some sites and you can't do that with robot, but you can with this. Plus it loads reviews based on your specs...as in you can cherry pick reviews. It's pretty awesome actually. I can send you links to sites I've used both on so you can see the difference.
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    • Profile picture of the author gcintermed
      Originally Posted by Goatboy View Post

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      I may try that A store route with a new site that I'm getting ready to set up.
      Nothing beats A-Store for combined simplicity and good appearance. Let's face it, the people at Amazon know a thing or two about online merchandising, so I like to piggyback on their expertise and development.

      My biggest problem is that the A-Store works inside an i-frame. I am not an SEO expert, but it seems the product pages are not part of your site, cannot be used as landing pages, and add no value to your rank in Google. Unless, I am missing something? Anyone?
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  • Profile picture of the author Goatboy
    Perfect, Radix. That's exactly the way I want to wrap my posts. That's with ReviewAzon?
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