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Adding price to Amazon Associates text links

by steveorg
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I do not see a way to add the price to Amazon Associates text links. Am I missing something?

I'd like to display something like this: Thingamajig Name Price: $199.99

Thanks for any suggestions on how to achieve this.
#adding #amazon #associates #links #price #text
  • Profile picture of the author nizamkhan
    You can make "Thingamajig Name Price: $199.99" as the anchor text for the link.

    Like this:

    < a href ="LINK" > Thingamajig Name Price: $199.99 </a>


    If you want to make the link "nofollow", then it will be like this:

    < a href ="LINK" rel="nofollow" > Thingamajig Name Price: $199.99 </a>


    If you want to open the link in a new tab and also want to make it nofollow, it will be like this:

    < a href ="LINK" target="_blank" > Thingamajig Name Price: $199.99 </a>


    Note: I've given spaces in the closing and ending anchor tags, so that HTML doesn't gets rendered.


    Hope it helps

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  • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
    I advise you NOT to follow the advice above. Amazon have very specific rules if you display prices:

    (o) You will include a date/time stamp adjacent to your display of pricing or availability information on your application if you obtain Product Advertising Content from a Data Feed, or if you call the Product Advertising API or refresh the Product Advertising Content displayed on your application less frequently than hourly. However, during the same day on which you requested and refreshed the pricing and availability information displayed on your application, you may omit the date portion of the stamp. Examples of acceptable messaging include:
    • Amazon.com Price: $32.77 (as of 01/07/2008 14:11 PST - Details)
    • Amazon.com Price: $32.77 (as of 14:11 PST - More info)
    Additionally, you must either include the following disclaimer adjacent to the pricing or availability information or provide it via a hyperlink, popup box, scripted popup, or other similar method: "Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product." In the above examples, "Details" and "More info" would provide a method for the end user to read the disclaimer.

    If you do not comply, you will be in violation of Amazon's Product Advertising API License Agreement.
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    • Profile picture of the author steveorg
      Thanks nizamkhan and AnniePot. I see that I may have not phrased my original post correctly. I would want the price to be updated dynamically to the current price, so modifying the basic text link is not a viable approach.

      The Amazon code for links with graphics includes price, so I'm hoping that there's a stripped down version of this code available.

      Spiral Scripts provides a Joomla plugin that does the trick, but without Joomla I can't use it.
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