How do you turn your Amazon links into text links?

Pretty Link is a free plugin that will do the same thing.

just use simple html to create a link with anchor text of whatever you want and have it goto the amazon link. For example..

That would be a text link that says "Click Here" ( no quotes ) and when clicked would take the user to the address linked to - example..... Click Here

Just use your amazon link as the url and change "Click Here" to whatever you want the text to say that will be clickable, for example the product name or model.

ErnieB's suggestion is by far the easiest and least prone to prblems although I might suggest to use the title of the product instead of simply Click Here in the text link.

Mike Tansey

amazon has a link to any page function that will solve your promblem. if you just want to shorten it use gocodes

Yeah, I was under the impression the OP was after a cloaking/URL shortening plug-in. Amazon lets you structure your links with custom anchor text from the Associates Toolbar.

Do what Ernie said. That is what we do. Simple. You can also leave the img tag in place, as given by amazon. This way you can track impressions.

Just have amazon give you a plain text link and change anchor text any way you like!

first make a directory on your server call it something like "go" or "links" or whatever

then put a file in there for each link like "product1name.php" then put a php redirect in the php file like
then another file for the next product and so on and so on

then when you want to link to that specific link just do like
that will give you a nice clean link to use and no one will see your amazone affiliate link in the status bar


OR you could call the directory soemthing like /product name and then put the rerect in a file called index.php. doing this way you would simply link to mydomain.com/product1. or make /go/product1/ and put the index file in there... or whatever you get the idea


THEN... you can also disallow crawl access to the redirecting directory by adding something like
to your robots.txt doing this will tell search engines not to crawl/index any files in the /go/ directory and thus will save "crawl budget" for the rest of your site


IMO this is the easiest way to do it

create an email link and you'll get text version.