How do you turn your Amazon links into text links?

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Amazon has those long ugly Affiliate links. I want to put text links in my posts.

I know Maxblog press has a plugin but it's $97(USD). I cannot justify spending that for 5 posts.


Any tips?

Thanks.
#main internet marketing discussion forum #amazon #links #text #turn
  • 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..

    Code:
     <a href="http://www.longamazonuglydestinationlink.com">Click Here</a>
    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.
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    • Yep, this is the way I've known it to always work! Simple.

  • 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
    Code:
    <html>
<?php
header('Location: http://www....');
?>
</html>
    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
    Code:
    <a href="http://www.mydomain.com/go/productname1.php" rel="no follow">click here</a">
    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
    Code:
    User-agent: *
Disallow: /go/
    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.
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