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Cleaner Amazon Links

by Eager2SEO
7 replies
I was looking at my sites and honestly some of those long links look spammy and would intimidate me to click if I didn't know better. I generate my links programatically but you can edit links manually as well. I believe an Amazon affiliate tag can be factored down to this format and work fine:
Code:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001ULBP8E?tag=affiliateid
B001ULBP8E = Placeholder for any ASIN product code. (I used a specific example of a TV).

I think all the other information is superfluous.

The next best thing would be a redirect to a page on your blog with a few lines of php.
#amazon #cleaner #links
  • Profile picture of the author getsmartt
    Originally Posted by Eager2SEO View Post

    I was looking at my sites and honestly some of those long links look spammy and would intimidate me to click if I didn't know better. I generate my links programatically but you can edit links manually as well. I believe an Amazon affiliate tag can be factored down to this format and work fine:
    Code:
    http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001ULBP8E?tag=affiliateid
    B001ULBP8E = Placeholder for any ASIN product code. (I used a specific example of a TV).
    It can actually be a bit shorter by replacing tag= with t= Amazon accepts either one

    I think all the other information is superfluous.

    The next best thing would be a redirect to a page on your blog with a few lines of php.
    Or you can use a script like mine to generate pages on the fly

    example:

    Samsung UN55C7000 55-Inch 1080p 240 Hz 3D LED HDTV (Black)

    Code:
    http://smarttandeasy.com/2/
    is hard coded for a Samsung 3D Television

    But if I wanted to feature your example product I could simply do this:

    Samsung LN46B650 46-Inch

    Code:
    http://smarttandeasy.com/2/Samsung%20LN46B650%2046-Inch/a/B001ULBP8E
    Now I have a page for the above mentioned Samsung HDTV.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Ward
    getsmartt, do you have a way to localize your links for the visitors, IE to amazon.ca/uk/etc? There's a wordpress plugin (and javascript, I think) to do this but I don't think it works unless you have bare Amazon links.
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    • Profile picture of the author getsmartt
      Matt, localization would only work if you actually had an amazon affiliate account for each amazon location. I would rather let the script owners target the location themselves.

      Although it may be interesting to add a link to the other amazon locations...
      hmmm, maybe I'll ad in an option to show the flags of the other locations and redirect to that version of the page.

      Thanks for the idea... more work for me

      Originally Posted by mattward View Post

      getsmartt, do you have a way to localize your links for the visitors, IE to amazon.ca/uk/etc? There's a wordpress plugin (and javascript, I think) to do this but I don't think it works unless you have bare Amazon links.
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  • Profile picture of the author Zeus66
    Just do a simple PHP redirect from a page on your site to your aff. link at Amazon.

    HTML Code:
    <?php
header( 'location: http://YOUR_AMAZON_AFF_LINK' ) ;
?>
    Create a web page on your server inside a folder called 'recommends' or 'goto' or something along those lines. Name the page inside that folder 'productname.php' (replace productname with the actual product name) and put the code above in the source of that page. Nothing else. Now the link you show your site visitors will look like this:

    HTML Code:
    http://yoursite.com/recommends/productname.php
    It will instantaneously redirect to Amazon with your aff. link intact.

    John
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben Holmes
    If you're using Wordpress... you can't go wrong with 'Prettylink'.

    In my opinion, it's one of the best plugins ever created for Wordpress... hiding your affiliate links, AND giving you stats on how many times someone clicked on it.

    That one plugin makes Wordpress worth using...
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  • Profile picture of the author rapsolo
    Just simply follow the post above by Zeuss66. It cannot be simply and easier than that.

    Rapheal.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vincenzo Oliva
    Without any affiliate promo I highly recommend Max Blog Press's "Ninja Affilate" plugin.
    It's a worth while investment for cloaking all your links and creating anchor text in a snap.
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