Product Review Affiliate Marketing

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I've asked this before but with no response - I think it would help many:

Say I'm running a product review site and want to use my Affiliate Link when visitors click through to a site like Amazon so they are directed to a specific product on that page:

1) Do these URLs eventually expire, creating broken links?

2) Is there a way to take the product name and affiliate ID and create a dynamic link with the product name that will always "search" and "find" the correct product?

3) Do you have a script that takes care of this work? (wanna share :) )

Insight from anyone doing product review sites -> specific affiliate products would be greatly appreciated.
 


Amazon Products Feed

this one is popular but I want to have something like a plugin for wordpress or drupal
where I can write a review as I would write a normal article.
Then select the product I'm writing about on amazon and have a link and pic with my aff info added to the end.

Do you want something similar? let me know if find anything like this.
 
trigatch4 said:
2) Is there a way to take the product name and affiliate ID and create a dynamic link with the product name that will always "search" and "find" the correct product?

3) Do you have a script that takes care of this work? (wanna share :) )
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Yes - the easiest way is to link to actual Amazon searches for a product. Generate the code, look at the search term in the code and replace it with a token like *itemname* or something that you can set up to be replaced. I do it manually in the templates - so I just do a page wide search and replace, no scripts sorry (but someone probably knows different).

As for the main question - is Amazon worth the effort?

Hmmmm.... Tiny returns for me, I don't chase it at all. :)
 
Why use the search function when you can just deep link directly to the specifc product?

Yes, links expire sometimes - just part of the game.
 
Rob_TID said:
Why use the search function when you can just deep link directly to the specifc product?

Yes, links expire sometimes - just part of the game.
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Because then you have to find the ID Number for every item you want to add. I just find it quicker to link to the item by it's name than go and copy and paste the number into the link. It works fine for the way I do it on my blog but others may want to do more advanced things.
 
You're not seeing good returns on Amazon?

It's only like 5% of sale I believe and I don't think the cookie stays valid too long which isn't great. If it did, it would be wonderful to GET someone to amazon and then hope later on they did some xmas shopping (but i think it's a 24hr cookie).

using the "search string" and pulling out the part relating to your search and manually inserting the product name is actually a great idea. I suppose now I just have to decipher the URL!

I wish I had some sites based on electronics and retail... holiday isn't going to be great for me as it will be with so many others!
 
Well most of my pages I use that technique on are album reviews, so I just have tokens for *Artist *Album on the page and do a quick find and replace - like this:

Code: 
*Artist* at 
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=*Artist%20*Album&tag=##ID##&index=blended&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">Amazon.Com</a>
<img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=##ID##&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />
The only thing is you need to change any spaces to %20 to work. You can have two separate tokens to do that or add them manually. So, Madonna - Best Of would be Madonna%20Best%20Of

And yeah the cookie is only 24hrs - pitiful. :(
 
I've never seen much from Amazon aff marketing - of course I was't doing massive amounts of traffic, but it just never seemed to pay out like other aff programs. If you're just moving a ton of traffic, go ahead w/ Amazon, but if you worked hard for your traffic, I'd look for something a bit better if you have the opportunity.
 
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