Amazon ads straight into Wordpress

Heartandsoul

Heartandsoul

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Hi,

I have recently begun teaching myself wordpress and in the last few weeks since beginning I have become absorbed with learning wordpress, SEO and affiliate marketing. This forum has been super helpful, which I am really grateful for... But now I have my first question:

I would like to know how to insert amazon ads straight into my wordpress post please? I have an affiliate account and my code already.

Right now, I would like to insert the code seamlessly into a sentence with a follow through link but I am having no joy. So far html code is foreign to me so have been relying mostly on plugins.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Oh also... what is this trackback function for please? Should I be entering my website and if so why?
 


Fantastic thank you.... I had already tried that 3 times and it never worked. But thought I would try one more time before I came back again. I noticed near the start of the code was a http... All I had to take off the first few symbols of the code amazon had given and I was left with a link! Seems obvious I'm sure lol. It works now.

Til next time ;-)
 
Okay now i know what your problem was.
Okay lets say you want to link to site.
Klick the "link to this page" then a popup will open
klick on "text only"
and then there is something like
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1452105049/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1452105049&linkCode=as2&tag=TRACKINGIDl-20">The Startup Playbook: Secrets of the Fastest-Growing Startups from their Founding Entrepreneurs</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=httpthedresal-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1452105049" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />
Just copy the first part
htt p://ww w.amazon.com/gp/product...TRACKINGID-20



Plember
 
Perfect, I love this site.. Thanks Plember!

Also when I post a thread in the future, what is the trackback link box for? Do I put my website/s in? or is it for something else?
 
For future reference you may want to put this in the newbie section so you don't get flamed. But since you are actually DOING and asking a legit (though very basic question) this is a legit answer.

If you are using Wordpress there's a LOT of different ways to put Amazon products into your site.

It sounds like you are embedding just one link in a block of text - which is a smart way to do it. You can automate that with a free plugin called "SEO Auto Linker". You specify any word(s) you want replaced with your Amazon link. That's a pretty simple one to learn.

There are many more complicated ones though - just go to the WP plugins site and search for "Amazon".

You may also want to look into PHP redirects for affiliate links. Google gives no love to uncloaked ones.
 
I will definitely check out the amazon plugins and find the best one for me..

I just googled cloaking a link.. Is it enough simply to put it under some anchor text? That is what I have done so far... Or does the code that comes up when you 'inspect element' need to be changed as well?

Yes I will definitely post in the newbie section until my questions are much less basic. I have been learning from scratch so don't know all the terms yet, I'm learning quickly and really proud of what I've done so far. Thank you for all your help!

:)
 
What is this sorcery I am seeing here? Someone asking for help on WF and receiving multiple legit responses? I even clicked several links expecting a dickroll but got a whole bunch of nope.
 
Heartandsoul said:
I will definitely check out the amazon plugins and find the best one for me..

I just googled cloaking a link.. Is it enough simply to put it under some anchor text? That is what I have done so far... Or does the code that comes up when you 'inspect element' need to be changed as well?

Yes I will definitely post in the newbie section until my questions are much less basic. I have been learning from scratch so don't know all the terms yet, I'm learning quickly and really proud of what I've done so far. Thank you for all your help!

:)
Click to expand...

Google PHP redirects. They are very easy.

Let's say your aff link is something like this:

Code: 
http://www.amazon.com/someproduct?affid=123

...you would make a file (or use a plugin) on your server called something like link.php - inside that you would have your php redirect which looks something like this:
Code: 
<?php

   header( 'Location: http://www.amazon.com/someproduct?affid=123) ;

?>

Then when you link inside your html you would use your link to link.php.

Google it for more betterer explanations.
 
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