Amazon Releases Context Links Beta for Affiliates
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Amazon.com (AMZN) has launched the beta of their Context Links for affiliates. According to Amazon.com, “context Links automatically identify and link relevant phrases within your page content to Amazon products, unlocking new ad inventory and saving you the time from having to manually create links.”
Context Links require a short piece of code embedded on your pages, which will then identify and link contextually relevant phrases within your content to Amazon.com products.
If you enable the preview functionality, your site visitors will see a preview of an Amazon.com product relevant to the phrase selected. Clicking on the link will send your site visitors to the product detail page on Amazon.com, and you will earn referral fees just as you would with any link you hand-picked.
Setting up Context Links for your website is quick and easy. Just go to Amazon.com Associates Central. click on Build Links and then Context Links. It’s pretty intuitive from there.
I popped the code up at affiliatemanager.net and it took effect quickly.
So long as this doesn’t slow down the load time on a site, I think it looks very promising.
Contact associates-beta@amazon.com with feedback on the beta of Context Links.
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On March 27 @ 12:04 pm posted[...] Shawn Collins hat das ganze hier auch schon mal getestet. Was mir dabei als erstes negativ auffällt: die Context Links sind äußerlich nicht von den anderen regulären Links auf der Seite zu unterscheiden. Das könnte hierzulande nicht nur rechtlich etwas problematisch werden, es ist auch nicht besonders userfreundlich. [...]
Those previews look just as annoying as the Snap! ones. It’s so much easier to click the link and look at the Amazon page, than to have random bits of floaty javascript window popping up all over the place.
reply to this commentUnless you have monster traffic is Amazon even really worth pursuing? The commissions are so abysmally low on products that for the most part are very inexpensive that I don’t really see the point.
BTW, my AuctionAds referrals are finally starting to pay, thanks for the advice to be patient.
Vic
reply to this commentThe default is to show the previews, but you can uncheck “Display Previews for Context Links” when building the links and it will act as a plain text link wit no preview.
I’m going to test it both ways.
reply to this comment> Unless you have monster traffic is Amazon even really worth pursuing?
It depends so much on the site and topic.
Also, it can be laborious to create lots of direct product links in Amazon to populate a site with them, but the new Context Links are pretty effortless.
If your site is created with includes, you can just put the code one time in a file at the bottom of your pages (I always create an include for the footer).
Then, you’ve got passive income that will presumably increase as you churn out more content.
Could be very good for a blog that is updated regularly.
reply to this commentI’ve also seen questions as to if it’s ok to be on the same page as Adsense. I’m guessing yes (probably answered somewhere already) since while they’re both contextual, Adsense you get paid for the click, while with this you get paid for the sale and I don’t see them as competing services.
reply to this commentLooks like it would be worth trying. Put it on a couple pages and see if your page exit % goes up. I know I don’t stay on sites that have those annoying popups but maybe I’m part of the minority.
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