Comments on: Amazon Releases Context Links Beta for Affiliates

By: Affiliate Marketer Guide

Affiliate Marketer Guide — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:24:50 +0000

Looks 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.

By: Jonathan (Trust)

Jonathan (Trust) — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:39:36 +0000

I’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.

By: Context Links Beta bei Amazon.com » my affiliate life » Blog Archiv

Context Links Beta bei Amazon.com » my affiliate life » Blog Archiv — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:04:01 +0000

[...] Shawn Collins hat das ganze hier auch schon mal getestet. Was mir dabei als erstes negativ auffÃ¤llt: die Context Links sind Ã¤uÃŸerlich nicht von den anderen regulÃ¤ren Links auf der Seite zu unterscheiden. Das kÃ¶nnte hierzulande nicht nur rechtlich etwas problematisch werden, es ist auch nicht besonders userfreundlich. [...]

By: Shawn Collins

Shawn Collins — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:58:52 +0000

> 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.

By: Shawn Collins

Shawn Collins — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:51:15 +0000

The 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.

By: Screen Rant

Screen Rant — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:50:43 +0000

Unless 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

By: Biddy

Biddy — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:46:20 +0000

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.