make the best of amazon affiliation program

Quick tutorial about how to make the best of the amazon programm if you have registered with associate program. You can see how you can apply this tutorial by browsing Jazar-Music.com, released tomorrow.

A) Create a link to a product "dynamically"
1) Amazon Link
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001XAMC2/qid%3D1098207213/sr%3D8-1/ref%3Dpd%5Fcsp%5F1/104-6596417-7831136?v=glance&s=music&n=507846
2) Affiliate link
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=your-id-here&path=tg%2Fdetail%2F-%2FB0001XAMC2%2Fqid%3D1098207213%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fref%3Dpd_csp_1%3Fv%3Dglance%26s%3Dmusic%26n%3D507846

in fact it is quite easy to "build" automatically the url:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=your-id-here&path= +
tg/detail/-/B0001XAMC2/qid%3D1098207213/sr%3D8-1/ref%3Dpd%5Fcsp%5F1/104-6596417-7831136?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

You have just to replace "/" with $2F, "=" with "%3D", "&" with %26 and "?" with %3F

Usage: : use it to add a complement to a review, or an article. My next post is about how to fit it in your content.

B) search results

<br /><form action="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search"> <br /> <table class="normal" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <br /> <tr> <br /> <td style="background-color:#fff;"> <br /> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="top" height="90" width="120" style="border: 1px solid #000000 !important;"> <br /> <tr> <br /> <td style="background-color:#fff;" height="20" valign="bottom" align="center"> <br /> <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10px !important; font-weight:bold !important;">Search Now:</span> <br /> </td> <br /> <td style="background-color:#fff;"> <br /> <br /> </td> <br /> </tr> <br /> <tr> <br /> <td style="background-color:#fff;" align="center" height="30" valign="top"> <br /> <input type="text" name="keyword" size="10" value="" /> <br /> </td> <br /> <td style="background-color:#fff;" height="20" valign="top" align="left"> <br /> <input type="hidden" name="mode" value="blended" /> <br /> <input type="hidden" name="tag" value="shopituk-20" /> <br /> <input type="image" width="21" height="21" border="0" value="Go" name="Submit" src="http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/build-links/ap-search-go-btn.gif" align="absmiddle" /> <br /> </td> <br /> </tr> <br /> <tr> <br /> <td colspan="2" style="background-color:#000;" height="40"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/shopituk-20"><img src="http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/build-links/ap-search-logo-126x32.gif" height="36" border="0" width="126" /></a></td> <br /> </tr> <br /> </table> <br /> </td> <br /> </tr> <br /> </table> <br /> </form> <br />

Usage: : Add the search option next to your website search.

C) A link to search results pages
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search?tag=your-tag-here&keyword=lenny%20kravitz&mode=music

You can dynamically change the parameters above according the context.

Usage: : extract keywords from the referrer (if the session is new, and the vistor is coming from a search engine), or from the internal query if the vistor is made use of your search. otherwise, I would not bother displaying it.

Note : You may want to hide the links to amazon. Here is a nice combination of javascript + php to just do that :

> <br />--------------- JAVASCRIPT BIT ------------------- <br /> <br />function popamazon(url, tag) { <br /> base = 'http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=' + tag + '-20&path='; <br /> w = screen.availWidth-10; <br /> h = screen.availHeight-20; <br /> features = "width="+w+",height="+h; <br /> features += ",left=0,top=0,screenX=0,screenY=0"; <br /> <br /> window.open(base+url, "", features); <br />} <br /> <br />-------------------------------------------------- <br /> <br />-------------- PHP BIT --------------------------- <br /><?php <br />$tag = "your-tag-here"; <br />$id = "tg%2Fdetail%2F-%2FB0001XAMC2%2Fqid%3D1098207213%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fref%3Dpd_csp_1%3Fv%3Dglance%26s%3Dmusic%26n%3D507846"; <br />$title = "Buy Lenny Kravitz Baptism"; <br /> <br />echo " <br /> <A href=\"#\" onClick=\"popamazon('$id', '$tag'); return false;\" TARGET=\"_blank\"> <br /> $title <br /> </A> <br />"; <br />?> <br /> <br />-------------------------------------------------- <br />