I liked the Amazon contextual links product so much that I put together a Wordpress Plugin for others to use - Amazon Links Pro. The Pro version allows you to input your Amazon Affiliates ID.
Amazon Links is a Wordpress Plugin for adding relevant and contextual links to Amazon.com products. It generates code automatically and allows full customization of how and when contextual links appear within your content.
Rather than placing banner of Adsense advertisements around your site, Amazon Links opens up new, contextual inventory within the content of your site. Essentially, this allows you to profit from the traffic of your blog without negatively impacting the user experience.
Additionally, users benefit from a direct link to products relevant to your content. For example, if you write an article about a great book that you read, a compelling movie you saw or an amazing new product you used, Amazon Links provides a direct link to that product on Amazon.com so your users can explore the product further.
If you want to make money off your content, consider installing Amazon Links Pro. The Pro version allows additional customization, such as adding your Amazon Associates ID so you can directly profit from people that click on the links and buy products from Amazon.com.
Basic (Official Page) - Amazon Links Basic for WordPress 2.1+
Pro (Official Page) - Amazon Links Pro for WordPress 2.1+
Complete Features List
- Full support for Amazon Associates IDs. For more info about the Amazon Associates Program, visit their site.
- Customization supported:
- Link style
- Preview display
- Border Color
- Background Color
- Details Text Color
- Link Color
- Amazon Price Color
- Amazon Text Color
- Context Link Settings
- Exact Product Name Match
- Open Link in New Window
- Inclusion or Exclusion of Product Categories
- Supports the following countries:
- United States
- Great Britain
- Germany
- Japan
- France
- Canada
- Works with WordPress 2.1+
Installation
Installing should be a piece of cake and take fewer than five minutes.
- Upload amazon-links-pro.php
to your/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Sit back and wait for your content to be crawled
- Within 30 minutes, contextual links will appear on your site
Screenshots:
Download:
Amazon Links Pro for WordPress 2.1+ (zip file)
Thanks to Matt Mullenweg and Toni Schneider for this killer blogging software, and I am happy to finally be contributing to the effort.
I wrote an article about building your own context-links system to make links easier (and have complete control). Check out the series here:
http://blog.dantup.me.uk/2007/08/blogging-creating-better-ad-system-with_9334.html
Tod,
This is an excellent plugin which works very well in getting started with Amazon Affiliates.
Just one suggestion, if I may: The Settings are not persisted anywhere, so every time you wish to adjust the setup (other than your affiliate id) all your settings need configuring from scratch.
All in all, an excellent plugin - many thanks.
Mike
This looks to be an excellent plugin. I have readers from several countries, does this plugin recognise their country of origin and select the appropriate Amazon ID code or does it rely on Amazon doing that once the visitor land on the Amazon site?