October 19, 2004

Feedburner service allows bloggers to add Amazon associates links to your feeds!

If you’re hoping to make some extra cash from your blog, but all of your monetized links are in your sidebars or headers, etc, then you’re losing out when people view your blog from feed readers. Not so if you use Feedburner - now you can beef up your feed to integrate links to relevant products using your amazon associate ID, as well as further enhance your feed by splicing photos and links into it AND get stats on your traffic. VERY COOL!

Neil Turner has blogged about his experience with experimenting with Feedburner, and while his post doesn’t reference the ability to incorporate amazon links, he does show you how he’s spliced in his Flickr photostream.

Here’s how the service works:

FeedBurner detects your feed categories and then asks you to assign an Amazon store to any category for which you want to include the Amazon Associates program. For example, you might choose to associate the music store with your music category, DVD’s with your Pop Culture category, and nothing at all with your Personal and Family categories. You, the publisher have total control over the frequency with which Amazon Associates links appear, and whether they should appear alongside really short posts or only very detailed posts.

FeedBurner then leverages the latest 4.0 release of Amazon Web Services to match your posts to relevant Amazon content for that store, and FeedBurner transforms that link and content from Amazon Web Services into a simple linked GIF tied to your feed item.

Publishers have total control over which (if any) parts of their feed get amazon links, which amazon stores they want to map to their content, and how frequently they want these associate links to appear.

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    November 3, 2004

    Richard Phillips said:

    Hi Emily
    I’ve just started a small Typepad blog and ended up here looking at some of the great Typepad info you have. However, I had a few q’s after I browsed over to yr affiliates site! If you could spare a few minutes that would be great - you can reach me at rich.phil a t gmail dot com. TV Muchly.

    February 20, 2005

    anna said:

    You sound like you know what you’re on about, may I ask you a question? I don’t publish my feed, or syndicate it or whatever. I just want to put an Amazon Associates link to a book in a post, not in my sidebar. I use blogger. How do I do this? I tried using Amazon Associates to generate html for a link, then I pasted that into my post, and it didn’t work. Can you help me? Cheers!

    January 9, 2006

    Ryan said:

    Great information. Without going through Feedburner, I’d like to post BASIC Amazon images (album & book covers) on my site using my Associates ID. Amazon’s instructions say to “Save image to your server” before pasting provided HTML for the album cover. Do you know how to do this using Blogger (the saving image to server part)? Thanks for the help!

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