Comments on: Amazon Beta Tests Product Previews

By: Corey Creed

Corey Creed — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:02:39 +0000

I got in earlier today. I posted some information about how it works at http://www.thejunglemap.com/post/186 if you want to check it out.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:05:53 +0000

OK – got the tictap one to work – I have many small JS running for tracking and menues and one must have been a conflict

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:26:50 +0000

I forgot to say that the other companies that do similar adds like this that open a small window on mouse overs work just fine on all my browsers so it is not my ad blocker but their system

I wanted to put some of the other companies links on but they require a minimum of 500,000 in traffic and I do not have the much

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:21:44 +0000

I hovered over the example on the Amazon site and nothing happened but put a couple of links on my site and for me nothing happens but I do have as blockers. I will have to ask friends if they can see them or not.

I tried Netscape and Firefox Opera Maxthon and IE and no luck so guess they are not very compatible or just do not work with simple ad blockers.

Someone mentioned how they get a lot of Amazon clicks but not many buys. Seems to me there is no incentive for someone to use my site as they can go direct to Amazon for the same thing and suppose they figure the price or shipping will be better,

By: Gene Kavner

Gene Kavner — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 03:18:26 +0000

Amazon finally launched Product Previews this week. Take a look at the full description of the launched product.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 01:47:40 +0000

I tried it the new Amazon Omakase (yes, I know it’s in beta testing). I have a highly optimized website. Not one product matched, yet I am able to do a search using regular Amazon and found some for my niche market.

By: Smart Light Bulb

Smart Light Bulb — Thu, 11 May 2006 07:55:39 +0000

Is Beta testing affects the website PR. How is it different from simple testing techniques

By: Rex

Rex — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:33:20 +0000

yeah – nice one

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:32:31 +0000

yeah – and for Amazon! :-)

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:30:59 +0000

Interesting when you consider that Amazon was one of the first ecommerce sites to have an affiliate strategy. They now have over 1,000,000 associates.

Looks like a good tool for bloggers.

Cheers,
Peter

By: Mobinix

Mobinix — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 08:58:36 +0000

They’ll give $5 for beta testing !

By: Pawan

Pawan — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 07:00:22 +0000

Darren – Thanks for the clarification. I intend to try this out!

By: Amit Agarwal

Amit Agarwal — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 05:39:33 +0000

Can you post a clear screen shot ?

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 05:14:44 +0000

I guess I will take a look, although I think I’ve only made something like $16.84 in my lifetime from them in commissions since 2001 .. so it couldn’t hurt.

I like this concept. Have you ever visited that http://www.dontclick.it/ website? Except for the splash page, there is no clicking anywhere. I always wondered that if this was the future – what would happen to all the click-to-pay ads? Maybe something like this with the mouseover?

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 01:30:04 +0000

Pawan – its not contextual at all and relies upon publishers to manually add a link to a product on their page. As a result you can use it without problem with other programs.

By: Pawan

Pawan — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 00:25:08 +0000

How is this different from Context Sensitive advertizing? Can amazon ads be added to the pages where Google Context Sensitive Advertizing is enabled without violating Google T&Cs?

By: Bill Nadraszky

Bill Nadraszky — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 23:37:29 +0000

I have put this feature into a few of my blogs and it seems easy enough to do but I am also not to sure how much money will be made but it should definitely help the clickthrough. What I have done to add this to my blogs in movable type is the following:

1. Take a copy of the script to be added for the new Amazon type ads. (it has your Amazon associate ID embedded into it.
2. Go to the “individual entry archive” template and add it near the bottom of the page.
3. test be clicking on some of your pages that have Amazon links on them. Remember only every second page will show the link.

I tried adding the small script ot my main and other archive pages but it seems to break as it will try to run the script twice on each page and gives some kind of IE error every time a page loads, so don’t try it.

The one thing that I have to say is that all of this renewed competition in the ad space has definitely got the marketers at these companies hopping and the advertising vehicles are definitely a lot more interesting.

By: Richard Schwartz

Richard Schwartz — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:36:13 +0000

Turns out my problem was caused by a badly formatted bit of HTML before the amazon link.

By: Home Office Blues

Home Office Blues — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 13:58:32 +0000

I like the new Amazon preview boxes. I think that it has been a long time since Amazon has done anything exciting with their affiliate program and this was a timely step. They are not going to “kill” any of the other advertising options, but it is certainly a good way to step up in an increasingly crowded market.

The thing I like best about this new system is that the links only take up the real estate of a text link but they spring to life in an interactive way. I tend to use Amazon basic product links because I never liked those ugly rectangles. Now, just by adding the script to my template, all the old text links have been instantly converted to these new preview links.

I don’t know how effective they will be, but I know that they have motivated me to start adding more product links to my sites. We will see how they do this holiday season.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:34:39 +0000

amazon associate program has had it’s day, people want to paid for there hard work through CPC. They want all your traffic for nothing that suxs