Comments on: Gizmodo Starts Using Amazon Affiliate Program

By: Alex Choo

Alex Choo — Wed, 17 May 2006 11:02:51 +0000

You might want to try out TicTap Contextual Ads. http://www.tictap.com/free

There are screenshots available. And the source code is available.

By: Alex Choo

Alex Choo — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 03:00:01 +0000

Hi,

TicTap web search is a showcase for our own contextual ads showing amazon-only products.

The technology will be released for free soon, so webmasters can insert their own Amazon affiliate links.

http://yws.tictap.com

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Sat, 01 Apr 2006 06:11:28 +0000

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By: Denise O'Berry

Denise O'Berry — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:00:22 +0000

Amazon’s program is a good one and trusted by most online shoppers because they’ve been around for a while. From an affiliate’s perspective, their compensation is often more than what you could get by being an affiliate from the product owner. And they do an excellent job of upselling.

Plus their new product preview beta program is really cool. It offers up a more comprehensive display of the product when you mouse over similar to a Chitika eMini mall ad. You can see it in action at http://www.coolipodstuff.com (Since it’s beta only 50 percent of visitors will see it, so if you don’t — sorry!).

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:23:43 +0000

They've also started using Shopping.com affiliate links. I notice that they are often using these INSTEAD of links to the sources of their stories. For instance, previously they would have put a link to another site on posts like this one and this one - but now all they have at the bottom of the story are affiliate links (and not to the models in their stories but to 'brand pages'. I think this is sad and a sign of greed. I have nothing against them using affiliate links but if they use them INSTEAD of crediting sources I think that is very bad form.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:14:26 +0000

from what I see in their source code it looks hand coded (to my uneducated eye).

By: Robert Oschler

Robert Oschler — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:51:19 +0000

If they are using Amazon Web Services to search for the product and build the links it takes no effort at all.

By: John Evans (Syntagma)

John Evans (Syntagma) — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:16:43 +0000

I do the same on my DigitalCameraLatest (.com) blog and I find the Amazon income is running 50% more than Adsense, even though the blog is fairly new. 6.5% of a $500 sale is a good return on a home-made text link if you can do it regularly.

Affiliate income depends on “pre-selling” before the click, so if you’re already writing about the item, affiliate links make sense.