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Amazon Showcase – WordPress Plugin

Hot Plugin, Cool FeaturesAmazon Showcase is a WordPress Plugin for showcasing items from Amazon. Simply enter the ASIN/ISBN numbers of any products and optionally enter an Associate ID for earning commissions. The product image will be displayed with a link to the product detail page on Amazon.com. Showcases can be used as widgets, placed in posts/pages, or inserted directly into your template.

Our favorite feature of the Amazon Showcase plugin is that it lets you place nice graphic links to Amazon books and products as a randomized item in your sidebar. The plugin will show a book link at random on every page of your site, from a pre-specified list, or lists, of books that you want to recommend. You can see this in action in the right-hand sidebar of this site. If you navigate around the site a little, you’ll see how the books in the sidebar change from page to page at random.

What configuration options are available?: Here is some detailed information from the developers website.There are several attributes available in each showcase: Showcase Name, Associate ID, Locale and Item ASIN/ISBNs & Image Sizes.

  • Name Use: this attribute for naming a particular showcase. The text entered here will be used to reference the showcase.
  • Associate ID: This is is an optional field that allows Amazon Associates to enter their Associate ID. When you supply an Associate ID, it is automatically inserted appropriately into the item’s link. This allows you to earn commissions when people click on the item and purchase it through Amazon.
  • Locale: The locale field allows you to select which of the international Amazon websites you would like to pull items from. You have 6 options: * United States (.com) * United Kingdom (.co.uk) * Germany (.de) * Japan (.co.jp) * France (.fr) * Canada (.ca)
  • ASIN/ISBN: Use this field to define the Amazon product you would like to display in the showcase. This can be any item from the Amazon catalog of the locale you selected. Simply locate the item’s ASIN or ISBN and enter it in one of these fields.?Examples: ASIN: B000I1ZWRC ISBN: 1582345236
  • Image Size: Amazon usually provides five different product image sizes: swatch, small, tiny, medium and large. Select the image size that you would like to use within your showcase.
  • Can I create multiple Amazon Showcases on my site?: Yes, you can create as many showcases as you like and each showcase can contain an arbirary number of Amazon items.

Amazon Reloaded for WordPress is a similar plugin which provides a super easy way to add Amazon product links directly from the editing window of any page or post.

Earn Income with Your Recomendations

Including an affiliate ID in the plugin settings will link your Amazon Affiliate account to any potential sales that are generated by someone who: visits your site, sees a book you recommend, and clicks on the link. The link takes them to that product page on the Amazon site, and—if they then follow through and actually purchase the book (or product)—then your affiliate account is credited a small commission from the sale. It won’t make you rich, but if your site users like your recommendations and act on them, it a small amount of passive income that you wouldn’t see otherwise.

The plugins both require an Amazon Web Services account in order to work. If you want to use these plugins on your site, we can set up an Amazon Web Services account and an Amazon Associates account for you, and link them to the plugin in the appropriate place.

At some point, after you start using the Amazon plugins, you’ll want to login to your Amazon account and set up your payment options so they can send you any affiliate earnings you generate. To do this, just log in, and click on the Account Settings link at the top right on the page. There’s a link under Payment Information for “Change your payment method.” Just follow the instructions and make your choices there and you’ll be all set!

The one thing to keep in mind is that you can’t use your own affiliate link to purchase product. You can offer it up to others, but you, yourself can’t purchase using it. Doing so could give cause  for Amazon to discontinue your affiliate account.

Learn more at the Amazon Showcase home page, or on the WordPress.com Plugin page

Published on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 in Blogging and Recommended tools. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Amazon Reloaded for WordPress

Hot Plugin, Cool FeaturesThe Amazon Reloaded for WordPress plugin makes it easy for site authors to quickly search Amazon’s index from their WordPress Dashboard interface and grab text links and/or image links to place with their content. The links can optionally contain an individual’s affiliate tag, if entered on the settings screen.

The Amazon Reloaded plugin is easy to use. You can add a book link to any page or post as you are writing it, right from your WordPress Dashboard. If you have of books/products on Amazon that you’d like to recommend, we can also help you set up a Resources page with a listing of your recommendations so users can find them all in one place (like the Resources page on this site).

The Amazon Reloaded for WordPress plugin is amazingly simple to use:

  • Start writing a post or page and when you need to insert something, scroll down to the Amazon Reloaded meta box
  • Enter your search term and press the Search Amazon button or hit enter
  • You can optionally select a different search index if you’re having trouble finding what you’re looking for
  • To insert a link, click the “Send Link to Editor” button.
  • To insert an image, select the size you want to use and then click the adjacent “Send Image to Editor” button.

Amazon Showcase is a similar plugin which provides a nice sidebar widget for presenting book recommendations in random order from a list or lists you create with the plugin.

Earn Income with Your Recommendations

Including an affiliate ID in the plugin settings will link your Amazon Affiliate account to any potential sales that are generated by someone who: visits your site, sees a book you recommend, and clicks on the link. The link takes them to that product page on the Amazon site, and—if they then follow through and actually purchase the book (or product)—then your affiliate account is credited a small commission from the sale. It won’t make you rich, but if your site users like your recommendations and act on them, it a small amount of passive income that you wouldn’t see otherwise.

The Amazon plugins both require an Amazon Web Services account in order to work. If you want to use these plugins on your site, we can set up an Amazon Web Services account and an Amazon Associates account for you, and link them to the plugin in the appropriate place.

At some point, after you start using the Amazon plugins, you’ll want to login to your Amazon account and set up your payment options so they can send you any affiliate earnings you generate. To do this, just log in, and click on the Account Settings link at the top right on the page. There’s a link under Payment Information for “Change your payment method.” Just follow the instructions and make your choices there and you’ll be all set!

The one thing to keep in mind is that you can’t use your own affiliate link to purchase product. You can offer it up to others, but you, yourself can’t purchase using it. Doing so could give cause  for Amazon to discontinue your affiliate account.

Learn more  on the WordPress.com Plugin page

Published on Saturday, July 11, 2009 in Blogging and Recommended tools. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .