Amazon Launch of New Look and Features
October 21, 2008 | Written by annliu | Filed Under Programs & Networks
Amazon.com just announced their newly redesigned Associates Central website. the new design offers integration with the Amazon.com website and easy-to-use linking capabilities, which make earning referral fees a lot easier for Amazon Associates (affiliates).
If you are amazon’s affiliates, you now can navigate through the Associates Central website to find the information you need with just fewer clicks.
Here are some of the new features:
Site Stripe: this new feature lets you build Associates (affiliates) links directly from the Amazon.com website so you can update your website more frequently, with fewer clicks and less time. Next time you go to Amazon.com you will see the Site Stripe at the top of any Amazon.com page you visit. You can visit our Site Stripe page to learn more about this exciting new feature.
Linking to Amazon.com: Explore a variety of link and widget options with our new user-friendly design that helps you discover products to advertise that work best for your website and your customers, including product links and banners. Read more
New Features for Amazon Widgets Affiliates
February 8, 2008 | Written by annliu | Filed Under Programs & Networks
The Amazon.com just announced there are many new great features added to the affiliate widgets, which included Shuffle Products, Default Search Term, Delete Widgets and Tracking Ids.
The Amazon Widgets team is thrilled to announce many new features that will make your widgets even more fun and effective! Since the launch of Amazon Widgets last September, we’ve been overwhelmed by your response. Associates have created over 200,000 unique widgets which have been displayed over 800 million times!
Many of you came back with great suggestions and we’ve picked the most requested features and implemented them in this release, read more
Amazon Black Friday Deals And Deal Widget
November 18, 2007 | Written by annliu | Filed Under Programs & Networks
Next week is Thanksgiving, and Friday November 23rd is the biggest shopping day of the year - Black Friday.
To help affiliates link up with shoppers during the holiday season, Amazon’s Black Friday Deals Page help you and your site visitors get holiday shopping done for less, which means Amazon will be offering hourly deals from 6am to 6pm PST along with thousands of products on sale for a limited time. Also, customers will get gift wrapping for $.99 per item.
Amazon’s affiliate can link directly to the Black Friday Deals page by using this following link format:
http://www.amazon.com/b/?node=384082011&tag=YOUR_ID_HERE-20
So let your visitors know that this year they can shop online at Amazon from the comfort of their own homes, and don’t need to go out to fight the crowds …
In addition, to help affiliates earn revenue more easily. They just launched an interactive Deals Widget to let you show your visitors exactly what the best deals on Amazon are at any and every time they visit your site.
This widget lets you showcase the latest Deal of the Day, Lightning Deals, and The Best Deals on your web page in real time.
Amazon offering two formats for Deals Widget - sidebar and banner. You have the ability to select a size and which types of deals you would like to display within the widget.
This comes just in time for the holiday shopping season, so try the Deals Widget and see how it works for you on Black Friday – the busiest shopping day of the year, and through the rest of the holiday season.
The Holiday Toy List
November 12, 2007 | Written by annliu | Filed Under Personal
Looking for the toy ideas? A new section of Amazon.com’s Toy Store has launched, which can help you in selecting the best toys.
In there, you will see it features new, innovative navigation tools and videos for over 450 of this year’s top toys, video games, and sporting goods. Through the search features, you can find products by age, gender, price, favorite characters and preferred brands all at the same time.
The Holiday Toy List features products from leading vendors like Hasbro, Disney, Nintendo, Leapfrog, LEGO, Fisher-Price, Mattel and Razor.
With most products in the list eligible for Free Super Saver Shipping and Amazon Prime, so you will find great value and convenience in shopping at Toy Store
Amazon Catches Widgets
September 22, 2007 | Written by annliu | Filed Under Webmaster Tools
Wow, Amazon just launched bunch of really cool marketing widgets.
Those small, visually dynamic, easily configurable tools allow you to feature products from Amazon on your website, blog or social networking pages. In as little as one minute you can populate a widget with your favorite Amazon products, your comments about those products, and select from a set of color and layout themes to match both your mood and website.
Here are the widgets:
Slideshow: You can pick your favorite images from the Amazon catalog and present them as a stylish sideshow to show your favorite CD cover art, present recently read books, or even reveal your favorite breakfast cereals.
My Favorites: Express yourself by recommending and commenting on your favorite products from Amazon. This widget lets everyone know how you feel and what you like by showing product images, information and your own comments.
Quick Linker: Quickly build links to products on Amazon by inserting a set of custom HTML tags as you write your content, you can quickly link to products on Amazon. For example, typing Harry Potter would link to a Search Results page on Amazon for the term “Harry Potter.” This is a great new tool that will be handy for all Associates and bloggers that write their own content.
Wish List: Display your Amazon Wish List on your site and let friends, family, and others know what you want.
Product Cloud: This engage site visitors by displaying product titles that are relevant to the content of the page in a cloud or cluster with the most popular product bolded. Site visitors can click on the title to directly visit the product page on Amazon. See the image sample on the left of this post.
Amazon Unbox Video Previewer: Show movie studio and TV network previews for a wide range of new release and classic movies or television shows available from the Amazon Unbox video download service. You can select by attributes, such as genre, for previews you want to show on your websites.
So start to build your own widget at Amazon Widgets today.
