How to insert a Product from Amazon on your Blog
If you refer to books within your articles on a rather regular basis, you may want to become an Amazon Affiliate and then link from your recommended literature on your website directly to your Amazon Shop. This means that in case a reader follows your recommendation and buys the book (or any other product) you collect a small commission – which is just fair for the information you may be providing.
To explain the steps to you, I will use the example below on the new website “Psychic Readings Online“, where author Delia O’Riordan recommends the book “The Elephant Whisperer” – which is linked to her Amazon Shop. Try it and you see what I mean.
However, the fact is that many people struggle with the question of “How to insert a Product from Amazon on a Blog”; therefore, here’s an explicit Tutorial on how to do this, using the above example.
How to insert a Product from Amazon on your Blog
The first step before you wonder as to how to insert a product from Amazon on your Blog is that you want to become an Amazon Affiliate by just going to their website and signing up for the Amazon Affiliate Program.
What is important here is that you keep the welcome information – including your username/email address and password – and important amazon links in your files. You will need those to login.
The Link you want to use for our exercise here is this one HERE. Just click this hyperlink and check it in your browser. You will use it in a minute.
Now use your Login data (email/password) to login… and you come to the AmazonAffiliates Page:
On top left you will see your personal credentials; take note of those!
Now you simply hit on Links & Banners at the top left bar and, on the menu that opens on the left, select PRODUCT LINKS.
You can now do a quick and easy search for your product and click on GO to get the internal amazon search engine moving.
The next page that opens shows the searched Book with Author and price information etc… a real nice big picture by the way…:
The next step is to click, top left, on LINK TO THIS PAGE.
You now get a popup to “Customize and Get HTML”… so here you can now adapt the colors of background and fonts according to your preferred color scheme to match that on your website… and then choose to set up your ad with picture or only text. As I prefer to work with large pictures, I selected the larger picture of the book before (right-click/save as) and then I personally select “Text Only” and then highlight the HTML Code you see highlighted on the picture as below:
Important: what we will need to hyperlink our own image of the selected product is only the Link itself (http://…………………..) – basically what’s between the quotes “………….. and ………..” Make sure you grab the whole code. Ideally, copy/paste it on Notepad or PSpad and now go to your Semiomantics XO Dashboard or other editor and, in here, to the article you were writing and where you now want to insert the picture and hyperlink it via your Amazon Affiliates Link to your Amazon Shop.
The next step therefore is to insert the image within your post… and when typing in the various parameters (Edit Image), insert the above Link (full URL) under “Link URL” as you see on the below image – and Update.
Tip: click on None and the field for the URL is empty; so just paste the Amazon URL in here:
Here’s a parenthesis: nothing on the Internet is perfect; we’ve got to live with this. There are no guarantees that these links always work – so test them first. By now, if someone hits on the image on your blog, the Amazon product page with “The Elephant Whisperer” should open immediately. Always check the link in your browser and see that it carries your affiliate code.
Alternatively – or additionally – you can advise readers to click HERE and then hyperlink HERE with your Amazon Affiliates Link to your Shop as you see below. Do not type the Link in the text of your post, just do it as I show you here on this line.
That’s it! Once you are sure you inserted all the correct links, click on publish and check your article. Look at it like a visitor or reader and click on the Image – as well as the hyperlink HERE – and see that both bring you safely to the product you are promoting via your Amazon Affiliate Link, in this case “The Elephant Whisperer”.
Please note that Amazon does change things from time to time, but the basic principles provided here should help you find your way easily through.
Make Money with your Blog on Semiomantics
The above example shows you a great and efficient way of promoting products on your website or blog with no additional cost to you. You collect commissions on sales – and you have nothing else to worry about. You may know that Affiliate Marketing is great online business – the question now is to ensure that your blog – with your product articles – are seen under the relevant keywords on Google Top 10.
This exactly is why you want to have a Semiomantics XO website or blog – it ensures you top rankings where people would look for your products. The more people find you, the higher the potential of making sales.
Here is a smart way to make money with your Blog on Semiomantics… if others can, so can you!
Contact me to discuss your website or blog requirements and shoot for the moon!
PS:
To hyperlink the word HERE in a text, you need to first highlight (select) the word HERE (so it turns blue) and then you click on the hyperlink icon in the Editor as explained above. Just fill in the details, especially the link itself – in this case the Amazon Affiliate Link leading to a book – and save/update. The important thing here is that you want to always test your links once you have published the post: do they really open the targeted page?
If this is not the case, check the link you inserted again. If you missed a dot so to speak, your link won’t open. Be precise!
Good Luck!
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