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Whats the best way to shorten up a amazon affiliate link?

Discussion in 'Amazon' started by seattle-west, Jul 31, 2007.

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    anyone know any methods for shortening up affiliate links?

    heres an example........
    see thats huge
     
    seattle-west, Jul 31, 2007 IP
  2. FikseGTS

    FikseGTS Peon

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    websiteideas Well-Known Member

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    I believe if you login to your associates account, you can generate links that are shorter...
     
    websiteideas, Jul 31, 2007 IP
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    amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000G7X0AO/your-id

    The B000G7X0AO is the ASIN number or product id. Your-id is your affiliate id.
     
    cormac, Jul 31, 2007 IP
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    seattle-west Active Member

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    is it effective in tracking?
     
    seattle-west, Jul 31, 2007 IP
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    As far as I know yes. Check out the Amazon Affiliate fourms as some members have tools to create links faster.
     
    cormac, Jul 31, 2007 IP
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    Actually I may have left that a little short, try:

    amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000G7X0AO/?tag=your-id


    Seems that there are variations of using those links.
     
    cormac, Jul 31, 2007 IP
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    thanks ill have to try it and see if it tracks repped ya :)
     
    seattle-west, Jul 31, 2007 IP
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    I use the length one, ^_^ never make it shorten
     
    BonusOnline, Aug 7, 2007 IP
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    I'll second this. We use it all the time successfully. Makes it a lot easier to create links by just copying the ASIN and then using an automated tool to generate the whole URL, without having to login to Amazon's affiliate site.

    I created a Macro in about 1 min using my text editor (Notetab light). I can now create those Amazon links in about 3 seconds.

    _KJH
     
    kjh, Aug 7, 2007 IP
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    The new sites I am working on for my amazon are using this short link but some of my old ones still deal with that long one. Few days and they all will be using one of these short versions. Looks a lot better.
     
    Madmurphy, Aug 14, 2007 IP
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    I use this all the time too, no problems!
     
    dinodino, Aug 15, 2007 IP