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

anyone know any methods for shortening up affiliate links?

heres an example........

see thats huge

 

http://tinyurl.com/

 

I believe if you login to your associates account, you can generate links that are shorter...

 

amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000G7X0AO/your-id

The B000G7X0AO is the ASIN number or product id. Your-id is your affiliate id.

 

is it effective in tracking?

 

As far as I know yes. Check out the Amazon Affiliate fourms as some members have tools to create links faster.

 

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.

 

thanks ill have to try it and see if it tracks repped ya

 

I use the length one, ^_^ never make it shorten

 

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

 

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.

 

I use this all the time too, no problems!