Comments on: A Better Way To Manage Affiliate Links

By: Mike Goldy

Mike Goldy — Sun, 30 May 2010 00:27:28 +0000

Pinyo, first thank you. My question is the following. I use CJ and below is my PHPscipt:

How can I just have the script pull the URL from the referring page (page I have the link on) instead of having to make my links with an sid. EX: /merchants/bestbuy.php?kw= pmbinc
Your help would be gratefully appreciated and remunerated if you would like.

By: Mike Goldy

Mike Goldy — Sat, 29 May 2010 22:48:14 +0000

Pinyo, first thank you. My question is the following. I use CJ and below is my PHPscipt:

By: Pinyo

Pinyo — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:39:54 +0000

@NG – Sorry, but I have not look into it yet.

By: NG

NG — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:26:03 +0000

Any update on whether this violates Amazon’s rules?

By: Pinyo

Pinyo — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:47:39 +0000

Stefan, I have not look at Amazon policy lately — it’s been a while since I wrote the article. I’ll check out their TOS.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:39:27 +0000

Isn’t the Amazon tip against the new regulations they’ve put in place where they state that only plain links and image links may be used to link to Amazon products?

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By: Sleep Insomniac

Sleep Insomniac — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:48:49 +0000

Thanks Pinyo. Amazon tip was working for me great

By: Trevor @ Financial Nut

Trevor @ Financial Nut — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:11:39 +0000

Interesting approach. Thanks for sharing. Thought I’m not huge into affiliate marketing, this is a great way to do it.

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By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:14:04 +0000

Great tip on Amazon. I hate going to their Affiliate site.

By: Rufas

Rufas — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:29:22 +0000

Thanks Pinyo, It works wonderfully now

By: Pinyo

Pinyo — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:47:13 +0000

@Rufas — I think it may be quote problem since WP automatically replaces normal quotes to smart quotes. Try this.

< ?php
$asin = htmlspecialchars($_GET['asin']);
$link = "http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/" . $asin . "?tag=your-affiliate-ID";
header("Location:".$link);
?>

By: Rufas

Rufas — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:31:18 +0000

The amazon.php script doesn’t work. It gives me this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘:’ in amazon.php on line 3

Any help?

By: Pinyo

Pinyo — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:56:07 +0000

@Mrs. Micah — You’re welcome. I learned this trick from the best in the business.

@Patrick — Yeah, any new trick is a pain to implement if you’ve been at it for a while.

@Frugal Dad — Took me a while to learn it too.

@DR — You’re welcome. Glad to hear it works well for you.

@Lazy Man — You have a point about trust, but I like the ease of setting up new referral link without knowing the structure of the long URL and without having to go into Amazon Affiliate interface.