Increase Amazon Associate Profits -- Fast, Free, Easy

I've been an Amazon Associate for a while and often when I comment on a book, I create the Amazon Associate link to it.  Problem is, this takes about 5 minutes per reference and unless you have thousands of people reading your blog or article, odds are it's not a very profitable use of your time.  But I just discovered, Amazon's Quick Links. 

Did everyone else already know about this??  Basically, there are two steps to using this (assuming you already have an Amazon Associate ID).  You go to, http://widgets.amazon.com/Amazon-QuickLinker-Widget/ and click on the Add to My Web Page button

Up come links to add this to Typepad, Blogger, Wordpress, etc or a javascript bit of code that you can cut and paste to any web page.  Once you've done that, instead of creating a full link to the detailed Amazon sales page for each product, now, you can make "Quick Links" to products based on keyword searches that you know would find the product.  For example:

<a type="amzn">Harry Potter</a> - Links to Amazon.com search results page for "Harry Potter".

OR

<a type="amzn" asin="B000012345">I love this item</a> The link reads "I love this item" and links directly to the specific Amazon product with Amazon id (ASIN) "B000012345"

Again, maybe everyone else had already discovered this, but if not, I think you'll agree it's a lot faster then the classic individual product links! 

Enjoy.

Comments

[Davion]

Thanks for the useful information. But I find Amazon products rather low on its commissions. You do need a great deal of traffic to make decent profits. This is quite unlike other affiliate networks like ClickBank where you make whopping 50 to 70% commissions per sale.