Plugin / Amazon Associates Link Builder

Amazon Associates Program

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

You can find more information on the Amazon Associates Program at Amazon Associates Help.
The plugin makes real-time calls to the Amazon Product Advertising API to search for, and look up information on, items in Amazon.com’s product catalog. Security credentials provided in the Settings console are used for signing API requests. The plugin also contains an in-build caching mechanism to cache the API results for optimizing the API usage and reducing the loading time of the link content.
Yes. You can track the performance of the ad unit by placement or section of your website by using tracking ids. You are recommended to use different tracking ids for different ad templates. This will allow you to track orders and earnings information for each type of ad using the reports section in Associates Central. You can create tracking ids here.
Information we learn from Amazon Associates Link Builder users helps us to evaluate performance of the plugin, troubleshoot technical issues, and generally improve the plugin. We only capture information on impressions, clicks, and sales for Amazon affiliate links in accordance with the Amazon.com Privacy Notice.
You can review the About section under the Associates Link Builder menu bar or Link Builder User Guide for more information on getting started and key features of the plugin. If you get stuck, or have any questions, you can ask for help in the Amazon Associates Link Builder Plugin Forum.
You can search products using keywords in any supported country, but you have to join the Associates Program in those countries separately to be able to do this. For example – If you are a blogger in UK interested in generating links to Amazon.com (US) site, then you will first need to join the Amazon Associates Program in the US to be able to search for products on Amazon.com site. Now, you can add links for products from both US and UK in a single shortcode that will render ad depending upon visitor’s country under geo-targeted links feature.
You can remove rel=”noreferrer” from links to Amazon sites in all posts by selecting the appropriate checkbox in the settings page. This will not remove rel=”noopener”, if present. This feature only affects links to Amazon sites. This change is reversible and as soon as you deselect the checkbox on settings page, the pages will be restored to the original content.
Amazon Product Advertising API credentials are not required to use the feature to remove rel=”noreferrer” for Amazon Affiliate Links from all posts.
This feature enables Amazon Associates to create content customized for and better monetize their international traffic.
The geo-targeting feature lets you monetize any traffic from other countries that was harder to monetize earlier. In accordance with our Operating Agreement, attribution to amazon links placed on your site does not hold if the end user has to switch to a different country specific website to complete his/her purchase. Similarly, if you send users to the correct country website, but with an incorrect country’s tracking id (not valid in that locale), then you will not get paid the affiliate fees for that sale. Many associates use complex home-grown systems, or unreliable 3rd party systems to overcome these limitations. These systems might have trust, reliability and pricing implications on your business. The geo-targeting feature in the WordPress plugin aims to reduce this complexity and give you more control on your monetization of global traffic.
As a part of the global settings in the plugin, you can configure which countries you want to work with, and the respective tracking id(s). You will also need to provide a set of PA-API credentials, which are connected to each of your respective country associate accounts. You will only need to do this once. As you create content, you will see a tabbed pane which lets you select product sets for each country that you have configured in the plugin. You should pick your default country as the first product set configured. The corresponding short code that is generated will have all the information required to render ads appropriately. When a user visits your site, we use the user’s location to determine which of the product sets to display to the user, and the corresponding ads are rendered. If the user is from a location that you haven’t configured, then your default product set is displayed to the user.
The customer will be shown ads from the first country added in shortcode.
You can see your earnings and other reports from the respective country Associates Portal under “Amazon Associates Link Builder” section.

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2.3
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Version

1.9.3

First Released

21 Dec, 2016

Total Downloads

708,158

Wordpress Version

3.0.1 or higher

Tested up to:

5.0.7

Require PHP Version:

5.4.0 or higher

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