In the last two or three years, Amazon has made many changes in the way its associate program works and how associates may link to product pages and images. As a result, outdated or unnecessary content on this site had to be deleted, shrinking the … [Read more]
Goodbye and good riddance to aStore!
The aStore was deprecated in August 2015 for Amazon affiliate accounts in the United Kingdom, France, and other EU Amazon websites. The notice to Associates on the UK sites said: Based on customer demand, we are making changes to aStore starting … [Read more]
No More Amazon Widgets
If you rarely sign in to your Amazon Associate home page, you may have missed the announcement that Amazon Widgets will be deprecated on November 1, 2015. That is, you won't be able to create new widgets or update old ones after that date, and Amazon … [Read more]
Unhide a Stuck SiteStripe
Do you use Amazon's SiteStripe feature for creating links? Has it disappeared or gotten stuck in the hidden position? This is a recent known issue with SiteStripe and Amazon is working on it. In the meantime, you can fix it temporarily yourself IF … [Read more]
Link or Host Amazon Product Images?
Creating an image link to an Amazon product page using the Associate's Site Stripe tool is very simple. Amazon now includes a link to the image on their server, so downloading the image to your PC and then uploading to your images folder or Media … [Read more]
Float Iframes and Text
Recently someone on the Amazon Associates discussion board asked about displaying text plus image iframes with a text description to the right of each one. Generally, the small iframes are displayed with a text review wrapped to the side or … [Read more]
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