Amazon Mashups
Amazon has been doing a great job of staying up to date with RSS. They have released several feeds that give us the opportunity to keep up with Best Sellers, New Releases and Tagged products. Using RSS is a great way to allow users the ability to mashup pages with their content while maintaining an affiliate link to make money.
Amazon RSS web feeds can be subscribed to or used as a data source for your own applications. The mechanism to add your affiliate link is the best part. You simply add your affiliate id as a parameter in the URL.
There are 2 pages to visit to see learn about these feeds.
Bestseller and New Release feeds
To show how easy this is I have created several pages that take the Amazon feed and parse it with MagpieRSS which is built in to WordPress. If you look at the links in each one it includes the affiliate id.
Electronics – This page uses both the Best Seller and New Release Electronics RSS by creating a page template in WordPress from my standard Page.php template.
Products -This page is part of MusicRamble.com and utilizes the Tagged Products RSS. It is also based on a page template and includes a form to do more searches with.
I have been an Amazon affiliate for years, and this by far is the easiest way I have seen to create pages with Amazon content.
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Written by: David Cooley - December 12th, 2007
Posted in ProgrammingTags: Amazon, Amazon Mashup, Mashup, RSS, Web Development, Wordpress, Wordpress How To
I think this is great! This really makes lives of people who what to show case Amazon products much easier.
I have had a lot of success with Amazon in the past. It falls in second place against Google Adsense.
With the Amazon Mashup you are able to quickly and more effectively present products to your readers. Nice work, I love it!
Sounds very interesting but I’m not sure how it works. I went to the Amazon link but don’t see how you make an actual page of… say… the most popular electronics.
-OSoNY, To make actual pages you have to do something like I mentioned in the post. I made pages by using the Page template and MagpeRSS. You could just pass your ID into the actual URL at Amazon and access it there. Example : http://rss.amazon.com/TopSeller/cat/electronics/associate/cybercodedcom-20/
If you go to http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=390052011 it will walk you through the process.
Very cool man… thanks for adding the last comment David. I think that adds a lot to helping others figure out how to do this.
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What a pity that it doesn’t exist a amazon.IT
:’-(
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