Hi folks,
This is my first post on WF, so I hope I have posted this in the correct place.
I am not a total newbie, and have recently started building a few Amazon sites which is a bit outside my field, but perhaps there is an member somewhere here with a good knowledge of Amazon sites that may be able to help.
It concerns product linking.
I am based in the UK, my target market is mainly the US and Canada, so at present I have 3 Amazon accounts, when I set my sites up, I did it manually with text links only from the product pages of Amazon.com.
I then used the Wordpress plug-in "Amazon Link Localizer" however when I finally got round to checking the stats for Amazon.co.uk I find that my site generated several hundred clicks here, and I was not credited with one sale, so it looks like this plug-in is not working for my ID links which I have entered into it (even on a bad day with this amount of clicks I think you will agree that at least 1 sale would have been made, with the .com at around 5%)
Of course, the default setting in the absence of a user ID is the plug-in owner gets paid for any sales, which is ok with me to a point, but not if the plug-in is not working as it should, and certainly not on the .co.uk.
So before jumping to any conclusions I would like to find out:
1. Is anyone else having/had the same problem with this plug-in?
2. Am I linking to Amazon in the correct way?
3. Is there another plug-in that a member can recommend that is definitely working?
4. Is there another way of linking to Amazon.com .co.uk and .ca that I don't know about, other than using 3 separate domain links for each product?
5. Is testing by logging into country specific google SE's a viable and/or reliable method?
6. I am a dork for asking so many questions in the same thread? :updown:
Any help and or advice will be much appreciated. Thanks
This is my first post on WF, so I hope I have posted this in the correct place.
I am not a total newbie, and have recently started building a few Amazon sites which is a bit outside my field, but perhaps there is an member somewhere here with a good knowledge of Amazon sites that may be able to help.
It concerns product linking.
I am based in the UK, my target market is mainly the US and Canada, so at present I have 3 Amazon accounts, when I set my sites up, I did it manually with text links only from the product pages of Amazon.com.
I then used the Wordpress plug-in "Amazon Link Localizer" however when I finally got round to checking the stats for Amazon.co.uk I find that my site generated several hundred clicks here, and I was not credited with one sale, so it looks like this plug-in is not working for my ID links which I have entered into it (even on a bad day with this amount of clicks I think you will agree that at least 1 sale would have been made, with the .com at around 5%)
Of course, the default setting in the absence of a user ID is the plug-in owner gets paid for any sales, which is ok with me to a point, but not if the plug-in is not working as it should, and certainly not on the .co.uk.
So before jumping to any conclusions I would like to find out:
1. Is anyone else having/had the same problem with this plug-in?
2. Am I linking to Amazon in the correct way?
3. Is there another plug-in that a member can recommend that is definitely working?
4. Is there another way of linking to Amazon.com .co.uk and .ca that I don't know about, other than using 3 separate domain links for each product?
5. Is testing by logging into country specific google SE's a viable and/or reliable method?
6. I am a dork for asking so many questions in the same thread? :updown:
Any help and or advice will be much appreciated. Thanks
