I'm having a hard time trying to figure out Amazon's affiliate program. If I were to cookie stuff, which affiliate link would I use? I'm looking in Amazon's widgets and I'm seeing tons of categories and products. Another question is, say I use an affiliate link that points to a CD. Would I only get commission based on that individual CD sale or does the cookie apply to the entire site?

Use the text link for stuffin. BTW, you may wanna try out a smaller affiliate b4 trying that with E Bay.

Thanks. I was looking for a text link, but I couldn't find one. Guess I'll look harder. BTW, I'm not doing eBay (at least not yet). I'm doing my own sites just to get a feel for the method first before I move onto bigger and better things

Good idea prochobo. Be sure to keep us up to date on your progress.

Which are the smaller ones you are talking about....

I've had great results with nb & max b

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one question, how to target the nb audience for example?
i mean if you stuff general traffic they will mostly buy from ebay or amazon

how is amazon about banning? As long as the ctr is kept under control, is there anything else I need to look out for?

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Go to "Build Links", then select "text links", then select a product (this should be some product that is 'featured' on your white hat site).

Build the link and use the http: part of the code as your stuffing. Serve with mashed potatoes and yams.

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sorry, what exactly do you mean? thnx in advance!

what he means is that the code amazon provides you actually contains two elements...

the first element is your affiliate link....the second element is a tracking pixel.

example....this is the first part, the link itself
This is the second part, the tracking pixel. This is what allows them to track impressions.
What I would be really interested in knowing though is the original question...if my affiliate link goes to a single item or category...do I actually get credit for any other purchases the person makes? Or just the item in the link? As far as I could tell...visiting the affiliate link didn't ACTUALLY give me an affiliate cookie...it may have been encoded into the session cookie somehow...but it looked to me like it was the same cookie I would have gotten by just plain old visiting amazon.com

If that were the case...how do you guys effectively Stuff amazoN?

OK, let's say you create an affiliate text link that goes straight to Ama*zon's new "Kin*dle" reading device.

Here is what the code might look like after you've created your code (remove *'s, etc)...

<a href="hxxp://www.a*mazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.am a*zon.com%2FKi*ndle-A*mazons-Wi*reless-Rea*ding-D*evice%2Fdp%2FB000FI73MA%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Delectr onics%26qid%3D1211370331%26sr%3D8-1&tag=myaffiliatenickname-22&linkCode=ur2&camp=17545489&creative=9376725">ki ndle</a><img src="hxxp://www.as*soc-am*azon.com/e/ir?t=myaffiliatenickname-2222&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

All you want to copy is the very first hyperlink, the portion AFTER |href="|

Copy that loooong http code (here I made it hxxp, just so that it's not 'active') and paste that code in your co*okie stu*ffing tool, script, whatever.

Notice the 'width' & 'height' portion of the code near the bottom.

That is what Ama*zon uses to track your impressions vs click-through's so that's what you do NOT want that portion of the code. If you are doing things properly, you should be able to 'fake' these stats.

As for the other question, once the user clicks on your link and visits Ama*zon, yes, you will get credit for whatever item they purchase on Ama*zon. The coo*kie lasts for 1 day.

You should probably change your link once in a while just so that all of your click-through's aren't going to the Kin*dle.

Oh, and if you use a Kin*dle link, you'd better have an actual link to the Kin*dle on your white-hat site.

Good luck.

MP

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ah, thanks for the clarifications Montyz. So it actually IS a cookie. Is it tied into your session cookie then? Because I didn't notice any 'affiliate' cookies when I clicked through to my own link.

I am curious about this: Once you cookie stuff them, does that cookie last one day only or is it there until they clear their cookies or get cookied by someone else? Hope this is not a stupid a question.

it only last one day. if the user clears their cookie before then, it's gone. if they get cookied
by someone else, the other person gets the sale.