Comments on: 21 Days to a more profitable blog – Day 9! Add Amazon to your WordPress blog sidebar

By: Package and Sell Your Best Posts - Day 21 of 21 Days to a More Profitable Blog » Personal Edge Insights - Barbara Ling

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:57:30 +0000

[...] 9). Implement option – add Amazon to your sidebar [...]

By: 32 Resources To Make Your Blog Warm and Welcoming - Day 2 of 7 Days To Making Your Blog Blossom » Personal Edge Insights - Barbara Ling

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:17:16 +0000

[...] them to your pre-written tutorials or reviews that have your affiliate links or eBay links or Amazon.com links embedded, or otherwise sends them to pages that are a bridge between you and making [...]

By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:08:34 +0000

@Nancy,

The best way to make it look natural is either to write a featured post about specific products (that’s the topic of tomorrow’s lesson), or to section off an area of your sidebar like I’ve done that targets your niche. See to the right how I have "Insane Indulgences" followed by eBay products?

Also check out a new series I’m developing at http://tinyurl.com/5yeony and see how I incorporated the Amazon.com widget.

Best wishes,

Barbara

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:51:20 +0000

Hi Barbara,

This is JUST the kind of information I was hoping to find here — thanks!

My question is, how do you make the links look natural, so the blog doesn’t end up looking like either a junkyard or like it’s jumping up and down waving "I’m an affiliate site promoting everything under the sun hoping you will buy something!"

LOL — maybe not that bad, but still. . . the question is, how to INTEGRATE affiliate links like amazon, CB, etc. so that it looks and feels natural???

Looking forward to your response to this one!

Thanks.

Nancy

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:09:48 +0000

@MarketingDeviant,

Yes indeed! And while you don’t see a lot of Amazon.com stuff on my blog, they’re quite embedded on my portal/niche sites (it’s sweet to get $68 when someone buys an HDTV from your site, for example).

I am experimenting with Amazon.com in individual postings and depending upon how the transition from CJ to eBayPartnerNetwork goes, might start switching things around.

Thanks for your comments!

Barbara

By: MarketingDeviant

MarketingDeviant — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:02:05 +0000

Good tips on how to add amazon widget on sidebar. But I have to confess you have so much ads on your ebay affiliates. Do you have good conversion rates? MarketingDeviant's last blog post..Isolate your enemy