I just logged into Amazon Associates just now and found that they’ve done a redesign of their Associates area and have added a very handy new feature for Amazon Associates publishers.
It’s called ‘Site Stripe’ and essentially it allows you to create affiliate links as you surf Amazon. It’s a little grey stripe that appears at the top of any Amazon.com page that allows you to link to that page, add a product to an aStore, see your Earnings Summary, See ‘what’s New’, go to a discussion board or see ’settings’.
Here’s how it looks (click to enlarge):
Amazon-Site-Stripe: Paste this image in your site, Myspace, Facebook, Ebay copy this code...
Click links and you are taken to an Associates area relevant to the selection that you make.
This is going to be really handy for Amazon affiliates that link to a lot of products on Amazon - it’ll save flipping between Amazon pages and Associates back end pages and should speed up the process and remove a few steps in the process.
When you log into the back end of Amazon Associates you can set up the settings for this feature by clicking the ‘Links and Banners’ tab and then clicking the ‘Learn More’ button in the ‘Site Stripe’ section. Here you can turn Site Stripe on and off as well as selecting which features you want in the stripe.
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