How to Put an Amazon Ad Into WordPress

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Affiliate marketing helps webmasters earn the money needed to keep their websites online. Many online merchants have affiliate programs that webmasters can join, including the well-known merchant Amazon.com. If you have joined the Amazon.com affiliate program, begin earning money by adding a banner advertisement to your site or linking to a specific product.

Instructions

Adding a Banner Advertisement

1. Browse to Amazon.com and sign in to your account. Click the "Amazon Associates" link in the upper-right corner of the screen.

2. Move the mouse pointer to the "Links & Banners" tab at the top of the window, and click "Banner Links."

3. Click a link to see the available banner advertisements for a specific category. For example, you might select "Musical Instruments" for a website that reviews music equipment.

4. Click the "Highlight HTML" button under the advertisement that you want to use. Right-click the text in the field above the button, and click "Copy."

5. Open a new browser window or tab and navigate to the administrator dashboard for your WordPress website. Enter your user name and password to log in.

6. Click "Appearance" on the left side of the page, and then click "Widgets."

7. Drag the "Text' button from the "Available Widgets" section to the "Sidebar" section on the right side of the window. If you are using other sidebar widgets on your WordPress website, drop the button in the location where you want the banner advertisement to appear.

8. Click inside the "Title" field, and type a title for the advertisement such as "Sponsors."

9. Right-click inside the field under the "Title" field, and click "Paste." The HTML code for the banner advertisement appears in the field.

10. Click the "Save" button. The advertisement appears on the WordPress sidebar and can now be seen by people who visit your website.

Linking to a Specific Product

1. Browse to Amazon.com and sign in to your account. You should now see the Amazon Associates toolbar appear at the top of the page.

2. Use the search functions of Amazon.com to find the product that you want to link to.

3. Click the "Link to This Page" button on the Amazon Associates toolbar.

4. Click "Text and Image," "Image Only" or "Text Only" to indicate the type of link that you want to create. A preview area on the right side of the window shows what the completed product link will look like.

5. Click the "Highlight HTML" button at the bottom of the window. Copy and paste the code using the "Text" sidebar widget as described in Section 1.

Tips & Warnings

• To create a plain text link to a specific Amazon.com product in a WordPress blog post, use the "Text Only" link type after clicking "Link to This Page" on Amazon.com. Copy all of the text between the quotation marks in the box at the bottom of the window, beginning with "http://" and ending with a string of numbers. Highlight the text in your blog post that directs your readers to click to view the Amazon.com product. Click the "Insert Link" button in the WordPress blog post editor and paste the highlighted text into the "URL" field. Then click the "Add Link" button.

References

• Amazon: Building Links
• WordPress: Text Widget
• WordPress: Links

Resources

• Amazon.com