Neat Tricks and Hacks04 Apr 2007 10:46 pm
I have a couple posts almost ready to go, but I simply don’t have enough time to finish and make them live yet so I’ll make a quick one just to hold you over.
Here’s How To Get A Free Link on Amazon.com
1) Create an Amazon.com affiliate account.
2) Select the aStore option.
3) Fill in the keywords you would like to use and select a product category related to your site.
4) At the bottom of that page while still on step 1, Insert your link and anchor text.
5) Complete the last 3 steps. They are very short.
6) Parse or copy the custom affiliate URL. It’ll be in this format: http://astore.amazon.com/username
7) Run the URL through the QUIT tool.
8) Do it again before they catch on that everyone is starting to do this.
Thanks for the tip Eli. I was getting ready to sign up to test out their aff program anyways, nice bonus.
Nice tip! Note that the link is from astore.amazon.com, which currently has a page rank of 4:
World of Warcraft TCG store on Amazon astore
And where is your link anywhere at the bottom?
Btw, that WOW store has a PR0. So what’s the deal about having a PR0 even if it’s from Amazon? Just pulling your overall PR down.
Great example, thanks.
His link is off to the top right where it says “World of Warcraft Card Game”
Even if it’s on a PR4 site, the trust associated with that domain is worth more than the PR.
thanks for this killer tip man!
thanks for that eli, you are definately an evil genious
astore.amazon.com doesn’t pass any link weight to the individual aStores because there is no link. Having said that, getting a link from a trusted domain is valuable, even if it’s a PR0, as long as the search engines know about it–that’s why step 7 is critical, because if you stop before that, search engines are not going to know that your store exists.
You can also use some directories from http://www.directorycritic.com/ that allow deep links to get it ranked.
Hehe what a nice trick Eli. So how’s more evil? you or John??
I’ve been known to eat a few babies and swerve for old people
I don’t care who’s more evil, but this blog is leaps and bounds better than John Chow’s blog ever dreamed about being.
“So what’s the deal about having a PR0 even if it’s from Amazon? Just pulling your overall PR down.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
You are funny.
If I get “hxxp://whois.domaintools.com/mydomain.com” indexed as well, will that get me some authority of whois.domaintools.com ?
Your views, Eli?
Yes it would. Infact its a nofollow link. So you can gather links for the page and have it pass pagerank to your site.
“bringing overall pagerank down.”
Page Rank is not an average its a sum. You can read the article quoted in the BHT #2. It may help explain it better.
What happends if everyone start doing the same think?
You can also go to “Your Account” and “Edit your Web site information” to stay under the radar, or edit it after the fact.
I did this, but I didn’t create a link. Should I just create a new store?
Also you can customize your url to be anything you want, eg astore.amazon.com/[keyword(s)]-20
You can block that contentlink stuff by putting this in your hosts file:
127.0.0.1 kona.kontera.com
Cheeky, I like it! The same can be done with squidoo, but without has much trickery
Looks like the link is a “nofollow” now - must have changed sometime in the last week.
yeah, nice tech, though nofollow now
Yes, it’s nofollow now. What a shame!
Eli,
After reading your post I had started a couple of astores. But recently I noticed that Amazon added nofollow tag to the external link. (I was late to notice it).
May be someone from Amazon is reading your blog.
I have an Amazon Seller Central account where I used to be able to place a few nice links in the about us page and the shipping page, but they actually took all 500 of my listings offline and sent me an email saying they wouldn’t reinstate me until I took down those links. Talk about draconian.
Interesting post.
Everyone and his dog was probably doing this resulting in the no follow link
Good try though
I just wondering if its work I think it will give you not much. And yes, they might apply no follow.
i’ve recent;y tried this just to have a look at what happens. too bad its nofollow now.
just signed up to amazon to give this a shot
One more good link source down the drain…
Unfortunately I’m too late to catch it as everyone else has.