{"id":189,"date":"2006-02-25T14:54:36","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T19:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2006\/02\/amazon_associate\/"},"modified":"2012-10-13T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T01:29:13","slug":"amazon_associate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2006\/02\/amazon_associate\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Associate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite my recent <A HREF=\"\/ted\/2005\/11\/slow_amazon\/\">issues<\/A> with Amazon, I still shop with them and they have some pretty good deals. I was updating my <A HREF=\"http:\/\/igirder.com\/ipodbattery.htm\">iPod Battery Pack webpage<\/A>, with some new battery packs and information and noticed I was linking to Amazon a lot for some of the commercial offerings. Why not see if I could get paid for those links? I soon found that Amazon had a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/browse.html\/103-8750195-9631025?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;node=3435371\">referral program<\/A> and signed up. Now I have links set up for all of the commercial battery packs I had listed that Amazon sells (plus a new one I was going to add anyway), only now if people follow the links and buy anything, I get some kind of commission.  I don&#8217;t know that it will amount to much, so for now I am asking to be paid in Amazon gift certificates which they will issue when I get to $10 (they issue payments quarterly). I can also get paid in cash, but, like AdSense, only when it reaches $100 (found out later that $100 is for payment by check only and they charge $8 for the check; with direct deposit you can also be paid as little as $10 at the end of the quarter with no fee so I switched to that).  We&#8217;ll see how this goes.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike AdSense, users not only have to follow the link, they have to actually buy stuff. I think that will be a bigger challenge. Apparently I can get 5% of the cost of items that are ordered and shipped. I wonder if Amazon sells houses?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite my recent issues with Amazon, I still shop with them and they have some pretty good deals. I was updating my iPod Battery Pack webpage, with some new battery packs and information and noticed I was linking to Amazon a lot for some of the commercial offerings. Why not see if I could get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2006\/02\/amazon_associate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazon Associate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}