{"id":804,"date":"2021-06-04T13:17:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T13:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/blog\/?p=804"},"modified":"2023-05-21T13:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T13:22:32","slug":"amazon-associate-site-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/blog\/amazon-associate-site-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Associate Site Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while you should revisit posts or pages that include Amazon affiliate links.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the product you link to has moved or been removed from the site.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already, add <strong>SiteStripe<\/strong>. It lets you create links as soon as you find a product you like. From the product page you can create <strong>Text<\/strong>, <strong>Image<\/strong>, <strong>Text+Image<\/strong> or <strong>Custom<\/strong> ads for your site.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"a-declarative\" data-action=\"amzn-ss-show-text-image-popover\" data-amzn-ss-show-text-image-popover=\"{}\">Text+Image<\/span> Links<\/h2>\n<p>If you have added a <span class=\"a-declarative\" data-action=\"amzn-ss-show-text-image-popover\" data-amzn-ss-show-text-image-popover=\"{}\"><strong>Text+Image<\/strong> link, it is really easy to tell when the page it links to is gone. It turns into a flashing orange rectangle. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=design4200-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B079WP9DGG&amp;asins=B079WP9DGG&amp;linkId=cec20f45760b5eddbc7aa7610061ea77&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can search for the product again and add the updated link. If it doesn&#8217;t exist at all anymore, you don&#8217;t have to remove the information if it still has some value. You can go to <strong>Amazon Associate Central &gt; Product Linking &gt; Native Shopping Ads &gt; <span class=\"a-declarative\" data-action=\"ac-ads-slider-select\" data-ac-ads-slider-select=\"{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;search_ads&quot;}\"><a class=\"ac-ads-slider-tab ac-ads-slider-tab-last ac-ads-slider-tab-selected\" data-ac-ads-tab=\"search_ads\">Search Ads<\/a><\/span><\/strong> and put a responsive ad unit on the page.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"ac-bold-font ac-ads-adcode-title\"><strong>Create Search Ads<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ac-bold-font ac-ads-adcode-title\">Display search results from Amazon.com by specifying a search phrase and selecting a relevant category to your page content in a responsive ad unit that works across screen sizes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The links don&#8217;t expire. If someone clicks on the garish orange flashing link and buys something, you still get credit. But they are way more likely to click on something more relevant.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-808\" style=\"width: 413px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"808\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/blog\/amazon-associate-site-maintenance\/amazon_banner-wrong\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.design42.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/amazon_banner-wrong.jpg?fit=500%2C650&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,650\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"amazon_banner-wrong\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Amazon Native Search Ad Gone Wrong&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.design42.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/amazon_banner-wrong.jpg?fit=423%2C550&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.design42.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/amazon_banner-wrong.jpg?fit=500%2C650&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-808\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.design42.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/amazon_banner-wrong.jpg?resize=423%2C550&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.design42.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/amazon_banner-wrong.jpg?resize=423%2C550&amp;ssl=1 423w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.design42.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/amazon_banner-wrong.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazon Native Search Ad Gone Wrong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Search Ads<\/h2>\n<p>Search ads are less likely to expire. They also aren&#8217;t as easy to scan for. (I can scroll a page in a couple of seconds and not miss the flashing orange. ) But sometimes search ads no longer show anything that makes any sense.<\/p>\n<p>The search ad above used to show the product above it. But the product isn&#8217;t on Amazon anymore, so the search shows a bunch of things that must vaguely meet the search criteria. But not likely what the person on that page is looking for.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know about Amazon Ad Caching yet, read this post: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/blog\/amazon-ad-caching\/\">Amazon Ad Caching<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while you should revisit posts or pages that include Amazon affiliate links. Sometimes the product you link to has moved or been removed from the site. If you haven&#8217;t already, add SiteStripe. It lets you create links as soon as you find a product you like. From the product page you &#8230; <a title=\"Amazon Associate Site Maintenance\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/blog\/amazon-associate-site-maintenance\/\" aria-label=\"More on Amazon Associate Site Maintenance\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging","category-information","tag-amazon-associates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.design42.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/featured-Amazon_associates.jpg?fit=1200%2C639&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8x1A8-cY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}