Comments on: Amazon Product Ads

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:03:38 +0000

@Irving I’ve just release a new version that should fix the Amazon.com parameter issue.

Yes, you can use a comma separated list of ASIN to display several products

Yes, the intention was for only the first to display on the home page

By: Irving

Irving — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:28:44 +0000

@Daren, one more question. Looking at your code, if a post have multiple ASINs, you will show all of them in the widget. I have not tried this, so plese confirm.

However, what will happen in the homepage? For example, I have 2 posts with 1 ASIN each. Currently, they are both shown in the homepage. But your widget only shows 1 ASIN (from the older post). Is this the intention?

By: Irving

Irving — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:55:41 +0000

@Daren, I think you are using amazon.co.uk while I’m using amazon.com. The ASIN that you give is not recognized in amazon.com, even though it is recognized in amazon.co.uk.

I got the cue from you when you say that you try to build the link from Amazon affiliate page. I tried mine, and after comparing theirs (using my B001SEL326 ASIN), I think I found the difference.
Your widget uses o=2 for the second parameter, while Amazon produces o=1. I modified your widget to change it to o=1 and it works just fine.

Is this always have to be set to o=1? Or perhaps o=2 is for Amazon.co.uk?

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:30:07 +0000

@Vasilis Can you let me know what version of WP you are using and when you got the error

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:05:31 +0000

@matthew The “Self Optimizing” aspect of the plugin is performed by Amazon who have this in their FAQ:

In the preview we are only displaying sample products from selected product lines. The optimisation of the displayed products will take place once you include the code into your website. The website must be viewed 2 – 3 times before Self-Optimised Links will optimise the ads for this page.

As to your problem with the second instance forcing Amazon UK I will have to look into this. I do not develop against WPMU and consequently have never tested against it.

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:58:32 +0000

@Irving Unfortunately Amazon does not recognise the ASIN you are using, the page is there for the product but the Ad doesn’t work. I went into my Amazon Associates account and tried to use their Product Links wizard but that too did not recognise the ASIN. They do however have ASIN B002FL4QZC with is exactly the same product.

By: Vasilis

Vasilis — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:53:13 +0000

Hello
I just installed your plugin and got the following message

Fatal error: Undefined class name ’self’ in /home/www/allaboutdigitalfotography.com/wp-content/plugins/amazon-product-ads/amazon-product-ads.php on line 145

Can you help?

Thanks

Vasilis Vrakotas

By: Matthew Gerring

Matthew Gerring — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:58:15 +0000

Hi there. I downloaded and installed your plugin, but it won’t respond to any settings that I change. If I only have one instance of your widget running, it pulls products from the correct store but it doesn’t “self optimize” as advertised. If I put a second instance, it goes to the UK store no matter what I do, but it will choose products that make sense with the content.

I’m running Wordpress MU 2.8.4a.

By: Irving

Irving — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:36:50 +0000

Hi. Each time I use custom field with ASIN in it, your widget will show a standard ad from amazon.co.uk. It also happens if I put the ASIN in the Widget setup. However, everything went okay if there is no ASIN numbers in the posts/widget.

You can look at it yourself by visiting my site at http://en.irvingevajoan.com. I put 2 widgets in the left hand side. The top widget is standard widget which only shows Self Optimizing Ads Only. meanwhile, the bottom widget is default (without checking the Self Optimizing Ads Only option).

Now, the article about the Linksys router have a custom field with ASIN set to B001SEL326.

If you see, the top widget works okay, but the bottom widget only shows amazon.co.uk banner.

Something wrong?

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:38:54 +0000

@Adam

You can now update the ASIN in the widget if you want a widget instance that will always display the same product