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Amazon.com has released a new Associate referral service called Your Video Widget. It’s still in Beta at the time of this writing, but so far, I have found it to be pretty unique and useful, not only for me, but also for the viewers of my videos.
So what is it and what does it do?
Your Video Widgets let you earn referral fees while sharing the videos you already post on your webpage. Use Your Video Widgets to make your videos more interesting, informative or entertaining by adding product links to them.
You’ll earn referral fees when users click on product links and make purchases on Amazon.com.
I have just started to experiment with creating some video tutorials for the users of IndieLab. If you’re not familiar with IndieLab, I encourage you to learn more here.
You can see one of the videos I’ve made that includes a couple of Amazon Associate referral links below. After you watch the video, look further down to see some screenshots of the process.
When you’re logged into your Amazon Associates account, click the link Build Links/Widgets in the left hand column…
Upload your video, accept the terms, and give your video widget a title…
Play your video and click the “Add product” button wherever you’d like your first referral link to appear in your video…
Search for the product on Amazon that you want to link to. Naturally, you would want to link to a product that’s relevant to whatever your video is about…
Select the product to add…
…and that’s it. You now have Amazon referral links in your video!
If you create videos using this service, please post a link to it here.
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Can it applied to videos that embbeded from youtube?
This amazon tool looks cool, just adds another way to add revenue, I wish ebay would make something like this. I will be testing this “your video widget” on a couple of my videos, see how it will convert, I mean it wont hurt to try
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I have just started to experiment with creating some video tutorials for the users of IndieLab. Thanks for useful Information
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I’d be really curious to see how these video-based links perform in comparison to Amazon contextual links and the static product widgets. I’ve never had too much success with either the above on my sites. However, I might give this is a shot on my news blog. One more monetization stream wouldn’t hurt
Thanks a lot! I have used the Amazon affiliate program for some time but I’ve never had much luck when it comes to actually making money with it. Hopefully this new video feature will help to increase the sales a little bit. I know the regular, static images from the past are not very effective. Thanks!
Have you had much success with the video ads? Like Branson I haven’t had much success except for the occasional book report post with a widget specifically for the book. Nothing to write home about though.
Thanks
Thanks! I post videos all the time on my rock climbing blog, but I didn’t know I could make money off them.
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I really like the program. It is a great time saver and time for me is money. So thanks for spreading the word.
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I used amazon affiliate program as well, neevr found it profitable, but thanks for the information, i give it a try next time myself
This is an amazing site with a ton of great info. I am trying to find the best wordpress plugins and widgets to assist with SEO optimization and getting great rankings in Google. If you have any that you recommend, I’d love to hear about them. Best regards!
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I did´nt know that Amazon.com has video referrals too i thought
only textlinks, thats totally new to me, have to check this, thank
for ur information
its nice platform to sharing your videos
I used Amazon affiliate program before, but quickly changed over to other affiliate programs, but after this new feature, i may change over to amazon and give it a try and see how we go
Thanks a lot! I post videos all the time on my climbing blog. It’s cool that I can get referral fees. I’ll definitely check it out.
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I see Amazon is becoming more and more powerful empire in ad market, it could struggle with Google in future.
Thanks! I post videos all the time on my rock climbing blog, but I didn’t know I could make money off them.
That sounds like the perfect match for these types of associate links.
Great stuff – this is just what I needed. Thanks!
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Thank you so much for this post. I use the reviewazon plugin. Reviewazon is the easy and simple way to add amazon affiliate product to your website.
Looks like a valid product, can’t spend the money on it though, otherwise I’d check it out and review it.
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