It depends if they are links or Codes.

With an affiliate link you have your article in your wordpress in Edit Mode.

You highlight a relevant piece of text.
You click on the Paperclip icon in your little menu above your article
A box will appear directly underneath that highlighted box
You insert your affiliate link then click on the little cog wheel to the right of the box

Next menu

Make sure your link is there and also the little box that says open in new TAB
Then click Add

Your highlighted piece of text should have turned blue.

Click on Preview and test the link and if it takes you to where its supposed to then job done.

If its a code then you have your article in Edit Mode.

You place your cursor wherever in your article you want the link to appear

You click on TEXT to the right of your menu (NOT Visual).

You insert the code where you placed your cursor.

You click on Visual and your Ad/Link should be showing in your article.

You click on Preview and test the Ad/Link.

Hope alls clear.

-For more detailed help and information, Have you tried the
"HELP CENTER" To the left of the page?,.......

when adding the banner code did you add it to the text tab in the editor.
does the affiliate program not have more training on this?
good luck
phil

Michael are you sure its a link and not a code?

With a link its pretty straight forward.
You highlight a relevant piece of text then click on the Paperclip Icon in your menu.
A box appears directly below that highlighted text.
You insert your link.
Then you click on the little Cog Wheel to the right of the box.
Next screen
Make sure your link is there and also the little box for open in new TAB is ticked then click on Add

Your link will have turned blue.
Save and click on preview and test the link.
If it takes you to where its supposed to, job done.

For a Code you place your Cursor where you want the image to appear within your article then you click on TEXT and not Visual.

Enter the Code where you placed your Cursor.
Click on Visual and your banner should show.

Save and click on Preview and test it.

Looks like you already received some great help that should clear up what you're trying to do.

If not here's some training on adding a banner: Adding a WA Banner to a Wordpress Sidebar Widget

Hi Phil
Thanks for your help. I hung back a while until I had resolved my problem. You were dead right about adding the code to 'Text'. You are a gentleman sir!
Yours aye.

Hi Robert
Thanks for your help. You were 100% correct about asking, "Was it code or a link?" Actually I didn't have a clue! Nor did I know anything about Text or Visual. My banner now looks a treat in its spot.
You are a gentleman sir!
Yours aye.

Thanks Brok for the help. This is the kind of stuff that makes your site look professional. I hope all is well with you and you are continuing to steam ahead at full speed!
Yours aye
Cap

Happy to help when I can Michael.
Enjoy your Wednesday.
Robert

I am not sure on share a sale how you get product links as I just use a banner on my website. Maybe get in touch with share a sale

You should be receiving an email from your sponser at ShareASale and you can contact them to help with the links you need. Many times, they only have one link to the main product page, but if you refer them there, you will get a commission for the product you linked.

I would wait yes since you have to be accepted in order to be paid to promote them.

Hi - yes, because the affiliate links they send will be unique to you and your website. Otherwise, the affiliate program will not know the customers have come from your website, and you won't get the commission.

Thank you for the prompt reply!

Thank you for the prompt reply!

Yes, they will get back to you and tell you whether you are allowed to be an affiliate or not.
Enjoy your Sunday.
Robert-A

I would wait beause they may not accept you, and there you are advertising for free and with possible links to thier site. That would not be good.

Just click on the picture and unlink it or the text and unlink it in wordpress or site content

And that is totally legit? I've been reading all night about this and there's a lot of conflicting information.

What I found was, you can't download and host their pictures, and the reason is that some product photos belong to third parties, and if they decided to stop selling through Amazon then a certain site hosting the photo would no longer be allowed to use it since the affiliate's website is in business with Amazon and not the third party who retired.

If I unlink the picture, would it count as hosting the picture myself since Amazon would have no control over it? Or if I insert picture through direct link (the .jpg link you can get by right-clicking the amazon product photo).

Thanks for helping out, I'm trying to make sure I won't get banned from Amazon Associates :)

You can always add a little caption below the image for where it came from.

I've actually just reached out to them with your idea. I'll see what they say, if they tell me I can do that it will make things so much better. Waiting on their reply!

Thanks!

I received confirmation from Amazon Associates that this would violate their terms. I'll just leave image links and hope for the best. Thanks!

Okay thanks for the heads up back to my wordpress lol...goes to show I have no idea sometimes :)

I'll try to answer as best as I can.

"Do you have to write a review for each product that has a link in it?"

You can choose yourself. You can either write reviews of each one or not, you choose which one fits better for you. Sometimes people have Top-10 posts and direct affiliate links. Sometimes they have Top-10 posts and then links to specific reviews of each products.

So, you can choose the best way that works for you.

"If so, does that verbage become part of the article?"

I don't understand this question.

"I also have another post about hotels near Sea World in Orlando. Should I use a comparison pricing on this? Hotels change their rates all the time and I surely don't think it's my place to quote prices anyway. I don't want to get sued by anyone!"

Again, you can choose if you show the pricing, comparison or anything, it's again your own choice.

You can mention that the prices change and you can give the price range that they had at the time of writing that article.

Hotels won't most likely sue you for basically doing free promotion for them :D You're doing them a favor.

If they'll do something, they'll rather pay you for letting people know about them and thank you for your feedback.

One of the more experienced people here, (I forget who it was ), had a formula of a minimum of 250 words for every affiliate link (includes affiliate banners) that you have on your post or page. Other links don't count in this 'formula', like internal links to your other pages or posts, or external links to more informational URLs like Wikipedia and others.

To avoid coming off as spammy, when Google is filtering through information, the more than 250 words per affiliate link in a post or article, is good advice. I still often wind up on spammy websites when I am doing a Google search for something, and I don't stay on those sites for long. I especially hate websites that have videos that suddenly turn on, nearly giving me a heart attack, or affiliate banners that are literally everywhere, being shoved into my face.

Thanks, Maddy, for helping me out.

Marion

Any time :)

I would advise against it as Google looks on Bridge pages as Doorway pages and you run the risk of getting your site DeIndexed.

Read this and scroll down to number ten

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-get-deindexed-by-google/242069/

@Robert-A,

Ok.... Thanks for the tip.... I think I'm going to pass on the "bridge page" idea for now... even though it is mentioned in Kyle's video.

I'm just going to go ahead and post the affiliate links on each article of my website, as originally planned... I'll just make sure not to "overdo" it. I can't see why this would necesarily be a bad thing

I'm sure the bridge page (when done correctly), could serve as a way of "preselling" the product before the visitor actually jumps over to the affiliate page... but apart from the mention of it in the video, there does not seem to be a clear mandate that having the bridge page is better for SEO.

I also plan to do plenty of relevant internal linking between each of my other blog posts as well.

Thank you!

A lot of the videos are quite old and what worked back then has changed because of the updated Google Algorithms.
Internal linking is good SEO as is external linking.

You don't necessarily have to do reviews. You can just recommend something, or heck, I've seen websites through here on WA that have a sideways scrolling window with several items related to the article but not specifically mentioned in the article. I've also seen a couple of sites compare item's features or compare prices at different places that they are affiliates of.

All that works.

But yes. You have to go into your editor and add the photos and edit your text because that information is not there, and you want it there.

Best to you!

never mind!!!

I would apply the ratio from the post itself.
If you have 500 words post, may be 1 link should be fine. But if you have a long post, you can have more links. Mixing between internal link and affiliate links (external) on every page may be a better option. It also good for SEO strategy as search engine would see the interlinks of related posts.

Hope that helps.

Joe

Thank you very much for your reply Joe, it makes sense.
Just one further clarification, if you do not mind: Does the 500-word limit only go for affiliate links or also for internal ones? My understanding is that internal links are far better tolerated.
Thanks again in advance for your reply.

Thanks, i am also helped.

There's no limit for internal links but do it naturally.
If you place too many internal link within 500 words post, it looks not so professional too. :)
2-3 internal links should be fine.

Joe

I believe I read where someone in the Top10 said 2-3 links per 1000 words was appropriate.

Make sense, as long as the links are relevant.

I have answered my own question, I have now successfully added an affiliate link to my page outside of the WA platform. So for the other members that have been having trouble try this. Ad Blocking Extensions - How To Ensure Your Affiliate Banners Are Visible To Everyone and this How To Add Images To A WordPress Blog Hope this helps those who were having problems adding affiliate links.

I had the same problem when I started! I quite enjoy putting affiliate links and banners... it's so easy, it's fun!

Here you go :) How to Turn an Image Into a Link in Your Wordpress Blog Post

Thank you! That was helpful, I figured out what I was doing wrong!

Glad to help :)

Hey Clark,

The following tutorial may offer you the help you seek: Amazon Links: Adding Links to Your Website Hope you find this helpful.

It just sounds like you didn't enter the link url correctly is all.

Hi Eric,
I am communicating with tech support about it, and they are saying that I need to enter my affiliate code into custom HTML at the widgets page. This was not covered in Kyle's training video on entering affiliate links into content. I am lost when it comes to how to add a custom HTMLwidget with regards to affiliate links. Did I miss something in the training somewhere? What can you tell me about all of this?

Is your affiliate link a url, and are you wanting it to show up within your article's content? If so, it's no different than any other link you've ever made. However, if it's more than just a url and actually code that, for example, shows an image and text for the amazon product, then the code amazon gives you will need to be entered into your text editor. From your Wordpress post editor just click over from Visual to Text and enter the code in its entirety wherever you'd like the link to appear. Then when you publish the article you'll see the amazon visuals and link there where you placed it.

Thank you so much, very helpful tutorial.

Thank you Ngoni! Glad it helped you.

Very helpful Eric. Thank you!

It doesn't matter really, however, I prefer to do my reviews as posts
I wish you success
Vicki

Thank you for your answer!

The majority of all your content will be made on posts. Think of pages as sticky-posts. Pages need a menu to nest in as their home.

You can screenshot the content on WA but the only way to share it is through the affiliate link.

Most of the social networks won't allow direct linking to an affiliate link so the only solution is a post on your website with the link.

Thank you for your input, I appreciate it. If I screenshot the content, could I paste it onto a post in my website, or would it be better to create a post of my own and then include the link?

Create a post of your own, take a screenshot of the content on WA and attach a link to the post inside WA. That way, if anyone clicks through to read the post on WA, your affiliate cookie is set and you will get a sign-up credit if the WA post gets them to join.

Thank you so much for your help, I appreciate it.

Hey Keri,

If you have not yet received an email from Amazon stating that your website has been approved to use affiliate links that may be the issue. To add links before you are approved would be a waste of your valuable time.

Hope this helps you.

Thank you.

My rule of thumb is one article, one link. This is because you need a ton of content, and each link should have keywords driving it for traffic, so putting multiple links in one article is not as effective. Also, if you have too many links, Google may view your page as a 'bridge page' rather than n authority site, and you don't want that, it will hurt your ranking.

I'm not sure if I fully understand your question.

Still, you can use the 'Get Started Today' image, I mean as a screenshot.

Upload the image to your post, Then click on the picture = Edit = Link to Custom URL – Add Your WA Affiliate Links. It will look like the one attached below. Hopefully, this helps:)

You want to learn how to create the green button? If I'm understanding you correctly.

@Nkaujzeb Yes, that is my question. How to create those kinds of buttons?

Here, I hope this will help you out. How to create free call to action (cta) buttons with da button factory online generator

I found a bunch of trainings when I searched woocommerce in the WA search bar - some live video trainings, how to install woocommerce! Woocommerce is free to use as far as I know. I have set it up before and it is fairly straight forward. Good luck!

Thanks heatherplude I will look into it.

Many thanks

Hi Heather,
Can you explain woocommerce? The website format I'm using suggests adding it. I don't know what it is.

Thanks!
Marie

Hi Sergej,

You can add affiliate links to general articles, but by all means wait until you've written (are writing) your review of whatever you want to promote too. In any case, you don't want to be adding affiliate links to every page/ post.

One strategy worth noting here is linking to other articles within your site, that contain affiliate links. For example... you might be writing an article about 'how to burn fat when you have a slow metabolism' or something (anything). Adding an affiliate link may not make sense. That's fine. But you could link to an article (or review) within your site that does contain affiliate links, where you are promoting fat burning supplements. For example, "click here to see my top 10 fat burning supplements" which is a top ten review within your site, that contains affiliate links.

Hopefully that makes sense/ helps you :) Cheers

Thank you that you took the time to write me such a helpful answer! Now I can go on with my course in peace :)

All the Best!

You're very welcome Sergej, glad it helped! Cheers

Great strategy to follow and implement, TimMcKinlay.

Thank you!

You might check this out for the review page Review Template - Page 3

In articles with lots of different products, your readers will want links to them. If you use them strategically, then it is perfectly fine.

Search result links are usually for something in text. If I were to say, "trekking poles are a great way to make your trip a lot easier." With something like that, people who click on the link are expecting to be taken to a variety they can look at. I hope this helps you.

This is what I figured, but I didn't want to overdo it. Your search link idea is brilliant, however. Thanks friend!

Hi

I guess what you can do is to link it only once and from there they will be able to see the different colors of the product (your given example) and then the buyers can decide (seeing the different colors in one setting)

I hope this is an option. I am also now your follower. Are you Asian?

Kind regards,
Arline :)

this is just in the beginning till you site starts to rank, he asks you to place your links on one page so your new site doesn't look spammy

however when your site gains trust you will have links on the pages

there is some difference in opinion in all this as some people like to rank first add links later, and some people add them early

Thank you.

If the content of the link is in alignment with content of post or page its posted it, google is cool. With that. But if your post content is in babies and you have adds and links on car repair, you have no real unique content. I am goibg back editing lt site

hey,
I was now about to ask the same question so I guess it will have the same answer. lol

thanks for asking this question

think links need to be relevantly placed and proportionate to the content. It appears each of the products will have one link which does not seem harmful

if they are your own products then are they really affiliate links? are you thinking more ecommerce with that?

I get that sometimes when I I forget which email address I have hooked up to my Associates account. If you have more than one email address, make sure you have that in order first. Passwords are easy to change. I have two Amazon accounts too, one .ca and the other .com, I have to be careful not to mix that up too. Also if your account is an older one 180 days or more, make sure it hasn't been de activated for lack of sales. Amazon requires 3 sales during 180 days or your account will be closed. It happened to me, so I opened another account under my other email account!

Hey Sheila,

Here is a Google search result asking your question: http://bit.ly/2jMJsPm

Being an Amazon Associate myself, I have not hear of such an option, only the Native Ads, so I DO hope this Google search result helps you.

Thanks

I actually added an Amazon-ad with customized search (In my case: my niche is fitness & bodybuilding)

So within the amazon-affiliate-dashboard, I went to:
-> Native Shopping Ads
-> Recommendation Ads - Create Ad Code
I created an ad-code for the search term "bodybuilding" and picked the option to show 4 products and added the html-code to my side bar.

And this is how it looks like:

I put the html code for a product link in my sidebar and got the same error. How are you adding it to the sidebar? You must have a text editor that you paste the code into.

I just added a banner to my site. All I did I copied the link and then added it to my sidebar as a html and it works just fine. Make sure You copy the hole code and it may not work on smartphones

I put the html code for a product link in my sidebar and got the same error. How are you adding it to the sidebar? You must have a text editor that you paste the code into.

At least the theme that I use has a widgets part in appearence. And in there i chose special html widget and drag that to my sidebar section. It opens a text editor where I paste the code. Hit save and that was it.

I have a widget called Text which is a text editor. I pasted the code in the text tab. It didn't work.

Is that the only widget. I have a variety of widgets for my sidebar

That is how I am doing it, but I may end up having to do it all over again.

That is what I do. I generally have posts in my rolling blog that are informational and educational. I put an internal link to a product review page that is related to the educational post. On the product review page I usually review 2 or 3 related items of different quality and cost. That gives the buyer a choice and I think helps some with conversions.

Anyway, that is what I do, others will probably have some additional ideas. Good Luck and God Bless.

Hi, Thank you.

Hi, Thank You.

Yeah I think that linking to your review page would be the best option. I feel as though adding affiliate links in your posts or pages could be detrimental to Google rankings, but I could be wrong.

Not wrong really. There is a point where Google considers you to be stuffing your content with links. Don't know what that number is, not sure anyone other than Google does. However, that is why I keep all my affiliate links only on my review pages. Other content on my sites is informational and educational.

Maybe this will help you. Tne "bunch of code letters" are html codes. Have you tried going back two or three lessons on the training. I have to do that sometimes because I apparently just gloss over some things that are important in the next lesson. Adding HTML Links - Wordpress Basics

I agree. The amazon "link" is not a link at all. It is not a website. When I paste and save it, and then click on it, safari tells me that it is not a valid website

It is an HTML code,
Not a URL. At the very top of this page just search your question by typing It in. You should find long lists to help explain. If you don't understand go to the next one until it is making sense. That's what I did. If I don't understand then I've missed something so I just read something else in the same topic.

I did find it. When you click on the arrow besides the box instead of the box, it produces the URL which includes my vendor code. The HTML can NOT be linked. In fact, wordpress highlights the box in RED telling me that it won't work. I watched the video several times and saw that he is putting a URL in the line

Have you selected the HTML tab within your post / page when adding HTML codes? If you try adding to the text tab it will not work.

You do need to use a link with your affiliate ID attached, otherwise, you will not earn a dime from linking to Amazon

Thanks Loes. The affiliate link does have my ID in it, but for some reason I'm not earning commissions. Do you know if it has to be a link to a specific product, perhaps, instead of to Amazon generally?

It has to contain your ID, it can be linked to any page at Amazon, you get the code from Amazon, do not mess around with this code, otherwise, it will not work anymore

Yes, as long as it is relevant to your content. I have a products page. Some of those products will link to my pages and some won't - or will be there to link to in future blogs.

Yes, you can but the ads are on your review page so you would want to do it the other way round by linking your other pages or post to your review page.

But there are no reviews yet. The training has us adding affiliate links with really no place to put them yet.

Writing reviews is one option and it is highly recommended. It is not the only way.

For example, you can write a post about your website building journey. Then explain how to get started building a free website. It would make sense to add your affiliate link pointing to the SiteRubix site -

https:// siterubix. com? a_aid= your affiliate ID

Carole (CLbrooks57) has advised you correctly that the link must be relevant to your content and offered as a way to help people find answers and solutions. ~Jude.

I think so too.Thank you!

The affiliate link can go on any page or post you want. Do be sure to click the 'text' tab, instead of the usual 'visual' at the top right.

Hi, thanks I finally got the banner but it went to the bottom, just need to figure out how to move to the top, thanks for your help

Hi Julie. Are you using the link button in the menu of wordpress to add your links? You should copy the url and insert a link (it looks sort of like an slanted infinity sign) and hit the little arrow and it should work perfectly!

I haven't done that, but I bet others here have. Try asking that question in the query bar at the top of the page. You may find blogs and/or tutorials on the subject.

Hi Tina,
You do have a good question. My simple answer would be to be on top of your products links. You should follow up on your links every so often to make certain that they still promote the product/service you want to provide so that when someone clicks on the link it does bring them where you want them to go. As far as getting notified by the affiliate, I believe it would depend on them. Maybe you would get notified but why take any chances? You are the one who is promoting on your website/blog, so I say click on them once in while and check it out. Hope this help. :-)

I like that a lot D. Thanks for the answer and the advice, I will make it a point to click on them every couple weeks to ensure that people are getting where I want them to go.

Have a great and prosperous WA day.

Tina (nana55)

Hi Balsam,
On my site that I promote WA, I do not promote Amazon products.

The reviews that they are talking about for the "promote WA site" are similar other online things to WA which maybe you or people have tried without or with success and comparing them to WA and then asking that they read your review of WA and that is what you are promoting in that site. WA.

Refer to my site and check out the Reviews tab to see what I mean: https://ultimatesuccessunlimited.com/

Amazon products are for other niche sites like for example painting, golf, pets, and so on.

I hope this is helpful to you to differentiate the two. WA site is promoting WA. Other sites can have Amazon.

Sincerely,
Your friend,
Gina

Hi Gina!

Many thanks for your kind response!

Please, according to your message, it would be better for me to JUST concentrate on the trainings under AFFILIATE BOOTCAMP Courses and not to do anything from ONLINE ENTREPRENEUR CERTIFICATION Courses. I thought I should make both in parallel!

Yes, your answers are always very helpful!

Wishing you a great day!

Cheers,
Balsam

Thanks!

The video was really very usefully and I understood how to add the link. But my question was WHERE to add it on my website because I am promoting WA program.

Cheers,
Balsam

Hi Balsam,
You can do them in parallel if you want.
Gina

Hi again,
If you are promoting WA There are a bunch of banners and your affiliate link in the section called "$ WA Affiliate Program" on the left side menu.
Gina

Hi!

I just paid a short visit to your website ultimatesuccessunlimited.com It is wonderful! I says everything that I want to share with others also. I have a burning question...how do I promote an 'original' website when you have already done so. I mean your site is more than excellent it truly is awesome. I could never hope to create something so complete!

Thank you for sharing!
Terri

Hi!
Please, I am not the one who has created the website ultimatesuccessunlimited.com . It is Gina!

Thanks and cheers,
Balsam

Hi Terri,
Thank you for such a nice compliment. Just follow Kyle's training and it will all come to you.
I wish you the best,
Gina

Hello,
Firstly, you must create an account on through gmail. Afterwards you have an account created. Click on Google + and click on Profile.

Thanks for your advice.

I use a plug in called pretty link and the free version has been adequate up to now.

In that instance you will be fine. He's just saying that it's a good idea to have some informational articles on your site. And instead of having an affiliate link on that article you can link to another page on your site. Internal links are very good.

Okay thank you!! :)

My pleasure :)

Not including affiliate links on every page, yes. This will make your website look like one huge promotion in Google's eyes and I don't really recommend doing that.

Instead, you should centralize your affiliate links within your product reviews.

Content page => Review page (with affiliate links) => Merchant offer (where you make money).

Please leave the link so we can check your site.

You will write Blogs. Your Blogs can be CATEGORIZED within your Pages, if you like.
You are fine having a link or two on every Blog.

Thanks.

You're welcome!

Hey there!

Kyle has advised that affiliate links (banners. text links etc.) should mainly be incorporated into your product review pages or posts. Try not to put it on other content, as Google will penalise your site for this.

You can then link to your product review pages from other non-review pages and posts, in order to direct traffic that way.

Reviewing each product would be ideal, as it gives the consumer a better understanding, thus increasing the chances of them buying.

Banners can go on your sidebar, or within your content. This is up to you to decide.

Hope that helps =)

Thanks so much for the clarity.

Glad I could help. All the best =)

I like your thinking Cindy. If I had a dollar for every time I read and re-read and watched and watched again, I wouldn't need a website to make money LOL.