Reconnecting...
You will need an Amazon.com (US) associates account to get stared, as the initial set up will be done there.
To set up OneLink, you will need an Amazon.com Associates account. The Amazon.com Associates account is where you will do your initial setup for OneLink; to apply for an Amazon.com Associates account, visit the following link: associates-program.amazon.com.
You will also need an Amazon.co.uk Associates account, or Amazon.ca for Canada. To sign up for Amazon.co.uk, click here: https://affiliate-program.amazon.co.uk
Get logged into your US Amazon Associates account.
As of right now, you will see "new: launching one link" at the top right under your store ID.
Please excuse the sloppy arrows during this tutorial. For the sake of time, I'm just using my snipping tool! :)
Go ahead and click on that and you will be taken to the getting started/introduction to Amazon One Link Page.
Click the Link your accounts link and you will see the page below.
Select which geography you want to link to your US store ID. You will go through the linking and verification process separately for each region.
If you do not already have a UK or Canada store, this is where you will be prompted to create a new account for each region you wish to link.
We won't go through that process here. It's basically filling in some info concerning your site. It' similar to when you created your US store.
Click on a geography and you will see the page below.
Copy your new store ID for the region you are linking and paste it into the box, then go ahead and click the link store button.
At this point, you will see a four digit verification number. Amazon is going to request your phone number.
When the Amazon robot calls, it will ask you to enter the 4 digit number.
Enter the 4 digit number in your phone.
If all goes well, you will see your status change to a green "verified."
Next up, we will tackle the scary part...Inserting the code. :)
But, I have one question for you. In the past Amazon had a plugin which redirected visitors to the Amazon site of their country to a same or similar item. The problem was if they went ahead making a purchase, you wouldn't get commission.
Do you get commission for sales in countries you are 'one linked' to?
Thank you
Giulia
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canceled some time ago so have to apply again.
One question - does it work both ways? For example, if I put a UK link in will it redirect to the US site if a reader is in the US? Or should I always use the US link and it will redirect?
This is a great question.
I would have to assume that it would work either way since we have the one link code on our sites, but my feeling is to use the US link until I get a definitive answer from Amazon.
I will try to email them tomorrow for clarification.
Have a great day/night. :)
I will resubmit the question and see what we get from the next associate.
My advice is to continue using your US associate links.
While I'm not a code expert by any means, I believe that any properly formatted html file should have a closing </body> tag before the closing html </html> tag.
Can you add a screen shot of the end of your theme footer code here?
thanks for getting back to me, I'm on holiday at the moment and have bad wifi but I do believe I may have sorted it now anyway as I watched a tutorial on youtube which went about it a different way (i'm presuming there are different ways to do it).
Anyway when I get home I am going to find out wether I have done it properly and I will get back to you if I need more help.
Thanks again
This is GREAT news ... Thank YOU!
Shuckers ... I just logged into Amazon but "Launching OneLink" states the following:
"Please link your store and get it validated before mapping individual tracking IDs"
so we need a store before we can use the individual tracking OneLink option, by the sound of this. Now I have to get going adding my store ... huh.
This is truly GREAT news for all Amazon affiliates!
If you are referring to Amazon astore, then no, you do not need an astore on your site.
When someone clicks your affiliate link, they are sent to what Amazon calls your storefront.
This is basically your affiliate ID, AKA - your store.
P.S. In case you haven't heard, Amazon will soon be retiring the astore.
Amazon One Link basically allows you to link international traffic to your US store (ID) to help monetize that traffic when they click on your affiliate link.
Hope that helps.
~Jeremy
If what you say is true then what is with the following prompt:
"Please link your store and get it validated before mapping individual tracking IDs"
The prompt is telling you that you must link and validate your CA and UK stores to your US store (ID's) before Amazon will give you the code to put on your site/sites to implement Amazon One Link.
After adding the code to your site, Amazon will then be able to redirect your CA and UK traffic to your proper store (ID) when an affiliate link is clicked.
Amazon will retire the aStore on 10/27/17.
Hope this helps.
Have a great day ~Jeremy
...and, I'm no newbie either.
Thank YOU ever sooooo much for this clarification Jeremy,
Hugs!
