When you start adding Amazon's banner ads to your posts, you will find that when clicked, they will open Amazon in the same tab. Why is this a problem? Well, you've just sent your visitor away and closed your own website in the process.
Ideally you want to leave your website open, so when they are done looking at the goodies you sent them to at Amazon, they can come back to your site for more value. It's really easy to get lost while browsing the internet, especially in a market place like Amazon that sells just about everything. So your tab serves as a reminder of what they were doing before.
Now you're informed and ready to drop some Amazon banner ads on your site and the first question is where do I find them?
Here are the steps:
1. Browse to the Amazon Affiliate webpage and sign in.
----> https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/
2. Select 'Banner' under the 'Product Linking' menu.
I did however notice in the code of a product I set up today the line: "&link_opens_in_new_window=true&", not sure if it may spark a few ideas, I've played with it but to no avail so far.
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One comment I received was that the purpose of our websites is to make money, and if someone goes to Amazon through our website, maybe it's not such a bad thing, as they may purchase stuff!
Best of luck :-)
I did exactly what you said.
The thing is that I use an Amazon banner that changes and actually has 2 ads. Sometimes it shows ad number 1 and sometimes it shows ad number 2.
After I did exactly what you said the result was: ad number 1 opens in a new window while ad number 2 still opens in the same window.
Why is that? And how can I fix it?
Thanks a lot,
Daniel
