3. Scroll down the banner page and select the category that suits your niche.
4. Look through your banner options and choose the ad and size you want
Like the image above you will see a preview of the banner along with the code for your website. You will see your amazon tracking ID within the code. That is what let's Amazon know you sent that customer their way.
Now let's look at how you add the banner to your post and ensure it opens in a new tab.
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RusT
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I've seen a number of ways of supposedly doing this but none have worked, there is also the <1=_new method but this doesn't work either. it would be good to get a solution to this as it's not ideal having banners that just draw visitors away from our sites.
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.
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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In-Harmony
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Andrew888
Premium
I was never able to solve the issue, so I just removed amazon from my sidebar.
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 :-)
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 :-)
smokeywins
Premium
I just tried this with the Amazon Prime banner and same problem. It still opens in the same window.
ClayWestfall
Premium
Can somebody help me with this? I understand everything up to step eight, but step nine lost me. My article pages have nothing like she is describing,. Where exactly do I paste the code?
littlemama
Premium Plus
I don't know what she's trying to do with Step 9 (Amazon links always opens in a new tab anyway). You just need to be able to copy the entire Amazon code, and paste it in the TEXT tab of your post (you have a Visual and a Text tab when you're editing your post). I think I just answered this to you in another thread, if you have more problems, you can PM me.
daniel9977
Premium
Michelle,
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
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
MichelleJM
Premium
Never tried an ad like that. Send me the code and I'll see if I can figure it out.
