It’s a start… but a bad one

  • After years of waiting Amazon finally comes up with their own plugin to link to products on their page. One would think it took them so long to make it perfect, but unfortunately it’s far from that.
    1. Lack in customization
    It’s not possible to simply design a grid that e.g. shows a couple of row with a set number of columns (3,4,5). Also, I’d like to add my own item names, as some on the Amazon page are simply confusing. Also, I don’t need the word “price” in front of something that shows a currency symbol and an amount.
    2. Impossible for more than one affiliate program
    Even though Amazon offers affiliate programs all over the world (I signed up for US, UK, German, UK, FR, IT and ES), they don’t let you localize your readers. Meaning if somebody in Germany clicks on a link to Amazon US I’d want them to be sent to the same product on the German Amazon website. I understand that items are not always identical, but I would even be willing to choose manually the right product for each Amazon country page in the set up, if it then would redirect the reader to the country page he is in.
    Until Amazon addresses these points, there is no need to get this plugin.

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  • I was going to say the same as you! I put a lot of time into signing up for all the diff regions fo rAmazon but it is too much to manage them all separately! Even tho i have them all I gave up on using them all when a diff country clicks links…it is not worth the hassle to try to get them all!
    I wish AMZ would allow us to pick and manage it all from one main account and auto detect the visitors region to give me the credit no matter where they are. I am sure i missed out on a lot of extra $$ bc of the wack way it is now!

    Great points raised here. However – don’t forget that this plugin is still in beta. The points made here would be terrific suggestions for them to put into the final version! It would be awesome if you could make a support thread and ask that they put these in. I would definitely consider both of these as being required for a good Amazon plugin; to leave them out would severely cut down on its usefulness.

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