Joan Connelly

you don’t put the ad code anywhere (that I know of)… you would go to your amazon logon (not the affiliate), activate site stripes, then put in a product – say weights – then click on text, image, text_ image or Custom… then take the code that’s generated and paste it into your webpage… i think that will work for you…

I can’t paste a screenshot here, but give it a try if you can…

I gave up and am redoing all of my links from the API which doesn’t work, I believe, because although Amazon doesn’t pay me, I do not meet their criteria – this is the 2nd time I’ve redoing the links because of that API – which I thought was pretty cool… not anymore… this is terrible support and a lack of respect for people’s time – because they can…

ps. they also make it sound easy to ‘just add a new tag’. i’m on wordpress.com so i don’t have access to the backend to do a global change to my posts and pages, so i do each individually. it took me hours to change canada, only to have it cut off right after i finished everything. it probably took me days just for that change. i’m pretty done with amazon, it’s just not worth all the hard work. i’d rather put that effort into SEO fixes and content. but that’s probably just me…

?? I hope you figure this out and i sincerely hope it’s not an api id change!

hi Taisa, are you sure you weren’t cut off with the 1/23 change that Amazon just implemented. I am pretty sure that is my problem. Amazon doesn’t like small businesses. I guess they forgot when they were small… or maybe they were never small ??

I have the same problem but assumed it was Amazon being cruel to small business owners again.I put an awful lot of work into this – now look at this page – it had 3 book recommendations per month… Now it’s empty. I put 3 links on from the ‘old’ way (no API) to be sure it wasn’t a wordpress issue. Even the links from the API don’t work. A lot of work has gone into this API and now nothing shows…

https://professionalshealthconnection.com/best-home-exercise-equipment/reading-of-the-month/
here’s another one that used to show women’s gym attire:
https://professionalshealthconnection.com/workout-clothes-2/activewear-for-women/

before this happened, the API sporadically had missing images – then they would appear, then disappear – I was thinking there was a limit per page and that was one of my next Amazon issues to fix but I think the change they made on 1/23/2019 did this.
I wrote them but haven’t heard back…I’m probably too small a business owner for them to change their approach…

Hi,
If you are a small business, you might want to re-think the API, unless you know you will be able to meet Amazon’s requirements. Looking at your site, I’m not sure how you got the amazon images at the bottom, but when I started I saved their images and sized for my site. I had a lot of them before reading about the API. So I signed up for it and was ‘granted’ permission – for about 7 countries. So I went about changing out all my small, not-so-professional looking images for their nice looking API’s, with pricing! It was great. Then I received a notice that Canada didn’t have enough sales so my API was going to be discontinued. I applied again and was granted a new API! Ugggh.. I had to change all my Canadian API’s (a few hundred). This really kept me from working on content. So that was done and I received no word, but suddenly, I was unable to select the UK and CA from the API. And I applied for Australia so I added flags so people from Australia could buy too. I thought this was a great convenience but apparently I am in the minority. So yesterday I worked on an old article for SEO purposes and found a fitness product I hadn’t converted to the API so I tried to select it and found that the US and DE displayed an exceed limit message. Exceeded my limit, I hadn’t selected anything yet for that day.
Anyway, I went to a page where I had a LOT of images (3 recommended fitness books monthly every month) and the page was blank – BLANK!! They no longer allow me to use the API for those countries. I may or may not have the 3 left that I can select, but since I don’t live in those countries, I’m not sure.
So, before you begin working with Amazon, you might want to be sure you can sell, otherwise, they basically kick you out and/or make it so difficult for you that you WANT to quit.
I emailed them yesterday for suggestions on how someone who is struggling with sales can work with them, but I’m not giving it hope that I’ll get an answer.
Here is one page where I put some old links back, just so the page wasn’t empty:
https://professionalshealthconnection.com/best-home-exercise-equipment/reading-of-the-month/

and here is one page that is totally blank because I built it with API’s only:
https://professionalshealthconnection.com/workout-clothes-2/activewear-for-women/

BTW – if you use too many links on a page with the API’s, you’ll sporadically get missing images. So you’ll have to limit how many you put on a page, but I’m not sure what that limit is.

I hope this helped a bit. Wishing you the best of luck!!!
Joan

Hi, I’m using WordPress.com and setup a page to sell gym clothes – I have the same issue and wordpress suggested I try this forum. Has anyone gotten back to you yet?

I formatted a large table with 3 products per table (I had 4 and thought that may have been my issue, so I changed the table to 3. At first I had several tables to break it up, but I changed to one large table – both designs have the same issue. It’s inconsistent and unreliable…

Oh and it loads very slowly too..

Here are 2 of my site pages
https://professionalshealthconnection.com/activewear-for-women/

https://professionalshealthconnection.com/best-home-exercise-equipment/reading-of-the-month/

From Support at WordPress: here is the document from wordpress when they replicate the issue..
the Amazon shortcode is not loading the proper product, and I’m afraid this is not something we can test from our end without some help from the plugin developers. For example, when I first visited your page, a lot of the images were missing:

the Amazon shortcode is not loading the proper product, and I’m afraid this is not something we can test from our end without some help from the plugin developers. For example, when I first visited your page, a lot of the images were missing:

https://cld.wthms.co/9ENFaA

On the second time, however, they appeared:
https://cld.wthms.co/6EOJm2