Using Amazon affiliate program like Adsense..

[Blarian]

I'm looking to setup targetted Amazon ads, like Adsense where it will work by itself based on the content of the pages...

Does anyone do this, that may want to show me an example?

[OgieOgalthorpe]

I have seen Amazon ads made to look like Adsense ads, but nothing that contexually picks the ads depending on page text.

[Blarian]

I don't necessarily want them to LOOK like adsense ads, rather the Amazon ads just to be displayed based on page context like Adsense does it.

[VisualDigits]

That would be a really useful piece of code, pm me if you find anything like that. I'd be interested as well.

[StuntPope]

That would be a really useful piece of code, pm me if you find anything like that. I'd be interested as well.

That's what the AWS toolkit is for. You see a lot of "generic" AWS sites being sold here, but you use the same principal.

Basically you pick your keywords for a page or article and then call the AWS system to get an XML result. Then you need to parse and display it.

There are third-party packages available to simplify this.

[unclewilco]

not sure about third part packages, i could not find one that suited me, so wrote one myself... heres the example...

http://www.readersheds.co.uk/readers...tes.howmany=10

in situ on my sheds site, mainly the shedshop it takes the search paremeter or a random keyword(based on my google keyword logs) and generates the box.

i have found just having the amazon logo and link made me nothing, but spending the time to develop this had paid 10X over..

unfortunatly(not for me) its in coldfusion and not PHP, so i can't just pass it on to whoever..

but the AWS toolkit is worth a read and will have to revisit it as i want to add the basket option...

good luck wilco

[Blarian]

Interesting..

[smile]

anywhere we can buy this type of script ?

[Blarian]

I've done a lot of research about this type of script.. found a complex PERL solution that works under linux. It's something that you would need a dedicated box for and someone extremely efficient in PERL to work with.

I'll have a solution up by the end of the week, very similiar to Adsense code where you just plug and plug the code and everything is done for you (all you really need to change is your affiliate ID and the size of the ad you want. )

The targetting is VERY good, I'll get a demo up as soon as possible. It's going to be a free service btw.

[DomainTurn.com]

please let me know

[cwsteam.com]

I would be interested too.

[MediaHound]

woOT
I have one to pull ClickBank products, but not Amazon.
Bring on some SOAP!

let me know when its ready also, I'd be interested.

[RTM.net]

Very interesting, FP1... now, is that PERL code very server intensive? Is it being run in realtime against each page view... gotta keep in mind that the contextual matching process shouldn't intrude excessively on the end user experience.

Sounds like a very interesting project; keep us informed!

Rob

[MediaHound]

@RTM - mine spiders, then stores a cache of the page's main keywords in a database, and checks it on a regular schedule looking for changes. Not too intensive.
FP1's may be different, this is to just give an idea of how its done.

[OzTheory]

this does exactly what you want, free:
http://www.rss-syndication.info/amazonads/

[gatorgrad]

it sounds rather interesting...i've used Amazon Affiliates program to link to some books.

[MediaHound]

this does exactly what you want, free:
http://www.rss-syndication.info/amazonads/

thanks for that link

though it dosent reside on my server

still not completely what I want - not sure about everyone else

[RTM.net]

though it dosent reside on my server

still not completely what I want - not sure about everyone else

I agree, I also would prefer a solution that resided, and ran off, our own servers.

MediaHound, your architecture about having an index of keywords and then running comparisons sounds good - basically how Adsense itself runs.

Rob

[MediaHound]

I agree, I also would prefer a solution that resided, and ran off, our own servers.

MediaHound, your architecture about having an index of keywords and then running comparisons sounds good - basically how Adsense itself runs.

Rob

These are the tables
user_ads (10)
cs_cache
cs_cachedResults
cs_groups
cs_products
cs_settings
cs_statsDomains
cs_statsUsers
cs_userDomains
cs_userItems
cs_users

cs_cache fields are:
id url contents dateAdded

contents are the keywords

your mileage may vary