Context Links (beta): You Create the Content. We'll Link It.

##Late addition - because of the adoption rate for this product, it may take up to 24 hours for you to start seeing links.  We are working on reducing that time and appreciate your patience.##

Today we would like to announce another great feature now available to all Amazon.co.uk Associates: Context links (beta).

What are Content Links?

Context Links are a quick and convenient way to add links to your website and monetize your content.

After you embed one simple piece of code on your pages, Context Links automatically identify and link relevant phrases within your page content to Amazon products, unlocking new ad inventory and saving you the time from having to manually create links. You can add the links to your pages in minutes, and we provide a wealth of options to customize how they are displayed.

If you enable the preview functionality your site visitors will see a preview for the Amazon.co.uk products relevant to the phrase selected. Clicking on the link will send your site visitors to the product detail page on Amazon.com, and you will earn referral fees when the products are purchased.

The following example from Amazon.de demonstrates how Context Links work:

Visit our Context links page in Associates Central to learn more about this great new feature.

Setting up Context Links for your website is quick and easy. Simply:

1. Visit Associates Central->Build Links->Context Links
2. Specify the maximum number of links you'd like on each page
3. Optionally customize the display of the links with a couple clicks
4. Copy/paste the generated code into your pages

Log in to Associates Central or join the Associates program to try Context Links today and send us your examples of successful applications by clicking on the link “comments” at the bottom of this post. We look forward to featuring your applications of this new technology in our future blog posts!

Comments

[uncle wilco]

Great, I noticed them on the amazon.com last week.

I don't suppose there is the possibility so that if the visitor to your site is from the US then the script displays amazon.com content and if they are from Europe its displays amazon.co.uk content???

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The Amazon Associates team comments:
Unfortunately, for now this possibility does not exist.