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Tutorial: Amazon.co.ukTop Sellers for a BrowseNode / Display charts using WebServices (ECS)

With Amazon WebServices (ECS) you can always access the latest top sellers at Amazon.co.uk and incorporate these directly (incl. the Associate link) into your website without any effort.

Not only can you display top sellers from Amazon.co.uk’s top categories, but also top sellers from sub-categories. You can decide which categories or sub-categories to query for the latest top sellers and which to display on your site.

Two examples:

• Does your website feature video games for the “Nintendo Wii”? Then not only can you present your users with the Top 10 products from the video games category, but you can also specify that the Amazon.co.ukTop 10 only features products from the “Nintendo Wii” sub-category.

or

• A site about comics can now display the latest Top 10 Amazon comics.

Provide your users with high-ranking top sellers from Amazon (e.g. updating charts) and benefit from increased sales via your website. Top 10 charts are constantly updated so you are always guaranteed the latest (product) content.

Download a tutorial on automatically integrating the Top 10 Amazon.co.uk products at category or sub-category level by the clicking the following link:

Download TUTORIAL_ECS_Topseller_20070201_UK.pdf
(File size: approx. 500 KB / Format: PDF)

Tutorial: Creating manual Associate links to category or subcategory pages

The text link generator available from our Associates Central enables you to create Associate links to a specific web page on Amazon.co.uk. Since we are –once in a while- receiving requests from Associates who want to create their Associate links manually, we have produced the following short guide to creating Associate links to category or sub-category pages on Amazon.co.uk.

Step 1:
First navigate to the category/sub-category which you want to link to on the Amazon.co.uk website.

Step 2:
Identify the Browse Node (category ID/sub-category ID). To do this, proceed as follows:

The address bar of your browser displays the URL for this category/sub-category page. You can identify the Browse Node for your chosen category/sub-category within the URL as follows:

You can always identify a Browse Node in the URL because either,

The suffix browse/-/ appears before the numerical Browse Node followed by the numerical ID (e.g.: browse/-/268021/). In this example the Browse Node is 268021 or 

or

The suffix &node= appears before the numerical ID (e.g.: &node=283926). In this example the Browse Node is 283926

(Note: Each Amazon.co.uk URL can also contain other numerical IDs. However, these are not Browse Nodes.)

Step 3:
Copy the Browse Node for your chosen category/sub-category and paste this into the following URL in place of the parameter [Browse Node]:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/b?node=[Browse&tag=your-assoc-id-21&linkCode=ur2 Node]

For example, the Browse Node 283926 would give the Associate link:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/b?node=283926&tag=your-assoc-id-21&linkCode=ur2

Step 4:
Replace the parameter your-assoc-id-21 with your Associate ID.

13-digit-ISBN: How will this change impact your links to books on Amazon?

The International Standards Organization (ISO) approved a change to the length of the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) from 10 digits (ISBN-10) to 13 digits (ISBN-13) effective January 1, 2007. Several of you have asked about how the change will impact your links to books on Amazon so we're using this post to answer the most common questions.

• What's an ISBN? What's an ASIN? What do they have to do with each other and with Associates links?
• Do I have to change any links because of ISBN-13?
• If I know the 13-digit ISBN for a book, can I use that in a Product Link to Amazon?
• Is there an automated way to create Associates links if I have the 13-digit ISBN?
• I've seen online tools and mapping methods that convert a 13-digit ISBN to a 10-digit ISBN. Can I use one of those to look up the ASIN?