How To: Quickly Create UK Amazon Associates Links with Chrome
I absolutely love reading, and some of my favourite questions to ask (and answer) are:
- “What are you reading now?”
- “What book(s) would you recommend for X?”
- “What are your top X books?”
Amazon have a really accessible Affiliate Program — so why not get involved with it?
I’m personally not looking to make gazillions from it — but it would certainly be nice to get a gift certificate now and then that can pay for my next book.
So, I wanted to make it easy for me to quickly generate Amazon Associates links. Thankfully, Amazon have actually done a good job at making this possible.
I tried to use the Amazon Publisher Studio extension, but it doesn’t work for non-US affiliates (confirmed with Amazon via email).
Set up a Chrome “Search Engine” to quickly search for a product
- In Chrome, go to “chrome://settings/searchEngines” (copy/paste into the address bar).
- Click the “Add” button under “Other Search Engines”.
- Under “Search Engine”, enter “Amazon Associates” (this is what is displayed in Chrome when searching).
- Under “Keyword”, enter “aa” (or another desired value) for the shortcut.
- Under URL, enter the following:
https://affiliate-program.amazon.co.uk/home/productlinks/search/?category=all&keywords=%s - Click the “Add” button.
Using the Search Engine
- Open up a new tab, type “aa” (or your desired shortcut) into the addresss bar and hit the TAB key.
- Type in what you want to search for and hit ENTER.
- You’re done! You can make the link in the search results.
Hope this helps other non-US Associates get what they need!