Amazon Affiliate?

March 10, 2001 11:47 PM

Quick cash for Matt, or his evil twin Howie: I just made a bunch of links to Amazon, and while doing so thought, “If only Metafilter was part of the Amazon affiliate
program. Then he might make a few pennies off my reccomendation.” Couldn’t hurt anything but your karma.
posted by capt.crackpipe to Feature Requests at 11:47 PM (5 comments total)

That's a pretty interesting method of money making, especially for communities and other public-supported sites. I would make links to online stores every time I mention a product if Matt had an affiliate account. Not Amazon, for various reasons, but if Amazon could incorporate that into their micropayment scheme, it'd probably end up being rather popular.
posted by cCranium at 3:56 PM on March 11, 2001

Matt's associate ID is haugheydotcom .
posted by luke at 7:31 PM on March 11, 2001

acutally, I cancelled my haugheydotcom amazon account a few months back. I never saw more than ten bucks a quarter so it wasn't worth it.

I'd much rather do an automatic URL re-writer that converts amazon links to givequick links.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:23 PM on March 16, 2001

ask + ye shall receive: http://www.johneklund.com/amazon/givequick.pl
posted by judith at 5:17 PM on March 20, 2001

& for the linky version: http://www.johneklund.com/amazon/givequick.pl
posted by judith at 5:18 PM on March 20, 2001