MetaTalk posts tagged with amazon

Amazon links gone wild.

bigmusic — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:38:34 -0800

Amazon referrals need some fixing. This guy is linking to his own amazon store so he's bypassing the amazon filter. He's linked to the main amazon site before, so I'm guessing he's finally figured out he's not getting the referrals. Here's some more of his self links: 1, 2.

Amazon Affiliate url?

jca — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:39:27 -0800

Metafilter's Amazon.com Affiliate code url... I noticed Metafilter is using http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/XXXXXXXXXX/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/ url for it's Amazon.com Affiliate links. I assume MeFi is automagically rewriting the Amazon urls? I believe the preferred method of tagging Amazon.com product urls is: http://www.amazon.com/dp/XXXXXXXXXX/?tag=metafilter-20 Can anyone confirm this linking method? I'm sure the old-style ref=nosim code will continue to work (the ref=nosim variable was discontinued), but someone may want to update the rewrite script in case Amazon decides to break the old style of url for affiliate tracking. (They did retire the AWS 3.0 version of their affiliate system, breaking all those old scripts, so it's not out of the question.)

Amazon code for WP?

jbickers — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:11:04 -0800

Hey Matt and pb: You know that sweet-ass bit of code you guys have that scrubs any link to Amazon and inserts your affiliate ID? It would totally rock if you would release a version of that as a Wordpress plugin. Seriously, I know it might be some work, but it sure would be useful. There are a handful of Amazon-themed WP plugins already, but none as simple and elegant as your solution.

Amazon's Askville

armage — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:50:56 -0800

I got an email from Amazon regarding a new question-asking site called Askville. So far it doesn't seem as nice as our own AskMe, but I thought I'd bring it to everyone's attention.

We have box sets.

NortonDC — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:41:43 -0800

We have box sets. Slashdot has the goods on Amazon trying to give flashbacks to MetaFilter with their new and improved pricing shenanigans in which they deliver two box sets to lots of people for the price of zero, wait a five days (crossing over Christmas in the process), and then demand that people return them unopened. Now they've begun charging people's credit cards for what Amazon decides they should have paid.

Amazon's New Askville Service

filmgeek — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:40:17 -0800

Just a Meta Heads up. Along with Google and Yahoo in the "Ask" pool....

Amazon is stealing our internets too.

Why can't I add this to my wishlist? (Metafilter on Amazon.com)

dersins — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:40:10 -0800

Why can't I add this to my wishlist?

Affiliate Marketing for Amazon

polyglot — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:43:13 -0800

URL mangulation for fun and profit? I posted in AxMe an amazon link and metafilter has automatically mangled it to contain a metafilter referral token. Personally, I think that modifying content that we post is a bit rude; am I alone in this?

Is MeFi a member of Amazon Rewards?

Rash — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:48:25 -0800

When posting reference links to Amazon for books & such, does a click-through result in some pittance flowing back to Number 1? In other words, is Metafilter a member of Amazon Rewards? If not, there is no benefit of using an amazon.com link vs. for example a bn.com or powells.com .

I'm proposing a small change to amazon URLs

mathowie — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 23:47:42 -0800

I'm proposing a small change to amazon URLs here [more]

Amazon associate account for Metafilter

gorillawarfare — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:52:01 -0800

What if there were an Amazon associate account for the benefit of Metafilter?

MeFi Affiliate IDs?

null terminated — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 15:58:25 -0800

This thread gave me an idea. Could we set it up so links going to amazon or iTunes contain a MeFi affiliate id, so when visitors buy songs or books, some money could go to a MeFi general fund for hosting or sending mathowie on vacation or whatever?

Amazon referral links in posts

mkultra — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:25:29 -0800

Amazon referral links in posts. grabbingsand caught another user linking to Amazon with his own referral code in a post. How do people feel about this? A personal referral code is (IMHO) obnoxious, but what happens when people start slipping in referral codes to political sites? Is there even any way to catch this?

(previously discussed a while back)

metafilter in books

mathowie — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:48:29 -0800

Whoa! I dropped "metafilter.com" into amazon to try and find that alexa site ranking thing, and found out the site appears in 14 books.

How about a little meat to go with that book?

jjg — Sat, 20 Jul 2002 14:32:54 -0800

Starting a thread with an Amazon link. Weak.

Amazon donation bug

eamondaly — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:46:03 -0800

Clicking on the "Donate" link brings me to the Amazon donation page, then kicks out to the home page. I'm using MSIE 5.5:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461)

So how about a Pledge Drive?

willnot — Tue, 05 Feb 2002 20:55:11 -0800

So how about a Pledge Drive? My local NPR station is begging for money again, and I was thinking - you know I'd rather give my $1/day (why that's not even enough for coffee) to MeFi. Currently the donation kitty is at $3,597. I bet we can get that up to $4,500 in no time. What do you say?

nothing more than a crass attempt to get a few bucks

hincandenza — Sun, 16 Dec 2001 16:06:07 -0800

Why do people persist in doing this? tsarfan posts a link to an Amazon page showing that they're selling sex toys, ostensibly to incite commentary on what Amazon and other e-commerce outlets will/need to do to become profitable. In reality, however, it seems to be nothing more than a crass attempt to get a few bucks from MeFi's significant readership by making the link include his Amazon referrer code. In the words of the immortal Michael Stipe, "I call bullshit on that."

wehavecameras

Shadowkeeper — Wed, 21 Nov 2001 11:15:23 -0800

The thread on the Amazon offer is purdy good. [more]

Linking to Affiliate Codes

willnot — Sat, 04 Aug 2001 10:06:54 -0800

Hey Matt - I don't know how easy this would be, but how about a script that looks at links as they're posted and if it recognizes a link to an Amazon product (or any of 100s of others), it would automatically reformat the link with the Give MeFi 15% back if somebody buys this product off this link character string.

Then you could just sit back and rake in all of the subversively gotten gain.

Matt's in the news

andrewraff — Wed, 13 Jun 2001 08:42:31 -0800

Rock-star Matt Haughey is in the news again (with gratuitous photo). This time, in a New York Times article on the Amazon honor system (penned by Ironminds' Andy Wang).

MetaFilter reaches $1000 on Amazon

anildash — Wed, 21 Mar 2001 02:07:05 -0800

Hey, since MetaFilter just reached a thousand bucks on Amazon (plus some unknown amount on PayPal...) don'tcha folks think Matt should take Kay out to dinner or something, as his reward for doing all this work?

I know that would be at least as exciting as another 128MB of RAM or whatever...

Amazon Affiliate?

capt.crackpipe — Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:47:09 -0800

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.