Amazon Integrates With Blogger

Santa arrived early for some bloggers! Today Amazon announced Amazon Associates for Blogger, a direct integration between the site's sales service and Blogger. This new collaboration enables Blogger.com bloggers to monetize their content by adding relevant Amazon products to their blog posts without interrupting the blog editing process. I can attest that hopping over to Amazon to find a book cover photo, adjusting and adding it to a post and monkeying with the associated HTML is a pain and takes too much time.

Amazon Associates who don’t have a Google Blogger account can set up a free Blogger account with their Associates ID right away. The new tool allows Blogger.com bloggers to add links and images to their blog posts in just two steps:

1.Highlight the relevant text and the Amazon Product Finder will search Amazon’s millions of products and recommend the ones that are most closely associated with the text

2.Insert a link or image to that product which includes their Associates ID, enabling them to earn up to 15% in referral fees from Amazon

You will also be able to show dynamic content in their blog sidebar using a new set of integrated Sidebar gadgets, such as gadgets for MP3 clips from the Amazon DRM-free music store, an Amazon Deals gadget, and an Amazon Search box.

So they say. I haven't tried it yet. I'll let you know how it works for me.

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