Amazon RSS Feeds and WordPress

Author: Keith

1 Aug

Amazon have just published a nice little tutorial on their blog about creating RSS feeds for affiliate use check it out here Create Associate RSS Feeds!

Basically you navigate to one of the categories in the Amazon Tutorial such best selling childrens books http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/books/69/ref=pd_ts_b_nav
replace gp with rss
replace everything after the category name and number with ?tag=YourAssociateID-21
you should now have a url in this format http://www.amazon.co.uk/rss/bestsellers/books/69?tag=affiliate-marketing-21

Here is a page I knocked up yesterday using Amazon RSS on my golf site Top 10 Golf Books – Live Updates.

I integrated the Amazon RSS into the WordPress page using the feedList Plugin not perfect as it messes up a bit in css but it does the job, If anyone knows of a better RSS WordPress Plugin please give me a shout.

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Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Hints and Tips

3 Responses for "Amazon RSS Feeds and WordPress"

Tuanow (1 comments.) May 29th, 2009 at 1:38 am 1
You may want to try this!

http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/CaRP-WP/
Tony (1 comments.) August 26th, 2009 at 10:05 am 2
I’m happy that you have pointed this out and understand how to find custom RSS feeds from Amazon. I have had a WP plugin developed that relies on this understanding. Imagine being able find an Amazon product RSS that compliments existing WordPress categories on a blog — that would be one possible definition of product relevancy, right?

Amazon RSS in WordPress takes advantage of this product relevancy by pulling images from existing Amazon RSS feeds and putting those images on a blog as clickable affiliate links.

Give it a whirl.
Frank (1 comments.) October 23rd, 2009 at 12:17 am 3
I want to thank you! Your plugin works very well! I am able to EASILY place listing from the RSS feeds from amazon us, canada and uk on my site!

Very much appreciated!

Frank