Are you part of the Amazon affiliate program? If you add Amazon affiliate links to your WordPress site, you can earn every time a reader clicks and buys.
But there's a catch. Amazon is strict about how you do this. And manually adding links? It takes up time you could be spending on content.
There's a better way. Let's start with the manual process so you know what you're working with, then we'll show you how to make it automatic.
Add Amazon affiliate links in WordPress (the manual way)
Just starting with Amazon affiliate links? Let's go over the old-fashioned way: how to add an Amazon link to WordPress manually.
First, pick your products. Whether it's the latest kitchen gadget for your cooking blog or a bestselling novel for your book review site, picking the right products is first.
Next, generate the links.
Head over to the Amazon Associates dashboard and get your unique affiliate links. Cope the text HTML code. This code is very important! It links back to your account, so you get credit for any sales.
One thing to know: if you want to feature Amazon product images on your site, you'll need to access to the Creators API keys. This is required by Amazon for image links. Skip this step and you'll end up with broken images.
After you have your link or API set up, switch back to your WordPress site.
Here's where you manually add each link. In your post editor, insert the Amazon affiliate link where you want it to appear. Then, it's on to the fun part!
Just kidding. It's the repetitive part. Unfortunately, you must do this for every affiliate product you want to promote. And that takes a lot of time.
So, let's get onto the smarter, less draining way to manage this.
How to add Amazon affiliate links to WordPress (the easy way)
Plugins are one of the best tools for bloggers, and Tasty Links is made especially for this.
Instead of going back to Amazon Associates, finding the product, generating the link, and pasting it into every post where that keyword shows up, Tasty Links handles it automatically.
When you write a post and mention a product you've set up in Tasty Links, it links automatically. Every time. Across your whole site.
Want to know exactly how it's done? Our video below walks you through it.
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Step 1: Download and install Tasty Links
The first step is getting Tasty Links up and running. Here’s what you need to do:
- Grab Tasty Links and download the plugin.
- Log in to your WordPress website.
- Go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin to upload and activate Tasty Links.
- Enter your license key in the WP Tasty section of your WordPress dashboard.
Step 2: Get your Amazon link (text only!)
Now it's time to get those Amazon product links!
For text-only links, find SiteStripe on the product page on Amazon. You'll see the Amazon Associates SiteStripe bar at the top of the page.
Next, click Text to get the text link and copy it. This link is what you’ll use for your Tasty Link.
Step 3: Create your Amazon affiliate Tasty Link
Time to create your first Tasty Links.
First, go to WP Tasty → Tasty Links → Links in your WordPress dashboard. Click Add Amazon Link to start creating a new Tasty Link.
Then, enter your keywords and link.
In the Keyword field, type the specific anchor text you want to link. Then, in the link field, paste your Amazon affiliate link. From there, you have options to customize your link.
From there, you can choose whether to open the link in a new window, add nofollow or sponsored attributes, and turn on an affiliate disclosure.
Happy with your settings? Click Publish! Tasty Links will automatically start linking the keyword across your blog.
If this still seems unclear, use our helpful guide!
Step 4: Add keyword variations so you don't miss a link
Bloggers don't always write product names the same way twice. You might write “Instant Pot” in one post and “instant pot” in another. Or “KitchenAid mixer” vs. “KitchenAid stand mixer.”
Tasty Links lets you add multiple keyword variations to a single link. All of them trigger the same affiliate link automatically. Set it up once, and every variation gets covered in every post, going forward.
This is one of those features that quietly earns more over time — because you stop leaving money on the table every time you spell a product name differently.
Earn more by adding Amazon affiliate links to WordPress with Tasty Links
Tasty Links does much more than link to products in your affiliate store.
Our Amazon affiliate WordPress plugin lets you show off your favorite products in a special spot on your blog.
Feature your favorite links or product categories
The Featured Links block gives you an aesthetic way to post Amazon store links on WordPress.
Add a new Featured Links block to the page, select which links you'd like to show, and enjoy the extra clicks those featured links bring in.
Add a disclosure for Amazon affiliate links
FTC regulations require that affiliate links are disclosed to the reader. Tasty Links makes adding affiliate disclosures easy, too!
On the Tasty Links settings page, set the disclosure text you'd like to use and choose the disclosure location. It can appear after every link or at the top of any page that contains an affiliate link.
Need to know more? Read our full post on affiliate disclosure examples for your Amazon links.
Add the nofollow attribute for Amazon affiliate links
Tasty Links makes it easy to add the rel=”nofollow” attribute to any link that can generate affiliate income for your business. For links that don't generate income, you can turn the nofollow attribute off.
Ready to stop adding Amazon affiliate links to your blog by hand?
Tasty Links takes the repetitive part out of affiliate marketing. Set up your keywords once and your whole site links itself: every post, every time you mention a product.
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