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Great article and I really needed to hear about Genius! Last week, a blogger asked me for Genius link which I didn’t have. I went to your site, but I didn’t have much time so I gave up. Then, this morning, “auto-magically” your post appeared! So clear and understandable. Thank you.
ReplyI used Amazon Affiliate links on my site, so the fact that Geniuslink can accommodate that is good news!
ReplyThank you for this blog. This is a very helpful service I have actually never heard of before! I will have to look into this right away 🙂
ReplyIf you use Amazon affiliate links for your books alone, and you earn royalties on your books anyway, do you have to tell people that you earn more money if they click on one of your books from your website? I’m not sure why one would become an affiliate for your own books. Did I miss something?
ReplyHi Alexandria — well, you can use your Amazon Associates account to link to ANYTHING — your own books, books you mention in a blog post, or movies or shows people can buy on Amazon (which I KNOW you do a lot as you review a number of shows on your site). So let’s say you review Outlander Season 3 on blu-ray, for example, and you link to it on Amazon from your site — anyone who purchases it earns you affiliate monies.
As to your question: You can add *affiliate link* to your post for full disclosure, or just add it somewhere on your site. The reason why you want to have affiliate links for your own books is you earn royalties AND the affiliate monies also.
It’s never too late to sign up for GeniusLink or plain old Amazon Associates (or both — do what Mario suggests in the post) and then go back and change all your links in previous posts — There’s probably a plug-in or meta-code that will do that for you (I’m NOT a coder but I imagine you can search that up). x
ReplyRachel and Mario, thanks so much for this post. I became aware of the different Amazons through film forums. There were times when I’d say,”This film is available on Amazon”, only to have members from Canada and the UK correct me. Thanks for explaining how an author can expand horizons (and, with any luck, opportunities for sales).
ReplyHi Mario! Thank you SO much for this incredibly insightful and helpful post. And thanks for KJ Waters for introducing us!
I do see questions coming in so definitely, please check in to answer them when you have a moment (my commenting system got jacked up with the latest social warfare update, so if you can just leave comments (reply isn’t working, dammit), that’d be great). Sorry for the hassle. x
ReplyWhat helpful (and practical) tip/app. I also had no idea about the associates program…
ReplyReally useful. Drives me nuts when I get redirected to the wrong Amazon. I never knew it was possible to fix.
ReplyAwesome giveaway and great info I did not know about before today. Thanks for this post!
ReplyHi D. Not sure if anyone answered this — but you’d need to deal with it anyway TBH. If you read through the GDPR guidelines, if you have any kind of opt-in (aka, a newsletter or free download or follow my blog sign-up button), you must be GDPR compliant. Sigh.
It doesn’t cost anything to become compliant. Might as well get ‘er done.
ReplyThx for this. I set up an Amazon Affiliates account years ago but abandoned it when I switched to self-hosting and WordPress a couple of years ago. At that time I couldn’t figure out how to set up a storefront on WP that looked halfway decent, so I just dropped the whole idea. Time has passed; their interface has improved; and now I’m busy adding links retroactively. Progress!
ReplyI haven’t heard of booklinker or Genius Link, so these will be fun to explore! I am happy to say that I’m already signed up and linked up with Amazon Affiliates (whew!). Thanks for the info!
ReplyAlexandria, if you also join the affiliate program, you get to earn royalties plus commissions. This comes out of Amazon’s cut.
ReplyD.Avery, true, but that’s not something you need to be too worried about. Disclose that it’s an affiliate link and that’s what matters most in your case. Right now there’s a lot of uncertainty surrounding GDPR, but it should all become more clear with time. Do make sure that you work with businesses and software companies (like Amazon, like us) that are making changes to comply with these new rules.
ReplyI stumbled across this post at just the right time. We’re about to publish our first book on Amazon and I’ve started setting up my affiliate accounts. At this point I realised there must be a solution to the global market conundrum, did some searching, and ta daa! Found this. Is your offer still going? That could be exactly what we’re looking for. Thanks for this really useful article!
ReplyHi Sarah,
no, unfortunately, this is a post from 2018. However, if you visit GeniusLinks, they are amazing AND affordable. Also, I’m offering MANY giveaways this month only from spectacular experts in the publishing world. Simply read the badredheadmedia.com/nanopromo posts the rest of this month and comment to enter to win. That’s it!
Good luck.
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