How To Use Amazon Affiliate Script

The AmazonSide affilate script V2.1 has many uses, one particularly valuable use is for dynamically generated websites in which a title, author, artist or manufacturer is prominent on different pages of your website. By simply changing one key variable in the script, you can generate unique results to display on your site using a variety of pre-created styles, or a new style that you can generate using our PageManager that complements the design of your website.

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Demo #1 Using AmazonSide Script Dynamically

This script is one simple line of code, but understanding the variables is important for correct functionality of the script.

The script consists of an iframe containing a url string:
http://software.sooknet.com/v2/amazonside/codegen.cfm?Locale=us&SearchIndexAmazon=DVD&Query=Star%20Wars&AssID=your-affiliateID&styleID=4&NumResults=5

Variable List

Query: You can set the query using a variable from your web page. Assuming you are using a language such as ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, etc, that can insert variables randomly throughout a page, substitute the text string in the URL variable for Query to your variable specific to the page.

An example in ColdFusion: a page of a lyrics site for the artist "Oasis", where the variable is called 'artist' with the dynamically generated value "oasis" from a database, the portion of the URL string would then look like "&Query=#artist#" (remember to enclose the variable in cfoutput tags) instead of a static "&query=Oasis" (a method which could be used for a smaller website which is slightly more labourious, but effective).

SearchIndexAmazon: Category that you want to retreive search results from. "Blended" gives a mixture of results from various categories, specific categories such as "Books" or "DVD" will yield results from those categories. (A full list is included in the script download)

Locale: Local region of use: USA (us), Canada (ca) or UK (uk)

AssID: Your associateID given to you by Amazon.com, Amazon.ca or Amazon.co.uk

StyleID: Many styles have been created to match website themes, there are some listed in the downloaded script, but if you sign up for the free PageManager service on our website, you can generate your own themes to match your website.

NumResults: Number of results that you want to display on your website (1-10).

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