SAHover - 4:53 pm on Aug 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

I've been selling books, too, for the past three years. Like many people, Amazon was my first "toe in the water" with affiliate marketing.

I just wanted to add to Berto's post, that I also use "home brewed" links - avoiding Amazon's iframes. The reason is that their links load slower than my pages (which are very lean), and when this happens an ugly generic amazon ad will show instead (this is true for individual product links, recommended links, etc.).

Visitors will not think to refresh the page so the proper ads show. Adsense, on the other hand, seems to "hold up" the entire page until it's ready to load, which can be slow, but at the least the ads appear.

So, you may want to consider keeping or reverting to the simplest of the old amazon text and image links. The amazon affiliate forum will have examples.