Amazon.com / Amazon.co.uk Associate ...

[Encore]

Hey all,

I have a fansite which currently has Amazon.com links to items and such for purchase. Now, being in the UK myself and having a fair percentage of visitors from the UK, they are obviously missing out ( or I am depending on how the situation is looked at ). Now what I want to ask is, is there anyone in my posistion and how do you currently do things?

Is there anyway of being associates to both amazon.com and .co.uk with minimal change to the site?

Another thing I would like to ask, I have opted to be paid in amazon.com gift certificates .. can these be spent in the UK?

Please respond as I have searched around in many places but found no information.

[rincey]

Hi. I signed up for all regional Amazon affiliate programs and use geo-targeting to link to the matching country for every visitor (or to amazon.com for all other countries).

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[Encore]

That's exactly what I would love to be able to. Appreciate the response, is there any chance at all you could private message me and help me with this?

I can code in php/mysql/xhtml etc ( though would still consider myself in the learning stage with php/mysql ).

Would really help!
Look forward to hearing from you.

[PeteM]

I'm also interested in the Geo targetting bit. Can you describe how it's done?

Thanks, Pete

[robho]

I have opted to be paid in amazon.com gift certificates .. can these be spent in the UK?

Don't think so. I have a balance of gift certificates on .com, doesn't show up when I log into the same account on .co.uk.

[rincey]

Geo-targeting:
I use the free csv-database from ip-to-country.com (imported into a database) together with a simple SQL statement like:

$sql = "SELECT countrycode FROM ip_to_country WHERE ipfrom < $ip_number AND ipto > $ip_number";

where $ip_number is:
$ip_number = sprintf("%u", ip2long($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]));

This will return a 2-digit country code like US, AT etc. for your further use. Doesn't give a perfect match but good enough to raise sells :)

There is a short handbook and some code snippets on the site mentioned above. For further information please PM me.

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[Dynamoo]

ASINs can often vary between different Amazon sites, so don't assume that they will be consistent, especially for non-book items.

A simple way of doing this is to format links like this:

Introduction to Widgets - US [aaa] / UK [bbb] / Deutschland [ccc] / France [ddd] / Canada [eee]

For other types of Amazon banner.. yeah, you're gonna have to use some neat geotargetting scripts.