Managing International Amazon Referrals

How to send people to the right Amazon for their country?

[CromeYellow]

Hi

We run a UK site with an Amazon affiliate program. I was wondering if anyone had a solution to the problem of where to send foreign visitors when they click on your referral link?

I guess you could create flags that say 'Buy in the UK', 'Buy in the US' etc., but it seems a little clumsy.

Has anyone come up with a more elegant solution?

Cheers, Cy

[grnidone]

I don't know if there is a surefire way to do it, but you'd think that spelling might clue people in that is either a UK site or otherwise.

Specialize vs Specialise

[CromeYellow]

People know it's a UK site, as it's a .co.uk, but I was wondering about redirects to the right Amazon site for their country, or some other solution. Any ideas?

[Drastic]

So, to make sure we understand, you have joined all the separate amazon affiliate programs for uk, germany, france, etc. You want to be able to direct the visitor to the correct affiliate link according to which site they would most likely buy from?

[CromeYellow]

Hi Drastic. Yes, that's it exactly.

[Iguana]

Hi Chrome

When I faced this problem, I came to the conclusion that you can discern the difference between UK/Europe and the rest of the world by looking at the time zone (offset from GMT) of the client browser. If 0 or 1 then send them to amazon.co.uk. This is easily done in ASP. In theory it could also be done in Javascript (and then you could rewrite the HREF of the link when the page load) - but I am not sure I got it working

[Iguana]

I forgot to add that the reason why this was best was that if you pick up the language of the client browser then you tend to get en(glish) - many UK browsers are set up as american and I think with Netscape the client language string was the same for uk and US. Obviously for France and Germany you can use client browser language setting.

[CromeYellow]

HI Iguana

That sounds like what I'm looking for! But it does sound a little complicated. I [italic]was[/italic] hoping to do it in Javascript for simplicity's sake, as I know absolutely zilch about asp (and javascript too if truth be known).

Perhaps I should go to a few of the free script libraries and see what I can find.

Cheers

Cy

[Iguana]

Hi Chrome

Check your sticky mail.