AS & Amazon Recommended Product Links

Not 100% sure

[miki99]

This is probably a dumb newbie question, but I'm not that knowledgeable and would really appreciate some feedback.

I'm aware that you can't place the Amazon Omakase and AS ads on the same page, but I just want to make sure that it's OK to use the Amazon Recommended Product links. So far I've only used regular Product links for hand-picked items, and I'm a bit unclear about the exact meaning of "contextual", so I just want to be very, very sure.

Thanks very much for confirmation one way or the other.

[Hobbs]

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[miki99]

Hobbs, thanks for responding. However, I read that thread, in fact I posted on it, and the conclusion seemed to be that the Omakase links are not OK to use on the same page as AS. My question now though is about Recommended Product links. It seems to me they SHOULD be OK, as they don't work by "sensing" the content of the page (you generate them by choosing a category and entering your own keywords) -- but I just want to be completely sure.

[Hobbs]

In that case it would be working exactly like chitika, non contextual, which should be ok.

[swa66]

Email google adsense support when in doubt, but the non-context sensitive banners should be kosher AFAIK.

[miki99]

Thank you so much. It does seem to me that if Omikase ads are just borderline contextual, Recommended Product must be OK. Maybe I should email AS support anyway.

[bumpski]

I've always thought Amazon Recommended Product links were OK, meeting the Adsense terms of service, and have been running them on several pages, with Adsense, for at least a year and a half.
I'm still earning income from Adsense.

[fredw]

Omikase ads are just borderline contextual

I believe they are completely contextual. You specify only size, colors, etc. Amazon figures out what products to show from the page the ad is on.

[swa66]

I believe [Omikase ads] are completely contextual. You specify only size, colors, etc. Amazon figures out what products to show from the page the ad is on.

The ability to determine the look of an add should IMHO not determine the "contextally sensitive" status.

If Amazon figures out what to display based on what the visitor bought or what visitors bought after you referred them in the past, is that contextually sensitive? I think not. [But Google can proof me wrong of course]

If google would think that something matching advertising to what your site is about (like advertising for widgets on a site about widgets), then they rule out nearly all advertising you could get directly as people will do that kind of targeting manually anyway.

So that leaves IMHO sensitivity to what the specific page is about as a possible (and real) problem for combining the only current Amazon banner that can be configured in how it looks in some detail with adsense.

It is a pity as amazon and adsense really are not competing for the same visitors. But if and when it becomes more an issue I'm sure the adlinks will disapear on selected pages in favor of Amazon's Omakase.