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Make Redirects from Your Domain to Amazon
October 17th, 2008 | 
Author: Man I am SUCH a tech dummy, it’s unreal. I hate it because whenever I have a simple task, I have to run and bug a friend who knows what they’re doing. This week, I was doing something that seemed SO simple but wasn’t working.
I had bought a domain for an Amazon product I wanted to promote because the niche had a great search and it was a high price point product. So I went into cpanel and did a redirect using my Amazon Associates ID that I had created to the results page for that product.
But because the link was so long, I kept getting an error page. I asked everyone – Warrior Forum members, Amazon Associates, etc. No one could figure it out. When I cloaked my link using Go Try This, it worked, but I lost credit because it stripped out my associate ID – not to mention other associates bit my head off because it had used a frame, which is against TOS.
I was lost. I did NOT want to have to build content on this domain – I’m just article marketing with it. And I hoped to duplicate my results with many niche products. So I went crawling to my business partner at http://www.BuildMyLens.com – Lewis Smile – a genius of all things technical. He said, “Oh I can show you how in 30 seconds.”
And he did! And it works! And all is right in the world. So I want to show YOU how to do this in case you want to buy a domain and use article marketing (or lenses on Squidoo like I teach in my report about the 10 Hot Amazon Squidoo Lens Ideas) to drive traffic to Amazon items – because Christmas is a great time to do this!
Open a .txt file and paste this code in there, saving it as index.txt
<html>
<script>
location = “URL”;
</script>
</html>
Go to the page you want to link to on Amazon and at the top click “Link to this page.” Once you have the code, only grab the first URL in that code they give you. Then paste that into your .txt file where it says URL in quotes. Save and upload to your hosting server.
Once it’s uploaded, rename it index.html or in my case index.php since mine was originally a php file. Voila! It now redirects to Amazon with your ID in it. If you have doubts, under the Links & Banners section on Amazon Associates, they have a link checker.
You just put in your domain name and it’ll show you what page comes up. Then you click the Check Link button and it’ll tell you if your associates tag was safely included so you don’t lose commissions!
It can be frustrating when you don’t know how to do something and we all have stuff we don’t know. If I can help you learn something confusing, I’m glad to help – just ask! If I don’t know, I may know someone who does – like Lewis of http://www.SquidooCool.com who was so kind to take a few minutes out of his day to walk me through this!
Don’t be afraid to ask for help. I did.
Tiff 
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