Adding an Amazon Icon to Hyperlinks

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   eugbugposted 3 years ago

   Does anyone know how to do this (the logo like the one on HubPages sites? The help page on the Amazon site is missing the code that explains how  and Amazon aren't providing customer service.

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   Beth Eaglescliffeposted 3 years ago

   If you've linked correctly to amazon.com the logo appears automatically. Only the American Amazon link will earn you anything.
   
   If you link to any other Amazon site, for example amazon.co.uk no logo will appear, and you won't earn any commission from that link.

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      eugbugposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      I'm trying to implement the icon on a blog. It is possible, but I can't find the code to add to a link to make it appear.

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   Beth Eaglescliffeposted 3 years ago

   Sorry. I misunderstood. I though you were talking about the niche sites.
   
   You will find the code you need on the Amazon website, in your affiliates account.

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      eugbugposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      The problem is I can't find it. I can implement a text based link, but I can't work out how to add an icon. I'll see if there's an Amazon forum. Amazon themselves won't help at the moment.

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         lobobrandonposted 3 years agoin reply to this

         Amazon does not offer this. You need to do this yourself if you want to. I did it on my website. I just add an image before the link, but you can code it such that if the link points to amzn include something before it.

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            eugbugposted 3 years agoin reply to this

            They do say it can be done, but they forgot to put the code on the instruction page here.
            
            https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/pr … 0#details2

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               lobobrandonposted 3 years agoin reply to this

               Those are referring to the amazon buy buttons with text on them (seems like an image) if I am not wrong. Found a blog post that explains it: https://amalinkspro.com/can-i-use-the-a … y-website/

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                  eugbugposted 3 years agoin reply to this

                  There seems to be two options though: Text links with an Amazon "buy" button and text links with an Amazon logo. They say use the code in bold, but that code is missing.

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                     lobobrandonposted 3 years agoin reply to this

                     They also say they have something on the demo blog, but I do not see it there. Do you see what you want on the demo blog?

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                        eugbugposted 3 years agoin reply to this

                        No, I checked that but there was no info there either.

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   eugbugposted 3 years ago

   I thought by text links with an Amazon icon/logo they meant what HubPages uses, but maybe that has to be done using CSS?

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   eugbugposted 3 years ago

   I'll submit the query to an Amazon forum because it's not really relevant to HubPages. I just thought someone might know offhand.

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      lobobrandonposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      It's just an image, no CSS. This is how I made mine:
      
      <a rel="nofollow" href=AMAZNLINK"><img src="../../../images/amazon.png" width="12" height="12" alt="buy from amazon"/>

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         eugbugposted 3 years agoin reply to this

         Ok, thanks Brandon, I'll try that.

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            lobobrandonposted 3 years agoin reply to this

            You're welcome. As you probably know you need to place this before the linked text and you have to change the path of the image to reflect where you have stored your image. It does not have to be a relative path, it can be absolute.

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               eugbugposted 3 years agoin reply to this

               I should have known all this stuff, I'm a bit fuzzy on HTML, haven't coded in a while

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