With the imminent (tomorrow!) release of Make Easy Money with Google, I thought it would be nice to have some way to reward readers and others who spread the word about my book. But I didn't want to go through the effort of setting up an actual affiliate program. Then I slapped my head and said (in my best Homer Simpson voice) “Duh!”, because there's already an affiliate program out there that I can use: Amazon's!
So here's what I did: if you link to my site and you have an Amazon Associates account, just embed your Amazon Associates ID in the link URL and I'll substitute it in place of mine in all the Amazon links on the MakeEasyMoneyWithGoogle.com site. Just append it as the query parameter “amazonid” to the link in question. In other words, if your Amazon Associates ID is “blart”, instead of linking to:
http://www.makeeasymoneywithgoogle.com/index.html
Link to:
http://www.makeeasymoneywithgoogle.com/index.html?amazonid=blart
You can do this when linking to any of the pages on this site. Your Amazon Associates ID is preserved throughout the user's session. Try it and see! I want to sell the book and I'm happy to throw a bit of Amazon's money your way for helping me sell it.
This is possible, by the way, because this is a totally dynamic site, much like my personal site EricGiguere.com. See the latter for the details.