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I'm just starting my blog, so don't know how to do much of anything yet!  Just wondering how you link to Amazon's site with pictures of the books you want listed.
Thanks for any help you can give.
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Grace,
For starters... some blog sites don't allow you to do that. If you use a free WordPress blog, like I do, I don't think you're allowed to do it.
But it seems that the typepad blogs all have it.
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If the blog site allows you to fiddle with your template, you can do just about anything -- put it in your posts, your sidebar, a sticky post up top, bar at the bottom, etc. When you've picked a blog-host (free or not free), let us know and we can help you with specifics here on how to add those.
Like Maryan says, though, not with wordpress.com. If you want to use wordpress you'll have to buy your own domain, get hosting, and install wordpress -- then you can use ads. OR another option is to go with a hosting service that already has Wordpress pre-installed for you. For more than a year, I had LivingDot.com as my host and was very happy with them. They took care of issues really quickly. Cost me roughly $9.95-14.95 a month.
Whoops, wait: official word from Matt Mullenweg (wordpress)
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So right now, no ads on wordpress.com -- but who knows, it may change soon...
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I'm looking into this also. We have a Mac computer and yesterday my son was able to show me how to search for a book on google, click images at the top of the page, and then use the thumbnail. It won't link you to any sites, though. It worked.
I'm just learning, though.
I'm on blogspot but would love to move over to typepad.
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mariB wrote:
I'm looking into this also. We have a Mac computer and yesterday my son was able to show me how to search for a book on google, click images at the top of the page, and then use the thumbnail. It won't link you to any sites, though. It worked.
I'm just learning, though.
I'm on blogspot but would love to move over to typepad.
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We also have a Mac; I don't know it makes a difference. My sentiments exactly about blogspot (what I am using) and typepad. The typepad and wordpress blogs seem to offer a lot more, but right now we can only do the free sites.  I'll keep working at it, though!
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Grace, do you want to link to Amazon or you just want a pic?
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I guess I want to link to Amazon, but I like the link with the book picture that I see on a lot of blogs.
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Grace
You can join librarything.com and that enables you to have pictures on your blog. You just need to paste the html code into your blog. I'm with blogger, I haven't yet found a way to have separate 'baskets' like the typepad accounts do. Do you know a way Stef?
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Gals, there is a way, just a bit of tinkering though. No time right now to write long, but will be back this afternoon/evening. For blogger what you'll want to do is go into "Edit layout" -- you can use "page element" for html / 3rd party functionality, or you can just edit the template html. It is a bit involved, but doable.
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You can also do sponsored links via Amazon -- maybe that's what you're seeing a lot of? It's very easy to do, though it requires that you join the Amazon Associates program (which is free). Once you've joined, they have very simple options for pasting HTML codes into your text or sidebar. It's literally just a matter of copy-and-paste. The thing is that if somebody clicks your link and buys that book, you are paid a small percentage for routing that person to Amazon.
So in at least some instances, when you see those images, that's what's going on with them.
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There you go, Grace. Sally's got it.
To do this on Blogger, you'll have to set up a box on the sidebar, set up your title, and then drop in (copy-paste) the codes from Amazon. Do you have an associates ID yet? That's the first step. Putting just the images themselves instead of the whole ad with price and everything is what takes a bit more work -- typepad and a used-to-work-great-until-they-upgraded-it wordpress plugin does it automatically for you.
After you've got the associates ID, you need to do two things:
1. Go to associates.amazon.com and "build a link" to the book you want. It will give you options for large/small image, text only, etc. When you've made your choice, select your code, then:
2. go to "Edit template" on blogger, and pick "Add Page Element", then pick HTML/Javascript. When the window opens, put in a title (Geography Books we Love, etc.) drop in your code there and press save. You'll have to find the individual codes for each book, and that's what takes the most time.
You can view a sample here at my old "dream kitchen" blog.
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Yep, those are great instructions! I've just done this myself, and I am no technical wizard, to put it mildly. It's beyond simple to put images and text-only links on your site, either in your sidebar or in the body of a post. I don't even have a digital camera, so my blog was totally imageless . . . so to my naive eye, suddenly having these book jackets appear is way impressive! And I'm hoping that between the sponsored links and the books we're selling on Amazon, I can rack up a little Amazon credit to offset our ever-burgeoning book budget . . . a girl can dream, anyway.
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who doesn't know how to make live links here, or create a signature WITH live links, so I have to type out my blog urls:
Fine Old Famly http://fineoldfamly.blogspot.com
Saint Daniel the Stylite Academy (our homeschooling blog) http://saintdanielstylite.blogspot.com
Abandon Hopefully (my new high-school English blog) http://abandonhopefully.blogspot.com
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Stef
Thanks for that, have yet to try it but I will.
Another question, I am wanting to close down my website and transfer the information into my blog, now I was thinking of weekly writing a book review and labeling them as such. A friend who is with wordpress suggested that I may be able to have a second page to my blog and keep reviews together that way. Can I do this with blogger and if so, how?
Grace
To enter your signature, go to the top og the page to 'settings' then click on 'edit profile' then in your 'signature' section you add your links, prefacing them with [URLequals] and ending with [/URL]
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I have just signed up with Amazon and I was pretty proud of myself, I found the html codes, the trouble I am having is as I don't want an image I have to add a second code to the page, this is where I have trouble
"on your site, paste the following link enhancer script at the end of pages on which you have image only or text only product links. The code should go after your content and before your closing <body> tag."
So where is the content part end and what exactly is the closing body tag?
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Still having trouble here Does anyone know?
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Hm, so you want a text-only link? That's an option: if you do a product link (search for the book or whatever, click "get code," and it will give you the image widget thingy), when you get the image link for it, you will see a bunch of "customize"-type buttons to the left of the image. One of those is a button for "text-only." Click that, and the link will reconfigure, so that the code you copy and paste into either the body of your post, or into the sidebar of your blog if you want, is just for a text link. You don't have to do anything extra.
I hope that makes sense and answers your question.
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