Blogging with Amazon
I was dancing around online after work today, and I found this plugin that you can use with any WordPress blog. If you're an Amazon Associate, you can let Amazon read your categories or your tags, and come up with products to add to your posts and pages. It's pretty neat, but it might get annoying and I don't want that. People are already annoyed at my pop-up optin, which I'm going to test on the single posts and see if that makes a difference. If the optins drop, it's going back up. But for now, I'm just going to move it and see.
And I'm going to try this Amazon plugin, too. It's called "AmazonPress WordPress Plugin." Once you install it, you have to complete some "Options," which include your Amazon S3 Key, and the "Secret Key," too. Then, you just fill in your associate ID and give it some keywords and you're set to go.
If you're on my homepage, click the "Read the rest of this entry," and scroll to the bottom of the page. You'll see the Amazon products. Not sure I like them there, and if they don't sell anything, they're going away, but…
I thought I'd try it a while and see how I like it.
However… I didn't change options and they ended up on the front door of my blog. No! That was really annoying, so they're gone. Now, just at the bottom of the single page posts.
But here's something weird you might see, and that's the double posting on the single page. I added a Facebook "Like" button, but that shouldn't have anything to do with it. I'm not sure what's causing that, but I'll have to do some detecting and get that fixed.
Ah… blog tech. I love it! I spent a good hour today trying to get Thesis to work right on an old OE blog. Grrrrrr… I really don't like that theme. I know they say it's totally SEO wonderful, but it has tons of limitations that I don't like at all. I really prefer Socrates to Thesis. It's like Ralph Nader meets Albert Einstein. One states simply what you need to do and gives you the ideas to do it, while the other gives you a complicated formula that takes a while to decipher and then, still won't do what you want it to unless you're very precise. Argh!
I love Tellman, but he loves Thesis, and it's giving me a mental hernia. I mean, it's not rocket science. It's just finicky.
Who needs that? Pfffttttttt!!!!!!!
Anyway, if you want the Amazon plugin, give it a try. It's very easy to install (You can do it right from your blog.) and set up. I like that. Now, let's see if it works.
