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Blogger integrates with Amazon Associates

Earlier this year we simplified the process for monetizing your blog by adding a “Monetize” tab in the Blogger app. We started with AdSense, which allows you to add contextual advertising to your pages; more recently we added AdSense for Feeds to help you generate revenue from the distribution of your blog via RSS and Atom. Today we launched a third option: direct integration with Amazon Associates to search Amazon’s product catalog and add links to products that earn you commissions when your readers buy products you recommend.

With this feature, you can search Amazon directly from the Blogger editor and add pictures and links to Amazon products right into your posts. Your readers will earn you commissions whenever they buy the products you recommend, and if you don’t already have an Amazon Associates account, you can sign up for one for free without leaving Blogger.

If you’ve ever written a blog post about a book, recommended a gadget, or reviewed a toy you bought for your kids, you’ve likely gone through the process of drafting the post, opening up a separate window to go to find a site that sells the product, then going back to Blogger to paste the link to the product into the post editor.

Starting today, you can search the Amazon product catalog without leaving the Blogger interface and insert links to the products you find into your posts. Not only is the process of linking to products more efficient, but Amazon makes it easy for you to earn money whenever your readers actually buy the products you write about. This is known as an “affiliate program”, and it’s designed to let you recommend products you like to your audience — if they buy the product, you’ll earn a commission on that purchase. (For more on affiliate programs in general, here is a good overview at ProBlogger from this summer, and Darren’s “11 Lessons Learned” post about Amazon Associates is a good review of how to get the most out of the program.)

To get started, click on the Monetize tab for your blog and click “Amazon Associates”. Walk through the setup wizard, and add the Product Finder once you’re done.

Now for the fun part: when you are writing a post on Blogger, you’ll see an Amazon gadget to the right of your post editor (the “Product Finder”). You can search the Amazon product catalog from within Blogger — type in the name of the product you are writing about, and insert a link to the product, an image of the product, or an iframe containing the image, price details and a “buy it now” button. Every link that’s created contains your unique Associates ID, ensuring that Amazon will credit you for any purchases that result from readers clicking the link on your blog.

If you’re an existing Amazon Associate, completing this setup simply makes the Product Finder available on Blogger for you — you continue to earn the same referral rate from Amazon. New Associates receive the same referral rate from Amazon that they would have received if they signed up directly. If you’re not interested in earning a referral, you can still install the Product Finder: from the “Amazon Associates” page under the Monetize tab, click “I'll do this later — show me more Amazon options” and then click “Add the Product Finder” button.

A quick note about trust: affiliate programs work well when readers trust you. You should avoid promoting products simply because of the referral fee you might earn — readers may lose some of that trust if they sense your posts exist solely to make you money. You may also want to disclose to your readers that you will earn a commission on their purchase — some readers even prefer knowing that you benefit from their business.

There’s more information about this integration at Amazon.com, and the Amazon Associates blog has some more details. This integration is the result of months of collaboration between the engineers at both companies, and we’re very excited to share the results of this collaboration with you. Happy blogging!

December 09, 2009

One-click Blogging with BlogThis! Chrome Extension

by Chang Kim, Product Manager, Blogger

More and more of you are using Google Chrome (more than 30 million active users now!), and we want to let you know that a Blogger extension is included in the Chrome Extensions gallery. The BlogThis! Chrome extension is available now, one of several hundred extensions to be found in the Chrome extensions gallery.

Using the BlogThis! Chrome extension, you can start writing a blog post in one click. Whenever you are inspired by a web page you are looking at and want to blog about it, just click on the BlogThis! button on your Chrome toolbar, and the Blogger post editor opens up with a pre-populated link to the web page you were on. If you want to include any text in your post, simply highlight it before clicking on the BlogThis! button. Edit the post as you'd like, and publish it instantly or save it as a draft for future posting.


To try out the BlogThis! Chrome extension, first switch to Google Chrome BETA (if you are not already on that version), and install the BlogThis! extension by clicking on "Extensions" on your browser toolbar or visiting the BlogThis! extension homepage. Note: Extensions are only available for Chrome on the PC and Linux; Extension support on Chrome for Mac is under development.

KANTONG SEMAR

DECORATIVE PLANTS IN NATURE

Nepenthes is a potential wild plants to be cultivated as an ornamental plant products. to the intention of doing commercial PLANTS plants must apply for permission from the Ministry of Forestry.
Compulsory licenses that would permit has is pembudidayaa and marketing authorization for commercial marketing. But do not expect foreign countries to market high, due to foreign markets need to limit the amount, whereas if the local market for the Forestry Department from the ranks of the Directorate of Nature Protection and instead encourage Konvservasi to be provided through the cultivation process. Because one of the commercial requirements of plants and animals is the existence of farming activities. In Trade Law regulations, international biodiversity, that all forms of trade and growth is limited inisangat must pemamfaatnya a controlled manner. mean pemamfaatanya langsun of their natural habitat should not be done, for example, or taking of natural forests and sold without the prior cultivation.
cultivation activities such as cultivation what is meant is a large-scale or micro. Misalanya multiplication by taking plants from nature, then planted in the nursery until memeiliki many chicks.
This chicks dikomersilakan separately later. Cultivation here also crossing termasuk teknisi which plants for commercial seed.
as it had been incorrectly described a Rubik dalama Poster magazine that this plant is very popular or well known as an ornamental plant market with a trading value of ornamental plants with a partner selling high. Surely one keunikanmenjadi value indigo highest berkatung why this favorite plant and sold in the market many well-known ornamental plants. Surely this is an opportunity for all of us can memamfaatkan and take advantage of the canton pemamfatan Semar as natural plants can be cultivated as an ornamental plant in order to sell high potential, provided that the form pemamfaatannya not destroy or take from the rounded nature.
Do not have the fame of this plant became a threat to this plant species in their original habitats. Much of our biodiversity dinegeri people who live and own dinegerinya lost and if there Itupun rare.
Based on the regulations of international conventions of trade types (plants and wild animals) recorded 103 endangered jenins PLANTS Nepenthes with a surname which was unpublished, and two types fall into that category should not be traded at all (appendix 1) and the rest are in Appendix 2 category (sales results The third derivative).
Many cases result in plants that has become famous endangered. For example kasusu forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan. Several lots of this type burned to death and destroyed. In addition the case of tin mining in Bangka Belitung, commercial activities without the cultivation process and mining puya emerging in Central kalimantan provide bags sumbangsinya species are carnivorous plants that are unique.
therefore there is need for special measures to restrict activities that could damage and the extinction of this plant, should adanaya awareness of ourselves to care for the preservation of our plants, which was useless. Keep the nature of this plant tumbuhannya place to remain stable as a provider of thoroughbred source of this plant. For those who PLANTS mengeluti world until the cultivation success rate, immediate information sosialisaikan cultivation teksinik this marsupial to the public. In order for people to know that the breed that is fun and mengasikkan.

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