Amazon UK?

Are we able to feature products from Amazon UK at all? (I have some UK interest wizzles.)

I think it's probably the same issue as with that other place in terms of the modules only being able to display US products.  If we could have UK products I would certainly be very pleased - not sure whether we are allowed to use our own affiliate banners for Amazon UK given that we are not meant to use affiliate banners for programmes that are offered through Wizzley - bit of a grey area which hopefully Chef can clarify?

Exactly Paul. I'd be happy to use Wizzley modules if the ability to display UK products gets implemented, but I understand it may not be financially viable. 

Otherwise it would be nice to get the okay to use our own links. 

We hear ya, friends. Tell you what...we'll discuss this again over the next few days and then let you know what we came up with. We certainly wish to accommodate you in any way we possibly can.

Don't make any rash decisions just yet (swinging from the chandelier is circumstantially acceptable) - we'll get back with you ASAP.    

Thanks Chef - just love the responsiveness here!  Much appreciated

Simon completely take your point and understand that as a percentage it would not make sense to allocate a disproportionate amount of resource to service them in terms of sales modules.

However 2 points to ponder:

1. Do UK visitors not arrive at a US Focused site because they know they cannot buy from there anyway?  Or do the UK searchers not have the Wizzley pages presented to them as options because the Search Engines don't see them as relevant?  So the number of UK visitors is proportionally lower because of that?

2. For me (based on visitor numbers to date) 955 people have not had the opportunity to buy - not lost sales but sales that could never have happend.

I am sure whatever solution you come up with will be great - and I would be happy with being able to use simple banners with something like "Shopping from the UK - click here"

Hi Simon, 

I agree with you for the majority of wizzles. But I have a few wizzles on UK-specific topics. Those are the ones where it's worth putting Amazon UK links. 

And I understand the technical issues involved (I'm a lapsed techie.)

Thanks Chef, 

Look forward to hearing what you come up with. I have no chandelier so I'll just have to be good while I wait 

And thanks to both of you for the Sunday replies. Great service!

TerriRexson: 11. Sep 2011, 15:41

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Hi Simon, 

I agree with you for the majority of wizzles. But I have a few wizzles on UK-specific topics. Those are the ones where it's worth putting Amazon UK links. 

And I understand the technical issues involved (I'm a lapsed techie.)

Thanks Chef, 

Look forward to hearing what you come up with. I have no chandelier so I'll just have to be good while I wait 

 

And thanks to both of you for the Sunday replies. Great service!

 

 

Absolutely with you on that!  

Our chandelier does swing a bit (we live in a very old house!) so it could be precarious LOL

Until we have all this figured out...I hereby declare (solemnly, no less!) that UK authors may use their personal Amazon.co.uk affiliate links in text modules and/or image links. Banners too.

Amen.

May the Christmas-Pounds be with you.     

chefkeem: 11. Sep 2011, 15:59

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Until we have all this figured out...I hereby declare (solemnly, no less!) that UK authors may use their personal Amazon.co.uk affiliate links in text modules and/or image links. Banners too.

Amen.

May the Christmas-Pounds be with you.     

You are very kind young sir and may the Christmas pounds weigh heavily in your wallet and not on your waist

Simon I too heartily welcome Chef's agreement to my suggestion of using our own banners for UK visitors and it will be interesting to monitor how that plays out.

For general interest the Stats do make interesting reading when one looks at where internet users come from - and for a significantly smaller population our 82% population penetration versus 78% for the US makes reveals a very active internet population.

The US represents 11.6% of all internet users and I think we in the UK do rather well at 2.4% lagging slightly behind Germany at 3.1%

But the real opportunity is Wizzley China :-)  representing 23% of total Internet Usage and that on only a 36% ppopulation penetration

Simon: 11. Sep 2011, 16:25

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Yeah, China would be nice :-D !!

Well, personally, I wouldn't want to be the one explaining to Chinese users why Duplicate Content is not allowed *lol*

That's one for Chef LOL

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Gosh Chef!  I searched Google for that and was shocked LOL 

Me too, Paul. It's shocking how accurate Google Translate is, these days.   

Thanks guys. Much appreciated. 

I'll have to think of some more things to ask for 

Just wondering -  is it possible to code the Amazon capsules to use geo-targetting to change between Amazon US/UK depending on where the person is from?

Despite the supposed "stats" I know of a few people who write JUST for Amazon UK targets and do quite well from Amazon UK - using words like biscuits, nappies, dummies, colour etc.

I'm from Australia, so I'm  used to writing with "English" English.

I don't know how hard the coding side of this is but...

Could any item placed into an Amazon capsule automatically come back with "Ok this is on both US/UK sites" or "This items is only available on [country] site, do you want to keep it or choose another?"

This would be pretty complicated. The two sites use different URLs for most products. It will be the same for some books because the ISBN is used but many books have different ISBNs in each country. You might find a match but it's actually the imported foreign version rather than the local version. 

Products often have different names too. Anything automated would most likely require a manual check. 

One option would be to allow us to manually enter a UK ASIN as well as the US one and then automatically display that to UK visitors if present.