So just an update. After a little bit of experience and having my account closed once, I’ve done the following:
Amazon one-boxing remains blacklisted so as not to generate unauthorised trademarked images locally.
I’ve been very careful to make the required disclaimers visible and obvious as per the agreement “As an Amazon Assoc …”
I’ve also ‘blacklisted’ Amazon’s image sources to prevent local uploading of images from Amazon to prevent any rule transgression. This has the added benefit of saving you server space and leveraging their CDN presumably
Now we’re working on Amazon OneLink, and have some questions for you.
Q1: Do you mean we need to create our own Theme component for the OneLink? Can you give me the Theme component template?
Q2: We got the error about the ‘Named entity expected. Got none.’ from the Amazon OneLink Script. And how to fix this error?
Yes, and you’ve already quoted it above, it’s just that single entry in /body making sure you update the id and InstanceId . Looks like you’ve done that. It’s so simple I’ve not even bothered to host it on GitHub. However …
You have not copied the example exactly. You are missing https:. I’m not sure if that’s the issue though, but just pointing that out. Try adding it. I get warning errors on the Theme editor but it still works, try ignoring them (so long as you can save).
I have another question. Is the OneLink only for tracking the international advertising to link the US account, Not showing the advertising on the website, right? We still need to copy and paste the Amazon Advertising (Banners, Product Links etc) on our website.
Actually, I think this may be unnecessary, apologies I might remove it from the OP. Try it with just & - ie do not change it.
It is for tracking internationally (hence ‘one-link’) Remember to link your international amazon affiliate accounts on Amazon Affiliate .com. Follow their guide
Yes, this is manual with this approach, but you can automate with some home grown javascript. Experiment! I’ve used the Custom Layout Plugin and the html widget to rotate adverts on the side from a hand-picked list. Get the raw links from the Site Strip on Amazon by logging into it with your affiliate account. Be wary that some products are not available in all regions.