Website links to Amazon in other countries

[[deleted user]]

I try to provide links on my website to the major online vendors who sell my books, including all of the English-speaking Amazon websites. I link to Amazon.com, Amazon U.K, Amazon.ca, and Amazon.au. Do others do this, or link only to the Amazon in their own country? One website in the U.K. where I list my books, says it doesn't matter which country you're in, if you click on their Amazon link, it'll take you to the one for your country. On my own website, although I'm in the U.S., if I click on Amazon.au it takes me to Australia. Any thoughts?

It would be nice if I could provide only one link to all Amazon websites.

[[deleted user]]

I have links for Amazon US and Amazon UK. But since I live in the US I don't know about Amazon links choosing the country you live in...

[Christina]

You could simply use a universal link. This would direct to the correct marketplace automatically.

[Wally]

Christina wrote: "You could simply use a universal link. This would direct to the correct marketplace automatically."

How do you implement a universal link?

[Alp]

Might help

http://www.tckpublishing.com/one-link...

[Wally]

Alp wrote: "Might help

http://www.tckpublishing.com/one-link..."

That's great. Thanks, Alp.

[[deleted user]]

Here's another site that creates universal links for amazon: http://relinks.me

[J C]

Ken wrote: "I try to provide links on my website to the major online vendors who sell my books, including all of the English-speaking Amazon websites. I link to Amazon.com, Amazon U.K, Amazon.ca, and Amazon.au..."

I use smarturl. Onelink will redirect the clicker to their country's Amazon, and youcan set a default for those with a protected browser.

[Christina]

Booklinker.net is the one I use. Just don't expect their analytics to be even close to accurate.

[[deleted user]]

The problem is that the universal link requires a link to every product. I have four products, so I would need four links, and I already have four links to the 4 major English-speaking countries. However, I could use the universal links on the book-display page, so it helps.

[Christina]

You can set up a link to your author page. But really, you probably want to have something linking to the individual products, like a cover and blurb.

[[deleted user]]

Australia and Canada don't have author's pages, but I can link to a display of all of my books resulting from a search. Not sure if that would work, so I should probably experiment a little.

[Alp]

It tends to work best for me to link to my own website, and the book's own page, where all the links are displayed. Driving traffic to my website is crucial for the marketing plan to succeed. Having all the links displayed neatly and consistently makes for a good visitor experience in my opinion.

Alp

[Jens]

On my blog, I have the links to all of the major English-speaking Amazon outlets along with a few non-Amazon retailers. (In some U.S. states, you cannot order from Amazon due to sales tax disputes.) I published the ebook version of Time Trip: A Dinosaur Musical just yesterday, although the title has been out in paperback since October. The paperback is not available in Australia, but you can buy the ebook there, so I added that link last night.