How can I add a purchase link to Amazon on my blog?

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  tiffanyshand · Member · Mar 30, 2015 at 7:19 pm

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  I’d like to add a link with my cover to the sidebar on my blog but nothing I do works. Can anyone help? Thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 30, 2015 at 7:28 pm

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  Hi there,
  We cannot post widgets with affiliate links in them.

  re: affiliate links http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/

  1. WordPress.com allows bloggers to insert text affiliate links within post and page content to most third-party affiliate programs, provided they are not the primary content of the site in question.

  2. Image affiliate links in posts and pages and any banners, affiliate links in sidebar or footer widget areas, are still considered to be advertising and are not allowed on WordPress.com blogs.

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  tiffanyshand · Member · Mar 30, 2015 at 7:48 pm

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  But I have seen this on other author’s WordPress blog where by clinking an image of the cover it leads to the Amazon page.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 30, 2015 at 7:52 pm

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  A book cover is an image. You can upload any image and link to that image. Create a draft post first that you will later delete. After you have uploaded the image and linked it then switch to the H+TML (Text) editor and copy the code into a text widget.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/#adding-an-image
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/links/text-widget-links/

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  sigma5s · Member · Apr 1, 2015 at 2:15 pm

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  When you go to post the image, there is a button above the text box that says ‘add link’ or something like that. Paste the link in the “URL:”

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  sigma5s · Member · Apr 1, 2015 at 2:18 pm

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  This works with text also.

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  tiffanyshand · Member · Apr 1, 2015 at 3:52 pm

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  Which text box? Do you mean the text widget?

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 1, 2015 at 3:55 pm

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  Actually if YOU wrote the book, you can use an affiliate image link.

  Nobody can help you unless you tell them what you’ve tried already that hasn’t worked for you. Do you HAVE an Amazon affiliate account? If not, just make a regular text link.

  Text widgets have to be written in HTML.

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  tiffanyshand · Member · Apr 1, 2015 at 4:07 pm

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  No, I don’t have a Amazon affiliate account. I’ve tried using the text and image widgets but they didn’t work. I don’t know what else to try.

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 1, 2015 at 4:11 pm

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  What. Did. You. Put. In. The. Text. Widget?

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  tiffanyshand · Member · Apr 1, 2015 at 4:13 pm

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  Just a title and the link address to my book on Amazon. Or did I do that wrong?

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  doncharisma · Member · Apr 1, 2015 at 4:15 pm

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  Should work with the image widget, that would be the simplest thing (no HTML coding required) –

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/image-widget/

  Fill in the “Link URL (when the image is clicked)” with the link to your buy page for your book on Amazon.

  Job done ?

  Cheers

  Don Charisma

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  tiffanyshand · Member · Apr 1, 2015 at 4:32 pm

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  It doesn’t work on the image widget.

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  doncharisma · Member · Apr 1, 2015 at 4:47 pm

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  Yes it does, well at least on my blog – check the first widget on mine “Hire Us”, I just checked it and it’s an image widget – http://DonCharisma.org … it links through to our commercial site.

  The important boxes to fill in correctly are “Image URL” and “Link URL” :)

  The links should start with http colon forward slash forward slash … obviously !

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 1, 2015 at 4:52 pm

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  Here’s the shortcut to create good text widgets.

  Create a Post instead, and save it as a Draft. You dont’ need a title. Just use all the post writing tools like the link icon etc to put in the elements you want, remembering that the sidebar is narrow and everything has to fit. Then click to the Text editor, copy all the code, and paste that in the Text widget.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 1, 2015 at 5:57 pm

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  @raincoaster
  We are on the same page. I advised using the same approach in my second comment above here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-add-a-purchase-link-to-amazon-on-my-blog?replies=15#post-2334360