New BBcode to Post Links to Amazon

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Re: New BBcode to Post Links to Amazon or BookCloseOuts

Post by Scott » 17 Jan 2012, 08:55

Yes and no. I believe the ASIN is the same internationally. So if you pull the ASIN of 0141036141 from[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nineteen-Eighty-four-George-Orwell/dp/0141036141/ then use it with the bbcode the link will go to amazon.com/Nineteen-Eighty-four-George-Orwell/dp/0141036141/ which is still the page for the same book but not on the .co.uk version of Amazon. This may create an inconvenience if you then live in the UK and wish to buy the book or interact with your amazon account, but otherwise it will still be useful for the function of specifying which version of a book someone to which one is referring.

I hope in the future to provide more complete international functionality to this BBcode so that uses one's location setting to determine which version of Amazon to link.
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Post by pawpoint » 17 Jan 2012, 10:42

Thanks Scott, you are a great help
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Post by Trcapro » 21 Jan 2012, 19:58

Scott, great idea! I know i'm constantly searching Amazon for new reads and this should same some time for all of us.
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Post by thietkelogo » 06 Apr 2012, 10:28

Great Scott, it is very useful for my SEO
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Post by katesolomon » 03 May 2012, 01:17

Thanks for making such a helpful post. Adding links is always an issue , this will be really helpful for those who want to add links.
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Post by officefurniture9 » 08 May 2012, 03:02

This is great i like these bbc cods on amazon these are great thanks :)
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Post by audrey_clark » 11 Sep 2012, 20:08

This is a great tip. How would I use it on this site?
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Post by Arianna » 24 Sep 2012, 23:58

Thank you very much for the nice and very helpful information. The information about new BBcode is very helpful and useful for me. Thanks again.
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Post by shela » 17 Oct 2012, 05:15

It great, thanks for the codes. it is really helpful
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Post by Anti-Viurss » 07 Jan 2015, 07:13

Thanks for sharing this informative post, its really help me to post link on Amazon.
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Post by The Researcher » 20 Mar 2017, 06:58

Can't the link of a book review on OBC be posted on amazon by the reviewer. Is there a provision for that?
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Post by Sal the Gal » 09 Apr 2017, 11:00

Great, I'll give it a try.
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Post by irenejacob » 20 Apr 2017, 00:51

thank you for your valuable information
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Post by Ese22osa » 18 Mar 2018, 05:19

Hi Scott,
How do I post a link to my review on my Facebook page. Is it same method as the above BBcodes. I did not set amazon in my preference what do I do.
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