A VC - Latest Comments in Auto Smartlinks

Re: Auto Smartlinks

Fraser — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:41:41 -0000

Hi Jeremy, I dropped you a more comprehensive note via your web form.

Like Fred said, something must have gone wrong - AdaptiveBlue maintains your amazon affiliate ID.

You can read about setting up your Amazon, Google, and Ebay affiliates with SmartLinks here: http://blog.adaptiveblue.co... and drop me a note if you have any questions.

Re: Auto Smartlinks

fredwilson — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:19:01 -0000

That's not how it is supposed to work so something is wrong.

Adaptive blue maintains your amazon affiliate ID

fred

Re: Auto Smartlinks

jer979 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:20:17 -0000

I just noticed that on this post: http://jer979.blogspot.com/...
if someone uses the Adaptive Blue link and then goes to Amazon from there, the tag says "adaptive blue" instead of Jeremysblog-20. In other words, I lose the referral fee if they buy. Most uncool.

Re: Auto Smartlinks

Alex Iskold — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:49:00 -0000

Hi William,

Right now the choice is offered to go to different sites about the album and then look up related information. As implemented, the user does not leave your page.

There are comparison shopping links in the pane. Our goal is not to focus on specific thing, like scouting prices, instead we focus on bring the best related shortcuts from around the to the album.

Not all the links are monetization nor do we think they should be. Its about creating good user experience first and retaining users. By giving people a choice you ensure that they come back and will read your page more and ultimately will transact through a magnetizable link.

Re: Auto Smartlinks

William — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:42:15 -0000

I was hoping this would become an auto landing page for music blogs and what not - I thought that's what the team was working on? If anything it seems the amazon links and what not have been made less prominent and not more prominent.

I am all for giving the user the best user experience, but if they are leaving my site to go elsewhere I'd prefer they go to a site like amazon where I have the chance to make some income than a site like Wiki.

Maybe I miss interrupted the goals of adaptive but somebody really needs to make an autolinker which gives you the best prices from the big retailers for CDs/digital downloads.

Re: Auto Smartlinks

fredwilson — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:42:01 -0000

That's the delicious playtagger

http://del.icio.us/help/pla...

Re: Auto Smartlinks

Fred333 — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:17:52 -0000

Very cool. I never knew the name of that feature before.

Re: Auto Smartlinks

Fraser — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:21:51 -0000

One additional thing: the "play" triangle icon for inline mp3 playing is the del.icio.us play tagger. You can find the script here: http://del.icio.us/help/pla...

Re: Auto Smartlinks

Fraser — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:20:49 -0000

Hi Dan, sorry to hear that the BlueOrganizer plugin gets in your way when you right-click in the browser. The options for the right-click menu are automatically populated based on analysis of your browsing habits.

If you'd like to edit the content that appears in the menu when you right-click you can manually edit the list of options presented - to include just your favorite sites - from within the "My Sites" tab in the BlueOrganizer options.

If you need some help with this please drop me a line and I can walk you through the process. And give some thought to installing the new SmartLinks on your TypePad blog - there's a 1-click installation that's simple and then SmartLinks are automatically inserted into your blog posts for links to supported sites.

Re: Auto Smartlinks

Fraser — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:14:30 -0000

Hi Jer979, it works for Amazon Associate links, there was a small bug associated with the Amazon link in your posts. If you check now you'll see that the link for Citizen Marketers is working well and is correctly linked to your Amazon ID (jeremysblog-20). Let me know if you observe anything else that's odd, and thanks for installing the new SmartLinks.

Re: Auto Smartlinks

Dan Entin — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:21:39 -0000

I have the Adaptive Blue plugin for Firefox and I honestly rarely use it and mostly find that it gets in the way when I use the right-click options in the browser. I'll consider trying it out in my TypePad blog where I think it will be of more use.

Speaking of little triangles in your blog, how do you get the "play" triangle icon for inline mp3 playing on your blog? Thanks.

-Dan

Re: Auto Smartlinks

jer979 — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:33:07 -0000

So I like it, but I noticed that it doesn't seem to work for Amazon Associates links.
See http://jer979.blogspot.com/...