I wasn’t asking whether Amazon’s other associate endings for other countries end in different numbers as I know they do. I was asking if you know what numbers the other associate endings are.

If you were asking something else, please restate the question.

Actually, the shortest possible format is http://www.amazon.com/dp/0525457585?tag=beckism-20 (one slash fewer).

Do you know Amazon’s other associate endings like “-21″ for Germany (amazon.de)?

Not shortened at all: http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Wireless-Reader-3G-Wifi-Graphite/dp/B002FQJT3Q/ref=amb_link_354440742_4?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=14JNEMX6G6DCBHESNYDB&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1282782162&pf_rd_i=507846&tag=beckism-20 (230 characters)

Shortened according to directions in the original post: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002FQJT3Q/?tag=beckism-20 (52 characters)

Shortened according to directions in my previous comment: http://amzn.com/B002FQJT3Q?tag=beckism-20 (42 characters)

Shortened according to directions in this comment: http://amzn.to/ehHbY3?tag=beckism-20 (37 characters)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/ASIN/?tag=TrackingID

so, this already short for me and work!

About /dp/ or /gp/.
dp works ok (with my link) but gp instead creates 404!

Amazon gives several different link formats on their blog and I too could not figure out exactly why they use dp, gp, b, etc…………
I think it depends of their product categories or something like that.
So everybody needs to check their new link before!

Thanks to Joey Dey too!
You rock guys!

Glad the post was useful!

I forget why I used /dp/ rather than /gp/. If I remember correctly, it was what was being used by Amazon’s actual URLs at the time, which I effectively just pared down to the shortest version possible.

My question is, does it make a difference if it’s “dp” or “gp” before the product code? Because on the official amazon blog (link you posted), they use “gp”, but you used “dp”. And is the difference between them anyway?

It’s even shorter. Yay!

I haven’t tested this myself, though. If you want a definitive answer you’ll probably need to ask Amazon support.

The search widgets Amazon provides don’t look great. I just want a straightforward search box.

Hoping someone can help!!

Regards,
Tessa :))

Make sure you’re signed into your affiliate account, and visit the main Amazon.com site. There should be a gray bar across the top of the page (if it’s not visible, there should be a little gray stripe with an arrow in it at the top left corner; click it to open the bar). On the left side of the bar is a button that says “Link to this page.” All you have to do is navigate to the search page, click the “Link to this page” button, and Amazon should walk you through the rest.

How do you use the Amazon tool to generate a link to the search results page? What do you put in the little box?

Although this seems like it should work to me, you’re best bet will probably be to use the Amazon tools to generate a link to the search results page (as long and hideous as it may turn out to be). I’ve only ever tested this shortened version of the Amazon URLs with products, so I’m not sure if it will work or not with other types of pages.

Just FYI, you can’t do two question marks in a URL because the question mark marks the place where the URL starts to list variables. The ampersand is what separates each variable so that the server knows where one ends and the next begins, which is why using the ampersand is more likely to work.

Good luck!

Sorry this is so long. I look forward to your reply. Thank you.