Aug 13 2008

Broken Pictures Lead to Amazon Ads

This morning while attempting to clean up the 90 still broken links on Canadian Personal Finance, I ended up having an interesting epipheny. In my early days I took pictures from all over the web to help push forward my points (not realizing that many times sites move pictures, or turn off access to them). [...]

Jul 15 2008

Wordpress 2.5 + Amazon Associates + Iframe = :-( (concl)

How to Add Amazon Associates Ads to Your Wordpress Blog {Part 2}
Yesterday I showed what you need to do to include an Amazon Associates text link advertising link into your Wordpress article, and you ended up with this: Hellboy (Special Edition, 2 discs)
What if you want some spiffy pictures instead (like the one on the [...]

Jul 14 2008

Wordpress 2.5 + Amazon Associates + Iframe = :-(

How to Add Amazon Associates Ads to Your Wordpress Blog {Part 1}
Trying to start using my Amazon Associates linking capabilities (never made me any money before, but who knows, it might be useful).
I finally figured out why I was having so many problems with my Amazon Associates account (I am associated with Amazon Canada), so [...]

Feb 16 2007

Check your links

So after doing Canadian Financial Opinions, I inserted a whole bunch of Amazon links in it to different books and such, but completely bollocks’ed up the links so that anyone who clicked on them got an HTTP 404 message asking them if they are smoking the crack.
Checking your links work correctly is like making sure [...]