{"id":27919,"date":"2016-11-01T11:58:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T18:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=27919"},"modified":"2016-11-02T12:16:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T19:16:04","slug":"bout-those-amazon-native-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/01\/bout-those-amazon-native-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bout those Amazon Native Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember those Amazon &#8220;Native Ads&#8221; we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/22\/testing\/\" target=\"_blank\">talked about last week<\/a>? I ran the first of them today at the bottom of the interview for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/01\/lies-of-omission\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lies of Omission<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look. Do you see it?<\/p>\n<p>If not, would you very kindly turn off your ad blocker for this site? (Instructions below.) For the month of November, Amazon is paying a 12% commission for purchases made through those ads. That&#8217;s huge; Amazon commissions usually range from 2% to 7.5%.<\/p>\n<p>The 12% applies <em>only to the items listed in and purchased through the native ads<\/em>. I believe it may also apply to items purchased through the search box at the bottom of each of the ads, but Amazon has been mum on that and it&#8217;ll take a few days of observing purchases for me to know. <\/p>\n<p>These ads are created by me or by Amazon from categories and keywords I specify. They are not tracking ads. If you see items in them that echo your interests, it&#8217;s because <em>I<\/em> echo your interests. <\/p>\n<p>So give the Living Freedom blog a holiday shopping boost without costing yourself a dime more than you&#8217;d already spend on Amazon. Unblock ads and peruse the selection. Or, if you don&#8217;t want to do that, just use my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">usual Amazon links<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>How to unblock ads for this page:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Look for the ad blocker symbol, probably near the top of your browser.<\/p>\n<p>The symbol for AdBlockPlus looks like this: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screenshot-from-2016-11-01-11-46-53.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screenshot-from-2016-11-01-11-46-53.png\" alt=\"screenshot-from-2016-11-01-11-46-53\" width=\"91\" height=\"56\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27921\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The symbol for uBlock looks like this: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screenshot-from-2016-11-01-11-47-29.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screenshot-from-2016-11-01-11-47-29.png\" alt=\"screenshot-from-2016-11-01-11-47-29\" width=\"74\" height=\"38\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27922\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Click on the symbol. A drop-down menu will appear.<\/p>\n<p>3. For AdBlockPlus, click where it says &#8220;Enabled on this site.&#8221; It will change to &#8220;Disabled on this site.&#8221; For uBlock, click on the on\/off (power button) graphic. Reload the page and &#8230; voila! An Amazon ad appears.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an ad, below. Do you see it?<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\namzn_assoc_search_bar = \"true\";\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"livifree07-20\";\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"manual\";\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\namzn_assoc_title = \"My Amazon Picks\";\namzn_assoc_linkid = \"e2213b8c87d4e1c7a619a20503466820\";\namzn_assoc_asins = \"B00OYJ5UYY,1442242574,1935439979,152277890X,B006XBJ3UI,B01M58L8UH,B00PMEG8YQ,B01KHJ12AK\";\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember those Amazon &#8220;Native Ads&#8221; we talked about last week? I ran the first of them today at the bottom of the interview for Lies of Omission. Take a look. Do you see it? If not, would you very kindly turn off your ad blocker for this site? (Instructions below.) For the month of November, Amazon is paying a 12% commission for purchases made through those ads. That&#8217;s huge; Amazon commissions usually range from 2% to 7.5%. The 12% applies only to the items listed in and purchased through the native ads. I believe it may also apply to items&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/01\/bout-those-amazon-native-ads\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Bout those Amazon Native Ads<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27919"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27952,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27919\/revisions\/27952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}