Your tutorial was very helpful ... thanks! I was stuck in the "too many requests" API cycle and it turns out that it was b/c I hadn't made a sale under the new API regime. I made a couple of sales and that fixed it!
Thanks so much, Nina! One of my sites isn't on Wordpress so knowing how to use html/css to get my images via the API was immensely helpful, thank you so much for taking the time!
Hey Nina, thank you so much for your super helpful instructional video. I would have been so lost without this, as the instructions on Amazon's Product API page are not helpful at all (and I'm okay-ish with coding on my site!). I've got a lot of affiliate links for books on my site, but they don't have ASIN numbers. Any suggestions for how I can include images for books?
Yes good point. I have automatically marked all amazon links as no follow in my Link Whisper settings (probably need to do a video on how I do that) but otherwise you'd need to add the rel no follow to it. I'd just pop it into ChatGPT and ask it to do it if you aren't comfortable with the code.
Hi Nina, thank you for sharing all the useful content. I noticed you were and probably still are using Jasper for your longer blog posts. I'm curious to know your opinion on SEOWriting or AgilityWriter tools, in case you haven't discussed them in your other videos. Thanks again!
Don't have any videos. My go tos now are Jasper and ChatGPT. I've tried a number on my channel and I tried a bunch on you site too (there's a round up), but I don't remember them all anymore since it was early this year. None of them stuck or performed as well for me as ChatGPT and Jasper.
Wow Wonderful Information. thanks. I have been scratching my head over this for weeks!! I have followed your steps and actually got to where it works but no image box keeps showing instead of the actual image. I tried this with two different products with the same results. Any Suggestions?
@@sheknowsseo It was just showing the small icon representing an image and not the actual image. But I figured it out. You have to go into resources and choose to show an image. It’s mentioned in the video but I forgot to do it. I don’t think Amazon could make it any harder and less intuitive if they wanted!
Thank you so much for this! I was totally clueless how to get to the actual API, much less how to use it. Was about to pull my hair out in frustration, until I found your video. My only question now is, how can I request ONLY the image (without the box, title, prime logo, etc.)? And also, how to make it bigger? With SiteStripe, I used to just get the image by itself, then I would edit the code to make it larger...
@@courtneyspaulding-dn5iv You'll want to adjust the code manually and remove the elements of anything you don't want like the paapi5-pa-product-title and paapi5-pa-product-prime-icon from the code. Now I emailed amazon to ask if this was allowed to be edited because I couldn't find it in their documentation but I haven't heard back. I would caution adjusting it without knowing for sure because it may violate their terms and then they may kick you out. I've just used it as is and it hasn't impacted my conversion rates at all, even if it's not as pretty.
great video! just to clarify, I have an amazon associates but have not made the 3 qualifying sales. You only get to use the images with API once you have those 3 sales and your account is verified correct? It's much appreciated!
So, for whatever reason my images don't have a hyperlink unlike what I see on your screen. Do you know why that could be? I haven't found an explanation for this yet.
Hi - you mentioned send out some emails... I read on Amazon site you CAN share text links in Newsletters - yet everyone I hear talking on this subject of affliate links in newsletters says this is agasinst the TOS / rules? What do you reckon?
Can you share where in the HTML code you'd put the no referrer no referral (I can't remember exactly what the verbiage is)? All of my old image links are gone so I can't reference back to them.
if you are just needing the photo for lets say an instagram story. can you get the image download and modify small or create a sticker with it? i'm getting the error so i cant play around with it yet but I just created the api so i'm assuming thats why im getting the error
@@ChelseaRudd-m2m no not at all. That violates Amazon’s terms. You can never screenshot, download, or modify the images without consent from the image taker
@@TravelHerStory-t3q yes, it’s definitely supposed to be clickable, and all of mine are when I used the code it provides when I make no changes to it. Also to centre it I recommend putting into ChatGPT and getting it to custom centre that specific code, as I find it more complex HTML that you’re right will adjust your whole post by accident
Yes! So a student of mine actually sorted this. Heres' what she posted in my fb group: "If your item doesn't have an ASIN listed, you can find it in the URL. It's after "db/" or "db/product/" up to the question mark (or it could be up to a slash). I've found it to be missing on several things, all electronics so far."
I am using same method and after update all images on my blog. Now for new images the this method is showing an error "The request was denied due to request throttling. Please verify the number of requests made per second to the Amazon Product Advertising API". How to solve this issue?
Hey I mention this in the video that sometimes it glitches if you haven't given it enough time or if you messed up a bit of hte code. It's very finnicky
@@sheknowsseo thanks but no issue from my side about code or access key errors. Amazon limit my request based on my sale and revenue. Is there any solution, if I use Amazon images without API key because I have to add regular blog on my website?
@@sheknowsseo if I get lasso plugin, it will solve my image problem? Like i will not be penalized for getting images through that plugin without API key?
It is giving error "The request was denied due to request throttling. Please verify the number of requests made per second to the Amazon Product Advertising API.", does anyone know how to solve this issue ?
Very helpful! I was getting the error message and after watching your video I tried 2 days later and viola! It works now. Thanks!
I'm so glad!
Ahh! Nina saves the day again! Thank you for making a step-by step guide that was SO easy to follow.
This was SO helpful as I was really stuck midway to get all this fixed. Thank you!!
Your tutorial was very helpful ... thanks! I was stuck in the "too many requests" API cycle and it turns out that it was b/c I hadn't made a sale under the new API regime. I made a couple of sales and that fixed it!
Thank you so much! You made this so much easier than I expected.
Thank you so much! You explain the most complicated things so smoothly! New subscriber! 💜🙏
Happy to help!
Thanks! So very helpful!
Thanks so much, Nina! One of my sites isn't on Wordpress so knowing how to use html/css to get my images via the API was immensely helpful, thank you so much for taking the time!
Happy to help!
Great video as always! And awesome for including Lasso! 🔥
This was just what I was looking for and you answered all my questions literally as I was thinking them, so have subscribed too! 😃
I'm so glad! If you have any more, let me know :)
Hey Nina, thank you so much for your super helpful instructional video. I would have been so lost without this, as the instructions on Amazon's Product API page are not helpful at all (and I'm okay-ish with coding on my site!). I've got a lot of affiliate links for books on my site, but they don't have ASIN numbers. Any suggestions for how I can include images for books?
Yes sorry we found this after the video qwent live: if you look after the /dp/ in the URL it's that number :)
Thank from France 🙂
Do we have to add any extra code to make these no follow links? Or does the API system work differently? This was SO HELPFUL.
Yes good point. I have automatically marked all amazon links as no follow in my Link Whisper settings (probably need to do a video on how I do that) but otherwise you'd need to add the rel no follow to it. I'd just pop it into ChatGPT and ask it to do it if you aren't comfortable with the code.
Hi Nina, thank you for sharing all the useful content.
I noticed you were and probably still are using Jasper for your longer blog posts. I'm curious to know your opinion on SEOWriting or AgilityWriter tools, in case you haven't discussed them in your other videos. Thanks again!
Don't have any videos. My go tos now are Jasper and ChatGPT. I've tried a number on my channel and I tried a bunch on you site too (there's a round up), but I don't remember them all anymore since it was early this year. None of them stuck or performed as well for me as ChatGPT and Jasper.
Wow Wonderful Information. thanks. I have been scratching my head over this for weeks!! I have followed your steps and actually got to where it works but no image box keeps showing instead of the actual image. I tried this with two different products with the same results. Any Suggestions?
Sorry what do you mean by image box vs. actual image?
@@sheknowsseo It was just showing the small icon representing an image and not the actual image. But I figured it out. You have to go into resources and choose to show an image. It’s mentioned in the video but I forgot to do it. I don’t think Amazon could make it any harder and less intuitive if they wanted!
Thank you so much for this! I was totally clueless how to get to the actual API, much less how to use it. Was about to pull my hair out in frustration, until I found your video. My only question now is, how can I request ONLY the image (without the box, title, prime logo, etc.)? And also, how to make it bigger? With SiteStripe, I used to just get the image by itself, then I would edit the code to make it larger...
You can toggle off the data that it's pulling. So just don;'t select any of the title, price, etc.
@@sheknowsseo I have this same question...I only selected large image and it still shows the box prime logo etc. any suggestions?
@@courtneyspaulding-dn5iv You'll want to adjust the code manually and remove the elements of anything you don't want like the paapi5-pa-product-title and paapi5-pa-product-prime-icon from the code. Now I emailed amazon to ask if this was allowed to be edited because I couldn't find it in their documentation but I haven't heard back. I would caution adjusting it without knowing for sure because it may violate their terms and then they may kick you out. I've just used it as is and it hasn't impacted my conversion rates at all, even if it's not as pretty.
Great dear but how to use at a once all images all in a blog post ? Have any Idea can you made for that kind of video
You would go image by image to add them as I show.
great video! just to clarify, I have an amazon associates but have not made the 3 qualifying sales. You only get to use the images with API once you have those 3 sales and your account is verified correct? It's much appreciated!
Correct you need t omake the 3 qualifying sales first
So, for whatever reason my images don't have a hyperlink unlike what I see on your screen. Do you know why that could be? I haven't found an explanation for this yet.
Hi - you mentioned send out some emails... I read on Amazon site you CAN share text links in Newsletters - yet everyone I hear talking on this subject of affliate links in newsletters says this is agasinst the TOS / rules? What do you reckon?
That's only if you're an influencer. For the associates program you can't - and that's what I'm referring to in the video.
Can you share where in the HTML code you'd put the no referrer no referral (I can't remember exactly what the verbiage is)? All of my old image links are gone so I can't reference back to them.
Visit Example is the whole code :)
if you are just needing the photo for lets say an instagram story. can you get the image download and modify small or create a sticker with it? i'm getting the error so i cant play around with it yet but I just created the api so i'm assuming thats why im getting the error
@@ChelseaRudd-m2m no not at all. That violates Amazon’s terms. You can never screenshot, download, or modify the images without consent from the image taker
I can get the image to generate, but when I click it nothing happens. Are these supposed to be clickable or do I add that code?
Second question, when I tell it to align center, it makes the rest of my post align center, even in it's own row. Suggestions?
@@TravelHerStory-t3q yes, it’s definitely supposed to be clickable, and all of mine are when I used the code it provides when I make no changes to it. Also to centre it I recommend putting into ChatGPT and getting it to custom centre that specific code, as I find it more complex HTML that you’re right will adjust your whole post by accident
Do you have to insert the Access key and the secret key every time again once you open up the scratch pad?
Yes. Mine never autosaves. That's why you want to keep it somewhere accessible
@@sheknowsseoomg how does this not save!
thanks@@sheknowsseo ! Then, I will save it in "textexpander" :)
Have you noticed any products missing the ASIN info? I'm having this issue with quite a few old images on my gift guides!
Yes! So a student of mine actually sorted this. Heres' what she posted in my fb group: "If your item doesn't have an ASIN listed, you can find it in the URL. It's after "db/" or "db/product/" up to the question mark (or it could be up to a slash). I've found it to be missing on several things, all electronics so far."
@@sheknowsseo Nice! I resorted to Googling the item I needed + ASIN and that worked. 🥴
Also, for books, it's the ISBN code. I think we can just try all the things that look like codes in the Product info section until we find them all 😆
I want to use the image URL only . So the HTML generated i can just vopy the URL in that code and use it instead and stay compliant? ..
For any legal questions you'll need to refer to their documentation or support. I haven't looked into that specific use
@@sheknowsseo I'm familiar with that sectioninthei TOS. Section h to be exact.. unfortunately it doesn't address that specifically.
@@jzajzz Your best course of action is to contact them
I am using same method and after update all images on my blog. Now for new images the this method is showing an error "The request was denied due to request throttling. Please verify the number of requests made per second to the Amazon Product Advertising API". How to solve this issue?
Hey I mention this in the video that sometimes it glitches if you haven't given it enough time or if you messed up a bit of hte code. It's very finnicky
@@sheknowsseo thanks but no issue from my side about code or access key errors. Amazon limit my request based on my sale and revenue. Is there any solution, if I use Amazon images without API key because I have to add regular blog on my website?
@@amend_home You'd need a plugin like Lasso for it then
@@sheknowsseo if I get lasso plugin, it will solve my image problem? Like i will not be penalized for getting images through that plugin without API key?
@@amend_home I have a review of the plugin coming at the end of this month if you'd like to learn more about how it works
Hi, I keep getting error, too many requests, I tried after a couple of days still same error
Your code is likely installed incorrectly.
It is giving error "The request was denied due to request throttling. Please verify the number of requests made per second to the Amazon Product Advertising API.", does anyone know how to solve this issue ?
That happened to me when it had a space in front of the code I inputted for the Amazon ID. I repasted it and then it fixed itself
Please content translation to Arabic
Sorry I'm not qualified to speak on translating content. You'll want to look to someone who does that with their site