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The Easiest Way to Create a Deep Link to Amazon

Nov 25, 2020 | Deep Linking, JotURL

Quick answer

The easiest way to create a deep link to Amazon is to use a deep linking tool such as JotURL’s Easy Deep Link: paste the Amazon product URL, generate a branded short link and share it in your bio, posts, ads or emails. On mobile the link opens the Amazon app directly — instead of the in-app browser — so shoppers land on the exact product in one tap, which lifts conversions and affiliate commissions. You can try it on JotURL’s 14-day free trial.

Amazon is one of the most influential platforms in the world and has forever revolutionized the buying and selling of any kind of product. Never before Amazon has experienced such success as in this period, due to the possibility of selling products online with delivery. Knowing how to create a Deep Link to Amazon is essential to be able to take advantage of digital marketing.

Amazon began its adventure by selling books online in digital or paper format, in the following years it began to expand into new sectors, becoming the commercial giant that capitalized the world market and is today one of the largest companies in the world. ( Source: Forbes)

At present, Amazon does not only deal with selling items and products, it provides many other services including the Affiliate Program and the ability to launch dedicated Ads. It is possible to sell your products through Amazon.

These services give people the opportunity to get rich through Amazon, but only if they have the appropriate digital marketing tools to take full advantage of this opportunity.

JotUrl offers many tools and strategies to improve the sale of your products online, you can find all the information you need here.

In this article we will focus more on studying exactly how to create a Deep Link to Amazon in the most effective and simple way.

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Why Deep Linking to Amazon is so important.

Amazon is one of the most influential platforms within the digital market. Creating Deep Link to Amazon can bring many benefits.

First of all, it will give you the opportunity to fully exploit the potential of Amazon even in the mobile version.

It will also offer you the best tool to manage traffic and visits to your content.

By creating a Deep Link to Amazon with JotUrl you will have the possibility to track every event and conversion with extreme precision, recording essential information about your users.

  • Origin
  • Device used
  • Operating system used
  • Browser
  • Language

Each of these data can give you very useful data to develop new marketing campaigns tailored to your users. Understanding which specific event triggers a conversion will also give you new elements to improve the sale of your products.

Finding the way to redirect users to Amazon can bring immense gains. If you have products on Amazon that you want to sell, or are completing your affiliate program, you will definitely need to increase your conversion rate.

The more users who are directed to your product pages, the better the chances of conversion. The more products you sell, the better your earnings will be – whether you are selling directly on Amazon or participating in the Affiliate program.

A lot of people use Amazon to buy products online, the secret is to drive that traffic to YOUR products.

To do this, you can apply many tricks:

– create ADS on social networks

– create CTAs on third-party pages

– take advantage of retargeting pixels

Creating a Deep Link to Amazon is one of the best strategies at your disposal to bring users wandering online within your product pages.

What is Deep Linking?

Deep Linking is a powerful technology developed in the digital marketing sector that allows users to be redirected within a specific landing page, bypassing homepages and other intermediate pages.

This technology has become extremely useful for improving marketing even on mobile platforms, boosting and revolutionizing the browsing experience of users.

So yes, Deep Linking also works within the Mobile Apps, not only on desktop.

Deep Linking can be used for any application, including social network apps or your company’s app.

As we already said, JotUrl has developed a feature that can simply create Deep Links to all major media, including Amazon.

The easiest way to create a Deep Link to Amazon

JotUrl has developed a truly revolutionary feature called Easy Deep Link, creating your Deep Link to Amazon will take just a few clicks.

In order to successfully create your Deep Link to Amazon, follow the instructions below.

Go to your Amazon product page.
We use this MSI computer page as an example for this article.


Copy that URL, don’t worry about the length! You can short your link at any time with JotUrl.

By creating your new Deep Link you can check the analytics related to the URL and view more carefully all the information relating to the people who will view your account, or that of your company.

Enter the JotUrl Dashboard and create a new Tracking Link to create the Deep Link to Amazon you need. Just click the (+) TRACKING LINK button.

Fill in the form for your new Tracking Link.

1) Insert the link of the Amazon product page as the destination URL.

2) Choose your domain, we recommend that you use your personal branded domain

3) Add the alias you want. In this way, despite having a very long Instagram link, you can shorten it, making the destination of your Deep Link to Amazon immediately clear.

Making a branded link can improve the CTR of your links by more than 34%

It can also prevent your links from being banned or penalized on social networks during your advertising campaigns.

Creating short links can be vital, especially if you intend to share them by phone.

Considering that the number of Amazon mobile users keeps growing, shortening your links and branding them can improve your visibility and link trust.

4) Insert tags and notes to identify your links within your projects.

5) Click on the “Save and go to Link Options” button.

At this point click the box called: Easy Deep Link.

Within this Feature you can immediately create your Deep Link to Amazon.

As you can see, our JotUrl engine has already been able to understand that your destination URL belongs to Amazon, and has already preset the fields within the page without you having to touch anything.

If you wish to make any changes you are free to do so.


Within this page you can check the behavior of your Deep Link to Amazon on both Android and iOS devices.

You can also set alternative landing pages if the Amazon App is not installed on your user’s device.

If your users haven’t the Amazon App installed, you will have the following options:

– Redirect them to the browser Amazon product page/URL, it cannot be viewed in the Mobile App, but only from the page of the search engine used (Google, Firefox, etc.)

– Redirect them to the App Store / Play Store to download the Amazon App

– Redirect them to a custom page chosen by you.

Within the settings for Android devices, you can force the opening of your link via the browser, however this procedure is not yet available for iOS.

Finally, you can also improve the graphic preview of your link through the Open Graph settings. You can choose the title, description and even the image with which you want to advertise your product. This way your Deep Link will be even more effective.

Once you have selected the Open Graph settings you can save your Deep Link to Amazon.


Now you can copy and paste your Tracking Link and bring as many followers as possible to interact with you on your Amazon product page.

By offering your users valuable content you will gain visibility and credibility and in the meantime you can analyze really important data on their habits and their browsing.

You can try to make a Deep Link to Amazon too.

JotUrl has a 14-day free-trial in which you can test all the features you want.


Cheers!
JotUrl Team

Plain Amazon link vs JotURL deep link

Plain Amazon linkJotURL deep link
Opens the Amazon app on mobileNot alwaysYes
Branded short linkNoYes
Click & conversion trackingNoYes
Fallback if the app is not installedBasicWebsite or app store
Retargeting pixelsNoYes

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Frequently asked questions

How do I create a deep link to Amazon?

Copy the Amazon product URL you want to promote. Paste it into a deep linking tool such as JotURL’s Easy Deep Link, generate a branded short link and share it in your bio, posts, ads or emails. When someone taps it on mobile, the Amazon app opens directly on that product.

Will an Amazon deep link open the app instead of the browser?

Yes. On mobile devices with the Amazon app installed, a deep link opens the app straight on the product, skipping the in-app browser. If the app is not installed, the link falls back to the Amazon website or the app store, so no click is lost.

Can I deep link to a specific Amazon product and keep my affiliate tag?

Yes. Any Amazon product or category URL works, and your affiliate tag in the URL is preserved, so your commissions are tracked while shoppers are sent straight to the product.

Why use a deep link for Amazon affiliate links?

A normal link often opens the mobile in-app browser, where shoppers are not signed in and tend to abandon. A deep link opens the Amazon app where they are already logged in, which increases conversions — and lets you brand and track every link.

Is JotURL free for creating Amazon deep links?

JotURL does not offer a permanently free plan, but the 14-day free trial gives you full access to all features — branded domains, advanced analytics and retargeting pixels included — so you can create and test Amazon deep links exactly as a paid user would. After the trial, plans differ mainly by the volume of events you need.

Can I track clicks and conversions on my Amazon deep links?

Yes. With JotURL you can see clicks, devices, locations and conversions for every deep link, brand them on your own domain and add retargeting pixels to re-engage shoppers.

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