Link Globalizer for Amazon Affiliates And Authors

Increase your sales on Amazon by going global with a single link that works for every visitor.

International Link Builder
for Amazon Books and Products

Use this generator to create a special worldwide deep-link.
The link contains information like the ASIN you want to link to and your affiliate tracking IDs for the different countries you have IDs for.

Some hints and information:

• The link will use IP-based Geolocation to geographically target your visitor to the Amazon store of his/her country (according to their current location).
• We are trying to be clever, so a visitor in Austria will be directed to the German Amazon, a visitor in Portugal will be directed to the Spanish Amazon and so on.
• You can use a Affiliate ID or Tracking ID.
• You don't have to specify all affiliate IDs if you are not registered to all programs
• The ASIN is unfortunately not always globally unique. That's why you sometimes need to specify several ASINs for different shops.
• In case you don't have a global ASIN and no ASIN for all countries, you can put fallback search terms. Otherwise the product title of the Amazon.com ASIN will be used (we will do this automatically for you).
• You can cloak or shorten your worldwide link with any URL shortening service or software.
• Can't find the ASIN? For books, the ISBN-10 is the ASIN.
• You can use the generated URL wherever you want, but please respect the rules of Amazon and the websites you use those hyperlinks on. Also, don't spam!
• If you have an English website, it makes most sense to sign up for the US, UK and Canadian affiliate programs. If you are not in US, you can get payments via cheque or by using a virtual US bank account number from Payoneer
• We parse the X-Forwarded-For header that some proxies set, so if you are behind a proxy we will still use your "real" IP for country determination.
• Note: You can't use Amazon's link checker directly on an a-fwd link. But you can click the link and check the redirect result URL.
• New! Added support for ascsubtag= parameter (optional sub-tag) (April 2014)
• New! Added support for India and Brazil (May 2014)
• New! Added support for fb=com URL parameter that forwards to the dot com if there is no affiliate ID for the resolved country (fb stands for fallback. You can also use other country codes for example fb=uk) (October 2014)
• New! Added support for Australia and Mexico (February 2015)
• New! Country specific ASIN redirects: fb=com URL parameter forwards visitor to to Amazon.com in case you did not specify a more specific ASIN in the link (e.g. if you specified only asin-fr AND asin-com and your visitor is NOT in France, he will end up on Amazon.com) (You can also use other values instead of com like uk, but make sure you have the corresponding asin-uk) (Fallback search terms have a higher priority and if specified will be used) (February 2016)
• New! For eBooks, also consider the Dutch Amazon.nl for Dutch IPs (July 2016)
• New! Add an URL parameter from=UK to find out where the link would go to as if clicked from UK, DE, FR, IT etc (August 2016)
• New! Convert any Amazon product page URL into a global A-FWD link by pasting it (August 2016)
• New! Add our a-fwd.to URL shortener (November 2016)
• New! We are working on having a statistics login. You can enter your e-mail when creating a link and we will attach a special token to the link. You will be able to login later with an e-mail we send to you. For links created previously without the token, you can mail us for the login (November 2016)
• New! The analytics login is now available (Feburary 2017)

The Problem with Amazon Product Links

Amazon has establishments in multiple countries, however each site offers different products to different regions of the world. So if you create a link to an Amazon product, chances are that people visiting from the web are not getting directed to "their" Amazon.

Complicating matters further, its affiliate program is not international, so you need to be subscribed for each store program separately. If you have an international website, you'd want to get sales comission worldwide.

This means you need to create separate links for every Amazon in your target country (US, Canada, Germany, France etc).
This is troublesome and possibly ugly in your website layout.

Wouldn't it be nicer to to create one link for all Amazon stores?.

The Solution

You can have one special global link for all stores. This site provides a way to create such a special link that automatically detects the users country (doing geo-targeting) from their IP and forwards them to the correct Amazon store for their country.

This service is free and easy to use. It does not require a plugin and works with every website or CMS.

You can use our Link Builder to link to specific products or to a search results page.

Some Link Examples

Link to "your" front page:

http://a-fwd.com/fp

Get redirected to the "Harry Potter" results of "your" Amazon:

http://a-fwd.com/s=Harry+Potter

Link to a specific product with a certain global ASIN:

http://a-fwd.com/asin=0747594562

Send American visitors to the US The Office and British visitors to the UK original and the rest of the world to the search results of the keywords The Office: The Complete Series (which is the US edition):

http://a-fwd.com/asin-uk=B00593KTR2&asin-com=B00LTO342M

You should use the builder to create your own links!

Why should you use it?

On a typical website, visitors will come from all over the world. But the classic affiliate links only work with visitors from a single country. You can multiply your earnings by having international Amazon links which work for all visitors, directing them to the right one of Amazon's different country sites.

P.S.: Did you know that 370 million people have English as a second language and around 750 million people speak it as a foreign language?

Who is this for?

There is two kind of people that should use A-FWD.

• One group is the people with websites or newsletters that have links to Amazon products on them. They usually review or recommend products and want to earn a provision/comission on the sale.
• The other group are the content creators like book authors, private label owners (FBA), singers or music groups/bands. They might have an international audience and they want to make it easier for their audience to buy their products by giving them a single A-FWD link.

Note that you might be in both groups :-)
With A-FWD both kinds of traffic will be able to create better Amazon affiliate links.

How does this work?

We're using Geo-IP technology to locate the user clicking on a link and then forward them correctly. The locating happens automatically, there is no popup or question asked to the user. So it works with every browser (both mobile and desktop).

Where does this work?

If you create an A-FWD link you don't need to install any software or plugin for it, making your life easier. You can also use the link on other media like e-mail, twitter or chat.
(As usual, you need to respect Amazon's rules about this kind of usage!)

Want Amazon.com links on your website replaced magically by JavaScript?

We have created a Javascript-based link localizer that transparently rewrites all your Amazon.com/Amzn.com links to global A-FWD.com links.

This also works for websites like Tumblr or Wordpress.com hosted blogs.

Self-hosted Wordpress blog?

We have created a Wordpress plugin that transparently rewrites all your Amazon.com/Amzn.com links to global A-FWD.com links. links without changing your existing articles/postings.

Drupal?

Our module for Drupal rewrites your Amazon.com links automatically without changing your existing articles/postings.

Joomla?

We also have a Joomla extension. These extension enables you to enable universal affiliate links without changing your existing articles/postings.

Usage terms

You have to adhere to adhere to Amazon's own terms for links. Don't do anything spammy or fishy.
Usage is free and will stay like that! Woboq is sponsoring the server and bandwidth for the A-FWD GeoIP technology.

If you are an Amazon affiliate: We generate a random number and will (on average) take every 100th request from all .com and .ca users and replace your Affiliate ID it with our ID. For users with statistics enabled we might go up to 5% of all .com and .ca users. We're not replacing the product ID (ASIN) you're linking to!
Don't miss out on international revenue and create your link now.

You can contact us if you need special arrangements without this feature. Thank you for supporting us!

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