I eventually tried it in IE (I normally use Firefox, currently 3.6.3) and it all worked fine, and then it dawned on me -- My AdBlocker Pro Firefox plugin was preventing me from seeing my own Amazon associate links. D'oh!
A few mouse clicks later and I disabled the rules that were blocking the Amazon product link for the design book I was referencing, and all was fine and dandy! I also directly copied the link URL from the served ad and embedded it in the original post so that even people with the same AdBlock settings as I originally had would have a product link that worked as intended.
Details on ABP settings:
- CTRL-SHIFT-V to open the blockable items pane
- You'll see some items blocked by the Filters "assoc-amazon.com^$third-party" and "ws.amazon.*/widgets/q?$third-party". Click the icon at the far right to disable the rule.
- Reload the page; the Amazon Associates panel/ads should work now.
Thanks - worked for me!
ReplyDeleteThanks - worked for me, too!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot...I was struggling with issue for few days...Two clicks and a restart of Firefox solved it :D
ReplyDeletethank you!!!
ReplyDeleteMan, that was driving me crazy! Thanks for letting me know! :D
ReplyDeletethx a gazillion for the great information and solution
ReplyDeleteTHANKS!
ReplyDeleteHow do I fix this for the latest firefox?
ReplyDeleteI was having this issue and thought my AdBlock might be causing it. Thanks for the helpful post!
ReplyDeleteI am running XP and Chrome 14.0. My widget stopped working a couple weeks ago. I hadn't made any changes (that I remember). I switched to IE8 and it was working there until a few days ago. Any ideas? Should I just load Firefox? Is the AdBlock you're talking about part of Firefox or something you have to manually add?
ReplyDeletePlease help before I go crazy. Amazon and Blogger are no help.
I have google chrome how do i fix that?
ReplyDeleteYou genius! Thank you! my head was nearly to explode.
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