AdSyncro AdTags

About AdSyncro

• AdSyncro is free and easy to install. Any Amazon Associate can use our software as many sites as they like.
• Registration is optional. To register just send a message listing your websites via our contact form.
• AdSyncro is a JavaScript application.
• AdSyncro AdTags are contextual keyword tags automatically created to suit every page on your site.
• When a visitor clicks on a keyword linked to Amazon, the search results for that keyword at their closest Amazon site (Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.co.jp) will open in a new window.
• As with other Amazon links, commission for any purchases will be credited to the relevant Amazon Associate ID.
• There are several ways you can customize AdTags to suit your site: color, font-size and layout. The keyword tags also inherit properties from their surrounding HTML elements and thus can be controlled using CSS etc.
• There are also several filters you can set to limit the keywords selected from your pages: ignored words, minimum frequency, minimum length, maximum length.
• You can also specify the maximum number of keywords returned. The default maximum is currently 15 keywords.
• We recommend limiting the number of AdSyncro placements to three or less on any page.

How it works

• The AdSyncro JavaScript code is pasted into your HTML.
• Whenever a page with AdSyncro code is opened, the AdSyncro software runs in your visitor's browser and sends an analysis of the page along with a list of your affiliated Amazon sites to our server.
• The server selects a mix of keywords to higlight and identifies the most appropriate store for your visitor. If the most appropriate store cannot be determined, an Associate I.D. will be randomly chosen from among the available I.D.s.
• The keywords and store data are returned to the browser and displayed in your chosen format. A link to the target Amazon site will appear among the links.
• Note that the selected keywords may not all originate from the text on your site, but may be selected based on other criteria including related themes and your your visitor's location.
• Keywords and clicks are tracked by the AdSyncro system. This data is used for keyword optimization and an automated webmaster reporting system will be implemented in the future if warranted.

There will be no direct financial charge for using this software.
Instead, a small proportion of links will be reserved for the benefit of AdSyncro.
Once this product has stabilized, 5% (five percent) of tags will link to AdSyncro's advertisers (this may be Amazon or other advertisers).

It is recommmended that you check the terms of service of any other contextual advertising on your site to ensure compliance.

Please contact us if you have any comments.

Suggestions for other advertising formats and applications of this technology are most welcome.

Below are each of the script components, their functions and setup instructions.
At least one Amazon I.D. needs to be entered. All other items are optional.
See this page's source code for working examples.

• AdSyncro_Amazon_XX: For each of your I.D.s uncomment replace "YOUR-AMAZON.XX-ID" with the I.D. for the corresponding country. Leave countries where you don't have an I.D. commented out.
• AdSyncro_Target: This is the I.D. of the HTML enclosing the region of your page where AdSyncro's keywords will be placed. For example:
  • <div id="my_tags"></div>
  • <span id="my_tags"></span>
  • <td id="my_tags"></td>
  If left blank, the keywords will appear in your document at the position of the main script.
• AdSyncro_Source: This is the ID of the HTML enclosing the text that AdSyncro will base it's keywords on. This allows you to limit the area scanned and exclude extraneous or repetitive elements such as code snippets, menu elements etc. from the potential keyword list. If omitted or left blank the entire text of the page will be analysed.
• AdSyncro_Font_Min: Used for "tag clouds". This is the minimum keyword font-size as a percentage of the font-size of the surrounding text's font-size. If set, AdSyncro will randomly set the keyword font between AdSyncro_Font_Min and AdSyncro_Font_Max. Defaults to 100% if unspecified.
• AdSyncro_Font_Max: The font-size upper limit. Defaults to 100% if unspecified.
• AdSyncro_Color: The keyword font color. Can be any valid HTML color name or hexadecimal code (e.g. "red", "#123", "#00FF56", etc). Set to "RANDOM" for a multi-colored effect. Defaults to the color of the surrounding text if unspecified.
• AdSyncro_Max_Keywords The maximum number of keywords to display. Defaults to 15 at present.
• AdSyncro_Min_Frequency Defaults to "2" if unspecified.
• AdSyncro_Ignore A comma separated list of words that should not be included as keywords (e.g "trombone, Henry Mancini, nuclear")".
AdSyncro_Inner_Tag: An HTML tag that will be placed between each keyword for formatting (e.g. "<br />" will place the keywords in a vertical list).
• AdSyncro_Format: Do not change this tag - AdSyncro uses it to determine the type of ad to serve to your page.