So after a couple of months of using Amazon.com’s contextual links (see previous post on amazon.com context links).

I have decided to remove them from my blog. Maybe for a different type of blog it might work ok, but for home business blogs more often than not I found the contextual links were just plain crap. Usually they linked to weird items or topics that really had nothing to do with the content of my blog.

Maybe if this was an HDTV blog and we were writing about lots of HDTV equipment, remote controls, home theater, etc. However I am not even sure that would work well. My guess is that half the time the contextual links would be linking to all the wrong topics.

Maybe if they can find a way to keep the contextual links on topic it might be worth it… but when people start buying “financial accounting” books from my blog instead of adsense, blogging, podcasting, home business, network marketing, etc. I can tell that the links aren’t working right.

I also got several comments from readers who had problems with the contextual links as well, because they expected it to take them to a site on the topic, and instead they were taken to some off topic items at Amazon.com

Have you tried them? Let me know if you found them to be useful or not by leaving a comment…

- Ben Fitts

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