{"id":2786,"date":"2004-09-03T04:32:41","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T18:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/03\/im-an-itunes-affilliate\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T08:29:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:29:01","slug":"im-an-itunes-affilliate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/03\/im-an-itunes-affilliate\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m an iTunes Affilliate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10309,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000196&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10148,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/itunes\\\/affiliates&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20200820161451\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/itunes\\\/affiliates\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/itunes\\\/affiliates&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 06:26:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 12:41:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 12:41:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10310,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.appleturns.com\\\/scene\\\/?id=4895&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20061018033722\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.appleturns.com\\\/scene\\\/?id=4895&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 02:57:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 12:41:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 12:41:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10311,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20&amp;path=http%3A\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/browse.html%3Fnode%3D3435371&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000196&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Single of the Week\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/SOTW\/Single_of_the_Week.jpg\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000196&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, I tossed a link to my linklog to Apple&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/affiliates\/\" title=\"Apple - iTunes - Affiliate Program\">iTunes Affiliate<\/a> program, but didn&#8217;t write up anything more about it, as at that point, I didn&#8217;t really know much at all. While I was there, though, I went ahead and tossed in an application&#8230;and what do you know, last night I got my e-mail telling me that I was accepted into the program (a little amusing, as they turned down my favorite online soap opera, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleturns.com\/scene\/?id=4895\" title=\"Was It Something We Said?\">As the Apple Turns<\/a>!).<\/p>\n<p>So far, it seems to be fairly straightforward. Basically, once you&#8217;re accepted into the program, you&#8217;re given a selection of Apple-approved and created text links and banners that can be placed into web pages or e-mail messages that have a special ID in them, so that any sales initiated by a click on one of your links sends a few pennies your way. So far, so good &#8212; rather like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20&amp;path=http%3A\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/browse.html%3Fnode%3D3435371\" title=\"Amazon Associates\">Amazon Associates<\/a> program, in fact.<\/p>\n<p>The one aspect of it that I haven&#8217;t figured out yet is how to make links to individual items or searches within the store that tie to my Affiliate ID. Either that part of the program isn&#8217;t active yet (since this all just started up this week), or I just can&#8217;t find the information on how to do it anywhere. Linking into the store without an Affiliate ID is already easy enough &#8212; right-clicking on items in the store gives you their target link, and there are ways to <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/linking_to_the_.html\" title=\"Linking to the iTunes Music Store\">link to iTMS searches<\/a> &#8212; but neither of those includes my Affiliate ID to track the sales.<\/p>\n<p>Once I figure out that part of the process, then it will be extremely similar to the Amazon Associates program &#8212; any iTMS link on my site that prompts a sale will send a few pennies my way, and every little bit helps. For now, even though I&#8217;m not able to set up links directly to individual items, I have added an iTunes logo in the lower right of the sidebar, and small iTunes links to the &#8220;what I&#8217;m listening to&#8221; line at the bottom of posts. Hey, I may be selling out to The Man and including advertising on my site, but I&#8217;m at least making an effort at making it as unobtrusive as possible! ;)<\/p>\n<p>One minor criticism, though (hopefully nothing that&#8217;s going to get me rather suddenly dumped from the program): as a web geek, it really bugs me that the provided HTML code to create the links is a little dodgy. No <code>width<\/code> or <code>height<\/code> arguments in the <code>img<\/code> links, un-escaped ampersands, and for some reason, the <code>img<\/code> tag is capitalized (as <code>IMG<\/code>), even though all other tags are correctly left lower-case. Nothing that&#8217;s terribly difficult to fix, of course, but it is a minor little grumble.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s that. Should you feel like going shopping at the iTMS, I wouldn&#8217;t complain at all if you kicked off your shopping spree by clicking through one of my links&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;Last One&#8221;  by Days of the New from the album <em>Days of the New<\/em> (1999, 4:42).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, I tossed a link to my linklog to Apple&#8217;s new iTunes Affiliate program, but didn&#8217;t write up anything more about it, as at that point, I didn&#8217;t really know much at all. While I was there, though, I went ahead and tossed in an application&hellip;and what do you know, last night I got my e-mail telling me that I was accepted into the program .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2040],"tags":[80,25],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-blog","tag-music","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}