Author Tag Exchange -- COMBINED thread

[sierra09]

I'm only seeing 2 tags on T.L.'s books as well and Jeff I tagged that tag yesterday so if everyone here has clicked it shouldn't it be more than 5? I don't know why the tags act weird sometimes.

[David 'Half-Orc' Dalglish]

I just checked myself, and it was up to 7.

Just slow updating?

David

[Ricky Sides]

Ricky, here's an example of Kristie's links:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0035WTN4Y

This is one of yours:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002JCSFSQ?ie=UTF8&tag=kindleboards-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002JCSFSQ

It could be shortened to:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002JCSFSQ

Thank you Jeff. But I was wondering about the book cover style links. That sort of link easily identifies which book it leads to so that people can readily access the book they are seeking.


Have a great day,
Ricky

[Jeff]

Thank you Jeff. But I was wondering about the book cover style links. That sort of link easily identifies which book it leads to so that people can readily access the book they are seeking.

Yes. And I was explaining why yours are so long in comparison to Kristie's.

[daveconifer]

Kristie or Ricky, would you mind posting the part of your signature that displays the picture links?  I'd like to try that again...

[Ricky Sides]

Dave,

When I post it, the picture graphic will display. But if you use the quote option, you will be able to see the code.



There you go Dave.

And here is the resized version.






A moderator taught me how to add the links using the link maker. You can adjust the size by manipulating this part: width=150 Note that in the original code there was no width=. It was the first [img]. Be sure to add one space after [img width=insert your number with no spaces.

Use link maker 1. Where I was having trouble was in inserting the image url. Right click your cover image. Click Properties, then highlight the URL section. Some of that URL is not visible. Drag the highlighting down until you can see the end. Copy that and insert it into the image URL section, then click make an image link. Select that. Copy that link, then add the width= to modify the size.

But you can only add two links using this method. That will mean having to drop the rest from your siggy.

Ricky

[Jeff]

When I post it, the picture graphic will display. But if you use the quote option, you will be able to see the code.

Or you can enclose it with code tags:

Code:

[url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002U0KXR8?ie=UTF8&tag=kindleboards-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002U0KXR8][img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41t%2BsYoRrVL._SL500_AA266_PIkin2,BottomRight,-9,34_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg[/img][/url][img]http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=kindleboards-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B002U0KXR8][/img]

[daveconifer]

Thanks guys!

[Ricky Sides]

Than you Jeff,

You handle all this with ease. I'm afraid I'm not good with this sort of thing.

You're welcome Dave. The moderator was patient with me. I suck at working with codes.

Have a great day folks.

Ricky

[DonnaFaz]

Thanks guys!

OMG...you understood that? 

~Donna~

[T.L. Haddix]

Hey, all.  Here are the tags - murder, mystery, romance, romantic mystery, small town, great read, beach read.  I don't know why they aren't showing up.  Who knows???

I may ask hubby to look at this thread and see if he can translate all that imbedded link thing into "Cat" speak.  (Cat is my nickname). 

Thanks!!

[Ricky Sides]

I tagged your books as per your preferred tags.

Have a great day,
Ricky

[DonnaFaz]

Okay, TL...you're tagged.  And the tags were showing for me, so whatever Ricky did worked.

~Donna~

[Lisa Hinsley]

Just caught up with the tags on here.

Lisa

[daveconifer]

OMG...you understood that? 

~Donna~

LOL.  Mainly I was just thanking them for taking the time to answer.  Now that I read it more closely, it appears that using that method will only allow me to post picture/links of two books (I remember doing that with the link maker and feeling bummed that it required me to make a Sophie's choice).

But now I see that Ricky has five books in his signature so he must have stumbled across a different method.

[DonnaFaz]

Sophie's Choice...what a sad, sad story.   

Dave, since Ricky and Kristie were both able to figure it out...I'm sure you will, too.  Eventually.  And when I get 5 books published, I will, too.   

~Donna~

[Ricky Sides]

Hi there,

I didn't figure it out. Kinbr did.

I'm putting my code here, so you can see how it looks.

Code:

[url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002JCSFSQ][img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mEFzFSvZL._SL115_.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002JINV0M][img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AxcCl5q4L._SL115_.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002JM0ED0][img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515JDmXRMeL._SL115_.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002ZCY9KI][img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41klSEgjJcL._SL115_.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0035ROVEG][img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vubpW%2BbuL._SL115_.jpg[/img][/url][code]

[/code]

I'd never be able to figure this out.I know the ASIN number is present for each of the five books. The other stuff is probably image file numbers. They are present in the link maker link.

Jeff may know what all this means and how to modify the links. He has a much better understanding of these things, as does Kinbr.

Have a great day,
Ricky

[Jeff]

Sorry that I didn't make myself clear earlier. The difference is that the link to the Amazon page, which is much shorter in Ricky's signature, is using only the Amazon/dp/ URL with the books' ASINs appended:

Code:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002JCSFSQ

Dave's links have a lot of extra characters that are causing the overflow.

[David Derrico]

You can make the links much shorter by removing the Kindleboards affiliate code that the link-maker puts in (it includes "tag=kindleboards-20"), but then Kindleboards won't earn a commission on sales through that link.   

[daveconifer]

As you can see, I'm getting it to work except the link-pics are stacking up one on top of the other.  Hopefully I'll solve it before Betsy kicks me off Kindleboards.

[Ricky Sides]

That happened to me with my first picture links a few months back. Don't leave a space between each line of code.

[pidgeon92]

You can make the links much shorter by removing the Kindleboards affiliate code that the link-maker puts in (it includes "tag=kindleboards-20"), but then Kindleboards won't earn a commission on sales through that link.   

If they are Kindle e-books, KB does not get a commission anyway. Amazon stopped paying on e-books some time ago.

[daveconifer]

That happened to me with my first picture links a few months back. Don't leave a space between each line of code.

Thanks Ricky!  I'm going to declare victory here.  Sorry everybody for cluttering up the thread.

[Ricky Sides]

You're welcome Dave. It looks good.

I apologize for diverting the topic from tags today. I've checked everyone in this thread and made sure I'd tagged them. I've also spent time tagging several authors who haven't appeared in this thread.

Have a great day,
Ricky

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

Are we tagging again?  I know I got some of you in the last round we did, but I'll go back through this thread and check to make sure. 

The links are in my siggy and you can just tag the first five listed, or all of them if you feel like it. 

I'll catch up with everyone else over the weekend.

Thanks.  Gertie