The Amazon Associates program announced today the release of the Context Links Beta! Context Links are a quick and convenient way to add links to your website or blog and monetize your content. Context Links automatically identify the subject of the page and link relevant phrases within your page content to Amazon products, unlocking new ad inventory and saving you the time from having to manually create links.

Adding the links to your pages is easy and Amazon provides some options to customize how the links are displayed. The program is still on beta because Amazon wants to receive feedback so they can improve Context Links.

After you embed one simple piece of code on your pages, Context Links will identify and link contextually relevant phrases within your content to Amazon.com products. If you enable the preview functionality your site visitors will see a preview of an Amazon.com product relevant to the phrase we selected. Clicking on the link will send your site visitors to the product detail page on Amazon.com, and you will earn referral fees just as you would with any link you hand-picked.