How to shorten Amazon product links
Amazon product links can be very long and spammy looking. If you are trying to share an Amazon link with someone or bookmark it, you will notice that there is a lot of fluff and miscellaneous code, most of which is used for different kinds of tracking. You can get rid of all this unnecessary stuff from the product link.
Example of Amazon Product URL
An example of an Amazon product link is this:
https://www.amazon.com/Hydro-Flask-SYNCHKG096807-Standard-Pacific/dp/B01KXHF34W?crid=34S6MZG76FBB0&keywords=hydro%2Bflask&qid=1692738640&sprefix=hydro%2Bflask,aps,83&sr=8-6&th=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=amazon-20&linkId=11036591996443881804e040e7a6e89f&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl
This is 280 characters in size! Much more than
Third-party URL shorteners
There are third-party URL shortener services like bit.ly and others that are short in size and redirect to these longer URLs.
All you have to do is sign up for these services, enter the long URL and you get a shorter URL that you can use. Unfortunately, the shorter URL will not contain the amazon.com domain in itself.
There is nothing wrong in using these, but if you want the original posted URL to contain the domain name amazon.com, it adds a sense of legitimacy to your blog post that contains it.
Or if you are emailing or texting someone a link to a third-party URL shortener service, it may be misinterpreted as spam. I would definitely not click on a bit.ly or cut.ly or t.ly link sent to me.
How do I remove the extra fluff in Amazon URLs?
Start with analyzing this Amazon URL. We are making it fit and word-wrap within the boundary of this blog page for your convenience. But it is actually one long line of 280 characters.
https://www.amazon.com/Hydro-Flask-SYNCHKG096807-Standard-Pacific/dp/B01KXHF34W?crid=34S6MZG76FBB0&keywords=hydro%2Bflask&qid=1692738640&sprefix=hydro%2Bflask,aps,83&sr=8-6&th=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=amazon-20&linkId=11036591996443881804e040e7a6e89f&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl
We will extract only the necessary components of this URL.
Find the Amazon Product ID
The product ID is the code immediately after /dp/ and before the question mark?`.
That would be this:
/dp/B01KXHF34W?
https://www.amazon.com/Hydro-Flask-SYNCHKG096807-Standard-Pacific/dp/B01KXHF34W?crid=34S6MZG76FBB0&keywords=hydro%2Bflask&qid=1692738640&sprefix=hydro%2Bflask,aps,83&sr=8-6&th=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=amazon-20&linkId=11036591996443881804e040e7a6e89f&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl
Copy this product ID B01KXHF34W.
Re-create the URL
Now, all you need is this prefix:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/
Append the product ID to the end of the newly constructed URL in the previous line:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KXHF34W
Verify if the product is the same
Test the new product link by copy/pasting it in the browser to see whether it is actually taking you to the same product on Amazon.com.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KXHF34W
Amazon product with shortened link
Yes, it is the same product.
Are there other ways to shorten Amazon URLs?
Yes. You can save 2 characters by replacing amazon.com with amzn.com. It will redirect to amazon.com.
So, your new URL can be https://www.amzn.com/dp/B01KXHF34W
Use our Amazon Product URL Shortener tool
If you are too busy to shorten the Amazon product URL on your own or it's just too much work, feel free to use our Amazon Product Shortener tool.
It works great and gives you the shortest Amazon product link without sacrificing anything other than tracking code and referral information.
Conclusion
You just saved your emails, chat and text messages tens of bytes of space. It may not be much, but at least you didn't walk around with paragraph long links, some of which could give spammy vibes.
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