Overview
With ChatAside, you can monetize chat via real-time Amazon affiliate link insertion.
ChatAside will scan AI responses for product mentions, then find an applicable Amazon product link. As the AI types, ChatAside inserts the link wrapped around the said product phrase.
Monetization is opt-in. If you do not enable it, ChatAside still works as a content-aware site chat widget.
Enable Monetization
To enable monetization, which is not on by default, navigate to the ‘Monetize’ tab in the ChatAside Product view.
Then, click ‘Enable ChatAds Monetization’.
You must then add your Amazon Associates tag or nothing will happen. We recommend using a custom tag specific to ChatAds for tracking and reporting.
Ad Settings
Daily Ad Frequency Cap
If monetization is enabled, you can also apply a daily ad cap.
This limits how often monetized responses are shown to the same IP in a day. For instance, perhaps you don’t want to bombard users and set a max of 5 affiliate ads per day. After that, no more links will be embedded into the chat.
Product Pushiness
You also have the ability to influence the product pushiness of the AI’s response.
low = won’t overly insert product mentions unless it makes sense to
medium (the default) = will try to mention a generic product as often as makes sense; will only do a branded on if it’s clearly been asked for
high = will do its best to always mention a product, erring on branded ones vs generic product terms
Category Inclusion / Exclusion
With these, you can set rules for what affiliate links are allowed to appear. For instance:
- If you are an automotive content site, you may set Allowed Affiliate Categories to just ‘Automotive’. This ensures that the products that are shown will only be automotive products.
- If you find that the affiliate links are incorrectly going to pet items, you can add ‘Pet Supplies’ as an excluded category, helping with link accuracy.
Product Quality Filters
ChatAside by default has minimum limits for price, reviews, and star rating. This is to maximize commissions. You have the option of raising these thresholds.
Existing Affiliate Links on Page
ChatAside first prioritizes any on-page affiliate links and will add those to the chat if that term is mentioned. If there’s not a match, we’ll find another offer to insert.
This ensures your hard work of already finding these affiliate offers is maintained throughout the chat experience.
Affiliate Click and Usage Tracking
Daily widget tracking includes:
- Message count
- Page load count
- Click count on affiliate links
This data is stored per team per day and powers ChatAside usage charts in the dashboard.
