Comments on: Amazon Affiliate Program Changes Affect Arbitragers

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:00:45 +0000

Its reasons like this that make it important to diversify your online business, otherwise its not really a business, its just making a quick buck. However, i`m sure some people still do direct link to amazon using blackhat type methods

By: BrilliantJeni

BrilliantJeni — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:21:51 +0000

I would not have minded this one bit except… after receiving this email, I received a second email telling me that I had been identified as one of the accounts using advertising for this purpose. You can imagine my surprise since I have NEVER used advertising for any of my sites EVER. I immediately wrote back to them and was given a rather disappointing email reading, “if you’re not advertising, you have nothing to worry about” email. I have kept an eye on my amazon earnings and since they have continued to rise, I guess I was not penalized afterall. I agree with many of the above comments; those ultra low commissions and restrictions that keep us from making a good earning from our Amazon referrals are definitely worth reconsidering. When averaging $15k a month from programs like AdSense, it makes little sense to humor Amazon when only a few hundred of that income is from them. Time to give Ebay partner network the spotlight perhaps?

By: Candice

Candice — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:54:30 +0000

I’m sure you can go around this through redirects and stuff, whenever google or anyone changes their policies, this just brings about ways to go around them.

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:22:29 +0000

I tried promoting amazon products in this manner but was never able to succeed… never had any luck with PPC actually..

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:22:54 +0000

Poor those who use Amazon for their PPC business. But it will make them smarter after that.

By: Murrays Auto Parts

Murrays Auto Parts — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:11:58 +0000

I agree with you. This makes sense and affiliate really build your business. They have a lot of information that they can build on that was provided by their affiliates. Good point!

By: Murrays Auto Parts

Murrays Auto Parts — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:10:44 +0000

Everyone that used Amazon and made money with it this way will just have to focus on other their other marketing efforts.

By: River

River — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:37:03 +0000

Thanks for the this news. I was planning recently to venture my online business on this strategy. I’ll have to detour then.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:46:59 +0000

Well – couldn’t you just go from PPC > Own site > Redirect > Amazon?

Why would they make such a move by the way? I would love to have other people pay for my PPC!

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:54:46 +0000

Amazon has done exactly what ebay has done. They have both collected all the data from the hard work of their affiliates. They know exactly which search engines convert, which keywords generally lead to sales, and have all the approximate cost figured out to where they can just do it themselves and make more money in the process. While I don’t blame them, they should have given their affiliates a longer notice to comply.