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Amazon Affiliate Linking Knowing Tax Change on the Way

by Mark Figura
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Do most Amazon affiliates link off-site content they create back to their website? Or do they post their amazon link directly to Amazon?

If I follow the first strategy, then it will be easy to switch out all my Amazon affiliate links on my website when inevitably I have to create a new affiliate account in a more tax-friendly state.

But this means the prospective customer will have to click twice. Once to come to my website where I will have quality content. The second click will be on any one of the Amazon affiliate links I will sprinkle throughout the content on my website.

If I post my direct Amazon affiliate link all over the web,then it will be much harder to change out the links to my new affiliate code (second strategy).

What do you Amazon affiliates recommend?
#affiliate #amazon #amazon tax #change #knowing #linking #tax
  • Profile picture of the author GarrieWilson
    Use a redirect script.

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  • Profile picture of the author Mrs S
    Bit.ly is a good option - it creates a redirect which you can then switch out later if you need to. Tracks your click through stats too which is useful if you're placing links offsite.
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    • Profile picture of the author Scott Lilly
      I just set up the affiliate links for my site using YOURLS (YOURLS: Your Own URL Shortener), a free URL shortening tool that I installed on my own site. Now I don't worry about using a service that may start charging, go out of business, or be in a country that is in the middle of a rebellion.

      The only problem I had with it was trying to put it on the same domain where I had WordPress installed. When I clicked on the shortened URL, WordPress was 'catching' the link and showing its 404 page, instead of letting YOURLS manage the re-direct.

      I think that I could have solved that problem by installing YOURLS to a sub-directory, and including the sub-directory in the shortened URL, but I just picked up the .info domain that matched my .com and installed YOURLS there. Now I've got full control of the re-directs (and can switch to a different destination at any time), along with statistics.

      If you do this, be sure to add an empty index.html page on the second domain, just in case anyone ever tries to go directly to the domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Figura
    Thank you for taking the time to answer! All of you (3 so far) recommend using a redirect link of some kind (script or url shortener). In another WF thread, I read how this is against Amazon's terms of service for affiliates.

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...like-hell.html

    Now, I'm getting confused!
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  • Profile picture of the author GarrieWilson
    I think they are referring to cookie stuffing, popunders, etc.

    A redirection actually requires a person to click a link.

    Dont say but Garrie said "this" but I'm pretty sure it's OK.

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    PS Use one on your domain and not a service.
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