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Two Questions About What I Can Do on Amazon Affiliate Site

by Brady Partridge
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1. Is it permissible to include links to more than one related product in the same review article? Let's say that I posted a review about a power drill and included a link to it, as well as a link to a larger drill made by the same manufacturer. Would Amazon frown on that?

2. Is it okay to include excerpts of customer reviews that are posted on Amazon in an article. I know you can't add to the reviews but can you post portions of them rather than the full reviews?
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  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    Hi

    1. Yes it is. In fact you could have a comparison chart of several products with each one linked with an affiliate url to Amazon.

    2. I do not know. Many people clip and rewrite Amazon customer reviews without getting in trouble. Amazon now provides an API to show customer reviews since they no longer allow copying them. I'm not sure if quoting an excerpt with accredation is forbidden.

    I suspect if you quoted parts from customer reviews you would fly under the radar (as many people do this) but could be in trouble if it was detected.

    Mahlon
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  • Profile picture of the author JackieGold
    1. Yes, it is fine.
    2. No, you cannot:

    28. You will not display or otherwise use any of our customer reviews or star ratings, in part or in whole, on your site unless you have obtained a link to that customer review or star rating through the Product Advertising API and you comply with the requirements set forth in the License Agreement.
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    • Profile picture of the author ochaim
      Originally Posted by JackieGold View Post

      1. Yes, it is fine.
      2. No, you cannot:

      28. You will not display or otherwise use any of our customer reviews or star ratings, in part or in whole, on your site unless you have obtained a link to that customer review or star rating through the Product Advertising API and you comply with the requirements set forth in the License Agreement.
      What's an example "obtaining a link" through the API? Do amazon plugins that pull content from amazon use the API?
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      • Profile picture of the author JackieGold
        Originally Posted by ochaim View Post

        What's an example "obtaining a link" through the API? Do amazon plugins that pull content from amazon use the API?
        You can write code to access the data via their API. Yes, this is what the various plugins do.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Franklin
    Try this......

    Log into your Amazon Associates account....

    Go to the actual review that you wish to refer to....

    Click the Permalink next to the review.....

    On the Permalink page, go to your gray Associates toolbar (at the top) and click the "Link to this page" to get your affiliate-embedded link to the page.....

    Now, on your blog/site, post the excerpt to the review and underneath the review, have a text link such as:

    "Click here to read full review"

    And you will use your affiliate embedded link as the hyperlink....

    That's it!
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    • Profile picture of the author danr62
      Originally Posted by Michael Franklin View Post

      Try this......

      Log into your Amazon Associates account....

      Go to the actual review that you wish to refer to....

      Click the Permalink next to the review.....

      On the Permalink page, go to your gray Associates toolbar (at the top) and click the "Link to this page" to get your affiliate-embedded link to the page.....

      Now, on your blog/site, post the excerpt to the review and underneath the review, have a text link such as:

      "Click here to read full review"

      And you will use your affiliate embedded link as the hyperlink....

      That's it!
      You can't post an exerpt of the review as JackieGold just pointed out. You might say something like this:

      This reviewer(linked to review) pointed out x, y and z. Check out their review here: (link)
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      • Profile picture of the author Brady Partridge
        Thanks for the feedback, folks.

        Looks as if I'll have to provide just a link to the reviews instead of portions thereof. I had in fact read that condition Jackie posted but I've seen so many Amazon affiliate sites that have posted review excerpts that I'd thought Amazon may have turned a blind eye to it. Not so it would seem.
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  • Profile picture of the author kaymehelp
    1- yes
    2-NO!!
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