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Does anybody have any experience with Amazon Associates?

We recently had our account closed but didn't give us any reason. We post links to Amazon products on a couple of facebook pages we run and we also recently started listing them on a website with a matching domain name.

We have no idea why they would close our account, so we reached out to them; at first we were told it was closed by mistake and we were free to make a new account. When we reached out again to find out what would happen to the money we'd already earned we received a rather rude reply telling us the decision to close out account is final and we're not entitled to any of the money we had already earned, and if we were to make another account that would also be closed.

As far as we're aware we hadn't broken any of their TOS, nor were we doing anything spammy. The only thing I can think of is maybe it was because we'd altered URLs and changing .co.uk links to .com links so people in America could go the products using out affiliate link. So maybe they closed it because we require an Amazon Associates US account to distribute affiliate links with the .com TLD extension?

Otherwise we have no idea why we'd have our account closed, does anybody have an experience with Amazon and such matters?

Cheers, Mat.
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  • Profile picture of the author blogtodayus
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    I don't understand it. How is it profitable using Amazon association? Is not it better to use Adsense?
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    • Profile picture of the author yezgani
      Originally Posted by blogtodayus View Post

      I don't understand it. How is it profitable using Amazon association? Is not it better to use Adsense?
      You are however better off promoting high priced amazon products than putting adsense on your site in some cases. If the niche you are in has low priced products then adsense is the way to go from my experience.
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  • Profile picture of the author larryboy03
    I have just started using amazon for the first time. I made a review website and it gets around 80-120 uniques a day making 1-4 sales daily with a ctr to amazon of over 20%. I find amazon to be a much more profitable business model if you can scale it up.

    You need targeted traffic coming from "buying" keywords, for example: product name, with review on the end. That's how I'm doing it and traffic and sales seem to be increasing rather quickly, more content = more traffic = more £££

    I'm promoting products at around £100, so 5% of that £5, not bad. Also that percentage increases as you sell more items, my traffic, sales have been increasing every week
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    • Profile picture of the author agmccall
      What did Amazon say when you asked them???

      If you really asked them they would tell you why.

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  • Profile picture of the author awledd
    Iframing is prohibited and maybe FB Amazon stores are iframes. they probably have sent you email. search for it in your email acct.
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  • Profile picture of the author webmonopoly
    The only places I ever post my affiliate links are on my sites and in my ebooks. Its best to play it safe with amazon, they could view social media as spammy.
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  • Profile picture of the author wesawu
    Originally Posted by mathewhanley View Post

    Does anybody have any experience with Amazon Associates?

    We recently had our account closed but didn't give us any reason. We post links to Amazon products on a couple of facebook pages we run and we also recently started listing them on a website with a matching domain name.

    We have no idea why they would close our account, so we reached out to them; at first we were told it was closed by mistake and we were free to make a new account. When we reached out again to find out what would happen to the money we'd already earned we received a rather rude reply telling us the decision to close out account is final and we're not entitled to any of the money we had already earned, and if we were to make another account that would also be closed.

    As far as we're aware we hadn't broken any of their TOS, nor were we doing anything spammy. The only thing I can think of is maybe it was because we'd altered URLs and changing .co.uk links to .com links so people in America could go the products using out affiliate link. So maybe they closed it because we require an Amazon Associates US account to distribute affiliate links with the .com TLD extension?

    Otherwise we have no idea why we'd have our account closed, does anybody have an experience with Amazon and such matters?

    Cheers, Mat.
    I don't do much with Amazon, but if i'm not mistaken Amazon only allows links that originate directly from your own website(s).
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  • Profile picture of the author sabatek
    I also had problems with logging in the back office. My "store" is still up but I have yet to figure out why I can't login in. I have no answers other than you are not alone.
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