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Amazon Affiliate Tracking ID Problem

by mmixon
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Hi Warriors,

Last year, when I decided to aggressively put up niche blogs as an Amazon Affiliate, I did a lot of things right, but I did at least 1 thing wrong...I did not put individual tracking ids on each blog/widgets/text links/etc..

Now that I am starting to finally get 4,000 to 5,000 clicks a day from these websites, I would like to go back and focus on the specific websites that I am getting the most clicks from, but because they all use the same tracking code, I can't tell where the clicks are coming from.

What I am asking from the Amazon Affiliate Warriors is:
1. Is there a tool within Amazon that shows what websites the clicks are coming from, other than the tracking id that I did not set up on these websites?
2. Is my only solution to go back and set individual tracking id's on all my links?
3. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Mickey
#affiliate #amazon #problem #tracking
  • Profile picture of the author mrfusion
    That's really pretty valid. I'd love to hear of any tool that will do that to the level of detail you are talking about. None AFAIK
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben Holmes
    I don't use tracking to the link level, but every site I put up has a different Amazon tracking ID. If I had a site on Boomboxes, my tracking ID might be 'radio-20', for the next site on Big Screen TV's, the tracking ID might be 'tv-20', and so forth.

    So I can see at a glance which site sent the traffic... all of my sites offer just 5-10 products in a closely related field, so this works quite well for me.

    But other than changing your tracking ID's, I don't think that there's any solution to your problem.

    (But I wish I had your problem...)
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    • Profile picture of the author mmixon
      I did narrow it down a bit. In the Amazon links analysis, it shows this:

      Web Services Links

      Add-to-cart
      Build more N/A N/A 0 N/A 0 0 $0.00

      REST
      Build more N/A N/A 10827 0.00% 0 0 $0.00

      Remote shopping cart
      Build more N/A N/A 0 N/A 0 0 $0.00

      SOAP
      Build more N/A N/A 0 N/A 0 0 $0.00

      I know what Add to Cart and Remote Shopping Cart is, but what is a REST link and where does it come from? With 10,827 clicks, I would like to build more, but I'm not sure what it is. Could this be a Amazon search box that I have on some of the websites, that allows customers to search for a product?
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