Amazon Associates - Where do you put your affiliate disclaimer?

Most people place this in the footer. It's there on every page so there's no risk to breaking laws, and it's out of the way enough to not be a big eyesore. Not to mention, anyone who thinks you aren't affiliated with other sites in order to make money is pretty naive... If they do see it in the footer, and decide to leave, I guess that's up to them. I don't see there being a problem though.

There's nothing wrong with putting it in your privacy policy. That way, you only need to link to your privacy policy page. The link can be on your footer or site navigation. And it's not that imposing to your visitors.

Someone on the Clickbank staff told me to include their disclaimer at the bottom of my sales letter page. So i'm guessing you can do the same thing here, or simply create a link called "disclaimer", then link it to your Amazon disclaimer.

The declaration should be placed in the footer on the home page. There is a WP plugin for this purpose called WP Amazociate that will place the declaration for you.

It doesn't matter where you put it as long it's on your site/WP blog. Just make sure it doesn't hurt your conversions.

I use WP so I just add another page to the navigation bar on my theme. It will automatically create a link in your footer.

You can do this, it's an old magazine ad trick:

You put the word "ADVERTISEMENT" at the very top.

Then put an ad right under it. (in your case this will be a banner ad)

Then put your content.

For the magazine most agencies make it look like an article under the ad so people read the "article" which is really an ad.

Then if anyone were to ask you could say that is states clearly that this page is an advertisement. However most people will just assume the banner is the "advertisement"

I put mine in the about us page :-)

as it was said above you only have to mention it once... and it is easier and nicer to put it in the about us page as you can drop it in quite well :-)

Danny

Glad I found this conversation. I put it as my last Widget with the title "amazon Notice". when you read the Associates Program Operating Agreement
Updated: July 1, 2012. (Current Associates: See what's changed), go to item 10. see below. it tells you exactly what to do.

10. Identifying Yourself as an Associate
You will not issue any press release or make any other public communication with respect to this Operating Agreement, your use of the Content, or your participation in the Program. You will not misrepresent or embellish the relationship between us and you (including by expressing or implying that we support, sponsor, endorse, or contribute to any charity or other cause), or express or imply any relationship or affiliation between us and you or any other person or entity except as expressly permitted by this Operating Agreement. You must, however, clearly state the following on your site: “[Insert your name] is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to [insert the applicable site name (amazon.com, endless.com, amazonsupply.com, or myhabit.com)].”

Amazon TOS and customer service is still quite unclear on this. Some say every page, others say 'easily accessible' type thing.
I include a top menu tab 'affiliate disclosure' and set that as as part of top menu on every page of my sites. Have not had issues doing so.
But no guarantees - this company plays by its own rules.

This is how I add it scroll to the bottom of the site


http://authorityzonedemos.com/triathlon/

You could also add it as an image if you don't want to leave any footprint

I use a links menu near the footer with links to contact, pricavy, disclaimer and some more.

Like others, I put mine in the footer of my site on a page called "Affiliate Disclaimer." Whenever I have an in-post link to amazon, I add "(aff link)" next to it. I'm very open about being an affilate and found my conversions are usually higher because if it. People like honesty and transparency. It builds trust.

EDIT: Just saw this thread was started 2 years ago. I really gotta check the start date before posting.

I also use a text widget in the footer most time. It's the safest way I think and doesn't annoy visitors

website name no need..if you don't wish to put

just mention This site...also can

i place it in the footer

When I had a product review site, I just added a separate page that contained the necessary text. If you don't want to risk, add the disclaimer to the footer of each of your pages that contains an Amazon affiliate link.

Even though the OP has been banned I thought I would tell you how I add it. I do both I add a disclaimer to the bottom of the site and/or a page that just says "[website name] is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com."

Then I just include a link back to the homepage.

Hope this helps.

I put my disclaimer in the footer. By putting it in the footer then it shows up on every post and page on your website which is what Amazon prefers. If you put it in an About page or Disclaimer page of Privacy and Policies page then they would have to click there to see the disclaimer. They would not see it on the posts and pages you write about Amazon products. That is why putting it in the footer so that it shows on every page is recommended.

Thanks ratracegrad. How do you know that is what Amazon "prefers".

As I said, I did speak to their live chat support (For the US Amazon site) and they just said yes you need to have it somewhere on your site where it can be accessible.

I personally don't like the idea of putting that in the footer of my site as it kind of makes the site look tacky.

Someone on the IMTalk forum has just said to me that "The material disclosure statement is to comply with US law."

I am in the UK so I wanted to make sure that this still applies to me.

Thanks!

How about the website that have Amazon affiliate and Google Adsense? Do I need to state extra disclaimer statement for Google Adsense?

Anyone have the example?

I suggest add it in footer or use widget to display it on sidebar. It should be displayed on "every page" of your website. There is usually no effect on sales by displaying affiliate disclaimers.

It is better to put the words "[website name] is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com." in the footer portion [If you are using WordPress use footer widget / edit footer.php file] of your website. So that It will visible all the pages.