Why was i rejected for amazon affiliate?

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I applied for Amazon affiliate and they rejected my website. The email sent from them was:
"

Thank you for your interest in the Amazon Associates Program.

We have completed our review of your application to the Amazon Associates Program, which included a visit to the website where you planned to create links to our store.

We found your web site includes the unapproved use of Amazon.com trademarked words, images, or reviews.

We dont allow the use of URLs, trademarks, logos, etc. that include words that are trademarked by Amazon.com LLC. This includes variations or misspellings of any trademarked words.We are therefore unable to approve your application. Accordingly, we have closed the account under which you had been temporarily approved and that approval has now ended.

[INCLUDE IF MEMBER HAD ACCEPTABLE URLs IN ADDITION TO THE UNACCEPTABLE URLs] While our application form will accept multiple URLs, we process the the form as a single application. If one URL in the application is unacceptable, the entire application will be unacceptable. However, you may reapply any time using the acceptable [URL/URLs] you provided.

Please review our Operating Agreement for further details:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/agreement

We hope to see you again.

"

My website is: buzzclue[.]com

From their email we can't link anything that could apply to us. Can anyone please describe what wrong have we done?
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  • Profile picture of the author dsimms
    I do not know what the deal is, but be glad they said "we hope to see you again" because if this was adsense, then they would have said no such thing, and you would have been banned forever.

    1: Remove all logos
    2: remove any links that have the word amazon ie:
    you create an anchor text with the term amazon....

    I guess I am in violation then....my stores were created
    with amazon logos, and they are on all product pages....
    I guess I better adjust some links too, as I do have some
    links that say "Amazon Checkout"...this is how it sounds to me...

    Either these are new terms, or the amazon seller lied to me...
    All I was told was that her stores are compliment with TOS.

    Does amazon still require that you have an amazon disclaimer on your site?
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    • Profile picture of the author CynthiaC
      You could try an alternative - skimlinks/skimwords
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      • Profile picture of the author dsimms
        Originally Posted by CynthiaC View Post

        You could try an alternative - skimlinks/skimwords
        It sounds like amazon wants you to be your own
        store without any references to amazon....

        I am not sure how you can not use a url to link
        back to amazon store, other then masking the affiliate url....
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        • Profile picture of the author beasty513
          Why won't you just make some changes to the

          violations they have outlined and re-submit your application?


          You should be fine.
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          • Profile picture of the author dsimms
            Originally Posted by beasty513 View Post

            Why won't you just make some changes to the

            violations they have outlined and re-submit your application?


            You should be fine.
            If he knew exactly what they wanted, then
            I am sure he would have made the changes...
            logos itself is clear enough...

            I am a little confused...
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  • Profile picture of the author funtler
    We received their 2nd email. I think they want us to link our images to Amazon products pages. We are going to link our images to Amazon and see what happens next. We will keep you people informed what happened next. Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Any other useful comment OR suggestion is appreciated.
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    • Profile picture of the author dsimms
      Originally Posted by funtler View Post

      We received their 2nd email. I think they want us to link our images to Amazon products pages. We are going to link our images to Amazon and see what happens next. We will keep you people informed what happened next. Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Any other useful comment OR suggestion is appreciated.
      First they want you to get rid of amazon logos, then they
      say it is ok to link them in product pages.

      I found out that "urls"
      that they refer too was like having "amazon" in the url, had
      nothing to do with any amazon links...(duh)

      alrighty...
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  • Profile picture of the author salegurus
    I don't understand why you are acting so confused?
    You have basically copy and pasted images,reviews,descriptions from Amazon directly to your website.
    Did you read Amazons affiliate agreement before diving off the deep end...
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  • Profile picture of the author NK
    Have you tested your site on a mobile device? I'm not loading anything here besides a sign up bar. Since I can't actually view your site at the moment I'll just make an educated guess on what's the problem.

    As a few have already pointed out, amazon doesn't want you to link to them, they want you to remove images, wordings and reviews you've copied from them. Linking back to them doesn't make it authorized use. Even after you're accepted as an affiliate it's still not right to do that and they will remove you if you're caught - which you will.
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  • Profile picture of the author vishwa
    You can try Viglink, It is very popular in text affiliate programs and converts well.
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  • Profile picture of the author brutecky
    We found your web site includes the unapproved use of Amazon.com trademarked words, images, or reviews.

    Not sure whats unclear about that?
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