Comments on: Amazon Will Not Give Commission To Affiliate Sales Via Twitter

By: Richard Petersen

Richard Petersen — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:34:49 +0000

So what does this mean for squidoo lens which actively push the Amazon affiliate program. Or does squidoo collect the money and then pay you a certain share afterwards. In which case could twitter provide a service like this too?

By: Richard Cummings

Richard Cummings — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:13:31 +0000

Patrick, great post and discussions. Along the same line, do you think that it is ok to post Amazon links in article directories if the URL is your URL which then redirects to Amazon?

By: Warner Carter

Warner Carter — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:14:34 +0000

what a load of rippoff crap

By: Roo

Roo — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:24:21 +0000

This all seems pretty baseless scaremongering to me. I’ve been directing traffic to amazon from various sources and never had a problem with it tracking and paying, squidoo, tinyurl, bit.ly, twitter for example.
The ‘tweet this’ link in the associates tool bar does work slightly differently and ok, clarification could be useful. The tracking of using this tweet function should be clarified as it doesn’t work as well as creating your own link.
You would expect that creating a link from a product page this way would show on your tracking as ‘clicks with no orders’, but you have to dig deeper and look at link type reports to show proper stats for tweeted links.

As for the TOS in regard to owning the sites which you send traffic from, Amazon don;t really pay attention to this or enforce this. Though having said that, a lot of things change when you start earning 4-5figure sums on amazon and they will scrutinise accounts to see if they breach TOS at this stage. Otherwise, it’s a pretty relaxed program and people should learn how it works rather than make outrageous statements about how Amazon are enforcing the TOS

By: Muhammad

Muhammad — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:19:23 +0000

Great post was really helpful :)

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By: counseling

counseling — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:21:47 +0000

I don’t see any issues with people generating sales via twitter. What the issues amazon have with that? Ultimately they are going to give commission only on sales, which in any case they have to give.

By: kathybaka

kathybaka — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:08:53 +0000

Your topic was great! Thanks for taking a moment to draft such an interesting pieceâ€¦

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:50:33 +0000

Cherry I don’t see any problem with that at all.

By: Web Strategy 360

Web Strategy 360 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:44:33 +0000

What if you create a plugin that’s used by several sites that don’t show up as coming from your site but rather from their site? Amazon are really squeezing hard on all their affiliates now. Pretty soon they’ll just create their own versions of their affiliates’ apps.