Your Amazon Affiliate Account has been closed

by smitelli • 3 years ago

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vGPU• 3 years ago

Amazon has automated tools that crawl affiliate sites looking for violations of their Operating Agreement. Sometimes, people will find a good deal on diskprices.com and copy the link to a forum or chat room to share with their friends. If one of Amazon’s bots finds a link with my affiliate tag on a site other than diskprices.com, they assume I’m doing something shady and flag my account.

That sounds like a pain to deal with.

kobalsky• 3 years ago

you could only use non affiliated links on your site so that when someone copies it it doesn’t have your tag.

and catch the click event to replace it for the tagged version if someone is clicking through

superkuh• 3 years ago

I use diskprices every couple of years and it's invaluable. It's a shame to see an entire country (Australia) denied the tool because it's too expensive for Amazon to actually care about it's "rules" and interpret them on a per incident basis. If they did they'd obviously be re-instating the diskprices amazon.au account.

Your Amazon Affiliate Account has been closed

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