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Hi Scott,
Thanks a lot for the article - here's our view of Amazon's reasons for not allowing affiliate links on Twitter/Facebook. I think there's a conversation potential there because of a few conflicting ideas, so please let us know your view:
Thanks,
Julia
I have posted affiliate links in Twitter and will continue to do so.
In my view as long as your links are somehow related to your tweets - your friends - or anything real they are fine. What I don't agree with is the out-right fraud - such as the many fake tweets that have been posted in conjunction with the Iran Problems #iranelection - such as "Check out these new videos of Iran violence - (link)" when you click to see the video you instead go to an Obama zip/email sumbit landing page. Zac Johnson has a similar post today here -
http://zacjohnson.com/dirty-college-girls-take-over-twitter/
My view - real affiliate links from real people - good - the rest .....?
Well I spoke to Amazon UK about this, and they don't seem to have a problem with it:
"Dear Associate,
Thank you for writing to the Amazon.co.uk Associates Program.
In relation to your e-mail below, links posted on Twitter do earn commission. Any items ordered via your links will register to your Associate account and you will earn referral fees according to the Performance Fee Plan which you are currently enrolled in."
Pete
This is just another case of the "Golden Rule." That is, He Who Has The Gold, Makes The Rules. Amazon has the gold...they make the rules. Whether it might seem arbitrary on their part or not, they get to decide whether or not any particular site is the property of any particular individual, for the purposes of affiliate advertising. It might seem unfair, but it seems to be the present reality of things.
Huh, I never would have thought they would do that. It seems kinda dumb on Amazon's part, I mean after all, if it's driving targeted traffic their way what is their problem. I know if something got my jewelry blog making more money I wouldn't penalize whoever was doing it. Weird and shortsighted I would think.
I don't know why companies like Amazon don't like direct linking to their products, if it sells why not they pay us commission when somenone actually buy something and not pay per click ...
http://www.pedipawstrimmer.info/" rel="nofollow">Roger
There're a good and bad point from this Amazon agreement. IMHO, If they create an affiliate program, that means that they're looking for more sales which is generate more income for them. Why they just don't let the affiliate persons do their job and they handle the rest. Advertiser will get more sales, affiliate person will generate more income, both of us made profit, that's a win win solution.
The good point is, as an advertiser, vendor, they get more specific targetted buyers and eliminate a lot of any fakes, spam visitors
I am sorry but I must agreed with Amazon. If we were allowed to post affiliate links anywhere, it would be just like spaming and anyone will do start doing it. That is way you have to own a website or blog, is like a recommendation from your site and even more thrustful. Personally I wouldn't like to have affiliate links on my sites that I didin't approved.
Thans for sharing..
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We've been around the block a time or two about whether twitter is an appropriate place to post affiliate links.
Most of the affiliate networks prohibit the posting of affiliate links in forums, blog comments, etc.; in other words, you cannot post (read spam) affiliate links on sites that you do not own.
As we discussed the topic of affiliate links in twitter, this issue occurred to me. Since people don't "own" twitter, does that fall into the above categories. In my mind, it doesn't as I consider twitter a blogging platform that's no different from blogger or other hosted blogging solutions in this context. I even asked someone from the network quality team at one of the networks and they agreed with me on that.
However, surprisingly enough, Amazon differs on this. Amazon Associate, Joshua Odmark reported on Search Engine Journal that Amazon slashed his commissions from amazon links that he posted on his Twitter and Facebook accounts. Why? They cited their terms that links must be posted on "Your Site".
It seems that they take the "Your Site" distinction pretty seriously.
What's not entirely clear to me is whether it's that they object to Twitter and Facebook specifically, or just that these links were not posted on the site that was on the application.
And would they accept these sites in an application? I guess this would also exclude sending someone a referral link in email? That's not "Your Site" either.
Joshua hasn't been able get any sort of explanation out of Amazon. I'll be keeping an eye on this one.