Amazon Slap! Change to Amazon Associates program.
I have just received the following email from Amazon.com. This news is going to kill MANY affiliates relying on the amazon.com affiliate program to make money with PPC. I know that some of them are successfully bidding on thousands of product keywords and make a lot of profits.
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!Dear Amazon Associate:
We’re writing to let you know about a change to the Amazon Associates Program. After careful review of how we are investing our advertising resources, we have made the decision to no longer pay referral fees to Associates who send users to www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca, or www.endless.com through keyword bidding and other paid search on Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other search engines, and their extended search networks. If you’re not sure if this change affects you, please visit this page for FAQs.
As of May 1, 2009, Associates will not be paid referral fees for paid search traffic. Also, in connection with this change, as of May 1, 2009, Amazon will no longer make data feeds available to Associates for the purpose of sending users to the Amazon websites in the US or Canada via paid search.
This change applies only to the Associates programs in North America. If you are conducting paid search activities in connection with one of Amazon’s Associates Programs outside of the US and Canada, please refer to the applicable country’s Associates Program Operating Agreement for relevant terms and conditions.
We appreciate your continued support and participation in this advertising Program. If you have questions or concerns, please write to us by using the Contact Us form available on Associates Central.
Sincerely,The Amazon Associates Program
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4 Responses to “Amazon Slap! Change to Amazon Associates program.”
By ruamtalay on Apr 8, 2009 | Reply
amazon will make more profit after cut out the PPC competitor.
and I loss my income ~1500 per months.
By Vita Vee on Apr 9, 2009 | Reply
Hi Ruamtalay,
They surely will!
You can keep your income stream by using an amazon shop script. On your own site you would have a shopping cart for the products/categories you’re actually promoting.
You can send visitors from PPC to your own site instead of sending them to amazon. Then if they make a purchase, in the eyes of amazon, they didn’t come from a PPC engine.
Actually this could even help you to make more profits.
Make a search for amazon scripts on google…
You can have a look at those 2 if you want:
http://www.ghostscripter.com/amazon_shop.php
http://www.c3scripts.com/amazon/
I think c3scripts is pretty good.
Hope this helps,
Vita Vee
By ruamtalay on Apr 11, 2009 | Reply
thank Vita Vee for your suggestion script.
By Vita Vee on Apr 11, 2009 | Reply
You’re welcome.
Keep us updated on how it’s working for you.
Vita Vee