Thread: Amazon gives affiliates a blow

Amazon has announced it will no longer pay affiliate commissions to affiliates that use pay-per-click programs on search engines to get traffic to amazon.com pages with affiliate id on the url! This policy would apply to amazon.com, amazon.ca, and endless.com

This new policy would although allow affiliates use ppc to get traffic to their own amazon affiliate websites; they just can't use ppc to directly link to Amazon pages.

This is a real blow on the earnings of many affiliates.

Oh thats gonna hurt a lot or people. I guess Amazon didn't like how much money people were making through them, this is gonna be big for Amazon guys.

Oh, but this is all just the beginning...

Amazon Ends Rhode Island affiliate programs

Amazon.com Inc. ended relationships with online affiliates in Rhode Island to avoid a new sales tax law in that state...On Friday, Amazon reportedly ended affiliate programs in North Carolina as that state was seeking to adopt a similar tax.

There are several other states with similar plans in the works. Who will be next? The affiliate tax legislation train is rolling out of the station.

I never could make any money out of Amazon affiliate. I guess not much people would really care

It is quiet sad to know. I wonder lot's of were making money by that website, I don't the reason behind their closure but hope it resumes the service again

what does it means? i did not get it? can you explain?

I would think they have done this so they can advertise their own products/servers via PPC.

Wow, im actually very surprised by this. I hope this doesn't eventually lead amazon to stop their affiliate program. I don't know why they would ever want to do that.