Hello everyone!
I had a blog few years back and signed up for Amazon affiliate program. That time I didn’t know it wasn’t allowed and was sharing product links with my friends and family for affiliate earnings.
After 2 yrs, Amazon blocked my account and I lost the earnings too.
After an year, I tried signing up again and it got approved somehow. This time I didn’t share such links. But my friends and family went to my blog and purchased things by clicking on affiliate links. Actual organic clicks were very less though.
Again Amazon blocked me and I lost all earnings this time.
I learned a lesson.
Now I have a YouTube channel and again want to get into affiliate marketing with Amazon for that channel and the blog and will surely take care that no such thing happens again. I won’t even tell any known one directly about the links.
Please advise how should I proceed?
Should I try signing up again with Amazon directly and hope that they will allow me and won’t block me if I don’t repeat any of those mistakes or should I sign up with any other intermediary affiliate marketing company?
Please help me. I’ll be really thankful.🙏🏻
Amazon blocks 2 ways. 1. Permanent 2. Temporary.
If your account is blocked permanently then, you have to purchase new sim and new phone with other profile, new laptop, separate internet/ wifi, as amazon has zero tolerance policy.
If temporary blocked, you may please follow all the guidelines, need adequate number of followers and genuine content. Further Amazon has a simple policy: Your content should add value to the followers. Most people are now a days use Telegram profile to share amazon and other affiliate links.
Hi, i would like to share my story as i too faced the same issue recently, i created a blog long back in 2015 , it was a very small blog with just two Amazon advertisement links embedded in it and it was instantly approved then, boom i started my affiliate marketing and like you i shared links with friends and family and I'm WhatsApp groups, all was going fine until recently, i received a mail in May stating that they have they have potential issue in the way I'm sharing the Amazon program content(basically the links), and they told me to update the complete list of sites/apps/blogs through which I'm earning, the mail even said that they won't release my latest earnings(3k) until everything is sorted out, they gave my a time window of ten days, failing which my affiliate account would be closed completely. I went blank after i got this mail as i got some good earning each month through affiliate marketing, but i thought i should give it a try and then i created a website using GoDaddy with the same Blog content, it took me around 5-6 days to create that as i had to do it in the free time which i had, adding to that i created two new blogs, so i replied to them after developing one website and two blogs, after a week they replied with a thank you mail which said that they might contact in future if they have any doubts or concerns. I had kept my fingers crossed till the month end to know if my account was unlocked, and to my surprise my account was credited with previous month earning which was on hold 😀, for a month i stopped sharing links but during freedom sale i started sharing links and started earning.
I would suggest you to create a proper website and try to apply again, it might get approved