Amazon Affiliate Program Rules and Requirements
Amazon Affiliate Program Rules and Requirements
Being an Amazon Associate is a great way to monetize passion projects or make supplemental income from your brand. However, Amazon has guidelines for associates to follow, so it’s best to understand those before you dive in. Noncompliance may result in being banned from the program or you’ll not receive a commission for this sale.
The majority of the rules are in place for ethical promotion as well as for preventing associates from gaming the system. Here are some of the big ones to keep in mind:
- You must disclose on your site or in your communication that you may be eligible to earn from your recommendations.
- You must not make false or deceptive claims in your recommendations.
- Avoid referring to prices (with some exceptions) since prices frequently change.
- Do not use Amazon affiliate links in Emails, eBooks, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or Text Messages.
- Avoid promoting items to family, friends, or co-workers because Amazon links are designed to be clicked by random visitors.
- Do not use link shorteners on affiliate links.
The only legal way to get a commission is to add your website to your Amazon affiliate account and start promoting your website to generate traffic to it.
Read Amazon’s full policy, CLICK HERE
How long does the Amazon Affiliate cookie last?
The Amazon Affiliate cookie lasts for 24 hours after a website visitor clicks on the affiliate link. The cookie stays in their browser for that entire length of time. That way, if they check out at any time in those 24 hours, the purchase will be credited to you.
Once, the visitors add the product to their shopping cart, the cookie lasts for 90 days, if they came back and completed their purchase in those 90 days, the purchase will be credited to you.
The Amazon Affiliate cookie is just one of the ways that the Amazon Affiliate program can help you make money. But first, you must get visitors to click on the link — and to do that, you need visitors in the first place.
Review it on the Amazon website, CLICK HERE
Read more about how to become an Amazon Affiliate Partner, CLICK HERE
