Twittering affiliate links = no commission
July 8th, 2009 Affiliate Blogger Posted in Affiliate management, All articles | No Comments »
I jsut found out off a us affiliate site that Amazon have decided that affiliate links posted via twitter will no longer be acepted and commissions will be declined.
Many merchants and networks prohibit affiliate links from being posted on forums or in blog comments and state links need to be on your own site. However no one has ever set a precedence for social media like Twitter and Facebook.( source)
This seems like an interesting move originally aimed at tackling those spammy affiliates who give us all a bad name, but again it seems like broad stroke of a brush in tackling the issue rather than one that closly scrutinizes how affiliates market products, again spammy affiliates have ruined it for the rest of us. I can understand why merchants would choose to use such a strategy, but perhaps a better strategy to take is to create new ways of tracking traffic from these sources or dealing with it on a case by case basis.
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