Amazon Affiliate - Noob Question

[dcristo]

This may sound like a really dumb question but hey Im gonna ask it anyway to kill my curiousity :D

With Amazon, if you link to a specific item on your site and the customer through your affiliate link decides to purchase other Amazon items, do you get a commission on all the items they purchase if Amazon pays a commission on those items?

Cheers

[sji2671]

Yes, you get paid on other purchases and 3rd party purchases but you get 2.5% more if they buy from direct links from your site to the product.

[dcristo]

Yes, you get paid on other purchases and 3rd party purchases but you get 2.5% more if they buy from direct links from your site to the product.

Thanks for that!

[dcristo]

Ive been doing a bit of reading on the Amazon site and it says the maximum commissions it pays out is 10% Did it not use to be more than this, something like 15% ?

[T0PS3O]

Considering the have a profit margin that most business owners would make give up their business, handing out 15% would kill them. With 10% commission there's isn't much of the pie left for them actually.

[Nintendo]

Used books used to have more than 10% on payout.

[noppid]

Amazon has a decent payout IMO in general. I send folks there all the time from my forums with my affilliate links. Works OK, worth the effort for sure.

[tomek]

Every visitor you send to amazon gets a cookie which lasts for 24 hours. If he buys something within this 24 hours you get some % but you get higher % if the buys the item that made him reach the amazon page...

[Nokia999]

What if cookies are disabled?I think there must be some record of Ip address.

[tomek]

What if cookies are disabled?

then you'll only get credit if he buys something within that session