Dear Amazon Associate: We're writing to let you know about a change to the Amazon Associates Program. After careful review of how we are investing our advertising resources, we have made the decision to no longer pay referral fees to Associates who send users to 'amazon.com, 'amazon.ca, or 'endless.com through keyword bidding and other paid search on Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other search engines, and their extended search networks. If you're not sure if this change affects you, please visit this page for FAQs. 3000$/month is gone, holy shit. amazon is not the best in affiliate program.
well the good thing is that they at least informed ! for the Kindle books thing they quietly did it. Just redirect the traffic via a landing page to amazon and you will be fine.
Did anyone have any success with this? I imagine the conversion rates would drop and the cost go up, testing this myself now.
Be patient and get the other ways, don't surrender to step to high level. Sometimes people faces the bitter things in order to he/she can recheck about their faults.
Yes, I wanted to post about this also, this is total SH*T ! It isn't enough they give only 4-7% from sales, but now they restricted main traffic sources ?! pfff
What is exactly mean? Sorry, I'm not sure about it and not understand. Are they won't pay for the fee anymore or just the referral fee?
Threeo, this shouldn't be THAT big of a deal. My guess is that you are direct linking customers to product pages or category pages on Amazon, correct? Now just build yourself some niche sites that have Amazon listings on them and direct them to that as your landing page. They'll see your items, click-through and buy. Use phpZon plugin for wordpress. Whip up some themes with Artisteer and you're off to the races. You don't have to put up one site for every product either of course. Just make unique pages with the items you are promoting and make sure your Adwords visitors are dropped to the right page. Might make sense to bundle related things though. Maybe one site for all your video games stuff and one site for all your sound equipment stuff. I don't think it would look right having a site that sells video game stuff and....I dunno....bedsheets and curtains all together or whatever. I'd fight to keep that kinda automatic income myself though...I'd think a few months invested setting up sites with the right landing pages would be time well spent.
The Expert, the thing is: Even through landing pages your conversion will get down a lot but your cut stays the same. For example you had conversion 4% and your sales percent was 7%, now your conversion would be less than 1% with a 7% percent per sale. Only descriptive example.