Well, it's that time to get ready for Affiliate Summit. I'm on a 6am flight to Las Vegas tomorrow and am looking forward to meeting many of you at the conference over the next few days.
If you are planning on being there and would like to connect, please drop me a line at: Gene [at] AffiliateBrand.com.
Gene Kavner, Former World-Wide Director, Amazon Associates Affiliate Program, 2005-2006.
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Gene, I'd love to hear what you think of Amazon changing it's relationship with many of the Deal & Coupon sites over the last 4 months. Fatwallet, Slickdeals, TechBargains and Spoofee just to name a few. I thought I understood why they did it as those sites have forums that allow for the promotion of price mistakes and the posting of coupons not meant for the affiliate channel. That changed when they also hammered me with the new agreement at Christmas time. My site has no user forums and I've never posted any coupons that can't be found on a product page. If your not aware of the change they now provide a list of items that are commissionable (my first list consisted of 1800 items in mostly the baby and womens apparel categories - categories I never promote) and a customer must use the direct link to add to the cart. If they navigate away from the product or purchase other items you receive no commission. We are no longer allowed access to Associates Central so have no stats as well. Love to know what your thought are on this change. Perhaps you will see some of these site owners at Affiliate Summit and find out more there.
Regards,
Rob
Posted by: Rob | January 26, 2007 at 04:44 PM