OneLink by Amazon - how to verify your links in various countries?

byHavermayer

125 followers

8 years ago

Hi. I have recently became an affiliate of Amazon in the US. Because my niche is 'international' I have taken the advantage of OneLink offered by Amazon. It's a feature which allows you to sell products in different countries using just one affiliate link. There are tutorials about it at WA and you can learn from them.

One major issue I have faced, being based in Poland, was to verify if my links work OK for the USA and Canada. Each time I was clicking my link, I was redirected to the UK, which is OK as it's the country closest to Poland. But how to make sure that my links for Canada and the US are ok too?

Well, the first possibility is to ask somebody from all-very-friendly WA members :). But even a friendly person has friendship limits and for multiple links this can be a nightmare.

Therefore, I want to share with you another possibility. There's a service called TunnelBear -> https://www.tunnelbear.com/.

All you have to do is to sign up for an account. It's free until 500 Mb/month, which is more than OK, just to check your links. If you are using Chrome or Opera browser, there's a TunnelBear add-on. Alternatively, you can download and install an application.

All it does, it simulates your location in another country (you can select from 22 including Canada, USA and the UK). Once you switch to another country you can test your Amazon links.

Piotr