Hi Isaiah! I had a name change to an already website too. I also had a lot of content and a lot of work put into it.

I had to buy a new domain name. Since I did not want to mess up I contacted support gave them the new domain name and they changed it within 24h.
As for the affiliate, I just went into my profile/accounts at the affiliate programs and changed the name, since its still the same site with the same content.
regards
Patricia

I would definitely notify the affiliates, they have no idea that you have changed domain names.

the move will copy the content over - along with all the setup and sort out the redirection....
leave the original domain here for at least 30 days after the move and all the redirection should have taken place - you are then free to do whatever you want with that domain....
i think all the links should be migrated across- can't remember - but one thing i do remember is the email address in your privacy policy or other pages will not be changed....
hopefully you will get it sorted - talk to sitesupport about your options
good luck
phil

I manage to resolve this issue. Site support provided assistance through the Google Structured Data Testing tool.

I manually added these event attributes to my theme to resolve this issue. I validated them through the Structured Data Testing Tool (screenshot below), and I'm just waiting for the crawl in Google Search Console to validate the fixes - it could take a few days.

Events:
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/event

Examples of structured data:
http://linter.structured-data.org/examples/schema.org/Event/

I updated the php/html code because this testing tool indicates where the event issues are located in the theme, and I have a basic understanding of html. I was also careful to make backups of everything before I edited the theme.

It would be nice to have some training somewhere concerning html, but I'm not sure how confident everyone would feel about tampering with their themes in WordPress.

I may have to reach out to site support again. I'm not sure if the issue has been resolved or not - when I click on "Validate Fix", I'm still seeing the same issues.

I can see that the GoogleBot crawled my site on 12/5/19 after I submitted the site map - that's why i waiting two days before checking.

Hi Everyone
I submitted a ticket to site support and they told me to click on the "Validate fix" button in Google Search Console (I'm assuming they did something on the back end). But when I clicked it, there were still errors - see my first screenshot.

Next they generated a new site map and gave me the sitemap.xml file to Google Search Console, and allow some time for the GoogleBot to crawl the site.

The last crawl is showing for December 4th. I'll wait for the next crawl to see if it resolves.

Great question I just had the same thing happen this morning. I'll join you in standing by for answers. Hopefully the solution will fix allot of ongoing problems

Hi Isaiah,

Can you provide a screenshot of this?
Provide it here or PM it to me and I can look then update this thread.

Regards,
Jay

Always a good idea to check your links regularly. Linking to a page can solve this problem.

Lily 😊

Hi Isaiah. What you may want to consider instead is to link to the page of products instead of the single product. This may mean that you will have to adjust your content but it's another option for you. Alternatively, you could find a similar product and put that in as well.

I experienced something similar with Amazon. Not knowing exactly what to do I pulled up the page that the item was on and used my link to it while building content to support the link. It worked great and I forgot about it until your question now.

I have actually gotten additional sales as people chose to add on or get another similar product. Either way, beneficial.

I know it doesn't solve your issue but it works well. I hope this helps.

Brian

You wonr be penalized, so long the link is still can go to Amazon. You will only be penalize if thf link is broken, meaning is goes to no where.

A good thing to check your links. I would make sure that the item indeed is temporarily unavailable and if so then inform your audience and for how long. I think you would not be penalized for that.

Hi Isaiah. You can usually tell by the URL and also they tend to come in batches from the same entity which indicates spam. Not really worth your time.

Jay

Pingbacks and trackbacks are an old technique. anyone still using them is probably poorly informed or a spammer looking for backlinks.

Hi Isaiah,
I've been dropped off the program twice without making a sale either time mainly because I jumped the gun in joining without having a plan in place either time I belonged. Once I'm actually ready I plan to apply again and hopefully they will allow me back in. Fingers crossed. Duane

Hi Isaiah. Usually if you get dropped from the program you can always contact them again and request to be added back in. I've heard of this happening to a few people here but as far as I know, if you request to be put back in the program, you should be allowed back in.

No you won't. You can reapply immediately if you want. But you will have to set up a new ID number and then redo all the links you have to Amazon on your site. Jim