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I just received a notification this morning that Amazon turned me down after the 90 day review. Here is their reason:
“We noticed that you are not using tags assoc
You don't need to wait; just call and see what they say. They'll let you register.
I have links on my home page to pages and posts that have Amazon product links, that way when they search the home page they are taken to pages that have links to Amazon...
- Ron
Ron,
Thanks for this info.
Have you called them before? I was thinking of doing that but a number wasn't included in the email and I haven't seen one on the Associates site.
Kerry
Hi - assuming that your store ID is oconnellpubli-20, which I can see when I hover over your links, then I can't see a problem. Have you made any sales? If so, and you have been credited with a commission, then clearly your links are directing correctly. I suggest you get in touch with them and ask them to clarify.
Excellent. That was what I thought. I've made my three sales so I'm glad that's not an issue. They said they will pay me the $4-5 that have accumulated so that's fine.
What is your opinion of the best way to contact them? I've emailed them in the past and not received a reply. Maybe I'm not using the best email?
Thank you so much, Diane.
Kerry
Hi - if you click on the Contact Us link, I see there is a Live Chat option. Also, Ferra has sent you a link below that leads to an appeal form.
Hi Kerry,
I am so sorry that happened to you.
You can reapply at any time, they will give you a new store ID, so then you need to change all the amazon links you previously have on your posts.
For more info, please refer to Amazon Associate's page here: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/node/topic/GACDBRFKVDTXSPTH
All the best,
Ferra
Thank you so much, Ferra. I hate that I'll get a new ID. That's a bummer, but after going to the link you provided, it seems that's a given.
Thank you!
Kerry
Hi - Amazon has the strictest rules of any affiliate program. If you just break one rule, you can be banned from their program.
They are, John, and for the pittance they now pay, they are not worth my time. Glad I never joined. This is MY opinion only and is not meant to discourage others from joining!
Jeff
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When should I reapply to amazon associates?
I just received a notification this morning that Amazon turned me down after the 90 day review. Here is their reason:
“We noticed that you are not using tags assoc
Hi Kerry,
I think you put the Amazon link into your Theme wigged. Did you try putting it on the image's Custom URL? Once you put, you click on the preview and click on the image to make sure if the link works well. If it will work for you it will take you to the Amazon page right where your item is. It is always a good idea to re teste your image link to make sure you will get paid.
Hope this will help you,
Meena
Meena,
Thanks for asking the question. I placed the text and image links in the text version of the page (HTML) instead of using the visual text editor. It shows up fine in the posts and everything seems to work so I don't think that's my issue.
I'm going to contact Amazon and find out if I can get clarification.
Thank you, Meena!
Kerry
You're most welcome! Sorry, this is my nature to try to help.
Hope Amazon will have it fixed for you.
Wish you all the best!
Meena
You don't need to wait; just call and see what they say. They'll let you register.
I have links on my home page to pages and posts that have Amazon product links, that way when they search the home page they are taken to pages that have links to Amazon...
- Ron
Ron,
Thanks for this info.
Have you called them before? I was thinking of doing that but a number wasn't included in the email and I haven't seen one on the Associates site.
Kerry
Hi - assuming that your store ID is oconnellpubli-20, which I can see when I hover over your links, then I can't see a problem. Have you made any sales? If so, and you have been credited with a commission, then clearly your links are directing correctly. I suggest you get in touch with them and ask them to clarify.
Excellent. That was what I thought. I've made my three sales so I'm glad that's not an issue. They said they will pay me the $4-5 that have accumulated so that's fine.
What is your opinion of the best way to contact them? I've emailed them in the past and not received a reply. Maybe I'm not using the best email?
Thank you so much, Diane.
Kerry
Hi - if you click on the Contact Us link, I see there is a Live Chat option. Also, Ferra has sent you a link below that leads to an appeal form.
Hi Kerry,
I am so sorry that happened to you.
You can reapply at any time, they will give you a new store ID, so then you need to change all the amazon links you previously have on your posts.
For more info, please refer to Amazon Associate's page here: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/node/topic/GACDBRFKVDTXSPTH
All the best,
Ferra
Thank you so much, Ferra. I hate that I'll get a new ID. That's a bummer, but after going to the link you provided, it seems that's a given.
Thank you!
Kerry
Hi - Amazon has the strictest rules of any affiliate program. If you just break one rule, you can be banned from their program.
They are, John, and for the pittance they now pay, they are not worth my time. Glad I never joined. This is MY opinion only and is not meant to discourage others from joining!
Jeff
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I've been trying to set up my WA email in my Outlook and all of the training that I found on WA aren't working for me. Any help out there?
Thanks!
Kerry
If you are using the newer versions of Outlook like the office 365 then yes, you will have a problem.
I had the same issue.
This is what I did. So many issues setting up WA email in Outlook! This is my take.
It should work :-) created by myself recently with the current version of Outlook 2016/365. Let me know on the training itself if you have any issues.
Site support sent me a video that I'll go over as well.
For some reason my test messages are either going into an inbox for one of my other emails (never seen this before) or the messages aren't coming in at all. I only received one of three test messages, and it was to the wrong inbox.
I'll spend more time on it tomorrow but I ran out of time for tonight.
I'll figure it out and let you know if I find anything that's different from what you wrote.
Thank you!
Kerry
I have my WA email accounts inside a profile with other IMPAP and Exchange accounts, and I have never seen this behaviour. You will want to check the email address, the incoming mail server, outgoing mail server, the separate credentials for both and the inbox folder (this folder is required for WA email).
Yeah, it was pretty weird. Site Support took care of it today so that's not an issue. I'm still working through site support but all the settings seems to be right, Outlook just isn't downloading from the server at this point.
So much closer. Site Support has been great. Almost there!
Kerry
No worries :-)
When you say it is not downloading? Is that just the Inbox? Do your other folders, such as Sent, show any emails? Have you added the Folder Path for the Inbox in your Advanced Settings?
Chrystopher,
I forgot to get back to you on this thread.
Site support had me add Inbox to the root folder path box as you suggested. Everything works now.
I’m not sure what happened the first time I set it up, but starting all over by deleting the account from Outlook seemed to do the trick. BTW, your instructions were more current than the video site support sent me. The only difference was the port number which is set at 587, I believe.
Your help is really appreciated. Thank you so much.
Kerry
You’re welcome Kerry, glad you got it sorted, and yes, 587 is an alternative port to 25 for the outgoing server, where some ISP’s block 25. I will update the training to reflect this, thank you for the reminder :-)
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I've been trying to set up my WA email in my Outlook and all of the training that I found on WA aren't working for me. Any help out there?
Thanks!
Kerry
If you are using the newer versions of Outlook like the office 365 then yes, you will have a problem.
I had the same issue.
This is what I did. So many issues setting up WA email in Outlook! This is my take.
It should work :-) created by myself recently with the current version of Outlook 2016/365. Let me know on the training itself if you have any issues.
Site support sent me a video that I'll go over as well.
For some reason my test messages are either going into an inbox for one of my other emails (never seen this before) or the messages aren't coming in at all. I only received one of three test messages, and it was to the wrong inbox.
I'll spend more time on it tomorrow but I ran out of time for tonight.
I'll figure it out and let you know if I find anything that's different from what you wrote.
Thank you!
Kerry
I have my WA email accounts inside a profile with other IMPAP and Exchange accounts, and I have never seen this behaviour. You will want to check the email address, the incoming mail server, outgoing mail server, the separate credentials for both and the inbox folder (this folder is required for WA email).
Yeah, it was pretty weird. Site Support took care of it today so that's not an issue. I'm still working through site support but all the settings seems to be right, Outlook just isn't downloading from the server at this point.
So much closer. Site Support has been great. Almost there!
Kerry
No worries :-)
When you say it is not downloading? Is that just the Inbox? Do your other folders, such as Sent, show any emails? Have you added the Folder Path for the Inbox in your Advanced Settings?
Chrystopher,
I forgot to get back to you on this thread.
Site support had me add Inbox to the root folder path box as you suggested. Everything works now.
I’m not sure what happened the first time I set it up, but starting all over by deleting the account from Outlook seemed to do the trick. BTW, your instructions were more current than the video site support sent me. The only difference was the port number which is set at 587, I believe.
Your help is really appreciated. Thank you so much.
Kerry
You’re welcome Kerry, glad you got it sorted, and yes, 587 is an alternative port to 25 for the outgoing server, where some ISP’s block 25. I will update the training to reflect this, thank you for the reminder :-)
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Hi Kerry,
I think you put the Amazon link into your Theme wigged. Did you try putting it on the image's Custom URL? Once you put, you click on the preview and click on the image to make sure if the link works well. If it will work for you it will take you to the Amazon page right where your item is. It is always a good idea to re teste your image link to make sure you will get paid.
Hope this will help you,
Meena
Meena,
Thanks for asking the question. I placed the text and image links in the text version of the page (HTML) instead of using the visual text editor. It shows up fine in the posts and everything seems to work so I don't think that's my issue.
I'm going to contact Amazon and find out if I can get clarification.
Thank you, Meena!
Kerry
You're most welcome! Sorry, this is my nature to try to help.
Hope Amazon will have it fixed for you.
Wish you all the best!
Meena