Lesson learned the hard way!

byLoriM5

655 followers

6 years ago

Tuesday Morning was a start of a very long and tense week for me, and here it is Friday and still have until Monday to go. When I went to check out my e-mails for my website I got one heck of a shock. My affiliate site, amazon, closed down my account.

I could not believe this for I have nineteen posts online, with everyone of them having their products on them. In the e-mail they told me that I must take down all products and links from my site that closed. That I would not receive any money I had already made from the site and the reason is for non-compliance.

Man was I ever confused because my site allmightygamers.com is in full compliance with amazons contract that I signed. So what is going on here? This was driving me nuts so I contacted amazon associates to find out. I have to laugh at this point because they could not see the problem either, for the site is in full compliance.

Then I remembered what the e-mail said. It said something about shutting my site down, and it dawned on me. I had a website built for me just before I got into WA. It cost me $292.00 and I did not like the design nor the back office. I had too much trouble with tech issues that I had the company shut it down and send me my money back.

Well when I had both sites I had both going to one e-mail which is my lori@allmightygamers.com. BIG MISTAKE, and that was just mistake number one. Mistake 2 was, when I logged into my affiliate site both accounts were tied to the same password. Mistake 3, both sites were tagged to the same ID #, and trust me when I say I don't know how the 3rd one happened, but it did.

LESSON LEARNED THE HARD WAY!!!

Well needless to say I have to wait to get my site reinstated through their appeals team. Until then, I can't promote my site on my social media sites, I can not create new posts and can't earn any commissions though my site.

All of this came down because I forgot to contact my affiliate site to tell them pokidoo.com was closing down. And because of the three mistakes I made it affected my site that is in compliance with the contract I signed.

I got a lot to catch up on when Monday comes around and my site is approved want's again. Until then, I will write my posts here, and write review's for my site so that I can publish a couple a day for a week till caught up.

I hope by learning of my mistakes you will not end up the same way. Please be diligent and let affiliates know when you're closing down a site. Don't attack your e-mails to one e-mail site and separate your affiliates back office from one another.

LOL I sure learned my lesson well.