Are you violating Amazon Policies? Outdated WA training could get you banned!
Published on May 1, 2019
Published on Wealthy Affiliate — a platform for building real online businesses with modern training and AI.
Go to
Online Entrepreneur Certification - Level 3 : Lesson 6 of 10
Kyle advocates that we include pricing in our review posts, but there is a problem with this.
Manual insertion of pricing for a product is not allowed!
In Amazon's policies: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/policies...
You will see the following under:
2. Links on Your Site
(b) General Requirements Applicable to All Special Links
This cannot be clearer, any pricing being manually inserted into your posts will be considered a violation of Amazon's terms of use and they have the right to revoke your access based off of this policy. Only Amazon's API is allowed which updates the pricing for you.
Here is a post I found online that talks about 9 things that will get you banned on Amazon, apprently, showing pricing is one of them! https://marketever.com/mistakes-get-banned-amazon-affiliate/
(I have no affiliation to this site, it is displayed for educational purposes)
They also made another disconcerting rule in another section of thier policies:
Under:
6. Content on your Site
(t) You will not display or otherwise use any of our customer reviews or
star ratings, in part or in whole, on your Site
Basically, you can include star ratings on your site, but they cannot claim to be Amazon's unless they are automatically being updated by Amazon's API!
Apparently, I have a lot of editing to do. I've been including star ratings saying they are Amazon's and manually placing pricing for a long time.
Also, if you don't believe me, do a search for the top ranking reviews on something, I think you will find most if not all of them comply with these policies.
FYI: I love Wealthy Affiliate,I don't want to see anything bad to Wealthy Affiliate or it's members, this post is meant to help you not get banned by Amazon!
I want to see WA's training updated to match Amazon's policies immediately.
Ready to put this into action?
Start your free journey today — no credit card required.
I think many people could get banned very quickly if Amazon sees that they have outdated pricing or star ratings on their posts!
As listed in Amazon's policies, I also include this in my affiliate disclosure and disclaimer forms:
***Amazon Content Disclaimer***
CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON (website name) COMES FROM AMAZON. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME.
Regards,
Jacob H.
Share this insight
This conversation is happening inside the community.
Join free to continue it.The Internet Changed. Now It Is Time to Build Differently.
If this article resonated, the next step is learning how to apply it. Inside Wealthy Affiliate, we break this down into practical steps you can use to build a real online business.
No credit card. Instant access.