Do You Use Amazon Images? You May Be In Violation Of Their TOS Now Thanks To An Update Last Year
Published on June 26, 2017
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First, as I’ve said before, I absolutely love the Amazon Associates Program. While many people fled the service earlier this year, I have stayed on board and even been seeing some significant growth. With that said, earlier today I found out about a change that was put into effect last year that I had somehow missed, and it’s VERY IMPORTANT!!
In the past, you could download and save Amazon images so long as they were not “customer uploaded images.” This is still a common practice, and as I found out today, in direct violation of Amazon’s current TOS.
A fellow marketer on Facebook messaged me earlier to inform me that his new site that was earning well into 4 figures, 3 months out of the gate, was now earning $0 as his Amazon Associates account was shut down effective this past Saturday.
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The reason? He was informed that it “appeared as if he was using images from Amazon that he was hosting himself, which was a gross direct violation of their Operating Agreement, with the only recourse being immediate account termination.”
This is a HUGE issue as many older marketers use this practice on their sites. After a quick phone call to Associates Central this morning, I found out that this rule was put into effect last year, and now you must utilize proper image links from the Amazon Site Stripe instead of hosting your own images.
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That sounds very confusing, right? Well, it can be a bit of a headache, and if you find that you’re confused on what I’m talking about, you can check out a training video that I’ve created by clicking this link: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.co...
Hopefully this can help some of you avoid having your Associate’s account closed because of an update that has slipped through the cracks for a lot of us.
Best wishes, Tony
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