*** Congratulations!.... :) ***

Hi - you need to make 3 sales in each country. Its entirely possible, that you could meet the target in one country, and be finally approved, yet fail in another country and be removed from that part of the program.

Thanks Diane :)

Yes, you need the 3 sales on each separate account. If however you do not meet the requirements on one, that doesn't mean you will be rejected from the others.

When I first started with Amazon I went crazy and added each regions accounts, not realizing I would have to meet these goals. At the end of the 180 days I had only made 3 sales on my US account so that is the only one I was left with at that time.

You are able to reapply to any you do not immediately get approved for at the end of the probationary period though :)

Thanks Shannon. It´s just that I´ll then have to go all through my old posts and re-hash all the existing product affiliate links and that´s something I´m trying to avoid....

Yes unfortunately that is true. When you reapply, you are given a completely different affiliate ID and thus you will have to change all the links.

Thanks for the confirmation... :(

Thanks Shannon :)

That was agreat article, thanks for sharing. I jumped the gun and got on board way too early with Amazon associate. I may or may not reapply.

Rudy

Cool. Thanks Stephan, I’ll let you know what happens :D

Cool beans.

I read this article online on how to speed up my site, added those 3, and it's been great ever since.

No fuss. No muss.

Lots of fuss CashYoda, site broken... panick mode as just shared a new post (swearing) - opened ticket......

Oh no!

Did you set the plugins up?

There are a few things to run through, but it should take 20-30 minutes for each one.

I'm not a very technical person, but I found these 3 pretty easy to set up.

There are other plugins I tried that left me scratching my head because they were so complex.

Total Cache C3 was one of them I think.

Totally confusing...

I am so sorry if my suggestion made more trouble for you. I can assure you I just wanted to help.

Was tech support able to assist you?

No worries CashYoda (great name btw). I think it was very bad timing, with me playing with the plugins and also a technical behind-the-scenes issue according to Support. So naturally, now I don´t know if the plugins actually caused some problem.

HOWEVER, all is back to normal now! Thanks. I think I´ll wait a few days before trying again as I´ve got this new post up today. Don´t want to break it again.

At the moment my speed is in the yellow at 68 - that´s better than it was..... (shaking head).

But I will look at your suggestions again because something seems to have improved on my testing site so we will see.

Hi Susie,

That's good news.

Whenever I muck up my site, I absolutely FREAK OUT!

I've done it a few times, and it's super scary.

So I was worried that you would curse my name until the end of time, and all that.

Maybe just try Optimole to start. It's easy to set up.

About 2 months ago my site started to get crazy slow, and I tried about 6 plugins.

They were super complex, and I got so frustrated...

Then I finally tried Optimole, and my site speed was great, for about a month.

Then it started getting sluggish again, so I had to dig deeper.

Then I found the other 2 plugins.

And that's where I'm at now.

I just wanted to save you all of the hassle I had to go through to figure it all out.

Sorry if I stressed you. It really was not intentional!

Don´t worry! Mine was all good not long ago, not sure why it´s suddenly really slow. I wasn´t cursing you at all as it was probably my own fault. No worries :D