Amazon Kills Arbitrage
ByNo More PPC Affiliate Sales
not that many were doing it anyway
Amazon recently announced that it would no longer honor affiliate sales made through pay per click advertising. Due to Amazons single session cookie, there were not nearly as many paid search associates as there could have been though, Amazon claims that a conflict in advertising dollars was at the root of the decision. To quote;
After careful review of how we are investing our advertising resources, we have made the decision to no longer pay referral fees to Associates who send users to www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca, or www.endless.com through keyword bidding and other paid search on Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other search engines, and their extended search networks. If you’re not sure if this change affects you, please visit this page for FAQs.
As of May 1, 2009, Associates will not be paid referral fees for paid search traffic. Also, in connection with this change, as of May 1, 2009, Amazon will no longer make data feeds available to Associates for the purpose of sending users to the Amazon websites in the US or Canada via paid search.
This change applies only to the Associates programs in North America. If you are conducting paid search activities in connection with one of Amazon’s Associates Programs outside of the US and Canada, please refer to the applicable country’s Associates Program Operating Agreement for relevant terms and conditions.
So as of May 1st 2009 the famous Amazon phallus will be swooshing deep into the fertile market of affiliate arbitrage and seeding it with PPC death. Gee Thanks!
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