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I'm a bit surprised Amazon allowed this page to do affiliate marketing like this. I had a similar page but much more generalized to laptops and they told me my

I'm a bit surprised Amazon allowed this page to do affiliate marketing like this. I had a similar page but much more generalized to laptops and they told me my site had to have some other content: it couldn't just exist to promote the amazon products. If they've changed their stance on this then great!

cranberryturkey 3y ago
i think as long as you say that they are amazon affiliate links its ok
- jamghee 3y ago
  That wasn't the issue I had at the time. I had the required disclaimers but they still rejected me because the sole purpose of my site was to sell their products.
  - leros 3y ago
    Hmm, I wonder if diskprices.com is just grandfathered in for some reason.
  - fbdab103 3y ago
    What if you included links to Target/Walmart/Bestbuy as well?
PaulRobinson 3y ago
This has "content". The filters and columns are different to those offered by Amazon's own search experience (the $/TB, for example). Did your laptop selection site just replicate the data from Amazon, or did it try and do something novel? "Content" is not alway descriptions, reviews and the like. It can be aggregation, statistical and calculated.
- jamghee 3y ago
  >Did your laptop selection site just replicate the data from Amazon, or did it try and do something novel? I thought it was novel. It was basically a guided questionnaire that asked you about your needs and price point and then spit out a laptop recommendation at the end
faet 3y ago
Chances are he had a blog or something with content/pages and got approved. Then just re-used the codes/keys for the affiliate links on this new site. Once you start making money Amazon doesn't care. Source: Me. I had a comparison tool for products with similar layout to this. They originally denied it citing 'lack of content'. Made a 2nd website with some blogs/reviews, it was approved. Re-used the code/api for the comparison tool and closed the other website. They haven't complained in 12 years.
- jamghee 3y ago
  Ah, that is an interesting tactic. I think I'd be worried there's some 0.0001% chance Amazon would find out and ask for all the money back.
notzane 3y ago
Where was your site? > The following marketplaces have threatened or suspended our accounts and are unlikely to return to diskprices.com without clear policy changes from Amazon: amazon.jp, amazon.nl, amazon.it, amazon.sg.

cranberryturkey 3y ago

i think as long as you say that they are amazon affiliate links its ok

jamghee 3y ago
That wasn't the issue I had at the time. I had the required disclaimers but they still rejected me because the sole purpose of my site was to sell their products.
- leros 3y ago
  Hmm, I wonder if diskprices.com is just grandfathered in for some reason.
- fbdab103 3y ago
  What if you included links to Target/Walmart/Bestbuy as well?

PaulRobinson 3y ago

This has "content". The filters and columns are different to those offered by Amazon's own search experience (the $/TB, for example). Did your laptop selection site just replicate the data from Amazon, or did it try and do something novel? "Content" is not alway descriptions, reviews and the like. It can be aggregation, statistical and calculated.

jamghee 3y ago
>Did your laptop selection site just replicate the data from Amazon, or did it try and do something novel? I thought it was novel. It was basically a guided questionnaire that asked you about your needs and price point and then spit out a laptop recommendation at the end

faet 3y ago

Chances are he had a blog or something with content/pages and got approved. Then just re-used the codes/keys for the affiliate links on this new site. Once you start making money Amazon doesn't care. Source: Me. I had a comparison tool for products with similar layout to this. They originally denied it citing 'lack of content'. Made a 2nd website with some blogs/reviews, it was approved. Re-used the code/api for the comparison tool and closed the other website. They haven't complained in 12 years.

jamghee 3y ago
Ah, that is an interesting tactic. I think I'd be worried there's some 0.0001% chance Amazon would find out and ask for all the money back.

notzane 3y ago

Where was your site? > The following marketplaces have threatened or suspended our accounts and are unlikely to return to diskprices.com without clear policy changes from Amazon: amazon.jp, amazon.nl, amazon.it, amazon.sg.