Blog Tips - The Search Engine Journal reports that Amazon.com is refusing to pay commissions on affiliate sales that were generated via Twitter. Apparently they adhering to their Terms of Service and claiming that any link must come from “Your Site” in order to be eligible for commission.
“Your site” means any site that you will link to the Amazon Site (and which you will identify in your Program application)
This has provoked considerable concern from many bloggers and affiliate marketers who worry, because Twitter has the potential for affiliate marketing (provided you do it correctly) and Amazon's move could lead other networks to disallow Twitter leads. Though I haven't heard many issues over the use of RSS feeds and wonder if Amazon will crackdown here too.
Your thoughts? Are you using, and have you had success with Twitter as an Affiliate Marketing tool ?
See post, at SearchEngineJournal.com
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