Amazon Affiliate Link IMG

Longover · Jun 27, 2011

When you are creating amazon.com affiliate links, do you need to keep the <img> tag in the generated link?

example link:

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fbrowse%3Fie%3DUTF8%26node%3D518172011%26ref_%3Dsr_tc_img_2_0%26qid%3D1309206491%26sr%3D8-2-tc%23&tag=AFFILIATEID&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957">Name Your Link</a><img src="https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=AFFILIATEID&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

the piece that I'm talking about:

<img src="https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=AFFILIATEID&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

Will amazon properly track the link without that img? Do the just do this to track the placement of their links on the web?

#Arby# · Jun 27, 2011

It will work without the link in the img, but there's no need to take it out

BugFixed · Jun 27, 2011

Yes. And the image part, it might be used as page (image) impression.

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