Affiliate Amazon Link ERROR!!! 4 June 2020

Mr.Never

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• Jun 4, 2020

• #1

Most Affiliate links from Amazon have been broken today. All are redirected to the homepage of Amazon?
what's happening?

 

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MisterF

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• #2

Mr.Never said:

Most Affiliate links from Amazon have been broken today. All are redirected to the homepage of Amazon?
what's happening?

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How did you see that?

Do you use a tool for checking?

Cheers.

 

Mr.Never

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MisterF said:

How did you see that?

Do you use a tool for checking?

Cheers.

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I just checked my sites and some other links.
For example: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/most-popular-picks-may-2020/

 

Nargil

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Works perfectly fine on my end.

 

ThemeWave

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I've noticed some sites are working and some sites are redirecting to home - including some of my own sites. It's very strange...

 

TomTheCat

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I think this is because the product is not available.
This one redirects to homepage.

Code:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006NZZH18/?tag=thewire06-20&linkCode=xm2&ascsubtag=AwEAAAAAAAAAAcPp

And here is the product page. The product is not available.

Code:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006NZZH18/

 

Vivekji424

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ThemeWave said:

I've noticed some sites are working and some sites are redirecting to home - including some of my own sites. It's very strange...

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True

 

pro2max

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• Jun 4, 2020

• #8

I'm having the same problem...damn after google update here come another shit from amazon.

 

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Dolan

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• #9

I would guess it has something to do with their redirect and the tracking tags they are using.

This URL works fine:

Code:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009HBKQ16/

But when you add on their tracking code it redirects to Amazon's homepage

Code:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009HBKQ16/?tag=thewire06-20&linkCode=xm2&ascsubtag=AwEAAAAAAAAAAcPq

Does anyone have any examples of it happening not on the Wirecutter?

 

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Kuku-Nav

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• #10

You can add affiliate link and tag again in your products and check is it still doing the error.

 

Shopllc

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• #11

pro2max said:

I'm having the same problem...damn after google update here come another shit from amazon.

Click to expand...

Next month aliens will definitely land.

Works fine on all sites (mine and not mine).

 

H3ktor

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• #12

It's not broken. Amazon just added geo restriction to US only products. So if you are browsing from outside USA, you will land on homepage. Use incognito/private browser and the link will work fine.

 

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marco-games

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Apr 15, 2020

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• #13

Change your shipping address to any US zip code. It worked for me.

 

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marco-games

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Apr 15, 2020

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• Jun 5, 2020

• #14

Hey guys! I've read on the Amazon Associates Forum that this issue is related to OneLink. That's why only some of us are affected. I can't post links because I just started here

 

Shopllc

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• #15

OneLink has too many bugs.

 

ThemeWave

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• Jun 8, 2020

• #16

Seems to be working again. Very strange and I also lost sales, well for past 3-4 days are very low compared to normal but now they are back up.