Amazon Affiliate - Cutting Costs

Hello

I hope everyone is well. I'm sorry for not including an introduction, but I'm an amateur, so it'd be incredibly boring anyway.

I've just started an Amazon affiliate and have encountered an issue. Following poor experiences with OneLink, I've begun using Geniuslink, which is, of course, a paid service.

Because of this, I'd like to disallow non-tier one traffic from my site (to be sensible with costs as per title). My main issue is that the Amazon review team appears not to be tier 1, and review teams in the future likely won't be either (so they are booted off my site*). I am struggling to gain approval because of this.

*A bit more than booted of relevant pages and information are given to them

Theoretically, I could build a clone site for other tiers, but this would seem a strain on resources (being that I would have to populate and advertise it also)

Has anyone else faced this challenge? I'm feeling lost here. Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated. Am I missing something obvious? Nothing against the operating agreement, please!

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Block traffic from Tier 2 and Tier 3 countries, but allow some specific ones that are most likely to be used from Amazon review team , like India

TheBigBrother said:

Block traffic from Tier 2 and Tier 3 countries, but allow some specific ones that are most likely to be used from Amazon review team , like India

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I did consider this but hoping there's a better way to deal with it (just as India is so populous)

For other curious affiliates, something quite strange.

Amazon UK Associates were willing to visit my site by VPN to ensure compliance, Amazon US, thus far, have not been. I guess my method of stipulating them to use VPN is unlikely to work when working across multiple regions (even beyond these two).

Hmmm..hope you're all good! Actually I ran into a similar issue and found that using a VPN to simulate Tier 1 traffic for review purposes helps. You can also try segmenting your site content to limit non-Tier 1 traffic without creating a whole new site. Good luck!

Chris.A said:

Hmmm..hope you're all good! Actually I ran into a similar issue and found that using a VPN to simulate Tier 1 traffic for review purposes helps. You can also try segmenting your site content to limit non-Tier 1 traffic without creating a whole new site. Good luck!

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Hiya chappy, hope you're well too

The review teams I've had are from India primarily which doesn't fall under tier 1 so unfortunately that wouldnt work. I don't have problems accessing the site personally either.

I find your segmentation idea rather interesting. The main issue I would have is that I'd likely fail a spot audit? (i.e. Amazon wouldn't be able to 'work back' from the traffic I give them which they require)

Interested to hear your thoughts and kind regards.