{"id":169,"date":"2017-08-06T16:02:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T20:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2025-07-07T17:48:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T21:48:19","slug":"amazon-affiliate-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/2017\/08\/amazon-affiliate-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon affiliate experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I wrote up refinishing my mother’s kitchen floor<\/a>, I stuck in some Amazon affiliate links as an experiment. They close the account if you don’t generate a sale within six months, which I figured I might well not… but I did, which apparently is what triggers their review of your site for appropriateness. And I got a weird rejection “due to one or more of the following reasons:”<\/p>\n

– Lack of content which is original to your site and beneficial to your visitors
\n– Pages that are mainly empty when advertisement content is removed<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My content is all original and I hardly have any ads, so that doesn’t really make any sense. I was inclined to ditch the whole idea, but I’m going to try one more time. I may have submitted the root level of the site (salticid.com), and that only has pretty old content… or maybe it’s that\u00a0 my host was having database issues and giving a connection error. I’m making a few cents a day from Google ads on my concentration game<\/a> and it scratches the same itch as picking up pennies from the sidewalk, so this attempt is another extension of that…<\/p>\n

OK, and here’s a test. We’re going to buy this clock<\/a>. Can I get a referral from myself??? I googled that and didn’t find a quick answer… 8\/22\/2017 edited to add: no, Amazon policy<\/a> is no referrals for yourself. Not a surprise—what I really wanted to know is whether it triggers the review. I’m guessing not, but I have now ordered 3 items and not been rejected at least!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I wrote up refinishing my mother’s kitchen floor, I stuck in some Amazon affiliate links as an experiment. They close the account if you don’t generate a sale within six months, which I figured I might well not… but I did, which apparently is what triggers their review of your site for appropriateness. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}