How to keep Amazon from seeing where your affiliate clicks come from.

[Sleyouot]

I share my links on a subreddit where it’s okay to do that, and I get a lot of people clicking from there. But I heard Amazon doesn’t really like traffic from Reddit. That’s the only place I’m getting visitors right now.

Is there a way to hide where the clicks are coming from without making people do anything extra?

Any tips would really help!

 

[FairySaiyan]

Amazon watches closely where visitors come from, and sending people straight from Reddit might cause problems. One smart trick is to use a middle page — like a small website or blog post — that visitors go to first before they get sent to Amazon. This way, Amazon thinks they came from your page, not Reddit.

If you don’t want to add an extra page, you can try using short links like Bitly or special tools that hide your links, but Amazon can sometimes catch those. A safer way is to make your own redirect on your website, like a simple little program that sends people to Amazon.

 

[Sleyouot]

Amazon watches closely where visitors come from, and sending people straight from Reddit might cause problems. One smart trick is to use a middle page — like a small website or blog post — that visitors go to first before they get sent to Amazon. This way, Amazon thinks they came from your page, not Reddit.

If you don’t want to add an extra page, you can try using short links like Bitly or special tools that hide your links, but Amazon can sometimes catch those. A safer way is to make your own redirect on your website, like a simple little program that sends people to Amazon.

Can you explain more about what a cloaking service is? Also, I’m not really sure what a PHP script means either. I don’t know much about these things yet.

 

[FairySaiyan]

"If you're trying to hide where clicks come from, tools like ClickMagick or Voluum can help, but big sites like Amazon have gotten smarter at spotting that. A better way might be to use your own website to do the redirect. You can do that with a small bit of code, like a basic PHP setup.

PHP:
<?php
header("Location: https://www.amazon.com/your-affiliate-link");
exit();

"Put this on your own website, then share that link instead of using the one from the offer. That way, it looks like the visitors came from your site, not from Reddit.


Hope that makes things clearer!

 

[KidXcaptain]

I share my links on a subreddit where it’s okay to do that, and I get a lot of people clicking from there. But I heard Amazon doesn’t really like traffic from Reddit. That’s the only place I’m getting visitors right now.

Is there a way to hide where the clicks are coming from without making people do anything extra?

Any tips would really help!

Looks like you’re running into a problem where Amazon doesn’t like their links being used on places like Reddit. They’ve got a lot of rules about where their links can go, and Reddit is one of the spots they usually don’t allow for that kind of thing...