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Amazon Cease PPC Payments in North America

This Must Be Seen As An OPPORTUNITY!!!

This is a huge opportunity for IPK members, I'm about to explain exactly why...

Firstly, the competition for Amazon traffic is going to drop massively overnight. Secondly IPK members have access to the Network Blazer software which can be used to create a mini site in under an hour. This is especially the case where the mini site is to be used for PPC. Traffic being sent from this type of page to Amazon will not be penalised by the new policy! Let me be clear about this. This is NOT what Amazon is saying, rather it is common sense...

If you send a click to Amazon from a page on a small site, Amazon has no way of knowing where the original click came from.

Watch the Network Blazer website-builder demo videos here: IPK Software >>>

That aside the shear fall in the number of Amazon affiliates using PPC to drive traffic DIRECT to Amazon means that the organic results will see an increase in clicks. From where I'm sitting this is great news for IPK members.

Dear Amazon Associate:

We’re writing to let you know about a change to the Amazon Associates Program. After careful review of how we are investing our advertising resources, we have made the decision to no longer pay referral fees to Associates who send users to www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca, or www.endless.com through keyword bidding and other paid search on Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other search engines, and their extended search networks. If you're not sure if this change affects you, please visit this page for FAQs.

As of May 1, 2009, Associates will not be paid referral fees for paid search traffic. Also, in connection with this change, as of May 1, 2009, Amazon will no longer make data feeds available to Associates for the purpose of sending users to the Amazon websites in the US or Canada via paid search.

This change applies only to the Associates programs in North America. If you are conducting paid search activities in connection with one of Amazon’s Associates Programs outside of the US and Canada, please refer to the applicable country’s Associates Program Operating Agreement for relevant terms and conditions.

We appreciate your continued support and participation in this advertising Program. If you have questions or concerns, please write to us by using the Contact Us form available on Associates Central.


Sincerely,

The Amazon Associates Program