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Amazon Affiliates Program Changes
Beginning on March 1,2017 changes are being made to the Amazon Affiliate Program. The biggest change is they have eliminated the “sell more make more” higher payout fees. Whether you sell one or hundreds of an item as an affiliate the fee rate stays the same. Yikes! The old fee structure looked like this: As you can see in the chart above, in the old structure, expiring March 1st, your commission rate rose based on an increase in the volume of sales. In the new fee structure your fee rate will be based on the category of the item sold. See the new schedule below.
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New Access to Amazon Associates Program
Amazon Associates Program One of my business models is building niche sites and I am an affiliate for the Amazon Associates Program. This means when I recommend products I use and love that are available on Amazon I get a commission from Amazon when people buy items through my links. This doesn’t cost the consumer anything extra. For the past few years quite a few states in the US couldn’t participate in the program because they wanted Amazon to collect the sales tax when customers bought things on their site and Amazon wasn’t cooperating. My state, California, pulled out of the program a few years ago, which meant I couldn’t…