The Amazon Associates Program will no longer be paying for traffic and sales that result from paid keyword bidding on various pay per click search engines. The original announcement is below.

I say it is about time.  Some people were making a lot of money using the Amazon affiliate program and a keyword bidding strategy and others were paying out a lot of money and not making a lot of associate sales.   The people who were making piles of money, however, are those who were selling classes, e-books and seminars on how to get rich using a keyword bidding strategy and the Amazon Associates program, clickbank, Commission Junction ( CJ.com ) and other affiliate programs.

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

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They also have an affiliate program so we will be investigating whether their program is worth promoting.

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The following story was displayed on the eBay Affiliate site for over three years but has been removed due to a site re-design.

Learn from successful eBay affiliates and read how these businesses have become eBay Affiliate Program leaders!

Bill Austin & Kathee Austin (Business Model: Natural Search)

Bill Austin & Kathee Austin won a Hawaiian vacation for their rapid growth and great success on the eBay Affiliate Program. eBay ran a Hawaiian contest in 2003 that rewarded top affiliates in three different categories – Bill and Kathee’s reward was, as they described, “a trip of a lifetime!”

Bill Austin and Kathee Austin had a “fabulous vacation” that was well deserved. Their integrated marketing services company is highly successful in growing traffic to their web sites and increasing eBay registrations and bids during the contest period.

Using Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization techniques, they were able to increase website traffic by several hundred thousand impressions per day.Having already achieved great success with the eBay Affiliate Program, Bill and Kathee excitedly explain, “We’re looking forward to meeting future challenges through eBay’s affiliate programs. Thanks again, eBay!”

Screen Shot of the Original Story on the eBay site:

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