Why Is My Amazon Affiliate Account Closed? (Reasons)

Amazon Associates is a great platform people use to make money. Sometimes it can be tricky to keep your account status up and running. Sometimes they’ll accept you and shortly after they will close your account.

In this blog post we will go over why Amazon may shut down your account and how it can be fixed.

Short Answer To The Question Why is Your Amazon Account Closed:

There are many reasons Amazon can close you’re account. We will get into all of them. Amazon Associates accounts get closed mainly because people sign up too soon and don’t have the adequate sales in order to stay on as an associate.

What Are The Other Reasons Your Amazon Associates Account Can Be Closed?

You Haven’t Made any Sales:

As stated above you need to make three qualifying sales within the first 180 days. If your account has no sales, your account will be deactivated.

If you just started making your site or YouTube channel, you need to make sure you wait a little while before you apply to Amazon Associates.

Using a False Email Account:

The email account is linked to your Associates account. If you are found to be using a false email account, Amazon will close your Associates account.

If you’re Website Is Not Safe:

Amazon will check out your website to make sure they can trust you. If they find any malware, spyware, etc. they’ll most likely close your account.

You Have Content That Goes Against Their TOS:

Adult Related Content, Illegal, Poor Quality Content, etc. are all things Amazon does not like to see on your site. If they find any of this content on your site or you’re blog they will most likely close your account without question.

Products Have To Match Up With Your Niche:

This means, if you have a Gaming website, your products can’t be baby related. If they find any of this happening on your site or blog, it will most likely get your account banned.

Spamming Your Links:

Amazon Associates will always keep up with your links and track everything. If they find you spamming the same link multiple times, it can throw up red flags.

Using Your Own Links Or Having Friends And Family Use Them:

If you are found to be using your own links or having family and friends use them, Amazon may question why. They will most likely give you a warning then ban you if they find anything going wrong.

When you have a website it’s important to tell your audience that you are using affiliate links but never encourage them to click your links.

Link Cloaking or Link Shortening:

Amazon Associates will usually ban you if they find any type of link cloaking or link shortening going on. This doesn’t let Amazon really see where the traffic is coming from.

Pages With Affiliate Links Need To Have It In Writing:

Having this written on just one page on your blog isn’t enough. Every page that includes an affiliate link needs to have this written. Other wise your account can be banned.

Don’t Use Amazon Customer Reviews:

You can use a general idea you get from a customer review but don’t directly quote and customer reviews. If you do this, it will most likely get your account banned.

No Sending Affiliate Links In Your Weekly News Letter:

You must make sure you do not include any affiliate links in your weekly newsletter. If Amazon catches this, they can ban you without question.

What you can do is send the traffic to your website and they can click on the link there.

No Links In PDF’s Or E-books:

You must make sure you do not include links to your site in any PDF’s or e-books. If Amazon finds a link in a PDF they will close your account immediately.

You Can’t Post Links On Sites You Do Not Control:

Many people think they can post links on someone’s comment section, etc. If you don’t own the website or blog where you’re posting your comments and using Amazon Associates, this is against the rules.

No Links On Membership Sites Or Courses:

The sites you post your links on have to be related to be public knowledge. If you have a membership site, you can NOT put your links on there.

This goes for courses as well. This doesn’t mean you can’t use other links from different types of affiliate offers, you just can’t use Amazon affiliate links in there.

You Can’t Use The Word Amazon In Your Link:

You can’t have the actual word Amazon in your link. This one doesn’t particularly make sense but if you do this your account could be banned.

Can a closed Amazon account be reopened?

You can appeal the decision for them to take the account down but it’s very unlikely they will reopen it.

How do I appeal an Amazon closed account?

Go to the seller central and from there go to the account health page. You will see an option to reactivate the account. You have 5 days to do this or your amazon associates account will automatically be shut down.

If your Amazon Associate Account Is Closed Can You Get Your Money?

If you’ve been making a lot of sales on Amazon Associates and your account is closed, unfortunately you can’t get the Money they owed you. This is why it’s very important to follow all the rules before you start making content with amazon links within it.

Can You Start a New Amazon Affiliate Account?

If it comes down to the fact that they don’t allow you to get your account back you can start a new one. Before you start putting links out there though, make sure you go over all the rules (some are listed above, but not all).

You don’t want to make money for Amazon and then get your commission taken away once again.

Conclusion:

We hope this blog cleared up some of the frequently asked questions and issues about Amazon Associates. If you need any help with this or have any questions, please don’t hesitate to comment below:

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