Amazon Affiliate Program

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An Amazon Affiliate Program is a CPA affiliate program operated by Amazon.com.



References

2012

  • http://affiliate-program.amazon.com/
    • QUOTE: The purpose of the Program is to permit you to advertise products on your site and to earn advertising fees for Qualifying Purchases (defined in Section 7) made by your end users. A “product” is any item sold on the Amazon site, other than any product that is listed on this page (collectively, “Excluded Products”). Product may also include certain services, if any, expressly included on the Associates Program Advertising Fee Schedule. In order to facilitate your advertisement of products, we may make available to you data, images, text, link formats, widgets, links, and other linking tools, and other information in connection with the Program ("Content"). Content specifically excludes any data, images, text, or other information or content relating to products offered on any site other than the Amazon site.

2011

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_marketing#Origin
    • Amazon.com (Amazon) launched its associate program in July 1996: Amazon associates could place banner or text links on their site for individual books, or link directly to the Amazon home page.[1]

      When visitors clicked from the associate's website through to Amazon and purchased a book, the associate received a commission. Amazon was not the first merchant to offer an affiliate program, but its program was the first to become widely known and serve as a model for subsequent programs.[2][3]

      In February 2000, Amazon announced that it had been granted a patent[4] on components of an affiliate program. The patent application was submitted in June 1997, which predates most affiliate programs, but not PC Flowers & Gifts.com (October 1994), AutoWeb.com (October 1995), Kbkids.com/BrainPlay.com (January 1996), EPage (April 1996), and several others.

  1. "What is the Amazon Associates program?". https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/: amazon associates. Archived from the original on 11 May 2011. https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/join/getstarted. Retrieved 2011-04-20. "Amazon Associates is one of the first online affiliate marketing programs and was launched in 1996." 
  2. Frank Fiore and Shawn Collins, "Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants", from pages 12,13 and 14. QUE Publishing, April 2001 ISBN 0-7897-2525-8
  3. Gray, Daniel (1999-11-30). “The Complete Guide to Associate and Affiliate Programs on the Net". McGraw-Hill Trade, 30 November 1999. ISBN 0-07-135310-0.
  4. Template:Patent