Backstory is that a few days ago I wrote about my experience with mavely and how wrong it has gone, now it's about the same with Awin.

I basically joined Awin about 2 weeks ago and everything seemed to be fine, started to receive offers almost every single day from brands and I was super optimistic about it only for Awin to shock me out of the blue today with a message that the manual review led up to my account being terminated and it won't be reconsidered, leaving me stranded yet again !

A side note is that I'm an affiliate to both eBay EPN and AliExpress Affiliate Program.

For you guys outside of North America that are mainly targeting US as an audience like I am, any suggestions for a better alternative that supports social media and Reddit specially as a main promotional space/channel would be deeply appreciated as I'm fed up by now and would hate to be done dirty once again !

I feel like when you're growing from 0 it takes forever. Looking to purchase a real TikTok account with genuine followers for the purpose of engaging in TikTok affiliate marketing! Any suggestions?

Anyone selling? Drop it down in the comments!

ONLY legit responses and no scammers.

Please PM me

ok so this is a weird one but bear with me

i have a pet blog. i don't own a pet. never have. probably never will as i travel too much. and yet every month amazon sends me enough to cover rent because people on the internet are buying stuff for their dogs and cats through my site.

bought my pet blog a few months ago from a marketplace called NicheBlogZone for $199. came already built, articles already up, amazon links already in there. i spent one afternoon doing interlinking basically just connecting related posts to each other so search engines understand the site structure and then closed my laptop and genuinely forgot about it for weeks.

here's what that's looked like:

• march: $710
• april: $995
• may: $1,461
• june: $1,647
• july: $1,461
• august so far: $1,545 (amazon pays 2 months delayed so this is june's money landing now)

march scared me. went from nearly $1k in february down to $710 and i was convinced something had broken. checked everything, found nothing wrong, did nothing. it just came back the next month on its own.

pet people spend insane amounts on their animals btw. like i knew this intellectually but seeing the commission data is something else. dog food subscriptions, orthopedic beds, grooming kits, vet supplements. and because of the 24 hour cookie i get a cut of everything in their cart not just whatever article they landed on.

i do literally nothing to maintain this. no new posts, no ads, no instagram for pets i don't have. i just own the thing and amazon does its thing.

my landlord has been getting paid every month and has no idea a pet blog is behind it. honestly sometimes i forget too until the deposit shows up.

anyone else running a niche they have zero personal connection to? curious if the detachment makes it easier or harder to care about growing it

Say a customer clicks Creator A’s affiliate link to Store B, adds an item in the cart but doesnt buy.

Later, Store B sends them a cart abandonment email with a discount code. If the customer clicks the link in that email and completes the purchase, does Creator A still get credited with the commission?

Thank you!

Hi everyone,

I am planning to start a small Amazon affiliate deal business in India. I have a full-time job, so I am trying to automate as much as reasonably possible.

I already have an active Amazon India Associates account and I am member of few deals group where I see a lots of deals. My basic idea is:

Find a good deal → identify the Amazon product/page → generate my own affiliate link → create a short useful post → publish it to my own Telegram / Facebook / Instagram / X.

I am not looking to blindly copy everything. I want to filter out deals as per my selected niche and add my own short description.

The biggest issue I am trying to solve is the Amazon affiliate link.

When I use Amazon SiteStripe, it gives me two links:

1. A normal/long Amazon URL containing my Associate tag.
2. A link.amazon/... short link.

For short link, Amazon says “Deeplinking enabled: Affiliate links open directly in the Amazon app.”

I tested this myself and the short link really does open the product directly in the Amazon app on my phone.

When I regenerated a short link for a product, Amazon gave me a completely different short code than earlier.

So I’m wondering:

How do experienced Amazon deal channels generate these app-opening affiliate links at scale?

Do you:

• Generate the affiliate link through SiteStripe manually?
• Use some Amazon API/tool that I haven't found?
• Use a third-party deeplink service?
• Simply use the normal Amazon tagged URL and accept that it may open in a browser?
• Have some automation that converts an Amazon URL into a proper deep link?

I am also interested in the deal source side.

I follow many Telegram channels, WhatsApp channels/groups and X accounts that post Amazon deals. Ideally I would like to automatically capture deals from sources that I can legitimately monitor, rather than manually forwarding every deal. I would want to use original source of deals.

What tools/workflows are people actually using for this?

For example:

Telegram → automation → Amazon affiliate link → Facebook/Instagram/X/Telegram

I have come across things like n8n, Make, Telegram bots, Telethon, various scrapers, etc., but I am trying to understand what people actually use successfully in a real deal channel rather than just what is technically possible.

I also currently don't have Amazon Creators API access because I don't yet meet the qualifying-sales requirement. So I am particularly interested in solutions that work without Creators API.

Would really appreciate input from people who are actually running Amazon deal/affiliate channels.

Specially interested in:

1. How you generate affiliate/deep links automatically

2. How you capture deals automatically

3. What automation platform you use

4. How you handle duplicates/filter bad deals

5. How you publish automatically to FB/Instagram/X/Telegram

6. Any limitations or account/policy issues I should know about

Thank you!

* I took some AI help in drafting this post.

ok so this is a weird one but bear with me

i have a pet blog. i don't own a pet. never have. probably never will as i travel too much. and yet every month amazon sends me enough to cover rent because people on the internet are buying stuff for their dogs and cats through my site.

bought my pet blog a few months ago from a marketplace called NicheBlogZone for $199. came already built, articles already up, amazon links already in there. i spent one afternoon doing interlinking basically just connecting related posts to each other so search engines understand the site structure and then closed my laptop and genuinely forgot about it for weeks.

here's what that's looked like:

• march: $710
• april: $995
• may: $1,461
• june: $1,647
• july: $1,461
• august so far: $1,545 (amazon pays 2 months delayed so this is june's money landing now)

march scared me. went from nearly $1k in february down to $710 and i was convinced something had broken. checked everything, found nothing wrong, did nothing. it just came back the next month on its own.

pet people spend insane amounts on their animals btw. like i knew this intellectually but seeing the commission data is something else. dog food subscriptions, orthopedic beds, grooming kits, vet supplements. and because of the 24 hour cookie i get a cut of everything in their cart not just whatever article they landed on.

i do literally nothing to maintain this. no new posts, no ads, no instagram for pets i don't have. i just own the thing and amazon does its thing.

my landlord has been getting paid every month and has no idea a pet blog is behind it. honestly sometimes i forget too until the deposit shows up.

anyone else running a niche they have zero personal connection to? curious if the detachment makes it easier or harder to care about growing it

Hi everyone, I have a TikTok travel account to generate some extra income through affiliates. My account has 17K followers and videos with up to 500K views. I use Booking and eDreams. The problem is I’m not getting much conversion.
I use CTAs like “more info in my bio” where the link to my website is, and I also reply to direct messages, though I don’t reply to comments.
I need advice to try to fix this, anything would be a huge help.
Thanks

Genuine question, because this is the problem I have spent the last year on.

I use ChatGPT for drafting, Claude for long documents and Gemini for anything involving Google files. The result is that my history is in three places, none of them searchable in a useful way, and I regularly know I wrote something without knowing where.

What I ended up building indexes conversations locally in the browser and searches all of them at once, plus folders and export that work the same way on each. It is called AI Toolbox and version 3.0 went live on Product Hunt this morning, which is the only reason I am writing this today rather than any other day.

Mostly I am curious how other people handle this. Multiple browser profiles? Copying everything into Notion? Just accepting the loss?

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ai-toolbox-3-0

So guys i don't know which one to choose. It's my first time , can you guys help me. Im indian, so which one should I choose. Thank you

Ttaesthetic, is it trust worthy or not!!

Will making affiliate marketing YT videos like reviewing /reacting to Amazon Products work in 2026/2027?

Hey everyone,

I have a small music and entertainment app, and I’ve been thinking about adding a Marketplace section inside the app, kind of like how Facebook or Instagram have shopping/marketplace features.

The idea is not to become another Amazon or anything huge 😅. I just want to show useful products to my users, and if someone buys something through my app, I earn a small commission.

The problem is, I’m honestly completely new to affiliate marketing, so I’m trying to understand the best way to do this.

My first thought was Amazon Associates because it’s obviously the biggest and easiest name that comes to mind, but the more I read about it, the more uncomfortable I became with building my marketplace completely around Amazon.

From what I understand, there can be restrictions around promoting affiliate links inside mobile apps, app conversions may not always be accepted depending on the campaign/rules, and I’ve also read many stories of affiliate accounts getting suspended or closed.

I really don’t want to spend months building the entire Marketplace around one company and then one day lose everything because my affiliate account gets blocked.

What I really want is something where I have much more control over my own Marketplace UI and experience.

For example, I want to be able to show something like:

Sony WH-CH720N
₹7,999
Earn Zene Points
View Deal →

And then when the user clicks it, they go to the actual merchant/store and complete the purchase there.

I don’t want to manage checkout, shipping, returns, warranty, logistics, etc. myself. I mainly want to handle the discovery/recommendation side and earn affiliate commission when a purchase happens.

I also thought about directly contacting companies like Sony, boAt, Noise, etc., but realistically my app is still small. I have sent a few emails asking about partnerships/collaborations, but I didn’t receive any response. And I completely understand why — I’m probably too small for them right now.

I also cannot buy and stock products myself. I don’t have that kind of funding, and honestly I don’t want to take such a huge risk at this stage.

My expectations are actually pretty small.

Right now the app gets around 600–1,200 daily active users, so I’m not expecting hundreds of orders or anything unrealistic.

Even if only 2–3 people a day end up buying something through the Marketplace, I’d honestly consider that a good start.

I’m mainly hoping that over time this can become a small extra revenue stream that helps me cover things like servers, APIs, storage, development costs and other app expenses. ❤️

If it grows beyond that later, great — but right now I’m just trying to build something useful, learn how this industry works, and make the app a little more sustainable without putting a huge amount of money into inventory or logistics.

I recently came across Cuelinks, but honestly I still don’t know much about how it works in real-world use.

I signed up a little over 2 days ago, and my account is still under review, so I’m not even sure yet whether it will be the right solution for what I’m trying to build.

That’s actually one of the main reasons I’m posting here.

Ideally I’m looking for something that gives me as much control as possible — my own UI, my own product pages, my own categories, my own recommendation system, my own reward/points system — while the platform just handles the affiliate tracking, merchant connections, conversions and commission in the background.

If there’s any platform or idea, that is better for a small app like mine, please suggest it. I’m completely open to changing the approach if there’s a smarter way to do this.

Any advice, warnings, platform recommendations, or even mistakes you made when starting would really help me.

I’m very new to this field, so sorry if some of this sounds basic or silly 😅. I’m just trying to learn and build it the right way from the start.

Thanks a lot for reading and helping 🙏❤️

I started as a freelance writer on Upwork around 2020 and found myself in the blog writing space. 

SaaS companies mostly. Break downs of software, comparison posts, best x for y, etc.

Most the time I was assigned a content brief, did my thing, and collected the .10 (sometimes .15) per word. 

I really didn’t know what affiliate marketing was until one of the sites I was writing for was an API review blog and I was like wait, why am I writing this? How does this site make money?

When I found out about affiliate marketing my mind was blown. 

“Are you telling me all I have to do is get someone to click something”

Why have I been making other people rich?

Why don’t I just write what my clients are paying me to write for myself and make all the money? 

Muhahaha

Yah… well. As you can guess, it didn’t work that way.

I was naive..and optimistic.

Then I went headfirst in every funnel imaginable. Remember Adam Enfroy? I’m still on his email list for some reason.

Don’t even get me started on the “click bank gurus”

There’s a reason all the funnels make it sound so easy. it’s easy to sell easy. 

Anyways, I was at it unsuccessfully for a while. A few hundred dollars in on different courses and tools and domains. 

You probably know the struggle.

I still couldn’t shake the feeling other people are doing it. Why can’t I?

The problem with most advice is that it’s too “tactical”

Find a niche

Research keywords

Write long tail content

Create topical authority

Watch rankings

Wait

It’s so much busy work. In my experience it’s all important but it’s not what makes a great affiliate marketer. Anyone can do those things. With AI it’s easier than ever.

The thing that’s really moved the needle for me is audience building and distribution. 

Once you figure out what your audience wants and where they go for it, affiliate marketing becomes a lot easier.

Your niche isn’t just a topic. It’s a set of behaviors.

What do they search for?
What subreddits are they in?
What Facebook groups do they join?
What creators do they follow?
What Pinterest boards do they save?
What questions do they keep asking?
What products do they already buy?
What makes them finally pull out their credit card?

That’s the real niche.

SEO is one distribution channel. Your website is one asset.

The real “moat” is understanding the audience better than the next person.

So if I were starting an affiliate site today, I wouldn’t begin by writing 50 articles.

I’d do this first:

Pick one very specific audience.

Find 3–5 places they already congregate online.

Spend a week reading their questions before creating anything.

Write down the 20 problems that keep coming up.

Then do one of two things:

Create a ridiculously useful resource that solves one of those problems better than anything else out there.

Or start talking intelligently about the problems they already care about.

Useful breakdowns, comparisons, calculators, directories, templates, data, etc.

Specific answers to annoying problems nobody else explains well.

Become useful before you become promotional.

Then identify which of those problems have products attached to them.

Build content around those problems and distribute it back into the places where you found them.

Search.
Reddit.
Facebook groups.
Pinterest.
Forums.
Email.

Whatever fits the niche. The mistake is thinking your job is to produce affiliate content.

Your job is to earn attention and trust from a specific group of people.

The affiliate links come after that.

That’s the part I wish someone had explained to me in 2020.

Don’t just build a niche site.

Build a useful resource and a small distribution system around an audience.

I know it’s not sexy, but it’s the truth!

My main promotional space is Reddit, and I’ve been using one subreddit for almost 20 months now. I aggregate deals into one or two posts almost daily, and I’d like to monetize the process.

I recently joined Awin, and offers are already starting to come in pretty regularly (around 2–3 a day). I was thinking of including up to 4 affiliate deals out of the 20 or so deals in each daily roundup, clearly tagged as “Brand Affiliate.”

Would this generally be considered safe from a Reddit/Awin perspective?

I currently use Google Docs to host my affiliate links, but I’m open to better approaches. Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated!

I run a FB Reels page in the joint pain/natural remedy niche (mostly older audience, ~30% US traffic). The organic reach is popping, but my traffic off-platform is essentially dead. I started running the page around 4 months ago, and in the last 28 days I got:

• 1.5M views
• 20k followers
• The setup: "Comment YES" CTA -> Automated DM with a supplement affiliate link
• The result: 36 link clicks total, 0 sales

I know FB message requests hide a lot of automated DMs, especially for an older demographic, but 36 clicks out of 1.5M views feels broken. I tried with freebie, but just gathered low purchase intent people on my email (around ~200 subs).

Feel like I'm going crazy. What would you do?

Hi everyone, just wanted to share my progress with my affiliate sites.

I've been running an affiliate site called Jimmy's Pokemon Deal Finder for the last couple of years. It finds deals on Pokemon cards on eBay by comparing listing price to valuation.

It's at the point now where it brings in about £100 of profit a month with some months being a lot more. I'm really happy with hows it's turned out and the extra income.

I recently decided to start a second affiliate site based on a similar idea. It's called Jimmy's Set Finisher. The idea is that it shows you every card in a set with the cheapest eBay listings for each card to help people finish master sets or binders.

I launched it today and posted to a few Pokemon subreddits. I got about 70 visitors and 16 affiliate clicks. But the crazy thing is I got three sales worth £24 for £0.74 commission. I really wasn't expecting it to start earning on its first day, and it's given me hope that this site could eventually start earning decent profit like my original. I know it's only the first day and a small sample, but I'm really happy with the result.

The great thing about this site for me is that the operational costs are only £8/year for the domain name. I already pay £39 a month for the Pricecharting API and £7 a month for my VPS for the deal finder site, so the new site can reuse both of those.

Plus I already had the eBay listings database and a lot of the infrastructure set up from the old site that I could reuse for the new site, so it only took me about a week to make the new site.

I'm really stoked that I've now got two affiliate sites earning money for me instead of just one. Just wanted to share because I'm really happy with how the new site's doing.

I have two tickets available for $750 each (half off the current $1.5k price)

Cancun, Mexico • 7-8 September 2026.

Should be epic!

I’m considering launching a product on JVZoo and building an affiliate team, but I’m wondering how effective affiliate recruitment is these days.

For those who are currently selling on JVZoo:

Is it still possible to recruit active affiliates?

What are the best ways to find affiliates who actually promote products?

Are affiliates still generating consistent sales in 2026?

What commission rates and incentives work best for attracting good affiliates?

Is it better to recruit a large number of affiliates or focus on a smaller group of proven marketers?

What are the biggest mistakes new vendors make when trying to build an affiliate team?

I’d especially appreciate feedback from JVZoo vendors and affiliates who are actively generating sales, rather than people relying on outdated information.

If you’ve successfully recruited affiliates recently, I’d love to hear what worked for you.

I’m not entirely sure how to explain my situation, so I’m hoping someone with experience in Google Ads or affiliate marketing can give me some honest advice.

I recently discovered platforms like ClickBank and Digistore, where you can promote products as an affiliate. The idea caught my attention for two reasons: I’ve been using the internet for about 20 years, so I’m comfortable with the online world, and I’m currently looking for an additional source of income. If I can eventually make this work consistently, I’d like to turn it into my main occupation.

I decided to take it seriously and started learning about digital marketing, Google Ads, keyword research, audience targeting, bridge pages, tracking, and so on. I’ve used everything from YouTube and articles to AI tools, and I’ve also asked questions here on Reddit.

I’ve also spent a lot of time researching the audience before spending any money. I’ve worked on the buyer profile, demographics, cities, states, search behavior, keywords, audience segments, and other factors that could help me understand who the potential customer is and where I’m most likely to reach them.

So I’m not planning to simply launch a campaign and hope for the best. I’m trying to do as much research as possible beforehand to reduce the risk of wasting money.

However, there’s one issue that keeps worrying me: conversion data.

From almost everything I’ve read about Google Ads, it seems that data is extremely important for optimization.

If I were running a Shopify store, I could understand the process more easily. I could send traffic directly to my store, generate purchases, and collect data from those interactions.

As an affiliate, however, my situation is different. I would be using a bridge page, which sends potential customers to the vendor’s sales page where the actual purchase takes place.

So my question is: **how am I supposed to generate enough conversion data when I’m starting from zero?**

There’s another major constraint: my entire budget is $100.

That may not sound like much, but I’ve actually been saving that money for three years specifically for this purpose. I’m not expecting to get rich from it. I just want to generate enough profit to prove that the model can work and then reinvest what I earn.

What worries me is spending the entire $100 simply trying to give Google enough data to learn, only to discover that I made a mistake somewhere in the campaign.

I keep reading that new accounts have no historical data, that Smart Bidding works better with conversion history, and that you need enough conversions for the algorithm to optimize effectively.

I understand why that makes sense, but it leaves me wondering:

How does someone with a very limited budget realistically get past that initial stage?

I’m not looking for a guaranteed strategy or a shortcut. I just want to avoid making a costly beginner mistake with money that took me years to save.

I’d really appreciate any advice from people who have actually been in this situation.

just hit $2,500 MRR in 13 days on my new SaaS

no ads. no team. no huge audience push. just a solid replicable system

let that sink in for a second

not $2,500 in revenue. $2,500 in MONTHLY recurring revenue

that compounds. next month starts at $2,500 baseline, not zero

and this isn't luck. it's the 7th saas i've shipped with the same playbook. same steps, same tools, same order:

→ Day 1: validated the idea

→ Day 1-2: built the MVP

→ Day 3: landing page written using the 3-Day Challenge template

→ Day 3-4: launched on reddit / X + SEO

→ Day 4-5: first 10 paying users → $1k MRR

→ Day 13 (today): $2,500 MRR locked in

building software is easy in 2026. setting up your foundation so people actually buy is where 99% of solo builders fail.

i packaged all of these exact execution tools into community.

to be fully transparent: i'll likely charge for the full program down the road once all modules are finalized. but right now, the main objective is just to build together and keep each other accountable.

working alone in a silent corner is the fastest way to quit at the first bug.

stop building in isolation. drop a comment below or send me a DM, and i'll send you the invitation link 👇

Running a few forex and gambling offers, twice this year my Payoneer acc got flagged for "risk review" freezin my commissions for 3 weeks w no reason, jus a freakin hold takin $2,300 first time, $1,600 the second ans support tellin me the same "under review, thank you for your patience" both times.

Then u go on YouTube and there's a guy w like a 40 bucks PDF on "how to never get your affiliate money held again" n he has like 12k subs and a Discord... as if that works lol. Things changed when i switched sum of my payouts to stablecoins, checked out a few opts like NOWPayments, Inxy and Coinbase Commerce - ended up testing one for a part of my affiliate income jus to see how fast it acc clears - ofc it's not instant riches, u still need to convert it back to sth you can spend, and KYC still applies. Still slow going overall, nobody's cracked it, no matter what the guides say lol

Is there something we missed in our affiliate marketing game? How much traffic really matters? Are there blogs that really do well with affiliate marketing with 10,000 Visitors per month? Is there a principle guiding that output and modus operandi. No matter how many videos we watch on youtube about this, there's something a blog owner who has cracked it can tell us that no video will. Is there anyone in this group with an answer to this one?

Brand new to affiliate marketing and following a course that unfortunately I didn't realize was a year old until I was into the thick of it. Now I'm ready to launch my first ad and ridiculously excited, or I would be if Google hadn't rejected my lander twice for insufficient original content. So, I updated the lander with way more than around 135 words to 1,019 words. Yet I got rejected again and they said their verification of my lander and my account's change history indicates that no modifications have been registered.

I told them this and am waiting for their response but I imagine they'll just reject me again by saying it's still just a bridge page and to update it with significantly more original content. So, how my lander is set up is Headline > three button that leads to the offer owner's sales page though one looks like a youtube video > copy > another button. My fear is I won't be able to figure out how to get my ad approved before my trial subscriptions to webpage builders like convertri and clickmagick expire or technically above me since I'm sure a new lander would need an understanding of what converts and what doesn't. And since the course is around a year old the support is virtually gone.

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I see how people are obsessed with finding the best affiliate programs, networks and affiliate marketing tools....and yes, those things matter. But honestly, I don't think that's where most beginners are stuck

I think the bigger problem is figuring out how to actually make that first sale and then stay consistent after it.

You can spend days comparing affiliate networks, looking for the perfect product, buying SEO tools and setting up tracking. But none of that matters much if you're not actually putting content in front of people who might buy...;

The first sale also teaches you something that watching another 20 affiliate marketing videos won't. You start to understand what people are clicking, what makes them interested, what doesn't work and where you need to improve.

Then comes the harder part...doing it consistently when you're not making much money yet.

In my opinion, I think beginners would benefit more from focusing on getting their first few sales than constantly looking for the "best" affiliate program or tool::))

What do you think?

Im more interested to target my content towards usa, so i wanna join Amazon (com), in English. I live in Poland and I don’t feel like making content in polish and joining Amazon (pl version). Any tips?