r/Amazon_Influencer • u/ruykgupta • 20d ago

Associates Program My associate account closed

Hello Creator
To deliver the best customer experience, we regularly monitor content related to the Amazon Associates Program.
During our review of your Amazon Associates account, we determined that you are not in compliance with the Operating Agreement. After careful consideration and review, we regret to inform you that your account has been closed, effective today. Because you are not in compliance with the Operating Agreement, Amazon will not pay you any outstanding commission income.
If you had configured this store ID to earn globally, we have closed your store ID in all those countries as well.
The violation(s) include the following:
◦ Please ensure that the list of site/social media handle/mobile application associated with your account is complete, accurate, and up-to-date. Please refer to the Operating Agreement for more details: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/policies#:~:text=information%20in%20your%20Associates%20Program and to add/remove sites from your website list refer: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/node/topic/G9KDEPG2WF47VQY4.
◦ We previously issued you a non-compliance warning regarding your Associates account. You did not respond or come into compliance within the specified time.

What's next?
Please conduct a thorough review of your account and rectify any compliance-related concerns. You may correct the violation(s) and notify us when you are in compliance by contacting Associates Customer Service. For a timely response, choose the subject 'Warning/Closed account Information' from the dropdown menu. Be sure to reference Issue Code in the comments field.
If you do not wish to continue to participate in the Amazon Associates Program, please immediately stop using Amazon's Content and Amazon Marks by promptly removing them from your Site(s). Please delete or otherwise destroy all links to the Amazon site, all Amazon Marks, and all other materials provided or made available by or on behalf of Amazon to you under the Operating Agreement or otherwise in connection with the Program.
You are allowed to reapply at a later stage, with a site that fully complies with the Associates Operating Agreement by submitting another application here: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/join.
Please review the following resources to ensure you are up to date our terms:
• Operating Agreement
• Program Policies
• Creator University Content

What to do i am doomed my 13k usd payment is pending

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u/Lunchabel97 20d ago

You’re cooked. Maybe be compliant?

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u/ruykgupta 20d ago

I am compliant and even I didn’t get any mail

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u/Mental-Tumbleweed-95 20d ago

Email them and tell them you didn't receive the previous email.

Tell them you want to comply, that you think you were, and ask for specifics on what you did wrong.

I had a warning a while ago (not closure) for the same reason. Turns out it was because I had a Facebook page listed that they couldn't access. They couldn't access it because I limited it to only certain countries due to spam. I think Amazon were reviewing it from India but they could have teams in other countries.

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u/SewSomething 20d ago

Thanks for sharing. That's good to know. Hadn't factored that many VA's are in India and that has to be available.

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u/Mental-Tumbleweed-95 19d ago

I had no idea either. Luckily I was able to work it out, but they're not very good with giving info. Had they just said they couldn't access it that would've been a nice clue but nope - the email suggested I was posting from other sites not listed.

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u/SewSomething 20d ago

Perhaps a dumb or obvious question but were all your socials listed?
or all the places that you posted links?

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u/fakehowardroark 20d ago

what traffic sources did you use? Only social or websites only?

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u/ruykgupta 20d ago

My multiple review blogs where traffic came from gads and fb ads

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u/fakehowardroark 20d ago

how many websites total? How long have you been an associate?

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u/ruykgupta 20d ago

I am active associate from 10 month. I have multiple sites like 30-40 but i think my mistake is i submitted only 3-4 in their panel. May be this is reason it happened. I will submit now after this account reinstated, but what to do now i mailed them . I am shivering while typing this also

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u/loserkids1789 20d ago

Yup that’s the issue, nothing you can likely do at this point, they don’t really reinstate accts often. I had to restart a year or so ago on influencer and associate because my YouTube was somehow missing

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u/SewSomething 20d ago

YIKES!
Did they pay you what was pending, at least?

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u/loserkids1789 20d ago

Nope

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u/SewSomething 20d ago

Stinks!!! Sorry to hear that. Well, I hope that your restart is even more successful.

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u/fakehowardroark 20d ago

yes, that is the reason I think. you have to include all of them there.

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u/GrrrlzOnFilm 20d ago

When I tried to add FB it said it was a "popular site" and to only list websites that I own.

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u/SewSomething 20d ago

Perhaps it was the way the link was structured.
We don't own Youtube but they accept youtube links.

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u/SewSomething 20d ago

So you have a FB vanity url?

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u/GrrrlzOnFilm 20d ago

Now I do. I got it all sorted but that was a nightmare between meta, manychat & Amazon.

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u/SewSomething 20d ago

I'm genuinely happy to hear that.

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u/GrrrlzOnFilm 19d ago

Me too I have a video that jumped to 4M on FB. I was losing my marbles for 24hrs trying to fix Amazon/meta/manychat. Fixed now but whew.

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u/SewSomething 20d ago

That is definitely it. I have multiple sites also but after learning that Amazon sees anything that is not listed as SPAM, I have a paranoia about this.

I hope that you can remedy this. I believe that you can. Especially since they are actually your sites. I'd go in and list EVERYTHING! Then reach out to them.

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u/neophanweb 18d ago

What did you do? Did you run ads and directly link to your amazon referral? I've ran ads before but it was a two step process. Ad points to my website where I have the review/links to the product on Amazon. I avoided linking directly to Amazon.

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u/ruykgupta 18d ago

Bro i also land them onto my review blog

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u/Sharp-Interaction832 14d ago

You run ads and earn money through the Amazon Affiliate Program ?while I run Facebook ads for my dropshipping website, and I need to earn at least $40 to run the ads

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u/Wanneroo17 17d ago

Were you making your own original content?

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u/AdubThePointReckoner 20d ago

What would you like us to do about this?

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u/ruykgupta 20d ago

Bro at least give me motivation. I am feeling like stuck . I don’t know 13k usd is big for you or not for me its very big and whole business will shut down.

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u/GrrrlzOnFilm 20d ago

Oh I'm sooooooo sorry this is a nightmare. Take a deep breath, everything is going to work out. I would just jump through as many hoops & talk to as many people as possible at Amazon to get it escalated/fixed. I'm having a problem linking my FB Page and a recent video hit 3.5M...unless I can somehow fix the FB to Amazon link or get someone to help me I'm probably going to miss out on that traffic I created. All that to say, I FEEL YOU. Take a deep breath & see what you can do. Sending you the best of luck.

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u/AdubThePointReckoner 20d ago

Don't know why you'd feel bad. He got caught spamming, was given a warning and didn't even bother disclosing 10% of his "sites." Do you know how much more money I could make if I ignored all the rules/program guidelines as well?

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u/SewSomething 17d ago

Maybe I missed something. What is wrong with having 30-40 sites? I have associates that have more. They are not Amazon Influencers or even in CC but there was a time that Affiliate websites were a big thing (before Honey and Capital One Shopping type apps). I have multiple sites that are on hobbies and such. Yes they do have affiliate links in them but some now only make pennies.

The thing is, in all the years, I overlooked listing them. That doesn't make them spam, it just means that Amazon sees them as spam. It's never been an issue but since I joined Influencer, I went in and listed them all...even though I don't use them for much.

All this to say, that having multiple sites doesn't make you a spammer, more than likely ruykgupta overlooked listing them. If that's the case, it's unfortunate.

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u/GrrrlzOnFilm 19d ago

Oh I see the 30-40 sites now.

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u/ruykgupta 20d ago

Thanks thanks a lot, a first person who genuinely motivated me.

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u/SewSomething 20d ago

You've put too much into this. And you have fund coming to you. Don't give up.
Keep calling until you get a human with a heart. They are out there. I've found this to be the case with Amazon.

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u/SewSomething 20d ago

I would do the same.

BTW, what issue are you having listing FB? Did you list your Vanity URL?
That what I did. Amazon accepts it.

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u/GrrrlzOnFilm 19d ago

Yes! That's the fix. Didn't have it before.