Amazon drives me crazy sometime. So I setup a few affiliate sites about 8 months ago pointing to a bunch of cool stuff on Amazon. For the first four months or so everything was great - I started making a few sales per month and considering the relatively small upfront investment (setting up the site, writing some good unique content), I was happy.

Eight months later, however, it’s a different story. I noticed that my affiliate earnings dropped off the planet and finally did a little research. I found that most of my products were pointing to dead links.

OK, so I must be the unlucky affiliate marketer who added a bunch of products that got discontinued, huh? Nope - I still found the products on Amazon, the URL’s had just changed. These aren’t different products or anything like that - the same exact products, different URL’s.

Obviously this isn’t good for me and I can’t imagine it’s helping Amazon and it really sucks for my users so I don’t know what’s going on.

*sigh*