This article is all about “How Can You Check If Your Amazon’s Affiliate Links Are Tagging to Your Account?”

What is Link Checker?

Many a time, it is seen that people who do affiliate marketing forget to validate their affiliate links with their account due to which they fail to earn a commission even after selling the products. Through Link Checker, you can check affiliate links or Tracking ID by yourselves without assistance. If you are using URL links generated by the Amazon’s Associates to your websites or blogs, you can check for your Tracking ID.


After adding the affiliate link, once you update your site or blog and click on the link wherever you want to check. Check your Tracking ID in the URL. It will appear as “……….&tag=tracking ID” within the URL.
If you fail to check this, you may contact the Amazon Associate’s customer support to verify the product items which are tagged to your unique Associate ID.

Have you created your own Affiliate Link?


If you have created your own affiliate link, then Link Checker is the best tool. Link Checker is one of the important tools if somebody is associated with Amazon’s Affiliate Marketing. Link Checker facility of Amazon has been designed to check only the tagging of your affiliate product (URL) linking to Amazon.in. If you have an Amazon’s Associate ID or Tracking ID, then only Amazon can track a referral of your product through the Link Checker tool. This feature of Amazon is to help you ensure that you will be credited for all of your earnings.

Steps:

There are only 4 steps to check your Affiliate Link in Amazon

Step 1:

If you are an Affiliate, then go to the bottom of any Amazon page. See the links under the category “Make Money with Us”. Click “Become an Affiliate”. You will see a Sign-in page.

Step 2:

Sign in to the Amazon Associate page. Put your Password and click “Sign-In”. It will take you to the “Amazon Associates” page as shown below with different Tabs such as Home, Product Linking, Widgets, Tools, Reports, and Help.

Under “Tools” tab, the 2nd option is your “ Link Checker”. Click the option.

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Steps 3:

You will find the following page, where you will need to put your product affiliate link obtained from Amazon Associates. Enter the link URL and click on “Check Link”.

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If your product link is not tagged with your affiliate ID, it will give a message

“Fail: The link above was not tagged or was not a valid Amazon link.”

But if you have given a correct Amazon affiliate link it will give you the message as shown below:

Success: The link tags to a valid tag or sub-tag for your Associate ID.”

This is how you can check your Amazon’s Affiliate Link that is tagging to your Account?

Step 4:

If you fail to check this, you may contact the Associate’s customer support to verify the product items which are tagged to your unique Associate ID.