I have already given a lot of tips on how to increase income with the Amazon affiliate program.
Today we’re talking about the possibility of getting a 90-day cookie from Amazon instead of the 24-hour cookie that is normally available.
How this works and what it brings, you will find out below.
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What is the 90 day cookie?
Many Amazon affiliates complain that the Amazon phone number database is only active for 24 hours. So if someone clicks on my Amazon affiliate link, they have to put products in their shopping cart within 24 hours for me to have a chance of getting a commission.
If the products are only placed in the shopping cart after 24 hours, then as an affiliate you will not receive any commission, even if you sent the visitor from your own site to Amazon.
You don’t have to buy anything yet. Once the products are in your shopping cart, we will receive a commission for 90 days if an order is placed during this time.
Although strictly speaking it is not a 90-day cookie. Products can remain in the Amazon shopping cart for a maximum of 90 days. After that they are deleted and with them the connection to the affiliate.
Manual implementation
Amazon offers the possibility that an affiliate link sharing my experience does not go to the product page, but to the shopping cart.
Only after clicking on the “Continue” button will the product actually be placed in the shopping cart and the 90-day period will begin.
However, creating such links manually is not so easy.
But it’s not that difficult. The format of the shopping cart link looks like this And now you have a text link that puts a product in the shopping cart.
Installation via plugin
If you don’t want to go to the trouble of creating these shopping cart links by hand Amazon Cookie. You can set the WordPress plugin AAWP to use the shopping cart link instead of the normal affiliate link.
This means that the buttons displayed by the plugin are automatically provided with a link to the Amazon shopping cart.
It couldn’t be easier Amazon Cookie.
Does the shopping cart affiliate link make sense?
The real question is whether it makes sense school email list to use this shopping cart link. Why do only a few people do it?
I have already tested it myself and have not had such a good experience. My income has not increased, but rather decreased slightly.