Question About Amazon Associates

iamthewalrus

iamthewalrus

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I recently got my hands on some great domains (exact keyword match) and I thought promoting Amazon Associates would work real well for them. Problem is that in my excitement of getting these domains, I overlooked that fact that if the URL contained any trademarked words, they would reject the site. My domains are pretty product or company specific too.

If I host the sites at say XYZ.com (something like an acronym, contains no trademarks), promote Amazon products and redirect the original keyword match domain to that site, would that be fine or would that still get me denied/banned/whatever?

I emailed them about this but I haven't gotten a response yet. Just wondering if anyone has done this or found a way around.

Thanks in advance.
 


I have Amazon Associate sites with the product name in the url and nothing has ever happened to me, I`ve never had problems with them. It really depends if the maker of the product objects, or more specifically, objects enough to take action. If they contact me and demand I remove the site, I will. If they contact Amazon and Amazon tells me the site is a problem, fine I`ll ditch it. But it hasn`t happened yet.

One thing which I do to avoid stepping on product maker toes is to avoid outranking them if their own site takes the top search positions. I`ll try to sit just underneath their site. I don`t know for sure that it makes a big difference, but it seems wise to me.
 
I've had the same experiences as Bombastic. I've got sites with iPhone, iPod, Dewalt, Bosch etc. in the domain name, all featuring Amazon products and have yet to have any problems with the manufacturer or Amazon.
 
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