Plugin Removes Tracking Tag on Publish

Hello kazam1,
your compliments are more than welcome so let me start with a big thank you for those! ??

That said, what you encountered is rather strange and makes me think it’s not related to the plugin at first sight.
I will explain you briefly why:
1) the plugin makes a call to the Amazon APIs with your credentials and the ASIN of the desired product.
2) the APIs answer with the product data AND the ready-made affiliate link with your tag embedded.
3) the plugin just recycles the affiliate link coming directly from the Amazon servers, and this by design, to avoid this kind of scenarios where something goes wrong and you end up without the tag in the link (or with a broken one)

To sum up, the links are coming directly from amazon and are the same data both in the backend and in the frontend. If it works in one place you SHOULD be getting the same in other.

So why the tag is missing in the frontend part of your website?
Something is going on for sure… it might be another plugin overwriting your urls or worse…
…I couldn’t notice that you are on a subdomain of altervista, so on a probably free website…
…and maybe your hosting is messing up your monetized links with a script.

So let’s try this to figure out what’s happening:
1) EASY: try to disable all the plugin apart from Amazing Affiliates for 5 minutes and see if it is another plugin the culprit
2) MEDIUM: search for clues of altervista doing things with affiliate links, maybe there is some options you can enable/disable that are conflicting
3) LAST RESORT: try to inspect the frontend page and look for the html structure (should be ctrl+U). there you see the links (<a> elements) before any script change. if the affiliate links are with the tag in the structure and without the tag in the normally loaded page then there is a script installed in your website that is rewriting the affiliate links (and its a priority as an affiliate marketer to get rid of it ?? )

Let me know further, I’m here to help you
-pizza2mozzarella

I did the 3) LAST RESORT on your behalf.
Well, the links there are without the tags even before any scripts runs.

This is quite strange…

Can you go to the product editing page to see what’s happening?
On any product page go to the Product Data section
Search for the affiliate link field (it’s the first)
The link shown there is with or without your amazon tag?

Ok I figured it out… and I have not so good news for you (and for me as well).
https://tutorial.altervista.org/link-di-affiliazione-icona/
With altervista you can put amazon affiliate links only through their proprietary solution called iconA.
If you do it by other means you break their term of service.
So now I’m 100% certain that the links are getting filtered at the server level and we can’t do anything about it.
You can keep your hosting and use their affiliate linking solution and discard Amazing Affiliates or you can change hosting and keep the plugin.
Choose whatever is easier for you.

Thank you for helping me and for pointing out this issue. ????

Thank you too for bringing out the issue.
(I’ve added a note to the plugin readme regarding cases like yours)

I wish you good luck with your affiliation marketing journey ??
-pizza2mozzarella