Amazon affilate code not in Amazon Feeds

Hungryfeed just displays whatever URL is sent from the server so perhaps Amazon is not “forwarding” the affiliate id..? There is certainly no code in Hungryfeed to strip out any information from URLs.

If there’s no way to get amazon to include that in the individual post URLs, then it might be possible using HungryFeed template features where you could append your code to the URL in the HTML template. Depending on the format of the URL that could be a possible solution.

Thanks Jason.

I don’t know much about the mechanics of RSS, but it does seem that there’s a break in the process somewhere.

If I look at the raw RSS from this link (one example from my site, as I have it embedded), then it looks like all the links in the feed as served to Firefox do include the affiliate code:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/rss/bestsellers/digital-text/154606011/ref=zg_bs_154606011_rsslink&tag=kindlekitten-20

I’ve also checked this through Thunderbird, and all the links work.

Testing it with Feedroll – I see the same issue, i.e. that the code is not passed through:

https://www.feedroll.com/rssviewer/preview.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Frss%2Fbestsellers%2Fdigital-text%2F154606011%2Fref%3Dzg_bs_154606011_rsslink%26tag%3Dkindlekitten-20&targ=n&utf=y&css=

Interestingly, looking at a page on my site which does use this, I notice that the affilliate link does come through on some of the ‘site level’ Amazon links, but not the ‘Product level’:

https://kindlekitten.com/bestsellers/

On the above page, see any of the “Best Sellers in Kindle eBooks” links – they have the ‘kindlekitten-20’ tag embedded.

Could this be something as simple as the treatment of the ‘&’ character in the URL?

I did consider the template option, but I’m targeting multiple countries, and it looks like the is a maximum of 3 templates available.

I just checked my AZN feeds and sure enough they let the affiliate link come through on links that are not product IN THE SAME FEED.

So AZN is stripping out the affiliate link.

Sounds like a class action lawsuit, how many affiliates are giving AZN traffic not even realizing THEY GET NO CREDIT OR COMMISSION.

Another reason to not use amazon.

Oh, we tried two ways to include the tag the normal ?tag and ?ieUTF8&

Both produced the same stripped out feed from AZN showing products without affiliate links

Just tried a third way to encode the affiliate tag

?_encoding=UTF8&

Same result

AZN strips out affiliate on product links but leaves in minor links to lower level pages

SO AMAZN IS INTENTIONALLY STEALING COMMISSIONS FROM AFFILIATES

Hmm, it sounds like Amazon is not being consistent i their feeds – thank for all the detailed troubleshooting, I’m sure others will appreciate it.

If it’s possible to just append your ID to the end of the URL then I do think HungryFeed templates will allow you to do this by altering the url. The template would look something like this:

<div class="hungryfeed_item">
<h3><a href="{{permalink}}&AFFILIATEID=12345">{{title}}</a></h3>
<div>{{description}}</div>
<div>Author: {{author}}</div>
<div>Posted: {{post_date}}</div>
</div>

Hey Jason,

thank you, this seems to work on my page ??

Cheers,
Frank

I too am having the same problem. When I use the above fix it does add my Amazon id to the H3 item description but not for the image or second non-h3 description further below. I am new to this so I cannot make other changes in the plugin.
See below:

https://www.chromebookreview.com/best-selling/

Any chance of adding the ability to add Amazon ID’s to every Amazon link?

Thanks

I have exactly the same problem like granpa1954. I don’t know how to solve this problem.
Hope somebody knows how to deal with this.

Thanks!

Hey Grandpa1954,
I think I solved this problem. Perhaps this works for you as well: https://petewilliams.info/blog/2009/07/javascript-amazon-associate-link-localiser/