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Re:Amazon slashes commission rates for program that gives pu... by adelHBN on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @07:26PM (#22872688)
I don't get it. These affiliate programs act like Amazon's sales team. Cutting 8% to 3% is a big cut. It reduces affiliate incentive to push Amazon products. It may also lead to lower quality websites. Amazon is cutting the hand that feeds it. It should be the other way around - they should increase affliate commission to incentivize more rigorous sales efforts.
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Re:Amazon slashes commission rates for program that gives pu... by geerlingguy on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:21PM (#22881151)
Most (not all) of the sites and YouTube channels that focus on affiliate marketing are not what I'd call 'high quality'.

They focus on pumping out shallow review after shallow review, with tons of cross-linking and spammy marketing techniques to get you to click on product links.

There are exceptions, but cutting the profit margin for sites that were set up to basically push people to click Amazon links may make the search results for 'product xyz reviews' a lot more helpful instead of being 50 or so shallow reviews, then a couple decent ones buried in the deeper pages.

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