Strange Inconsistency with Amazon Product Links

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  ipublica · Member · May 23, 2015 at 9:06 am

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  Hello,
  I would really appreciate if somebody could find out the secret why these Amazon buying codes are sometimes working and sometimes not! Here is a sample page from one of my sites, but there are many others where the same problem occurs. I wrote to Amazon, they simply say that WordPress.com restricts coding but they could not explain the inconsistency. Please see here:
  https://blissviews.wordpress.com/authors/tom-butler-bowdon/

  I have compared the first and second link, letter by letter, it’s absolutely identical coding, yet the first doesn’t work and the second works.

  Thanks in advance for any help you may have for me. Perhaps additionally I should say that when I put the code which I get from Amazon Associates in the design view it doesn’t work anyway, so I always put it in Text/Coding view, but the inconsistency occurs nonetheless.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · May 23, 2015 at 5:36 pm

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  We can use text links only. http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/

  1. WordPress.com allows bloggers to insert text affiliate links within post and page content to most third-party affiliate programs, provided they are not the primary content of the site in question.

  2. Image affiliate links in posts and pages and any banners, affiliate links in sidebar or footer widget areas, are still considered to be advertising and are not allowed on WordPress.com blogs.

  Bloggers at WordPress.com with their own books on Amazon can use a plain HTML affiliate link code from Amazon and then used that to link an image (book cover or Buy at Amazon button). See here https://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/images-the-three-link-options/ and note “Custom URL” to link to your book’s cover.

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  ipublica · Member · May 23, 2015 at 8:55 pm

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  Thanks for your kind reply. I honestly did not know that. So I have to redesign quite a lot of pages. I am quite the contrary of a web marketeer and have never marketed even my own books on Amazon through the Web—and never got a single dollar with Amazon Associates.

  I find this restriction rather painful, to say the truth. It seems that always those are ‘paradigmatically’ punished who are not in the crowed of the Web Abusers—who are clearly the majority.

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  timethief · Member · May 23, 2015 at 10:13 pm

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  Hi there,
  You’re welcome and best wishes with your blog.

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  ipublica · Member · May 23, 2015 at 10:15 pm

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  Thank you! I will try to make the best out of the situation…

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  timethief · Member · May 23, 2015 at 10:17 pm

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  Good idea. :)