Amazon Affiliate Monthly Broken Link Report Reminder

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Amazon is starting up a helpful service for their affiliates called their Monthly Broken Link Report Reminder.

They will be leveraging their subsidiary, Alexa Internet, Inc., to identify broken Amazon.com affiliate links.

Alexa will review Amazon affiliate sites once a month to search for Amazon.com links and generate reports on their quality.

Warning – snark attack: one bit of irony in the communication from Amazon. The e-mail instructed me to go to “the Update Account area of Associates Central to edit your information” in order to be sure my sites were listed in my affiliate account.

But when I clicked on the link they provided, I hit a 404 error page. Looks like they should have referenced a different url.

Amazon will be reviewing sites to identify:

• broken links

• links to outdated or misspelled categories
• links without Amazon.com Associate IDs
• product links that have low inventory availability (e.g. out of stock, 4-6 weeks)

This site review will operate in the following manner:

• It will not hit more than one page every two seconds.

• It will not access more than 1,000 pages from any single Web site.
• The crawler can be identified as amzn_assoc.
• Robot.txt files will be ignored by this crawler as stated in our Operating Agreement.
• If you would like a report that is not limited to 1,000 pages, visit Alexa’s Amazon.com Associate Site Report page.

Once Alexa finishes reviewing your site(s), they will send you a report of your link quality.

Always nice to get a little hand in optimizing my affiliate sites.