amazon link question

[disgust]

in the xml returned in a query with the associates program, is that the exact link you're supposed to use?

all of my links look like this:

[amazon.com...]

with the asin and subsription id replaced obviously

but if I click on these, they don't seem to track right

am I doing something wrong?

[rfung]

the subscription ID is the ID for using XML, what you need is the affiliate ID which usually will look like <something>-20 (dash20 at the end).

[disgust]

mine is virtualmallor-20.

so would I use the above url? or something else entirely?

[amazon.com...]

would that be correct?

[gsmith]

You wrote:

but if I click on these, they don't seem to track right

It seems that you understand how to link correctly, and that your question is really one of determining what should and should not appear in your account statement. I think that it would be very worthwhile for you to address your question to the "Associates Central Discussion Boards" at the Amazon site. Their forum is very active and contains many discussions on questions such as yours.

[rfung]

the link is not correct. the dash20 affiliate ID needs to be placed somewhere else - I don't have the information handy on me right now though. I'd second going over to the amazon affiliate forum. There's a tool there to help you create your links too.

[jadebox]

You need to include the following in your AWS 4 queries:

&AssociateTag=[your associates ID]

This will change "tag=ws" to "tag=[your associates ID]" in the URLs returned by Amazon's web services.

-- Roger