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Notes onaffiliate links.
Writing on broken links, creator income, and the occasional product update from the lab.
- Deep dive
Why Amazon Associates links break more than any other. And what to do about it.
Amazon gives creators the biggest affiliate catalog in the world and the most unstable URLs. ASINs rotate, products migrate, regional stores diverge. Here's why Amazon links break faster than any other network. And how to survive it.
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UTM parameters on affiliate links: good idea or not?
UTM parameters let you segment affiliate traffic by source in your own analytics. But they can break affiliate tracking when networks strip URL parameters. Here's when UTMs help, when they hurt, and the safer pattern.
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