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Making Money from Your Blog?

Play by the Rules…or Risk it All.

We can help get you into compliance with Amazon in no time.

FTC, Amazon, Google…so many rules! Ensuring compliance can be a huge project.

Seems like every time we turn around, bloggers are talking about something new we need to do in all of our posts!

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Looking at hundreds of back posts and the choices you’ve made (or missed) over the years…most people are just left praying they don’t get a dreaded email.

Blogger Got Axed – No Appeal!!

It can happen any time, out of the blue, and Amazon seems to be cracking down recently:

Axed from Amazon Associates program

from SimchaFisher.com, December 11, 2017

Remember – Amazon is a profit driven corporation that doesn’t care about your business.

They can and do terminate associate accounts for non-compliance with statements like, “This decision is final and not subject to appeal,” and, “Amazon will not pay you any outstanding advertising fees related to your account.”

That’s the last 90 days of Amazon commissions, lost, plus all that income for the rest of your blogging career. #notcool #understatement

Bloggers are Out of Time & Energy to Stay in Compliance!!

The Blog Fixer is here to help. Using our powerful custom plugin capable of making many, highly targeted changes to your content quickly, we can offer services to solve most of your compliance problems at a fraction of the cost and time it would take to do it yourself.

The Blog Fixer is like a room full of trained VAs, diving into every old post you have and making sure everything is up to current standards – all much faster than you could do yourself, and without an hourly fee.

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Our NEW Blogging Monetization Compliance Fix will:

  • un “cloak” Amazon links you may have shortened
  • help you make all of your disclosures compliant
  • guide you to where you used Amazon prices or mentioned outdated promotions
  • take Amazon links out of your full-feed RSS emails
  • take off noreferrer from your links

 

All of those get your blog into compliance with Amazon Associates’ Guidelines.

Even if you’re trying your hardest, tons of bloggers have compliance issues because:

  • Guidelines change – I’m willing to bet you have a lot of old content that doesn’t follow the current set of rules.
  • You didn’t know what you were doing when you started blogging! Who does?
  • Unclear terms of service are lengthy and in legalese – you may not have understood (or read thoroughly).

 

Are You Ready to Get Fixed?

It’s super easy:
After purchase, we’ll have you answer some questions to help us tailor a solution that is unique to your site. Then our staff will connect to your site, make many changes for you, and make it easy for you to change the rest.

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HERE’S HOW WE’LL FIX YOUR BLOG:

1. "Amazon Doesn't Support My Blog" Disclosure Fix

Amazon Associates Guidelines: Disclose Our Way or the Highway

“You must clearly state the following on your Site or any other location where Amazon may authorize your display or other use of Content: “We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.”

Except for this disclosure, you will not make any public communication with respect to this Agreement or your participation in the Associates Program. You will not misrepresent or embellish our relationship with you (including by expressing or implying that we support, sponsor, or endorse you), or express or imply any affiliation between us and you or any other person or entity except as expressly permitted by this Agreement.”

This means that if you’ve ever said, “Shopping through my Amazon link helps support my blog,” or included the word support or sponsor in your disclosure on a post with Amazon links – you’re out of compliance and might be out of luck.

How it’s Enforced:

In late 2017, Simcha Fisher, a blogger who had no idea she was doing anything wrong, got this email:

Because you are not in compliance with the Operating Agreement, Amazon will not pay you any outstanding advertising fees related to your account. Amazon exercises its right under the Operating Agreement to withhold fees based on violations, which include the following:

-You are incentivizing others to visit the Amazon Site by specifying that purchases made using your Special Links will help to support you or your website.

Uh oh!! Most blogger groups actually have TOLD people to use phrases like “supports my family” in their disclosures! The FTC would say that’s fine…but Amazon would not.

Fix it! The Blog Fixer will:

  • Find and replace standard disclosures you may have copied and pasted into many posts (including a reasonable amount of variation in each).
  • Use our advanced searching functionality to find other problem disclosures no matter how few the number of posts each appears in (in case you made up your disclosures fresh with every post). You can then use the interface of The Blog Fixer plugin to quickly rewrite or remove each.

I DON’T WANT TO GET AXED!

2. Find Amazon Price and Promotion Mentions

Amazon Associates Guidelines: Don’t put prices in your posts

Because prices for and availability of Products that you have listed on your Site may change, your Site may only show prices and availability if: (a) we serve the link in which that price and availability data are displayed, or (b) you obtain Product pricing and availability data via the PA API…

So, unless you are using a plugin to automatically pull real-time prices from Amazon, you shouldn’t be displaying them in your posts.

Also…

Amazon Associates Guidelines: Remove links and mentions of outdated promotions

You must remove from your Site any links and related references to limited time promotions on or before the expiration date of that promotion.

How it’s Enforced:

Plain and simple, manually listing prices or referring to outdated promotions is a bannable offense.

Fix it! The Blog Fixer will…

  • Use our advanced searching functionality to find Amazon price and promotion mentions in your content.
  • You can then use the interface of The Blog Fixer plugin to quickly rewrite or remove each.

HELP ME FIND THESE!

3. Uncloak Amazon Links Fix

Amazon Associates Guidelines: You must not cloak Amazon Links

You will not cloak, hide, spoof, or otherwise obscure the URL of your Site containing Special Links (including by use of Redirecting Links)…

This means that if you use the Pretty Links or Simple URLs plugin or bit.ly, ow.ly, goo.gl, tinyurl.com, azon.ly, or geni.us on your Amazon affiliate links and you don’t specifically mention those links are going to Amazon, you are out of compliance.

How it’s Enforced:

“I got an email from Amazon notifying me that my account was closed and no payment would be made for the advertising fee that I had earned up to that point…

You are not in compliance with the Linking Requirements…because you are using a link shortening service or other mechanism in a manner that makes in unclear that you linking to an Amazon Site.”

– source: Digital Ready Marketing

Fix it! The Blog Fixer will…

  • Search bit.ly, ow.ly, goo.gl, tinyurl.com, azon.ly, geniu.us, Pretty Links, and Simple URLs for Amazon links
  • Replace all cloaked Amazon shortened with their non-cloaked version

I NEED THIS!

4. Amazon Links Out of RSS Email Fix

Amazon Associates Guidelines: No Offline Links

“…you will not engage in any promotional, marketing, or other advertising activities in any offline manner, including by using …any Special Link in connection with an offline promotion or in any other offline manner (e.g., in any printed material, mailing, SMS, MMS, email or attachment to email, or other document, or any oral solicitation).”

This includes RSS full feed emails!!

How it’s Enforced:

“Mark Dawson, an author, accidentally included his affiliate links in emails sent to his book’s launch list. Amazon figured it out, emailed him and gave him 5 days to fix it or risk getting his account shut down.”

– source: AmyLynnAndrews.com

Fix it! The Blog Fixer will:

  • Automatically change any links in (future) RSS feed emails to redirect back to the blog post itself. Smooth user experience + Amazon compliance + readers can still use your Amazon links from the post.
  • This is so much better than simply stripping your links out of your feed like some free plugins do.
  • We cannot change any past email links, of course.

Fix It Now!

5. Remove Noreferrer from your blog

Amazon Associate Guidelines: You will not hide the URL of your Site

For several months in 2017, WordPress was automatically the “noreferrer” tag to any links that open in new tabs. This was to combat a potential security issue that had been discovered and compensate for the Firefox browser at the time not supporting the “better” solution, using the “noopener” tag.

A side affect of the noreferrer tag is that it prevents Amazon from seeing the URL of your site when that link is clicked on – something that’s against the Policy document:

You will not …hide..or otherwise obscure the URL of your Site containing Special Links (including by use of Redirecting Links) or the user agent of the application in which Content is displayed or used such that we cannot reasonably determine the site or application from which a customer clicks through such Special Link to the Amazon Site.

Likely as a result, the December release of WordPress stopped automatically adding noreferrer to links and instead uses the now much more widely supported noopener tag, which does not have the same side effect. However, any noreferrer tags added before have not been removed.

How it’s Enforced:

One of the standard paragraphs from an Amazon warning/ban letters is as follows:

While reviewing your account, we have been unable to verify that the means through which you are referring customers to the Amazon Site are in compliance with the terms of the Associates Program Operating Agreement.

Fix it! The Blog Fixer will:

  • Remove all noreferrer tags from your links

Fix It Now!

Happy Customers

  • The Blog Fixer has saved me so much time and frustration by adding important nofollow links I had been ignoring for years, adding affiliate links and changing out old links. Hands down one of my favorite blogging tools ever!
    Katie Wells aka Wellness Mama
    Katie
    WellnessMama.com
  • I am absolutely thrilled with The Blog Fixer! I approached Kris with some projects to get my blog up to date for social media and affiliate links. His proposed fixes came back to me quickly, and I was impressed with the speed of applying the fixes, his care to ensure everything is clearly understood and implemented, and of course, the result. It was fast, easy, thorough, and painless!
    Wardee Harmon
    Wardee
    TraditionalCookingSchool.com
  • I've been blogging for over a decade and when I started, nofollow links weren't really a thing. The thought of manually going through thousands of links from the past that needed attention was overwhelming, so I just kept putting it off. When I got a nofollow penalty notification from Google, I realized that although I had been using nofollow links recently, there were still many old posts that needed my attention, quick. I was so glad to find Kris from The Blog Fixer. He fixed all those old links and reversed the Google penalty in no time at all. I can't thank him enough.
    Kristen from DineAndDish.net
    Kristen
    DineAndDish.net
  • When I sit down to research, I can only focus when my laundry is folded, dishes washed, and the floor is free of Legos. When I found out that nearly all my affiliate links were missing the "nofollow" code, it was like my kids dumped a box of Legos across the hallway. The Blog Fixer made all my affiliate links Google friendly instantly, which cleared away the mental clutter. No more frustration about things that take too much time to do myself but must get done.
    Heather Dessinger
    Heather
    Mommypotamus.com
  • The Blog Fixer was my “get out of Google jail” pass! There’s no way I could have manually updated all the content on my site. The team came to my rescue, bailed me out, and allowed me to get on with the business of creating great content for my readers. The Live Fix feature also gives me the assurance that my site will be compliant going forward, with no extra effort on my part.
    Carrie on Living
    Carrie
    CleanEatingKitchen.com
  • When I started blogging, I didn't understand the importance of 'nofollow' links. I had since learned but never went back to correct my old links. I blog in my spare time, so when I received a warning letter from Google, I was about to give it up until a friend told me about Blog Fixer. I was amazed at how fast it fixed every affiliate link! It saved me months of work. It's truly an invaluable service and worth every penny. The Google warning was lifted after about a week and now I can focus on writing content!
    Sara Mortimer holding a baby
    Sara
    FrugalMamaAndTheSprout.com

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How many months of your Amazon checks would you be willing to re-invest to get you this much closer to “safe” from losing it all?

Click the buttons above to see features for that package.

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Price$125$395
Fixes
Uncloak Amazon Links ($95)
Monetize Amazon links without affiliate tag ($50)
“Amazon Doesn’t Support My Blog” Disclosure ($195)
Find Amazon Prices and Promotions ($195)
Amazon Links Out of Email ($25)
Remove “noreferrer” ($50)
Bonuses
Content Audit Statistical Report ($100)
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Value$145710
Price$125$395
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Don’t need a whole package? Individual compliance fixes can be purchased here.

FAQs

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Is it a product or a service?

This is as close to a white glove treatment online as you’ll find! The Blog Fixer team will take care of everything you need, except for some questions you’ll need to answer to give us direction.

We use our product, a custom plugin called The Blog Fixer, to run a service on your blog. Later, you’ll have the opportunity to use the plugin regularly to keep your blog in compliance. Then it’s a product, but for now, just know that you (and your blog monetization security) will be taken care of.


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Are you guys Amazon experts or something?

Is anyone? When the customer service people Associates can talk to with questions can’t communicate with the compliance team that could shut you down, and the lawyers who wrote the Guidelines might not be talking to the developers creating the software…it’s anyone’s best guess.

We’ve read the Associates’ Guidelines and cited them for you, and we’ve collected evidence of former Associates who were removed from the program or given 5 days to get into compliance. We’ve personally tested as much as we can and are confident that these Fixes should help and cannot hurt your blog.


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What about Amazon short links?

Short links are no problem! We’ll “look” into any amzn.to short links we find on your site and make sure they are compliant.

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How much work will this be for me?

Some, but much less than getting into compliance manually and much more pleasant than losing income or pageviews because of non-compliance.

You’ll need to fill out a form so we know what you want, and The Blog Fixer team will require access to your site. Even the white glove treatment has to get in the door! You have some options once you get into the form – you can remain in control of choices on your site, which will require a bit more work.


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Is there a guarantee?

There are many aspects to staying in compliance with the Amazon’s and Google’s of the world, and while The Blog Fixer’s services are designed to help with the most time consuming, unfortunately we are not able to address all of them. The Blog Fixer will change the content of your posts and pages (see here for more details) to ensure compliance. Any issues that reside outside of these areas, including but not limited to: themes, widgets, menus, most 3rd party plugins, and scripts will not be fixed.

As the requirements for staying in compliance are often changing, we cannot guarantee that by using our services you will not be negatively impacted by a compliance issue, including but not limited to lost revenue, lost web traffic, receiving a manual penalty, or suspension or account termination.


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What link “cloakers” can you uncloak?

Currently we can uncloak the Pretty Links and Simple URLs WordPress plugins along with bit.ly, ow.ly, goo.gl, tinyurl.com, azon.ly, and geni.us links.