Hi Steven. No problem. Inside your Amazon Affiliate account, you need to list your social media page, or YouTube channel as an approved site for your affiliate link. That way, Amazon is good with seeing sales and traffic come from your social media or YT. If you do not list them, then you are in violation of their TOS.

That is what I would do. I just would not risk it and ensure your link is clean.

Thank you Dave, for your speedy reply.
If I understood correctly, what you are suggesting is that I either use the search link, or the storefront url without the keywords, is that correct?

Hi Debi, the first link you sent is a search link and not a product link – so there is not a time stamp there. So, my opinion is that that is more fine than a product searched link. As for your store front, you can, but I’d still just use the most base url for your store front to be on the safe side. I’ll admit that after seeing how they track, I’m a LOT more cautious than most on the links. So, take my advice with a grain of salt.

Good news – It is still clean. The rest of the other stuff is attached to the account/logon information. But no QID or search terms or sum checks are in it. Just a indiction of your account, and where you came from.

Yup or if you have a target keyword that you want your book to show up for, tell them to type that in, find your book and click and buy that way. Fastest way to rank quickly for that keyword.