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Amazon Sales Tax Woes Hits SEOs Hard

September 11th, 2011

SEOs who depend on Amazon affiliates and other sales from Amazon based services are saddened by certain state’s insistence on slamming Amazon sellers with sales taxes. Amazon’s agreement to drop any further litigation or appeals regarding collecting sales tax in California is a bit of a landmark for the sales giant. On the one hand [...]

 
 

Amazon Slams Affiliate Practices

January 18th, 2010

Not that long ago, Amazon took a slap at US affiliates for their paid search traffic driving techniques: After careful review of how we are investing our advertising resources, we have made the decision to no longer pay referral fees to Associates who send users to www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca, or www.endless.com through keyword bidding and other [...]

 
 

Amazon Continues Cutting Affiliates

July 5th, 2009

Amazon has been slamming affiliate doors shut in state after state, and legislators are starting to wake up and be concerned. North Carolina was one of the states most recently blocked, in a pattern that started in New England and has quickly spread across the states as legislative bodies struggle to increase revenue during a rising [...]

 
 

No Amazon for Tar Heels

June 28th, 2009

Amazon Associates who reside in North Carolina are having a bad week. Their accounts were officially closed yesterday pending the passage of a state budget that is expected to include a provision requiring companies with affiliate programs to pay an internet sales tax. Under this proposed proviso, affiliates are considered representatives of the organization whose products they [...]

 
 

Google Apps Reseller Program

January 15th, 2009

Now Google is building a reseller program for its apps, and training future affiliates. They will be helping to build up Google’s market share of email, calendaring, project management and team site creation, as well as documents, video sharing and collaboration. All of these services are experiencing an upswing in user numbers. The program will [...]