Amazon Affiliate Risks

[mikeim]

Hello all-

I'm starting to see some results with the Amazon affiliate program and want to protect myself the best I can. I'm aware of a number of risks, but unsure of the true level of risk of getting banned and how much I might protect myself.

Here is what I'm doing:

-paid traffic (from a site/method that may be against Amazon TOS) goes to my own landing page through a cloaked link
-landing page is Amazon compliant
-redirects to Amazon through affiliate link, in such a way that the landing page is the referrer, and redirect not initiated if you go to the site manually (not
through the cloak)

-Seeing great conversions this way (1-2%), still need to test more.
-Amazon will be seeing thousands of clicks from my website per day. Site is not ranked and gets no organic traffic, just paid traffic (not breaking any PPC rules in regards to trademarks, etc)
-Will keep each affiliate account to a few thousand/mo in revenue, with a few accounts


If I continue with this method, what are the risks that I'm not thinking of? Is there anything I can't protect against? How do I best keep ban risk as small as possible?

Thanks for any input, happy to trade ideas