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amazon affiliate link checker — high-intent, Amazon Associates audience (priority #3 from the content backlog; priorities #1 and #2 already covered by existing posts).

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The post explains how Amazon affiliate links fail in ways generic link checkers miss entirely — specifically "Currently unavailable" pages that return 200 OK but can't earn a commission — and walks through a five-failure-mode taxonomy (discontinued ASINs, unavailable products, ASIN merges, tag stripping, 24-hour cookie exposure). It then gives a practical manual audit checklist for small sites and describes what any automated checker needs to do differently to be useful for Amazon Associates.

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Audited Amazon links on 10 niche sites recently and noticed something most link audits miss entirely: products returning a clean 200 OK but showing "Currently unavailable" — no add-to-cart, no commission possible. Standard link checkers don't flag it because the page loads fine.

In a rough count, about 1 in 8 Amazon links on sites that hadn't been audited in 6+ months had either an unavailable product or a missing affiliate tag. The usual Screaming Frog run catches none of it.

If your Amazon earnings have dipped without obvious broken links, worth doing a manual spot-check on your top 10 pages: open each Amazon link and see if the product actually shows "Add to Cart." Takes 20 minutes and you might find out exactly where the money went.


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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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