Amazon keeps getting snipped!

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   Viola Horneposted 7 years ago

   I have a high ranking page that is making a decent amount off of the Amazon products I feature there. I want to add an Amazon product that goes with the subject matter in another article but every time I try to add it, it gets snipped! The article is about how to express love to your mother and the product is a card-making set. I'm frustrated that I can't add Amazon products to this article. Any insight?

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      Natalie Frankposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      The same advice that is given whenever this issue arises. If you add a product it has to be directly related to subject of the article and you have to have used the product and have personal information to relate about it in first person.  If these things are true, then don't add the capsule - they are frowning on that now - just add a link instead.  It seems many of the older articles have amazon capsules where these rules aren't followed so there might not be consistency across your hubs - you might have an older article that doesn't comply with these things yet hasn't been snipped  - yet.  My experience is when I have gone to update my articles if the Amazon rules aren't followed they snip it then.  At this point I think I only have one or two articles with amazon products that haven't been snipped yet and I have given up on earning from the Amazon program.  Good luck!

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   Sherry Hewinsposted 7 years ago

   If you want to have an Amazon link for that product, you will probably have to write a hub about using it, or maybe one about Mother's Day crafts and home made gifts that includes it. If you describe the product and tell how it's used, maybe a personal photo of the end result, then you can probably keep the link. The link has to be directly related to the hub, not just loosely related.

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   Wesman Todd Shawposted 7 years ago

   On more than one occasion, Hubstaff has snipped my Amazon from a page, and I simply re added the text link.
   
   Bite me.
   
   I write the most of the articles I do write BECAUSE I can put Amazon links there. I probably put as much or more in depth analysis of the products I link to than virtually anyone else I've seen on this entire network.

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   Titiaposted 7 years ago

   Well it's like this: one doesn't actually need a card making set to express love to one's mom, so the Amazon capsule is not relevant to the article and that's why it got snipped.
   
   Amazon capsule time is over unless you use the product yourself and describe how to use it to your readers and why they should buy this particular product.

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   Susana Sposted 7 years ago

   Send them an email and ask them what you need to do in order to include the Amazon link. It's probably a matter of using a link rather than a capsule and writing a few sentences about why you recommend that specific product.

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   Viola Horneposted 7 years ago

   Thanks, all. I see the need for a specific use in the text of the article not just an add-on item.

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