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Originally Posted by JNCalif
I received a private message saying that my post on Macmillan's sale on Amazon was deleted because it contained an affiliate link. I'm actually not registered as an affiliate with them and cut and pasted the link from the Amazon site itself. Not sure how it could have contained an affiliate link - any advice greatly appreciated.
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You must have recently (within the previous 24 hours of that post) used someone else's affiliate link to Amazon. A lot of book blogs use affiliate links, and they carry over, so when you were browsing Amazon, their tag got appended to the URLs in the browser bar, which you then unknowingly copied and pasted here.
It's not your fault as you didn't know it was there. In the future, the safest way to copy links from Amazon for individual books is to take just the parts before the long "ref=" stuff. For pages like the Daily Deals, if you aren't sure the link is clean, just tell people to check out the Kindle Daily Deals. Most of use know how to get there.
