Is this affiliate link actually earning?

Paste any Amazon link and this pulls it apart: whether it carries a tag at all, whether that tag belongs to the store the link points at, and how many countries it quietly fails for. The two mistakes worth finding both leave a link that works perfectly and pays you nothing.

Shortened and redirected links have to be followed first — paste the address they end at, not the one you clicked. Nothing you paste is sent anywhere; the check runs in this tab and is gone when you close it.

What the two digits mean

Amazon Associates is not one programme. Each country runs its own, with its own account and its own tag, and appends its own two digits. A tag issued in one programme earns nothing in another — the link still works, which is exactly why the mistake survives.

Suffix Stores that issue it
-20 amazon.com, amazon.ca, amazon.com.mx, amazon.com.br
-21 amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.fr, amazon.it, amazon.es, amazon.nl, amazon.com.be, amazon.se, amazon.pl, amazon.com.tr, amazon.ae, amazon.sa, amazon.eg, amazon.in, amazon.sg
— amazon.ie
-22 amazon.co.jp, amazon.com.au

Which is the catch worth knowing: fifteen of the twenty-two programmes share -21, so a matching suffix proves the tag is not from the wrong region — not that it is from the right store. Ireland publishes no suffix at all. Where these IDs come from

Why a working link can pay nothing

Three ways to lose a sale without noticing.

  1. The tag was never there

    You were looking at the product, so you copied the address out of the browser bar. That address has no tag in it and never had. It is indistinguishable from an affiliate link to anyone reading the page. What has to be in the link

  2. The tag belongs to another country

    A tag issued on amazon.com is ignored on amazon.de. The reader lands on the right product and buys it, and the sale is credited to nobody. Nothing appears in your reports, because from Amazon side nothing went wrong.

  3. The reader was in the wrong country to begin with

    Even a perfect link only earns for the store it points at. Everyone else either pays foreign shipping or leaves and buys on their own Amazon, untagged. How much of your traffic that is

Or never write a broken one again.

Doozly Premium holds one Associates tag per store and attaches the right one to every outbound link on its own, from the same routing table this page runs on. There is no address bar to copy from and no suffix to get wrong, which removes both of the mistakes this tool exists to find.

The Doozly fox holding a product card and a glowing affiliate link.