Amazon Affiliate Tracking ID Replacer

What is it used for?

The Amazon affiliate tracking id replacer tool updates the tracking id in your Amazon Affiliate links. You can use it to replace your tracking ID in long URLs too, but it was really created to take an Amazon short link and return the long Amazon affiliate URL with the Tracking ID updated to your new affiliate tag.

Why use the Amazon affiliate tracking id replacer tool?

I created the tool because when I first created my Amazon affiliate links I didn’t pay attention to tracking IDs and didn’t care whether my affiliate link was a long link or a short link. As long as it went to the right Amazon product, that was all I cared about.

Fast forward a few years and I realized that the Amazon Affiliate Reports aren’t able to tell me anything about which site my affiliate traffic comes from.

The easiest way to tell is to change the tracking id for the affiliate link, which isn’t too much of a problem…. if the Amazon Affiliate link is a ‘Long Link’. If it’s a short link then not only do you not have the ability to change the tracking ID, you also can’t tell what product the link is pointing to unless you click on the link yourself – and Amazon does not link Affiliates doing that.

Problem is, when I created 90% of my Amazon affiliate links I used the ‘Short Link’ option, which looks like this https://amzn.to/3YG1Fyv

Short Links work great but they don’t give you the ability to change the tracking id. And Amazon doesn’t have a way of showing you what the short link redirects to.

Argh.

Can get the link myself without the tool?

There are a couple of ways I can think of if you prefer to get the long URL it yourself.

Option #1 – Click the Short Link Yourself

This would be obvious choice. You can click on the short link, get the long URL it redirects to, change your tracking id in the URL and you are all set.

Big problem is, Amazon really, really, really does not like it when Affiliates click their own links – So don’t do this!

Option #2 – Enter the link into a site that gets the URL the Short Link Redirects To

This is kind of like doing what the Amazon Affiliate Tracking ID Replacer Tool does – but manually. If you go to a site like https://wheregoes.com/ enter the short link into the input field, it will show you the long URL the short link redirects to.

Then you would have to copy the link, paste it into a text editor and replace the old tracking ID with the new tracking ID. That is basically what this tool does in a nutshell.

If you only have a couple of links to do then doing it manually is not an impossible task, this tool removes a bunch of steps, making it easier to do a lot of links.

How to use the Amazon affiliate tracking id replacer tool

It’s pretty easy to use, enter your affiliate link in the first field and enter your new tracking id in the second field and click the Replace Tag button.

It will then return the long Amazon url for the product with the tracking id updated to what was specified in the second field.

That is all there is too it! Click the copy button and you are off to the races!

What does the Amazon affiliate tracking id replacer tool do?

When you click the ‘Replace Tag’ button, the tool will go to the URL provided in the first field, determine the long URL the short URL redirects to then either replace or add the tracking ID in the long URL and return that as the result.

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