Thread: Associate Engine - Going straight to Amazon? |
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#1
October 19th, 2010, 09:06 AM
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Up until yesterday everything seemed to be going fine with my associate engine based website. I had not touched the site for a couple of weeks and the site was looking good. Yesterday the site decided to go straight to Amazon.
Even when checking the site via this.. http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/ae.pl and replacing the domain with my domain name, it goes to Amazon. As I have not touched my website in a couple of weeks, what could cause this? Change of mode or browse number? What is the easiest way to get the site back without doing a complete upload again? The cached version of my website via Google looks fine. Kindle Textbooks (1 - 20) - kindletextbooks.info Kindle Textbooks |
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#2
October 19th, 2010, 09:52 AM
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I am also getting "No results found" on searches that had been working for months and years.
I wonder if Amazon changed something and we need a an updated version of AsoociateEngine? |
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#3
October 19th, 2010, 09:59 AM
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I'm wondering the same thing. If it kept my amazon associates ID when it gets redirected, I'd be somewhat happier at the moment.
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#4
October 19th, 2010, 11:09 AM
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glad i'm not the only one with this problem. i did upgrade to the new release Aug '10, but no luck w/ that either. hoping Admin can work his magic asap
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#5
October 19th, 2010, 03:10 PM
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I am now convinced that the problem is on the AE script side, and is not my own, because one of Cusimano's sample sites is showing the same "No results found" problem:
Last edited by Greg Rice; October 19th, 2010 at 06:08 PM. Reason: Removed keyword stuffed link. |
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#6
October 19th, 2010, 03:15 PM
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It looks to be that way. I sent an email to support a few hours ago but I have not yet heard back. For reference, here is my website which now goes straight to Amazon...
All was fine a couple of days ago and I have not touched the script since October 1st. Last edited by Greg Rice; October 19th, 2010 at 06:08 PM. Reason: Removed keyword link |
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#7
October 19th, 2010, 06:33 PM
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Amazon changed something at their end. Working on an AE update.
FYI, when redirection happens, AE always redirects with your amazon ID (unless you have no key or your key has expired). The ID may not appear in the web browser's Address bar because amazon's website does its own redirection thus making it appear there was no ID. That is, AE redirects to amazon with an ID, amazon does some processing and redirects to an amazon url that has no ID. All you see is the last url. Yours truly, Cusimano.Com Corporation per: David Cusimano
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#8
October 19th, 2010, 07:28 PM
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David, thank you very much for the quick response and explaining the whole redirection thing.
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#9
October 20th, 2010, 09:59 AM
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I have the same problem but I have started getting problems with other Amazon scripts (since about two days ago).
Let me know when the updated script is available. |
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#10
October 20th, 2010, 06:06 PM
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Okay, weirder than weird .... all my AE pages are now working again!
Barbara |
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#11
October 20th, 2010, 06:27 PM
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Thank you David for the update!!
I just applied it, and everything is working nicely again. Barbara |
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#12
October 20th, 2010, 06:39 PM
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ae.pl v10.10.20 released. Download from:
Associate Engine Script : Download Install it and also obtain an AWS Access Key. See: Associate Engine Script : Access Key The old version (and also the new version without your own AWS Access Key) will work intermittently for now. The problem is caused because Amazon has recently introduced "Efficiency Guidelines" that impose a limit on how many requests can be made per hour per AWS Access Key. For simplicity of configuration, all ae.pl's everywhere shared one AWS Access Key (hard-coded into ae.pl). That meant that AWS requests from all ae.pl's everywhere were being counted towards a single AWS Access Key. All those AWS requests across all ae.pl's occasionally exceeded the Efficiency Guidelines limits thus causing Amazon to return no data to AE. The solution is for you to install the latest AE (which lets you configure the AWS Access Key) and obtain and install your own AWS Access Key. FYI, other Amazon scripts from other software vendors will exhibit the same problem if they also use a shared AWS Access Key. Yours truly, Cusimano.Com Corporation per: David Cusimano
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#13
October 20th, 2010, 11:19 PM
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Some users who downloaded AE v10.10.20 still had problems.
I have released AE v10.10.20b to fix that. Get it from: Associate Engine Script : Download Yours truly, Cusimano.Com Corporation per: David Cusimano
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#14
October 21st, 2010, 08:31 AM
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b seems to be working great!!!
Thank you very much!!! |
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