The plugin will always use your IDs for all locales if you have entered them.
Have you registered for all locales? And have you put your ID’s in the default channel for the locales to which it is linking, e.g. Spain, Germany, France and the UK?
Hope that helps,
Paul
Yes, and that makes it even weirder. I get a different affiliate ID for germany, and I input my Id in the default channel.
Hmmm, that’s odd.
Try disabling the ‘User Affiliate IDs’ setting. Maybe its picking an duff ID up from the user profile page?
Paul
User profile page?I dont understand. There are no other users in the site. It is being built.
I will try disabling the User affiliate ID setting and see.
I disabled the User affiliate Id setting and still shows up as another ID other than mine. But only for 1 of the 3 countries, the other 2 are mine.
I looked up the affiliate ID showing up in the links and it is petewill05-21. Doing a search, this comes up. http://petewilliams.info/blog/2009/07/javascript-amazon-associate-link-localiser/
Why is his affiliate ID on my blog?
Hi,
Very strange!
Are you using the latest version of the plugin (3.1.0)?
Can you send me a link to your site?
The only thing I c an think of is that there were some formatting issues that should be fixed in the latest version. They caused alignment problems on the Affiliate ID page.
Can you temporarily put pretend IDs in _all_ the affiliate ID locales, with names like uk, de, fr, es, jp, us, it, in, cn, ca.
Then on the multinational link check that the right ID is in the right locale?
Paul
I apoligize for wasting your time.
I figured out what was causing this. When searching for plugins I also installed another amazon plugin besides yours but forgot about it. And although I was not using that plugin, it was interfering with yours. That other plugin although it did not have any ID’s set up, it uses the authors own ID’s which he must have installed in the plugin code. Pretty sketchy if you ask me.
Again, truly sorry and thank you for your help.
No worries, glad you got it sorted in the end!
To be fair to the other plugin author it is a common way to get ‘unclaimed’ revenue to pay for the plugin development.
For example – If you don’t want the hassle of registering with amazon.co.jp then the plugin author gets a few extra pennies/Yen a month (trust me its not a lot!).
The Amazon-Link plugin will also do this. But only as a last resort.
Note you can’t make live AWS product requests to Amazon without valid Affiliate IDs. So there _has_ to be some default ID if they are not filled in by the user.
Bottom line: If you don’t want any of the plugin’s default IDs to be used please fill in all the locales in the default channel with valid affiliate IDs.
Hope this helps!
Paul
Hey Paul
Ok, fair enough. When looked at it that way, it makes sense. Just ticked me off that it was going over my ID on your plugin. Deleted that plugin and only using yours now so everything is running good.
Thanks!
