The Problem With a Single Amazon Affiliate Link
When you paste an Amazon affiliate link into your YouTube description, you set your US Amazon Associates tag. That's great — for US visitors. But what about the UK woodworker watching your video? Or the Canadian maker? When they click your link and buy something, you don't earn a commission. The sale goes through their local storefront, and your US tag doesn't apply there.
If you have a global audience, a significant chunk of your affiliate revenue is leaking out through this gap.
What Geo-Routing Does
MakerManifest automatically routes Amazon clicks to the visitor's local storefront. When someone clicks your short link:
● US visitors → amazon.com with your US tag
● UK visitors → amazon.co.uk with your UK tag (if you have one set)
● Canadian visitors → amazon.ca with your CA tag
● German visitors → amazon.de with your DE tag
● And so on for all 20 Amazon marketplaces
If you haven't set up an affiliate tag for a specific country's storefront, your amazon.com tag is used as a fallback — so you still earn something, even on markets you haven't fully set up yet.
How to Set It Up
In your MakerManifest dashboard, go to Affiliate Programs and add your Amazon Associates tracking IDs for each marketplace you participate in. You can add as many or as few as you want — the geo-routing works with whatever you have.
Every Amazon link you add to a gear list automatically benefits from geo-routing. No extra steps needed.
Which Countries Are Supported?
MakerManifest supports geo-routing for all 20 Amazon marketplaces: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Japan, Australia, India, Brazil, Mexico, Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, Poland, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt.
Learn More
See the full Amazon Geo-Routing feature page for details on how it works and which plans include it. Ready to stop leaving international commissions on the table? Get started with MakerManifest.