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How To Shorten Amazon Affiliate Links: Save Yourself Hundreds Of Characters

Most of us are guilty of tweeting or posting links that are way too long.

How many characters is an amazon affiliate link?

How about a Bitly URL shortener?

These are questions that most people don’t know the answers to but every character counts when it comes to keeping your tweets and posts concise.

How can you shorten Amazon affiliate links without having to copy and paste them into a URL shortener yourself?

There’s actually an easy way!

In this article, I’ll show you how to shorten Amazon affiliate links.

Amazon URL Shortener

Follow these steps to shorten your Amazon URLs.

To access the Amazon Associates area, go to your browser and open Amazon. When it is open, click on the top right corner of your screen to open the Amazon Associates Area.
Fill out the login form.
Input a product name or type in the search bar and hit the “Go!” button.
After you’ve selected the product you wish to share, click on “Get Link” arrow. A drop-down menu will appear.
Select “Shorten URL with amazon.to?”

If you’re already logged into your Amazon account, you can follow the steps in this video.

That’s all there is to it!

You don’t have to worry about various alternatives or picture dimensions; this generates HTML for a text-only link.

And, yes, your affiliate ID is used.

Hope you enjoyed this article and learned how to shorten Amazon affiliate links.

What you’ve learned will help you keep your posts, tweets and other social media content short and concise.

It will also be easier for people to share your Amazon affiliate links.