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Antony_Aurelius /r/bestof
5 points
1970-01-20 09:02:54.067 +0000 UTC

There is reason to trust me over an Amazon employee who doesn't specify whether or not they actually run paid ads on Google or worked in their paid marketing or SEO department. Here you go, I can prove it to you, and you can even recreate it all for yourself by right clicking on the results and selecting "copy link address".

I just did a search on google for "amazon fire stick", notice these links are to the exact same page:

Here is my link for the paid result in the sponsored results at the top: https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=DChcSEwj-25fd7NT8AhVsKq0GHUhDCloYABAIGgJwdg&sig=AOD64_2l3pAkPsRHlfGLeG-vF6S4ClMy8w&ctype=5&q=&ved=2ahUKEwikmY7d7NT8AhVAJUQIHR3iBPUQ9aACKAB6BAgCECQ&adurl=

Here is my link for the organic result: https://www.amazon.com/all-new-fire-tv-stick-4k-with-alexa-voice-remote/dp/B08XVYZ1Y5

What you see in the paid link is all of the tracking parameters that will flow into Amazon's attribution system (most companies use a free tool like Google Analytics which has a native integration with Google Ads) including my unique Google click ID (or GCLID). This information is all so Amazon can track the efficacy of their paid program and get data such as what search term I used in order to trigger that ad and click on it. Clicking on this result in Google charges Amazon for my click, that is a paid ad.

Clicking the organic result will not result in Amazon paying anything to anyone. Amazon will know that someone came to that page from a Google organic result, but they won't know what search term they used. It is not an affiliate link

Lastly, since "affiliate" seems to be getting mixed in with what a paid ad actually is, here is what an Amazon affiliate link looks like for a different product I could find: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082B3R9T5/?tag=randomicle0c-20&th=1

notice the "?tag=@@@@@@@", that is to credit the actual affiliate so they can get paid. NOT Google. Affiliate links with actual affiliate tags in them are NEVER on Google organic search results, and only sometimes are in paid Google results if an advertiser is trying to do some kind of click arbitrage where they think they can make more money off of Amazon paying them for the affiliate click vs. what they have to pay to Google to actually get the click in the paid spot

FXGIO /r/AskTechnology
1 point
1970-01-20 08:17:28.87 +0000 UTC

I doubt such thing exists, but you can make your own:

  1. Fire TV Stick

  2. OTG Cable

  3. Flash drive

You use the OTG cable between the power source and the Fire TV Stick. You transfer the videos to the Flash drive and then connect it to the OTG cable.

Eragon-19 /r/anime
1 point
1970-01-20 12:02:30.958 +0000 UTC

Seeing as its an Amazon product I'm not 100% sure if you HAVE to have prime to use anything? (Like I'm not sure what your options are if you don't have prime already for the device as a whole) I do know that you don't have to go through Amazon to buy the actual subscription to Hidive (paying Amazon to use Hidive).

Now I'm curious and kind of want to know too about if you don't have Prime if firestick is worth it... ---> According to the questions/answers on the Firestick's page, you do not NEED an Amazon Prime to make it work! Now I'm not sure HOW it would work though