Answers.Body: <p>Found the question interesting, but I do not have the answer. But here it goes a possible way.
  You will need:</p>
  <ol>
  <li>A link to your Amazon book;</li>
  <li>A shortening app, I like to use this one: <a href="https://app.bitly.com/bbt2/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://app.bitly.com/bbt2/</a></li>
  </ol>
  <p>Here goes the link to my book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B09WPXSFMB" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B09WPXSFMB</a></p>
  <p>Just add something: <a href="https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B09WPXSFMB?test" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B09WPXSFMB?test</a>
  See it still works just fine.</p>
  <p>Now the magic: <a href="https://amzn.to/3jp8ujy" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://amzn.to/3jp8ujy</a>
  This is the shortened version from the one with parameter, after the question mark.</p>
  <p>See the picture, just did one access! it works!</p>
  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/bnGJI.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/bnGJI.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
  
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Body: <p>Given a kindle book published on Amazon KDP, is there a way to find out from where traffic or sales came from?</p>
  <p>For example, I might add links pointing to my book on my website, or on social media, on forums or whatever and I want to know from where my readers came from, to optimize my strategy of recommending or advertising for the book on one channel or another. Obviously, from my own website I can see on what links people click and I can measure that interaction, but on other channels like forums or social media I have no control whatsoever, I can only add a link and somehow add some parameters to that link to later find out from KDP where users came from.</p>
  <p>I could not find anything related to how one might do that. I found examples with parameters like:</p>
  <pre><code>https://www.amazon.com/.../?tag=12345
  https://www.amazon.com/.../?channel=MyWebsite
  https://www.amazon.com/.../?ref=BlaBla
  </code></pre>
  <p>But no information about what these parameters do, or if they are even valid, or if there is a KDP report that shows them.</p>
  <p>The best I could find is the Amazon Associate program, where you can create an affiliate account, but I don't need that. It's my own book and I just want to know where buyers come from, it's not an affiliation.</p>
  <p>Is there any way to find out this information?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Good question, I am curious. One option that comes to me is creating a short link, see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ4Ggk66HlE&t=8s . With short link you can see statistics.
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Tags: <amazon><ebook-management><sales><kdp>
Title: Any way to identify source of traffic on Amazon KDP?
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ThreadText: # Any way to identify source of traffic on Amazon KDP?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-07-13)
  
  Given a kindle book published on Amazon KDP, is there a way to find out from where traffic or sales came from?
  For example, I might add links pointing to my book on my website, or on social media, on forums or whatever and I want to know from where my readers came from, to optimize my strategy of recommending or advertising for the book on one channel or another. Obviously, from my own website I can see on what links people click and I can measure that interaction, but on other channels like forums or social media I have no control whatsoever, I can only add a link and somehow add some parameters to that link to later find out from KDP where users came from.
  I could not find anything related to how one might do that. I found examples with parameters like:
  https://www.amazon.com/.../?tag=12345
  https://www.amazon.com/.../?channel=MyWebsite
  https://www.amazon.com/.../?ref=BlaBla
  
  But no information about what these parameters do, or if they are even valid, or if there is a KDP report that shows them.
  The best I could find is the Amazon Associate program, where you can create an affiliate account, but I don't need that. It's my own book and I just want to know where buyers come from, it's not an affiliation.
  Is there any way to find out this information?
  
  **Tags:** amazon, ebook-management, sales, kdp
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Good question, I am curious. One option that comes to me is creating a short link, see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ4Ggk66HlE&t=8s . With short link you can see statistics.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2022-04-10. Score: 0
  
  Found the question interesting, but I do not have the answer. But here it goes a possible way.
  You will need:
  
  1. A link to your Amazon book;
  2. A shortening app, I like to use this one: <https://app.bitly.com/bbt2/>
  
  Here goes the link to my book: <https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B09WPXSFMB>
  
  Just add something: <https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/B09WPXSFMB?test>
  See it still works just fine.
  
  Now the magic: <https://amzn.to/3jp8ujy>
  This is the shortened version from the one with parameter, after the question mark.
  
  See the picture, just did one access! it works!
  
  [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/bnGJI.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/bnGJI.png)
  
  
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