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Read this before you publish your first page. A review page with the wrong tag looks completely normal, ranks normally, and gets clicked normally. It just pays somebody else, or nobody.

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What an affiliate tag is

Your Amazon Associates tracking ID. It usually looks like yourname-20. Amazon uses it to work out which clicks came from you, and therefore which commissions are yours. Every product link Guino puts on your page carries this tag. If it is missing or wrong, the click still works and the customer still buys, but the sale is not attributed to you.

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Why this page exists

New Guino accounts are created with a placeholder tag called example-20. It is a stand in, not a real Associates ID, and it belongs to nobody. This means a brand new account can run the whole pipeline, produce a genuinely good review page, publish it successfully, and earn nothing. Nothing about the page looks broken, because nothing about the page is broken.

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Set it

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Find your tag in Amazon Associates

Sign in to your Amazon Associates account. Your tracking ID is shown in the top navigation, and in Account Settings under Manage Tracking IDs. Copy it exactly, including the number on the end.
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Add it in Guino

In Guino, open your affiliate tag settings and paste it in. Save.
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Confirm it took

Open any review page you have already published and click one of your product links. The address you land on should end with your tag, like amazon.com/dp/B0XXXXXXX?tag=yourname-20.

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Pages you already published

Changing your tag does not rewrite pages that are already live. If you published anything while the placeholder was still set, open each one in the Review Editor and publish it again. Publishing regenerates the links with your current tag.
Guino also runs a readiness check right before you publish, and a missing or placeholder tag is flagged there as a blocker. That check is your safety net, but it only helps on pages you publish from now on.

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Multiple tracking IDs

Amazon lets you create several tracking IDs so you can tell campaigns apart, for example one for your blog and one for your YouTube channel. Guino uses one tag per account at a time. If you switch, the change applies to pages you publish after the switch. Guino only ever writes plain, direct Amazon product links in this shape:
No redirect chains, no link shorteners, no cloaking. Amazon requires affiliate links to be direct and to be marked as sponsored, and Guino does both automatically. See Compliance.