You're losing ~22% of commissions to your own product links

You're losing ~22% of commissions to your own product links
The failure: you link straight to a product page, reader buys it, you earn 3%. But a reader who lands on a Storefront or category link and fills a cart earns you on the entire order at the higher bounty/rate mix.
— Direct product link: avg order value (AOV) ≈ $34, n=1,900 orders
— Search/category entry link: AOV ≈ $61, same niche, same 30 days
EPC (earnings per 100 clicks) moved $0.29 → $0.44 just from the deeper link target.
Fix: for high-cart niches (grocery, pet, office), link to a filtered search results URL, not the single ASIN.
So what: same traffic, +28% AOV, because the 24-hour cart counts everything they add.