Pasting Amazon links on social strips your tag ~30% of the time

Pasting Amazon links on social strips your tag ~30% of the time
The failure: dropping raw affiliate URLs in Telegram, Pinterest, or app-embedded browsers. Redirects, link previews, and in-app browsers can drop or rewrite the tag — you get the click, not the credit.
— Raw long URLs on social: tag-intact rate ≈ 71%, n=3,300 outbound clicks
— Official amzn.to short links (SiteStripe): tag-intact ≈ 97%
Fix: always generate the amzn.to short link from SiteStripe for off-site sharing; never hand-edit a URL.
So what: a quarter of your social clicks convert with no tag attached unless you use the official shortener.