Why does "amazon.com" keep visiting my website?

[IamLegend]

Why does "amazon.com" keep visiting my website?

I keep seeing their visits over and over, here are the last 3, all from IP 54.241.89.133
Aug 1110:31:09 PM
Aug 1304:06:15 AM
Aug 1409:26:54 PM

I'm assuming it's a webcrawler, and I understand why google would use one, buy why amazon???

[Jake]

I really don't have any special information on that and can only guess that they were given your site as an affiliate sales candidate that their system is reviewing for approval.

I looked into it:
aranhabot , amzn_assoc appear to be the names of the Amazon.com robot for checking their affiliate sites

There is a thread discussing the myterious robot traffic from AWS (the amazon cloud web services division).
http://www.webmasterworld.com/search_eng...368965.htm

A 2009 report of strange goings on:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/search_eng...828718.htm


Try a search for: Amazon.com robot Spidering my site.
to see more references, searching Amazon Spider gets lots of nature photos.