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I'm looking to dive into the amazon market. Suggestions?

by TekNite
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I am looking to build sites around promoting some specific amazon products and I have a few questions for you warriors.

Is building micro niche sites a viable thing to do for specific amazon products? IE: A 2-10 page site focused on a specific product. Or is a single page site just as good for this or not good?

Keywords research: Do you try to rank for the product name it's self or do the same as I would for a micro niche sites and find a long tail keyword that has the product in it. Like the product might be "baby bottle 4000". Should I try to rank for the exact product name or go for a long tail using the product name. Something like "buy baby bottle 4000 online" or "baby bottle 4000 review and buy" etc etc,.

Competition: Each product I have researched in Google appears to have the first page filled with high authority sites like amazon, ebay, walmart, bestbuy, etc, etc,. There are not affiliate sites tho. Can I beat these high authority site like that? It looks like they are not optimized but the items. they just have it in the title and url like it's aggregated or something. Can I outrank this semi easily or will be it be to much time and money for a small micro niche?

Your suggestions, tips, and answers are most welcomed! Thanks in advance!

Daniel
#amazon #dive #market #suggestions
  • Profile picture of the author Tom Addams
    Your best bet these days would be an authority site, and one where you can find some elbow room in the market to penetrate.

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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by TekNite View Post

    I'm looking to dive into the amazon market. Suggestions?
    Yes, Daniel ...

    Stop thinking about "traffic" in terms of "search-engine traffic": that really isn't a very good way forward, at all, for Amazon affiliate marketing. For the reasons explained here.

    This thread may help you (just as it's helped many others here): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6608638

    Originally Posted by TekNite View Post

    Is building micro niche sites a viable thing to do for specific amazon products?
    Plenty of things are (just about) "viable" to do, although many (most?) of them are far from optimal or desirable, when compared with their better-planned, more realistic, wiser alternatives.

    Here's the thing: one of the huge advantages of being affiliates is that - unlike vendors/merchants - we can build up real, asset-based businesses without our long-term future incomes being dependent on the continued success/availability/sales of any specific, individual products at all. It would be a very great shame, and a major irony, to choose to "waste" that advantage, and end up being dependent on individual products after all: that would be voluntarily choosing the disadvantages and risks, while inadvertently leaving some of the biggest advantages behind!

    Originally Posted by TekNite View Post

    I am looking to build sites around promoting some specific amazon products
    I've been a full-time affiliate marketer for nearly six years now, and an Amazon affiliate marketer for over two and a half years of that, and I haven't ever wanted to "build sites around specific products", and the more time that goes by, and the more I manage to earn from it, the less that's something I'd ever want to do, myself.

    That thread linked-to above really will help you a lot. It's long, and time-consuming to study, but it may just significantly change your perceptions and perspectives about Amazon affiliate marketing, and from reading your SEO-related questions, here, I really think that would be hugely beneficial to you.

    Good luck!

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    • Profile picture of the author TekNite
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      Yes, Daniel ...

      Stop thinking about "traffic" in terms of "search-engine traffic": that really isn't a very good way forward, at all, for Amazon affiliate marketing. For the reasons explained here.

      This thread may help you (just as it's helped many others here): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6608638



      Plenty of things are (just about) "viable" to do, although many (most?) of them are far from optimal or desirable, when compared with their better-planned, more realistic, wiser alternatives.

      Here's the thing: one of the huge advantages of being affiliates is that - unlike vendors/merchants - we can build up real, asset-based businesses without our long-term future incomes being dependent on the continued success/availability/sales of any specific, individual products at all. It would be a very great shame, and a major irony, to choose to "waste" that advantage, and end up being dependent on individual products after all: that would be voluntarily choosing the disadvantages and risks, while inadvertently leaving some of the biggest advantages behind!



      I've been a full-time affiliate marketer for nearly six years now, and an Amazon affiliate marketer for over two and a half years of that, and I haven't ever wanted to "build sites around specific products", and the more time that goes by, and the more I manage to earn from it, the less that's something I'd ever want to do, myself.

      That thread linked-to above really will help you a lot. It's long, and time-consuming to study, but it may just significantly change your perceptions and perspectives about Amazon affiliate marketing, and from reading your SEO-related questions, here, I really think that would be hugely beneficial to you.

      Good luck!

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      Thank you much for reply! I have actually taken a look at one of those links you posted prior to this thread. Saw it on another one of your posts. Learned a great deal from it. Learned a great deal from these links as well. After reading this post, those links, and taking some other variables into consideration I think I'm going to leave the micro niche sites alone. At least for now.

      I'm going to find a niche I am interested in and try to build an authoritative site. First I'm going to learn some more and build a framework for following this idea through. Still a lot left for me to learn. After all, this is my first month on this side of the internet. Lots more questions to ask. = ) Thanks again!
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  • Profile picture of the author greenowl123
    Alexa gave you great advice.

    Forget about SEO for your Amazon blogs (or any blogs). It is the least reliable form of traffic. I wish I had not spent so much time on it back in 2010 and early 2011 before the Penguin update smacked me.

    Build an authority blog on a topic that a lot of people are passionate about, like MLB, NFL, etc. and even better, narrow your blog down to a single team and talk about each player in your blog posts. Guys love to buy jerseys, ballcaps, etc. of their favorite team (and their wives or girlfriends also buy sports related gifts for their guys).

    Make sure to create a Facebook Fanpage, Twitter account, etc. to go along with your blog for added exposure.
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  • Profile picture of the author skyro
    Instead of building a site around a product why not build a site around the entire niche eg. build a electronic site or you can narrow it down to a certain type of electronics if you want. What you can also do is use YouTube as a way to drive traffic to your site by doing review videos on certain types of electronics eg. a certain tv model or phone model and have a link going back to your site to that pacific product instead of making a site based on that pacific product. Build more of a authority site in general where you can build a list from it as well.
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