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[HELP] Amazon Associates - Tons of Clicks, No Sales

by acarterczyz
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Over the last week, I've gotten over 1,000 clicks to my Amazon links, but no sales. Is anyone else having this issue? It's odd that not a single sale came from all those clicks...



I have my own strategy and I guarantee it's not just "bad traffic"... Could it be something wrong with Amazon?
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  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    What does that mean "not just bad traffic"

    What's going on there you are doing something that's not right it seems.
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  • Profile picture of the author acarterczyz
    I understand something is wrong. That's why I'm trying to figure out what is wrong. Could it be because I'm using the Google link shortener to send traffic through?

    And by saying "not bad traffic", I mean I'm not promoting cameras in a book niche. Everything I'm offering is to the correct niche.
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  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    Where does the traffic come from? Google, your list, paid traffic, YouTube, Pinterest?

    Where do your affiliate links send them? Product page, review, shopping cart?

    Number of clicks itself has very little to do with conversions so not much info to go on.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shooting Star
    Looks like you are not getting tageted traffic or not showing people what they want. Kindly elaborate more so we can figure out what has gone wrong.
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  • Profile picture of the author ej236
    If you do things right you can get around a 30% conversion rate with Amazon which is what I can get. It's all about the intent behind the search or the click. The key word here being "intent". You have 1,049 clicks but no buyers. They all left as they never had any intention of making a purchase when they landed on Amazon.
    I could publish an entire course on this as it's where a lot of people go wrong.
    It's easily fixable though
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  • Profile picture of the author ArielT
    The number of unique visitors is almost the same as the number of clicks. It seems like each visit is automatically generating a click, known as "cookie stuffing"

    If It's the case, is something you should fix or it will most likely bring you problems
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by ArielT View Post

      The number of unique visitors is almost the same as the number of clicks. It seems like each visit is automatically generating a click, known as "cookie stuffing"

      If It's the case, is something you should fix or it will most likely bring you problems
      Looks like he's cloaking traffic directly from Google or any other source to Amazon (there are a few tricks to get away with that undetected), when Amazon finds out they ban you.

      A friend of mine does this, he ranks his web pages and then forwards the visitor straight away to Amazon without them seeing his site, this results in a conversion of about 1 percent, or 1 sale in 100 clicks.

      With such low conversion it's quite common that you don't make sales purely due to variation. I convert at 5 percent and sometimes I have days of 200 clicks where I don't make a sale either, though that's quite exceptional but it does happen sometimes.

      Now imagine his traffic source is even worse, for example bought traffic from a poor provider, or maybe his traffic has no intention to buy, eg non commercial keywords then it's also completely normal to not make anysales in a 1000 clicks.

      I'm having between 300-400 clicks to Amazon a day now and at a poor day I make 15 sales.

      It's even possible to buy niche traffic at $3/1000 visitors, but a good portion of that traffic is fake and most comes from pop under kind of sources so though it's related to his niche it's the worse traffic you can find.

      That's why he said: "It's not just bad traffic" which reads for me the same as: "It's bad traffic but it's niche related"

      OP should be more honest if he wants help, now he still got it, his traffic sucks.
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      • Profile picture of the author Devilfish168
        Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

        Looks like he's cloaking traffic directly from Google or any other source to Amazon (there are a few tricks to get away with that undetected), when Amazon finds out they ban you.

        A friend of mine does this, he ranks his web pages and then forwards the visitor straight away to Amazon without them seeing his site, this results in a conversion of about 1 percent, or 1 sale in 100 clicks.

        With such low conversion it's quite common that you don't make sales purely due to variation. I convert at 5 percent and sometimes I have days of 200 clicks where I don't make a sale either, though that's quite exceptional but it does happen sometimes.

        Now imagine his traffic source is even worse, for example bought traffic from a poor provider, or maybe his traffic has no intention to buy, eg non commercial keywords then it's also completely normal to not make anysales in a 1000 clicks.

        I'm having between 300-400 clicks to Amazon a day now and at a poor day I make 15 sales.

        It's even possible to buy niche traffic at $3/1000 visitors, but a good portion of that traffic is fake and most comes from pop under kind of sources so though it's related to his niche it's the worse traffic you can find.

        That's why he said: "It's not just bad traffic" which reads for me the same as: "It's bad traffic but it's niche related"

        OP should be more honest if he wants help, now he still got it, his traffic sucks.

        I curious on this part
        " Looks like he's cloaking traffic directly from Google or any other source to Amazon (there are a few tricks to get away with that undetected), when Amazon finds out they ban you."

        and how your way to promote?
        can PM me
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        • Profile picture of the author nik0
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          Originally Posted by Devilfish168 View Post

          I curious on this part
          " Looks like he's cloaking traffic directly from Google or any other source to Amazon (there are a few tricks to get away with that undetected), when Amazon finds out they ban you."

          and how your way to promote?
          can PM me
          I ain't doing it like that so can't help you with how to promote it.

          The technique is also a bit complicated, you need scripts and cloak referrers and all that, I suppose you can find more info about that at BHW.
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  • Profile picture of the author SingerNS
    tbh only way to fix your issue is to use totally different tactic. Something like making review site with nice story about item and link to amazon...and sending traffic to your site instead amazon. That way you would eliminate the fact youre not getting targeted traffic...
    If you got 1000 clicks on your link without sale that means people you sent arent interested in topic or you sent them to stuff that is more expensive than somewhere else.
    Just my few cents...
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