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Why is my amazon affiliate blog not converting?

by nikhilbhuktar
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Hello guys

I've an Amazon affiliate. I'm promoting a product category on my blog. I'm receiving good visits of daily 100. Although the niche has good searches per month which is around 5000 to 8000 per month. The problem is that my analytics account is showing most of the visits from Russia. I'm not sure if Russians use Amazon products. My traffic is not converting at all. I'm running this blog for more than 8 months, yet I've managed to sell only 3 products. Is it problem with the visitors or my website needs to be optimized to make sells.
#affiliate #amazon #blog #converting
  • Profile picture of the author Barry Unruh
    It will be very hard to evaluate your blog without seeing your blog.

    Does your Russian traffic come from specific search engines, or a different source?

    Is your blog hosted in Russia, which could make it rank higher in Russian based searches, and not be showing up in other locations.

    Amazon does not have a Russian specific site, so any orders from Russia would have higher shipping and processing costs, which would reduce sales from Russia.

    If you choose to post a link to your blog, you will probably get better feedback.
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    Can you share more details? unfortunately this isn't enough for us to help
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  • Profile picture of the author zdebx
    Assuming your blog is set up right with clear product descriptions/reviews/links, etc, with no distractions that could force your visitors to click away, then most likely your problem is the traffic relevancy/quality.

    Russian traffic won't convert, so forget about that.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tyler Pratt
      There are a Billion Blogs online, selling from a blog is the problem you are having.
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Let us see the blog so we can evaluate. But even without looking at it, are you doing any lead/email capturing? Do you have a hover ad on the blog that arises when people visit your site? What about on the sides of your blog. Are there any sign-up forms there?
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  • Profile picture of the author Tyler Hall
    If your confident your blog is set up right I would recommend sending in some paid traffic. Maybe a facebook ad? The cost is relatively minor and the traffic targeted. This should give you a good idea of what's going on.

    If you can't convert targeted traffic then the issue is with you blog itself.

    Like others have said I would recommend posting a link. Hearing the word blog from someone I don't know makes me think amateur and not monetized properly.

    Not saying this is the issue, just that it's hard to judge with the millions of blogs and bad advice on generating income from them.

    So in closing my recommendation would be to set aside roughly $200 and run some targeted paid traffic through it over a 2 week span.

    I feel this would give you the most reliable data possible. 100 visitors isn't very high in my opinion either. What search terms are bringing visitors into your site?
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  • Profile picture of the author Cosmit
    Originally Posted by nikhilbhuktar View Post

    Hello guys

    I've an Amazon affiliate. I'm promoting a product category on my blog. I'm receiving good visits of daily 100. Although the niche has good searches per month which is around 5000 to 8000 per month. The problem is that my analytics account is showing most of the visits from Russia. I'm not sure if Russians use Amazon products. My traffic is not converting at all. I'm running this blog for more than 8 months, yet I've managed to sell only 3 products. Is it problem with the visitors or my website needs to be optimized to make sells.
    the russian traffic is not real traffic. a bunch of russians are abusing google analytics where they send artificial hits to your google analytics without even visiting your site, based on randomly generated GA account numbers. and the reason for this is because they also send a referral website, so when you check your analytics, you will see their websites as top referrals for you, and when you visit their referral website (which didn't really refer to you) it stuffs you with a ton of affiliate cookies.

    solution is simple, in google analytics, block all russian traffic.
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