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Anyone have luck as Amazon affiliate?

by theteach
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Just as I already asked, has anyone had any success selling Amazon products?

Do you use a website, wordpress...?

Thanks
#affiliate #amazon #luck
  • Profile picture of the author redfoxseo
    Actually it is starting to pick up a little with the new Twitter function.
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  • Profile picture of the author thmgoodw
    Originally Posted by theteach View Post

    Just as I already asked, has anyone had any success selling Amazon products?

    Do you use a website, wordpress...?

    Thanks
    I had a few solely amazon affiliate wordpress niche sites. But, I have found that the conversion was very poor (the 24 hour cookie probably doesn't help), and have since converted them to pure adsense sites and am making *much* more than I was with amazon.
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    • Profile picture of the author jayveen
      Originally Posted by thmgoodw View Post

      I had a few solely amazon affiliate wordpress niche sites. But, I have found that the conversion was very poor (the 24 hour cookie probably doesn't help), and have since converted them to pure adsense sites and am making *much* more than I was with amazon.
      What do you mean by "pure adsense sites"? I have some autoposted Amazon affiliate sites, and I added some Adsense ads to them, but I keep the Amazon posts because they generate the SERPs and traffic. I'm pretty disappointed in the sales I get from clickthroughs to Amazon, so maybe I should just do articles and blog posts to get traffic and just work with adsense.
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  • Profile picture of the author timpears
    Check out View Profile: Daniel Brock. He is running a WSO right now on how he is doing this successfully. He is making over a grand a week as an Amazon affiliate.

    He might chime in on this thread if he sees it. But even if he doesn't, I would look up his WSO and check it out. I don't remember the price, but it isn't much. It is very well done, and you get quite a few videos and directions and he lays it out pretty smply. He makes it look pretty easy. I know it is on my to do list.
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  • Profile picture of the author lusi34
    Try Info product killer, it has an awesome technique. I use the technique and I got more than $350 in November just from 4 mini sites. If you do the research better, you can get more than that.
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  • Profile picture of the author gmann46
    There are two marketers on here who promote Amazon and they both have good content. Neil V is one and the other has already been mentioned and that is Daniel Brock. Check them both out. Both programs work if you take the action.
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    • Profile picture of the author Sara Young
      Yes. Amazon products are easier to sell than clickbank products.

      That's what I recommend to newbies.
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      • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
        Originally Posted by Sara Young View Post

        Yes. Amazon products are easier to sell than clickbank products.

        That's what I recommend to newbies.
        I guess it depends on how you promote them - when I was a newbie I found Clickbank easier (probably because I needed to make alot less sales to earn the same amount). I've always found the poor commission on Amazon to be rather disheartening unless you can send massive amounts of traffic. Even then I'd rather send massive amounts of traffic to something with a higher payout.

        I always promote Amazon products at Christmas (from September onwards) and have done quite well with it but I don't actively promote it year round. I much prefer products that pay 40%+
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  • Profile picture of the author socomplete
    I've made a few sales here and there with amazon, nothing truly consistent. My thing is getting ranking in google and keeping it, I still don't see how people make an absolute killing with free traffic anything is possible though I guess.
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  • Profile picture of the author WilliamL
    I'm also struggling with Amazon, but I think that it's really normal in the beginning... I hope to get a consistent stream for expensive products.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jeremy Morgan
      Honestly, I had limited success with the Amazon program. But I probably just didn't get it right.


      A couple years ago, I signed up for the account, and after reviewing the API I decided to build an "amazon store" app. I got it together and started 15 sites, and got them in google and after a few months I got plenty of traffic but made pennies in sales. I stepped it up a bit, and gave up after a while.

      I ended up giving that software to a couple friends, and one of them made it into a full fledged business. At that point I sold the software to a few more people on ebay who had good success with it.

      So to summarize, it didn't work for me, and I missed out on something but it did work for others, and I think it's a good program. I'm just not sure what it takes. I may end up polishing that engine I built and selling it to the public and see how they do. I would say don't give up, if its what you really want to do you'll just have to figure out how to do it.
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      • Profile picture of the author dotslash
        I used to do very well with PPC to specific high ticket items on Amazon but it got very competitive and now I don't think they pay commissions on PPC in most areas.

        I've never really done it seriously but did have some web pages optimised for specific products and keywords which generate a fair amount of traffic and a few regular sales. Some of these pages I haven't touched for 2 years and they still pop up with regular commissions

        There's certainly potential but you do need lots of targeted traffic. Be careful what you target though - I had lots of pages at TV models ranking very highly, unfortunately all those models have been superseded so all the traffic has now gone from those ...

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  • Profile picture of the author dsmpublishing
    Hi guys

    i do really well with amazon and find that i get the best results by doing a review on a wordpress blog with the top products that get a lot of daily hits on google and then backlinking it. For example if you went for popular language training courses you can find great products that get about 1000 hits a day and there are plenty of long tail keywords for around 50 hits a day that are very easy to get to the top of google for.

    I also have my friends fiction book in one of my autoresponders for a particular niche and it is on amazon and gets me about 8 sales a day for a very small list.

    kind regards


    sam
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