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Ways to Promote Amazon Products?

by willyboy104
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After reading the thread discussing whether people preferred Amazon or Clickbank for selling products I decided to take a look deeper in to Amazon Associates and found that there interface was simple and the product range is massive therefore I have decided to test this affiliate site with my spare time.

I was wondering what types of promotion people generally use for Amazon Associates?

Obviously no secrets will be dished but just generally.

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author monitorit
    niche sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nickolie0990
    I see a lot of people using Squidoo and Amazon together. If you can build a good ranking lens that gets good traffic. This is a good way to start. A method that I use during the holidays seasons (Christmas, Valentine's day, etc...), is to put Amazon products on coupon sites. Just make sure you proposition the deal as a discount. Stuff like Free shipping, X% off etc...
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  • Profile picture of the author tritrain
    It takes more effort than a typical site. Normal ecommerce sites have product info that is crawlable by the bots. The associates storefront is embedded code and not crawlable.

    I would suggest including the storefront with original articles/blog within the site, related to the topic.

    Then build backlinks. Write a page or two on Squidoo, Hubpages, and RedGage. Maybe maintain a Blogger blog, which you can ALSO use Amazon products now too!
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    • Profile picture of the author thebarksmeow
      Originally Posted by tritrain View Post

      It takes more effort than a typical site. Normal ecommerce sites have product info that is crawlable by the bots. The associates storefront is embedded code and not crawlable.

      I would suggest including the storefront with original articles/blog within the site, related to the topic.

      Then build backlinks. Write a page or two on Squidoo, Hubpages, and RedGage. Maybe maintain a Blogger blog, which you can ALSO use Amazon products now too!
      Yeah, but it's my understanding that you don't have to use the associates storefront. They have plugins for wordpress like reviewazon. I'm sure there's more.
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      • Profile picture of the author Daniel Brock
        Find a niche with items in the range of $100 or more.

        Must have at least 5 products you can write a review on.

        Register domain name with niche keywords in it.

        Buy Hosting

        Order product review articles for the above 5+ products

        Add articles to WP blog and insert affiliate text links(highest converting way)

        Drip feed content over 2-6 months.

        Social bookmark site to get it indexed

        Minor back linking to your website

        Repeat with another niche.
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        • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
          Here's a sneaky tip for getting additional click-throughs and pictures to use on your site or blog. Along with text links, you can also get picture links without all the extra verbiage, but still including your affiliate link.

          For example, if you review a book, use the picture of the cover Amazon offers (with your affiliate link) along with a text link in the review.
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        • Profile picture of the author remotedb
          Daniel,

          That's interesting information but some of it is confusing. You say to "order" product reviews. What do you mean order? Is there some service or entity that you can place an order with and they will write reviews? Or do you mean place them on your blog in order?

          And about those text links, are you suggesting that an all text blog with no image links or product widgets will actually outperform a graphically rich one that implements these things?

          I noticed my own clickthroughs went up through the roof as soon as I started using amazon widgets. Too soon to evaluate conversions though.
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  • Profile picture of the author pizzatherapy
    While I have been promoting Amazon for a while, I just figured out the real money in Amazon is to promote the higher priced products. Duh!!!

    Here is a pretty cool trick to get an instant redirect link created, and you can use twitter to promote the product at the same time.

    From your Account look for the Site Stripe option. It is in Home>>>Account settings. You can turn the option off or on. I leave it on all the time.

    Here is the Site Stripe description from Amazon:


    "...The Site Stripe will appear at the top of every Amazon page and provides quick and easy access for building links, adding products to your aStore and even seeing your reports..."


    If you promote Amazon products, this is a great tool. You don't have to sign into the site and you can create links to Amazon products on the fly. One of the options is to "promote on twitter". Once you have your twitter account set up to Amazon, you can just tweet any page in Amazon.

    The cool thing is that it creates an immediate text link to that page with your Amazon id embedded in the link.

    You can tweet the page if you wish, and / or you can just use the twitter option to create a text link and use it anywhere you wish. You have the option of sending out the tweet or not

    I have used this otion to create a quick text link to put in my web pages and blogs.
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    • Profile picture of the author lioncirth
      I have been promoting products outside of Amazon in the weight loss niche and was recently looking at starting a blog for a niche within Amazon. There is a product range that I have a big interest, my plan is to do the following in my spare time - after my main affiliate site work;

      * Create A blog on said Niche
      * Create Product reviews, articles etc
      * Create Squidoo lenses, Hub Pages
      * Comment on other related blogs

      I do believe that some Amazon products might be harder to do article marketing since you cannot promote products within the article. There are however other marketing methods
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    • Profile picture of the author lightcam
      Originally Posted by pizzatherapy View Post

      While I have been promoting Amazon for a while, I just figured out the real money in Amazon is to promote the higher priced products. Duh!!!

      Here is a pretty cool trick to get an instant redirect link created, and you can use twitter to promote the product at the same time.

      From your Account look for the Site Stripe option. It is in Home>>>Account settings. You can turn the option off or on. I leave it on all the time.

      Here is the Site Stripe description from Amazon:


      "...The Site Stripe will appear at the top of every Amazon page and provides quick and easy access for building links, adding products to your aStore and even seeing your reports..."


      If you promote Amazon products, this is a great tool. You don't have to sign into the site and you can create links to Amazon products on the fly. One of the options is to "promote on twitter". Once you have your twitter account set up to Amazon, you can just tweet any page in Amazon.

      The cool thing is that it creates an immediate text link to that page with your Amazon id embedded in the link.

      You can tweet the page if you wish, and / or you can just use the twitter option to create a text link and use it anywhere you wish. You have the option of sending out the tweet or not

      I have used this otion to create a quick text link to put in my web pages and blogs.
      Thanks Albert... great tips
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