100 clicks in 10 days

Where are you getting traffic from? I mean how targeted is the traffic. If it is untargeted then it is not going to convert. You must also consider list building rather than just sending traffic direclty to amazon.

Combine what the others have suggested with these additions. I'll try to list them all together for your ease of use, but credit to those that posted above first.

1) traffic must be targeted - are people landing on your site interested in dog toys and you're linking them to cat grooming products?

1 a) - if they get to your site AND they are ACTUALLY clicking over to amazon for a related product then perhaps the product stinks or has bad reviews?

1 b) - look at the products/pages you're sending them to - do they present well and do a good job of "selling" the product through descriptions/pictures/reviews? It may be a good product but have something negative or just not as good as another product regarding its presentation.

2) Are you hitting a "valid" product - if you're promoting water skis and your current market target is the US, you may not do so well as winter is fast approaching.

3) Do you have a "buying" market? In other words, are you sure they just aren't looking for free information? Are there a lot of competing products (that could mean it's a buying market).

4) Regarding your freebie - you won't get takers if it's not valuable. Make it so they would be stupid NOT to sign-up. Give first, then ask for the return via your affiliate link.

Hope it helps.

Gary

Biggest tip I have is to sell what people are looking for. Example I have a site that sells but it is not as near targeted. Then I have free sites that are extremely targeted that make about 1 sale in every 15 clicks to Amazon is what it averages to so far.

Biggest reason why is I have more buying customers to the second site. So if I was going to sell a camera - madeup name (brand name x1000) or madup name (brandname suzy talk and blah blah) instead of christmas toy 2010 or preschool dolls or whatever.

Also before I setup a site I also do a little research on keywords. I just make sure people are searching for the actual product name. While tons of searches are great.. 30 targeted visits is better than 100 visits where they aren't buying customers. Also search for the keyword without quotes and check out your competition. Are there any free sites? How about PR 0 sites?Look at the content that is placed on page one and two- is it good? Or is it like a site with a whole paragraph to its name? If it's crappy content check their backlinks. If their a lot? Do the backlinks have the keyword as anchor text? If so try matching them and building better content pages with better Seo and then going from there.

Make sure you practice OPSEO. Potpiegirl's blog and the IPK both use this. You need lots of content so maybe like 6 pages of content with similiar keywords and providing good info. Or if you are using something like Squidoo than 6 modules of text and whatever else you want to throw on there.

I am like you. I have not had much luck with Amazon because I have my Amazon site set up all wrong and just let it go to AdSense.
My store is too general and not focused on one product which is not a very good approach for Amazon, unless you are Amazon.
You may want to change your product.
The first thing is to check your keyword searches. Try typing in for sale behind the product, and, or, the word buy in front of it. This will help you get an idea if people are really looking to purchase it, just window shopping, or looking for information.
I do this on one site that I have that is not using Amazon as the affiliate focus and it converts well for the products that I sell.
I hope that this helps.
If nothing else you can turn your site into a contextual site with AdSense and other ads, to at least cover the costs, until you do something different.