The ONLY thing that you need to SUCCEED with Amazon

13 years ago

Originally Posted by AkosBlog

Hi all,

Amazon Affiliates is a great program. I personally love it.
Today, I thought I'd share one tweak about it. The only thing you need to know to make thousands of dollars.

It is:

Forum Marketing
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There are thousands of forums online. All you have to do is go to Google.com and type in the subject of your market and forum. For example, if you are promoting golf products then type in golf + forum in the search box.
Now, make sure that the forum allows you to have a signature. What you will do is edit your signature and place a link to your affiliate product in the signature. Now, when you make posts your affiliate link will be in your signature and interested people will click it.

Of course you have to be an active part of the forum community.

I think you knew about this "secret". But for you who didn't know about it, I hope it helped

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Anyway, thanks for your time.

Best Regards,
Akos

Forums are definitely great ways to market products for traffic and sales, but I would disagree a bit with just placing an affiliate link in your sig, as there are quite a few forums (no matter the niche) that don't allow affiliate links.

If you're linking to your website, however, that's a different story. I'm not saying you can't do this - I'm just saying that you'll have better luck by linking to one of your web properties, rather than an aff link.

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Coby

13 years ago

Originally Posted by bhuff85

Forums are definitely great ways to market products for traffic and sales, but I would disagree a bit with just placing an affiliate link in your sig, as there are quite a few forums (no matter the niche) that don't allow affiliate links.

If you're linking to your website, however, that's a different story. I'm not saying you can't do this - I'm just saying that you'll have better luck by linking to one of your web properties, rather than an aff link.

I disagree...

First nearly all forums outside of the IM niche that allow signatures allow ANY links in the sig, regardless of if they are affiliate links or not...

In fact, I've yet to run into a forum outside of the IM niche that DIDN"T allow affiliate links (with the exception of two I found that didn't allow signatures).

And as for converting... Its AMAZON! Amazon is a CONVERTING MACHINE! You get people to Amazon they are very likely to buy SOMETHING...

Good Post Akos!

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ladywriter

13 years ago

Forum marketing is a good idea, but only if you're actually going to contribute quality information at least sometimes.

When I used to post in forums, I was annoyed when newbies swooped in with things like "yay!" and a signature crammed with their products/offers/whatever. Sometimes they don't even bother with text, lol.

I realize people sell things, as do I. Let's just try not to insult people's intelligence while we're at it eh?

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blackjack 13 years ago

And this is the reason that most forums don't allow affliate links in signatures.
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JamesGw

13 years ago

If you contribute to the forum, I suppose that's okay. It's always a good idea to have a good reputation among the people in your niche. They are the ones, of course, that are buying your products. With that said, I think Amazon products are some of the least successful ones for forum marketing.

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myob

13 years ago

Forum marketing seems comparatively ineffective and rather tedious, particularly if you are in more than a few niches. The most successful Amazon affiliates seem to prefer product review sites. Consider also writing articles, telemarketing, mail order, direct sales, etc. These more direct methods result in higher conversions for larger quantity orders and high ticket products, and could make the difference between getting a few peanuts here and there or a steady six figure monthly income.

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Coby

13 years ago

Originally Posted by myob

Forum marketing seems comparatively ineffective and rather tedious, particularly if you are in more than a few niches. The most successful Amazon affiliates seem to prefer product review sites. Consider also writing articles, telemarketing, mail order, direct sales, etc. These more direct methods result in higher conversions for larger quantity orders and high ticket products, and could make the difference between getting a few peanuts here and there or a steady six figure monthly income.

Forum marketing is tedious and infeffective????

You must be doing it very wrong....

Dr. Alex made 30K this month from this forum alone...

Hell I'm a nobody and even I made a decent amount last month from this forum and will continue doing so each month

I also know that other forums bring a large part of my traffic to those niche sites....

Maybe we should just use the forums for backlinks instead :rolleyes:

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JohnMcCabe 13 years ago

Coby, if the only reason you are on a forum is to plug products, it can be very tedious and very ineffective. I'm guessing that folks who approach forum marketing this way are the same folks who spend hours spinning and submitting gibberish, registering for forum profiles, etc. For them, it's all a numbers game.

From what I've seen from you, you are here to participate. You make useful, well thought out posts, and you don't get crazy. As a result, you make decent money as a result of your participation.

Now imagine trying to do that in dozens of forums with a variety of subjects you don't give a damn about, that maybe even bore you to tears...

Think that might get tedious? Think it might be so obvious that it would be quite ineffective?
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myob

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Coby

Forum marketing is tedious and infeffective????

You must be doing it very wrong....

Dr. Alex made 30K this month from this forum alone...

Hell I'm a nobody and even I made a decent amount last month from this forum and will continue doing so each month

I also know that other forums bring a large part of my traffic to those niche sites....

Maybe we should just use the forums for backlinks instead :rolleyes:

My point is the OP's premise is misleading and incorrect for the vast number of other Amazon affiliates who are consistently making six figure monthly incomes and more using the other methods I described. The problem with such a statement like that, IMO, is it will only contribute to additional spamming of forums by newbies trying to copy this model. It is ill-advised to say forum marketing is the ONLY way to succeed with Amazon.

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Coby

13 years ago

Originally Posted by myob

My point is the OP's premise is misleading and incorrect for the vast number of other Amazon affiliates who are consistently making six figure monthly incomes and more using the other methods I described. The problem with such a statement like that, IMO, is it will only contribute to additional spamming of forums by newbies trying to copy this model. It is ill-advised to say forum marketing is the ONLY way to succeed with Amazon.

Let the newbs spam the forums, it won't do them any good! They won't make sales and they will likely get banned... More room for me

However, I don't that will be an issue. I don't disagree that there could be other ways to promote Amazon products, but he mentioned a unique twist. I have Amazon sites that are #1 in google yahoo bing and aol and still wouldn't get as much traffic as a really good forum post in a day...

Just think about it, there is almost always 2000 people viewing the WSO section and almost always 800 to 1000 viewing this forum, that's a lot of traffic

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Jayden Rivers

13 years ago

I would agree with myob, product review pages on researched hot selling Amazon products can bring large rewards. Find the product, perform keyword research, create the content, do the SEO.

Relevant forums in relation to the product you are promoting are very good however for backlinking

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RichardF

13 years ago

Yeah, forums can bring decent results to anything, not just Amazon. It's a fine line though between spamming and making helpful contributions. The problem with forum posting is that it just doesn't scale well for things like Amazon, unless you go the listbuilding route (which I've never tried with Amazon). I mean, even if you post on forums all day there's a limited amount of traffic you can get, and you're never going to earn more unless you outsource it (which I think is practically impossible to do without getting really spammy results).

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tedwood

13 years ago

Originally Posted by AkosBlog

The only thing you need to know to make thousands of dollars.

It is:

[B] Forum Marketing

Why don't people just focus on proven tactics like SEO. :confused:

You'll have to make thousands of posts in the forum. Another thing to make it worse is that a lot of forums outside the IM niche don't have a large community and aren't very active.

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bhuff85

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Coby

I disagree...

First nearly all forums outside of the IM niche that allow signatures allow ANY links in the sig, regardless of if they are affiliate links or not...

In fact, I've yet to run into a forum outside of the IM niche that DIDN"T allow affiliate links (with the exception of two I found that didn't allow signatures).

And as for converting... Its AMAZON! Amazon is a CONVERTING MACHINE! You get people to Amazon they are very likely to buy SOMETHING...

Good Post Akos!

For someone who has an ESTABLISHED identity at a forum and has built some trust, then it might be worthwhile. However, if you are jumping into various forums to drop a few wordy posts on some popular threads here and there, it's more likely a game of hit or miss.

Originally Posted by Coby

Forum marketing is tedious and infeffective????

You must be doing it very wrong....

Dr. Alex made 30K this month from this forum alone...

Hell I'm a nobody and even I made a decent amount last month from this forum and will continue doing so each month

I also know that other forums bring a large part of my traffic to those niche sites....

Maybe we should just use the forums for backlinks instead :rolleyes:

As far as Dr. Alex and making 30K on this forum alone? Sure, there are a TON of people who've made money here. I'm one of them, but that's sort of irrelevant to the OP. I'm pretty sure that 30K was earned as a result from building up a strong rapport and creating a great WSO, not from posting an affiliate link to Amazon in his sig. This is more of an apples to oranges comparison and doesn't reflect what the OP originally stated.

All in all, forum marketing is definitely NOT ineffective (if you do it properly). It's just the whole "go find a bunch of niche forums and slap your Amazon aff link in your sig and go to town" suggestion doesn't make it a real viable business model.

If you would rather hit a bunch of forums with some random Amazon aff links that might bring in some income, then I suppose go ahead and do your thing. I won't knock anyone for making some money online, but if you want to build a long-standing business, then I would use forum marketing as just one piece of the puzzle, not the entire thing. Besides, if Amazon ever pulled the plug or changed any links on a product, changing links in all of those forums would be a royal pain, whereas you'd only need to make one simple change on your website if you placed a link there instead (not to mention helping add some backlinks to your OWN web property).

Or, as they say - "Dont put all your eggs in one basket".

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Dann Vicker

13 years ago

Actually, the Warriorforum does not allow affiliate links in your signatures. You'd be better to link to your own blog or website.

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Traffic Eagle

13 years ago

My preference for amazon products is review sites - done properly these can be left alone with little maintenance and will continue to bring income for years on certain products. Forum marketing for amazon can bring results but with constant work involved, time that I would rather use to build sites that will bring commissions on autopilot. However, it's your choice and I respect that and wish you much success.

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