Amazon Affiliates - How Do You Do It?

You don't have to make a bunch of sites to make good money. You can just make one big site, but it needs to be in a hugely profitable niche where there are tons of products to promote. It's also a good idea to promote higher-priced stuff and cross promote products in order to beef up your commissions. For example, if you're in the video game niche, you might want to promote a game system that the game you are promoting can be played on. Lots of people look up video game reviews based on the system they have.

Good luck,
Joey

I don't have tons of sites, I prefer videos on youtube, works great!

Look harder and seems like you are focusing on products/brand most people are after. Perhaps, you might want to try video marketing for your amazon, can be a lot easier. I see a lot of videos by amazon associates.

youtube or other video infomercials look promising

I am working on one Authority site, let me tell you it is alot of work but you need to be realistic, first you need to research the market and find alot of keywords to use and then see the competition when it comes to the first 10 sites, bare in mind that if you do the right SEO you will rank for long tail keywords.

Another important thing that I notice everybody is missing here, is the way your site looks, this is my personal opinion : you need to create a well organized website, most people are throwing the review articles on the site and thinking if they get a visitor then he or she will click.. even if you have the greatest reviews it wont work.

I did write a post about this just few mins ago .. check it out http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5311096

You only need to be concerned with the competition on the first page. It doesn't matter how many other sites there are on page 2,3,4,5,6,etc.. promoting the same product, you are trying to outrank them on the 1st page.

Also, you don't need 1,000 exact searches a month for it to be worthwhile.

most of the amazon affiliates I know make money through youtube videos using the must click method and testimonial videos.
Regards
vivi62

Discouragement is good :confused:

Why? Because it is your opportunity to know how most people, who are trying to make a living online, are feeling most of the time. So, when you get yourself out of that mindset you're way ahead of your potential competitors.

I wouldn't go anywhere near having multiple sites. I suggest you focus on a single authority site. Preferably find a product area that interests you, so that you can write with passion about it and have the desire to research it. Apart from anything else, it is so much easier to control one site, than dozens. It will become far more valuable not only in Google's eyes, but also in the eyes of your visitors.

You can always create smaller product specific sites later on to support your authority site, but don't think about that until you're established.

I'll give you an example of a niche ... coffee ... you can create a site that covers every coffee machine, grinder, cafetiere, cup, spares etc in the 'world' of coffee. You could separate the site into categories for brands, types etc. The possibilities are endless and even if a product is deleted by the manufacturer, it won't matter, because you are cnstantly introducing new models and the number of pages on your site is increasing.

You don't have to just stick with Amazon either, you can sell physical products with SkimLinks or VigLink, which I'm going to try in the next week or two.

Get past the feeling of despair and you can be hugely successful

Patrick

Hmm, just curious, but what tool(s) are you using to do your keyword research?

Mostly Micro Niche Finder and Market Samurai. I do use SEMrush (free) etc. on occasion. I only look at the top ten results in the SERP's.

I was mostly just feeling really depressed this afternoon when I published this thread. The hardest part is just not knowing for sure if something will work or not.

I was looking at joining a coaching program for Amazon...maybe I should go ahead and do that. If anything, maybe it will help to motivate me and just give me some assurance that this is all possible. I'm really in a bad spot right now, and I'm just having a tough time dealing with it sometimes. No worries, though...I know things will pan out.

Focus on ways to get traffic to your site(s). Think about your niche, find blogs or forums in that niche, and guest blog or make posts that link back to your site. Provide valuable information so people want to check out your site.

In the examples above about coffee and video games, are you just writing about the item and linking to the product? My fiance and I were talking about making our next site gaming related since we're huge gamers but I'm not sure if it should be review based or what... I haven't used Amazon affiliates much yet but I'd like to try.

I've found it easier to make sales through Amazon using single product sites versus multiple product sites. Personally that's what I'd recommend doing to start with because there's nothing more motivating that seeing your first few sales.

Then scale from there.

For a while I've just been planning and making a site... for 2012 I really need to review and redo the sites... for my site building to evolve based on what works for me.

I am quite successful using FB pages for Amazon products. I use the NOTES in FB and that helps my SERP rankings A LOT.

tough times with websites but youtube videos and posting on similar sites like YT works for me.

I would say you do not need 100's of websites to make good money. I have many Amazon review websites, but 2 of them alone are making around $2200/month EACH. So you can do it with just 1 or 2 sites.

I would give you some advice and say that I would not build a site for just one product. Which I see quite a few people doing. You want a site that is geared towards one type of product. Say something like swimming pool pumps. And review all of the ones that amazon has, all on one site. So you will have loads of pages (which Google loves). Just make sure your keyword research and your On-page SEO is good. If not, it wont matter what type of site you have, you wont be making all that you can make.

Then I would just concentrate on driving boat loads of traffic to the site.

@SincerelyPariah Yes, i make my own videos. and have bought the wso's which offered Amazon product videos with PLR rights.

it's simple grab some pictures like 10 pictures put it in a movie nice background music and you are done. ready to roll.

hope that helps if not feel free to PM me.