amazon lots of clicks but no sales?

Something is wrong with your link or website.

If you're seeing clicks in your Amazon stats then your links are most likely fine. I don't know what to suggest aside from contacting Amazon directly.

As far as traffic, what do you consider to be steady? You may go through stages of getting 100 clicks and 0 sales, and stages of 100 clicks and 10 sales.

Does your brother live with you? Amazon don't give commision on orders made by friends or family because they want you to refer new customers to them.

How many clicks have you had in total? If clicks are appearing in your report then the links should be functioning OK. What sort of call to action are you using on your site? In-text links are known to convert the best.

You better talk to them and verified your links , what's the site URL so we can check out .
regards
Frank Moreno

sorry we cross publishing the post ...at the same time ... to verify if it's an external site selling the product go to amazon via your product and look if they have a buy now button or if is written " this item is sold by ..." I think tha's the way to verify , not sure do , never happend to me till now.

You're not really getting enough clicks to tell anything. If your brother ordered something sent to your address than you won't get a commission. I think they might cross reference for same last name as well.

Sounds like you might have a niche that isn't converting very well or perhaps your site isn't pre-selling the products you are linking to enough. However, it is Amazon so you'll typically see a few random product sales regardless. Do you get 20 clicks per day or per month?

As others have said, as long as your ID is in the link, and it's not to an excluded product, and the buyer isn't friend / family, you should be ok (as far as I know!).

If you want to double check that your links are OK, there's a Link Checker under the Links & Banners section of the Amazon Associates site - as far as I can see, it doesn't do anything more sophisticated than check that your ID is in the link you give it, but it beats checking them by hand.

it could be a number of reasons, it could be traffic source, it could be what you are promoting people aren't interested in buying. we would need more info on the process you are using to drive traffic what page you are sending them to and your whole overall process to be able to effectively diagnose the problem and offer a solution.

Much like a car, you can't just go up to a mechanic and say why isn't my car working. they would have to diagnose from a process of elimination.

20 clicks is not nearly enough to come to any conclusions. Just keep at it. Not much else to say, unfortunately.

You better have a discussion with amazon.

Did your brother buy an item directly from your computer?
If yes, that might not scale through.

For amazon to work:

1. You need to have targeted traffic because just general traffic and click can not transform to sales.
2. Your content review have to be descriptive and compelling in a selling way.
3. Your video must be it.

I had the same problem some time ago, I was generating around 120 to 180 clicks per day and zero sales with Amazon. But then I had months where sales were good and months where sales were really bad regardless of how many clicks. As fitnessmaster suggests you might be in a niche that doesn't convert very well, but keep persevering and increasing traffic, I'm sure the sales will come through more steadily in the future. Best of luck.

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Mine is also having this problem now on Amazon. I have this camera lens niche site producing 1-80 clicks per day since I made a major transformation of my site turning it to an Amazon product niche site. The traffic source is Google which is an organic and it is on the No. 1 search results for its main keyword (canon slr lens) and does not affected by the algo updates that targeted EMD sites. Maybe the number of clicks are low but I had a good successful sales from August-November with a 5-6% conversion ratio using the Web services REST link type. Sometimes even the site gets 1 click in a day, it still manage to convert at least 2 sales worth thousand of dollars. I had no zero sales every month from August-November with payment by check issued already to me.

Now, from December which is a shopping season up until this day there's a steady good number of clicks everyday but sadly no conversions that made though. Compared to the previous months of 2012, I can say that December-January are much higher based on the number of clicks. This bothered me so much and thinking if it is still worth to use Amazon affiliate to monetize my site. I also read somewhere that some Amazon affiliates experiencing this kind of thing recently. I'm sure of my ID is correct and mine as i checked it already on my settings and there's no any product link problem from my site. I want to hear from others here on WF if they still converting on their Amazon niche sites. Thank you.

As for the traffic, I think you can think up more ways to drive traffic.
And you can contact the Amazon serivce to check the payment link for you.

Do you have Spybot on your computer? Sometimes it could be because of your antivirus program.

Patience is a virtue my friend... But also check up on Your traffic

Well there must be something wrong with my situation .
When I put up my review site I was getting about 1-2 orders a day for the first 5 days then it suddenly stopped.
Now wait for this ...today I had over 5000 clicks and no sales. i had been working on the site and I feel the clicks may be inflated but my tracking Id actually says 8000 clicks .....and not one sale?????????
i am baffled?

Try raising your traffic to the site for a better picture of conversions. Also, double check your amazon id or even create an alternate one and try a small test sale by a friend e.t.c. Also, more and products are becoming 'excluded', so double check that as well.

If you get 20 clicks per month, try to scale until you will get 20 clicks per day. Also it would be good to focus on the amount of articles for different products. Good performing sites (in my experience) need a minimum of 50 articles...