What traffic is effective for making Amazon sales?

I have an idea for trying out pay per click on low competition products, building out a campaign of 1000's of ads targeting individual product reviews, as when I do searches for products with model numbers and "review" after it I often see no ads, even though Google has suggested that a click would cost 0.70 cents to $1.70 which is bs, you could probably get your ads up for a couple cents. If I go by my stats, given that the traffic would still be search engine traffic it should be profitable.

If the product is expensive, such as $150 I could afford to pay upto .30 cents per click, and build a huge number of ads to make the profit significant. If the product is $100 or less then I would only be able to pay at most .20 cents per click, and most preferably a lot less.

This is based on a theory I have in my head that I've yet to test out, someone chime in if Google doesn't allow this. I wouldn't see why not if in the Ad you advertise that it's a review and not some silly benefit. In this case rather than fight to get a top 10 spot for people to see your review, you're paying for it.

Anyone let me know if they've tried! Might save me some hassle trying to get my adwords account unbanned.

Which leads me to ask should anyone come across this question. A few months ago I loaded my account with $10 to try a penny auction campaign, set up all the ads and I don't think it ever went live, I still have all $10. Yet my account has been banned due to not following TOS. Seems a little odd since I didn't get any clicks, nor did they warn me what it was that wasn't following TOS, and the fact that the last time I used Adwords was back in 2009/2010 and up until I loaded my account with money it was still active for posting ads.

Any people with the same experience had any luck getting this stupid decision overturned?

Other traffic that would work is referral traffic, social traffic and guest blogging.

Oh I forgot to mention! Youtube!! If you do it right, posting several reviews per day, that could be a huge income earner all on its own.

I know someone with results, so I can explain based on his results:

He has 200 videos, and 40k views in 6 months for an average of 200 views per video and 33 views per month. He had more views on videos he put more effort into and promoted a little. By better I mean like 800 views more, so they make the average range higher.

I can't remember his CTR now, but I have said it in a previous post, I think it was 10 or 20 percent. Let's just go with 10%. 4000 Clickthroughs in 6 months, with a CTR to Amazon from the written review of 30% to be on the low end. That's 1200 Clickthroughs with a conversion rate of 10% to sales.

That's 120 sales, and I know every product he posted on was $200+ (I think, may be wrong), which would mean around $12-14 per sale. Let's say $12 in this case. That's $1440 or $240 each month for the last 6 months.

With some extra optimization, concentrating on better quality for ALL his videos, and a little promotion that could have doubled or tripled. Plus he hasn't continued to add videos. This isn't including posting your videos on a few other popular video sites.

Another method, though requires a little spamming (in your document, not making random webpages). You can upload a pdf version of your review to PDF sites for people to read, and under the review you can put in as many tags that relate to your product/niche so that it shows up in the search results for that website. You then change the colour of that text to white so people don't see all those tags (just a little insider secret). Which is why I say it's a little spammy but nothing intrusive. Then upload it to all the popular PDF sites and wait for Clickthroughs to your site. Check the results you get and upscale it.

That should be enough, if you include referral traffic, social traffic and SEO.

I also use forums where you can list your book:

- free ebook (in the days you give it away for free)
LINKS TO FREE BOOKS

and a newly created thread here on warrior forum
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...giveaways.html

Ya there are tons of ways to send traffic to your Azon affil links...

Paid traffic is of course a highly effective method if you know what you're doing but if not you could end up losing a lot of money.

I agree with creating Youtube review videos because video is the hottest medium right now and by giving people an inside look into what they can get they will be much more likely to buy, not to mention how many people search youtube for what they want to know.

So ya the most effective free method in my opinion is uploading videos to Youtube and doing SEO for them

I have seen quite a few questions on Yahoo Answers asking about gifts and products where you can post a useful response and also direct them to your site. You have to be careful though not to spam and insert the link in the source.

Facebook is also a good source for traffic if you make a fan page revolving around a brand or personality and then make regular posts with a few that contain your affiliate link.

I'd say Squidoo and Amazon are a good fit! I am currently creating lenses! Bought Erica Stone Squi Pro Quo and she is really good!

I really don't know much about paid advertising but Squidoo for Amazon is quite popular!

Here is her thread!

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...te-needed.html

Good luck!

Yoan

I've used PPC in the past but you gotta get it just right to be profitable. Organic SEO has been, hands down, the best converting traffic for my sites.

I suspect it would be doable to a lesser degree but it involves hundreds, if not thousands, of accounts. I'm not a Pinterest guy so I'm not entirely familiar with the rules changes but I thought they changed the way they handle affiliate links in an effort to prevent that type of abuse.

Youtube videos one of the best ways to making sales on Amazon.

Google traffic, or any search engine traffic is awesome IF you can get targeted traffic.

Remember to use a service like Stat counter that will show you how many people are viewing your site and also the phrases they are typing in to find you.

Social media sites like Squidoo, Twitter work very well IF you know how to get targeted traffic.

In short, think about where the people that would be interested in your products frequent.

Forum traffic works very well if you have a quality review site.