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Amazon Affiliate Resurrection?.... What the....

by jt47000
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Hi all,

I had 5 affiliate sites back in the "Great Amazon Affiliate Boom of 2012" and then the Google EMD update happened and I watched my traffic and sales take a massive and exponential dive... So I lost track of everything all together, focused on family, my primary job, etc.

Well...

I just recently noticed that my sales just recently shot up a bit. The same items I did reviews on back in fall 2012 and I'm making a few sales here and there. I googled the exact amazon product title with and w/out "review" after it and my site is still no where to be found on the list.

How can I find out where these sales are coming from? I had promoted my sales pages on youtube, facebook, twitter, and all the article submission sites.

Are there any RECENT threads or posts on WF that can bring me up to date or anyone can recommend that will help me? I've been out of the game too long.

Thanks Guys!

JT
#affiliate #amazon #resurrection
  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    You can check your traffic stats to see where traffic is coming from so you can see how much is youtube, facebook, twitter or google.

    For google traffic, you can see which search term was used to find your link.

    This is all available in AWStats in your cpanel.
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  • Profile picture of the author jt47000
    You can check your traffic stats to see where traffic is coming from so you can see how much is youtube, facebook, twitter or google.

    For google traffic, you can see which search term was used to find your link.

    This is all available in AWStats in your cpanel.
    Thanks but the traffic actually could also be going directly to amazon via twitter, facebook, stumbleupon, youtube, etc and could be completely bypassing my website altogether. My point is I could be getting traffic from all those social media sites directly to my affiliate link without even going to my website. The reason I think this is because my traffic hasn't changed for the most part.

    Anyway to track on Amazon where your affiliate sales are coming from? The previous site they were at, etc?

    Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author kindsvater
      Originally Posted by jt47000 View Post

      Anyway to track on Amazon where your affiliate sales are coming from?
      Yes. Use different tracking IDs for different sources. I believe by default you can have 100 with Amazon, and then request more as you need them.

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    • Profile picture of the author onSubie
      Originally Posted by jt47000 View Post

      Thanks but the traffic actually could also be going directly to amazon via twitter, facebook, stumbleupon, youtube, etc and could be completely bypassing my website altogether.

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      Anyway to track on Amazon where your affiliate sales are coming from? The previous site they were at, etc?
      You can create different associate IDs for your different sources. So any sales for ytidname-20 come from youtube, fbidname-20 come from facebook, twidname-20 come from twitter... etc.

      That will give you a general idea of where the traffic is coming from. If you want to track many individual links with Amazon it is difficult.

      There are some threads about it on the warrior forum. But I think you would need a commercial service.

      Also, you are putting your Amazon account at risk of being banned by linking directly from Twitter and YouTube with affiliate links to Amazon. That is likely against Amazon's ToS. (Although, I don't know exactly what you are doing)

      You need to send that traffic to your review site or other allowed platform like Squidoo and then link to Amazon.

      Amazon may not notice for a while but if you make money and they see where the traffic is coming from they could close your account and ban you.

      Just make sure you know what you're doing is all.
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  • Profile picture of the author thedanbrown
    You can check how people are arriving on your sites if you have some Google analytics or any type of analytics tracking.
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