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Search Engine Opportunity - How To Make a Full Time Living With Amazon

by Joseph Michael
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I used to do this to make a full time income amongst other things. But stopped due to running an SEO agency. Now I have a bit of time on my hands I am getting back into this. This is what I do:


1) Find a product that gets 300-1000 exact match searches and a fair few supplemental searches (review, buy, order) - think microwaves, tvs, washing machines, baby products, gym products

2) get exact match domain (important) - dont worry about adding the brand to the domain name, I know a lot of people cry about doing that, but if anyone moans (which no one ever does) just give it back. each domain only has a limited shelf life anyway, these are not your 'babies'.

3) Build a 3 page site with a free wordpress theme (do not spend hours 'designing' this, you want users off your site in seconds)

4) Order 3 300 word articles about your product from iwriter, place on site

5) add affiliate links and images - link all images to aff link

6) add links from your other sites, related forums, dofollow blog comments, or simply buy a links package on the forum. you can do this without spending any money or much time, you dont need many.

7) Repeat, once a day/week depending how much your willing to invest in domain costs.


I could have fleshed out each of those points and made AMAZON KILLER the FRESHEST WSO EVER but this is all stuff that we already know. I'm just reiterating how simple it is, don't over think it.

I know the vast amount of options of IM can paralyse people - if you already have a strategy, carry on with it, dont do this... but if you dont, you have no excuse to start.

Once you have this boiled down to a simple process it can be outsourced, leaving you to try all the other weird and wonderful PPV or CPA whatever...

I just love this method.

Oh, and if you're in the UK don't do this, cos this is MY ZONE just kidding.
#amazon #engine #full #living #make #opportunity #search #time
  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    Nice post. Simple and straight to the point.

    With Amazon all it really comes down to is finding a product that will sell, choosing the right keywords, putting together the content, and doing some basic SEO. If you do all of this right you will rank pretty easily, as most product related keywords don't have a ton of competition.
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  • Profile picture of the author cooler1
    So are these actually sniper sites, one site per product your promoting? That sounds a very expensive way of doing it compared to having multiple products on one domain/site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Broot4ceMusic
      Originally Posted by cooler1 View Post

      So are these actually sniper sites, one site per product your promoting? That sounds a very expensive way of doing it compared to having multiple products on one domain/site.
      If you are worried about the expense you can start by having your first few sites on free sub-domains at least until the money comes in.
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      • Profile picture of the author cooler1
        Originally Posted by Broot4ceMusic View Post

        If you are worried about the expense you can start by having your first few sites on free sub-domains at least until the money comes in.
        It's not the expense that's the problem, it's about whether it makes sense financially in the long term. If you promote 50 products with this strategy than that is about $500/year in domain fees. But promoting them on the same site would be about $10/year. And that's not to mention of all the headache of continually updating the WordPress plugins for so many sites.

        An EMD provides a ranking advantage, but does it make such a big diference that it will make about $490/year extra in sales to make up for the extra domain fees. I doubt it.
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  • Profile picture of the author kiliki
    How long was it when you did this process. It makes a lot of sense and I can see it working in the past, but does it still work well today with Panda and Penguin algorithms making sure content is really good and if you do a bunch of these with links from your own sites all pointing to these, is it really going to be able to rank?

    Some of the steps you do are really good to combine with other strategies I use, thanks for the post!
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  • Profile picture of the author Funkymonkeyman
    So the website is built around 1 specific product?

    So your websites are...
    -3 pages
    -Having one 300 word article per page
    -No homepage
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  • Profile picture of the author dp40oz
    I would recommend making sure the content is at least decent quality from iWriter. Bad content = penalized to the end of the earth within 2 months.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      8) Make sure you don't put to many affiliate links per page, Google will slow down your rankings that way

      9) Don't cloak your links, Google see's that as malpractices

      10) Put more content per page - 1000 words would be perfect, it makes you rank just so much easier / less links, it's only a few $ extra per page and it will save you so much on link building, especially when you buy packages.

      11) Be careful which package you buy, there is way to much spam being sold

      12) Try to avoid brands in domains, instead use more generic product types with a prefix or suffix, those are also easy to rank. That way you can use these domains even years from now, no need to churn & burn domains.

      13) Use SerpIQ to check the competition of the keywords, so much more reliable then just looking at PR, keyword in title, nr of backlinks that a page has, thing is that back link checkers don't show the internal linkings, SerpIQ or SEOmoz does take that into account. You could fool yourself real easily without thinking about that. For example many Amazon pages have 0 backlinks but still the page has like Page Authority 60 and thus hard to out rank.

      14) Try to pick non seasonal products
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      • Profile picture of the author saganator
        Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

        13) Use SerpIQ to check the competition of the keywords, so much more reliable then just looking at PR, keyword in title, nr of backlinks that a page has, thing is that back link checkers don't show the internal linkings, SerpIQ or SEOmoz does take that into account. You could fool yourself real easily without thinking about that. For example many Amazon pages have 0 backlinks but still the page has like Page Authority 60 and thus hard to out rank.
        Just checked out SerpIQ

        So incredibly useful.
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      • Profile picture of the author cooler1
        Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

        8) Make sure you don't put to many affiliate links per page, Google will slow down your rankings that way
        Have you found out how many affiliate links you can have without seeing a negative ranking effect? Have you done any studies on this and have any broad data to base it on?
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        • Profile picture of the author nik0
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          Originally Posted by cooler1 View Post

          Have you found out how many affiliate links you can have without seeing a negative ranking effect? Have you done any studies on this and have any broad data to base it on?
          I've had about 5 clients who had like 6-8 amazon links on their page, and they complained why they ranked so poor, I said you must remove all those links and stick to 2-3 links max per page. They listened and within days / a week they moved up in the rankings.

          We've tested it with a site of our selves as well. First the site had 3 affiliate links, it ranked at #5, then we added some adsense ads large text blocks, and it moved to page 2. Then we removed the large adsense txt blocks and put 1 visual, 1 adsense banner and 1 amazon banner and not a week later the site moved to position 1, page 1.

          So yeah it are not numbers in the 100's but proved enough to me.
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          • Profile picture of the author cooler1
            Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

            I've had about 5 clients who had like 6-8 amazon links on their page, and they complained why they ranked so poor, I said you must remove all those links and stick to 2-3 links max per page. They listened and within days / a week they moved up in the rankings.

            We've tested it with a site of our selves as well. First the site had 3 affiliate links, it ranked at #5, then we added some adsense ads large text blocks, and it moved to page 2. Then we removed the large adsense txt blocks and put 1 visual, 1 adsense banner and 1 amazon banner and not a week later the site moved to position 1, page 1.

            So yeah it are not numbers in the 100's but proved enough to me.
            Isn't the affect related to the affiliate links to content amount ratio? So if you have a 300 word article with 4 affiliate links then you would see a negative ranking affect, but with a 1000 word article you most likely wouldn't.
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            • Profile picture of the author nik0
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              Originally Posted by cooler1 View Post

              Isn't the affect related to the affiliate links to content amount ratio? So if you have a 300 word article with 4 affiliate links then you would see a negative ranking affect, but with a 1000 word article you most likely wouldn't.
              Never looked at it from that perspective. The sites that I talked about all had between 500-1000 words of content.
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  • Profile picture of the author adder69
    Nice post. Thank you.
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    • Profile picture of the author cjseb
      Very good thread here!
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  • Profile picture of the author vCr8
    Another great post... Credit to the OP and nik0, these advises could have been another e-book secret sauce to amazon affiliate success but you guys gave it away for free kudos to the both of you
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  • Profile picture of the author Manoj V
    Great post with useful tips!

    The trick is to not make it too obvious that it is an affiliate site. Too many links or too many ads purport the site to be a promotion tool and gets negatively marked by Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author MaryPabelate
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    If you are afraid of putting affiliate link on the pages then you can redirect the affiliate link on your site's pages and then you can use your link.
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