So I got blocked/banned... and no pay-outs.

Here's what they wrote me :

Hello,

While reviewing your account, we found that you are using transitional page advertisements to send traffic to the Amazon site. The Associates Program Operating Agreement prohibits Associates from using this method of advertisement. You can review the complete terms of the Operating Agreement, including Participation Requirements, by following this link:
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com...ates/agreement...

Jack Duncan recently released an application which mines Google Trends that unfortunately sold out quickly. Looking over some of his earlier material, I found this nice gem for searching Amazon wish lists:



This is a nice way to finding out the hot products in your niche.
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2 more amazon search tips
1.Find bestsellers in amazon in a price range.
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How many times have you clicked on the mouse today? How many times have you clicked on your remote control or mobile phone? This is the One Click Away World! Once click on the mouse bring you to another WWW (world wild web); one click on the remote bring you from the cartoon channel to the Discovery channel and one click on the mobile phone will bring you home as your lovely daughter is asking you to come home for dinner earlier!

The other day my friend in the States called me up,...

So, I'm playing with our engine and rather than building client sites the way I normally do, I'm trying my hand at affiliate sites.

I've mixed some adsense (very little) with affiliate products from Amazon and some relevant clickbank products that I'm feeding with an RSS feed from CBengine.

I'm putting relevant videos and posts into the blog channels and I've dropped in some CPA network banner rotators that promote some (more or less) relevant ads as well.
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The most important thing is picking the right products. Get this wrong and your stuffed, or in the least create a lot of unneccesary work. Then you want to use WP blogs with an auto poster, RSS & Ping.

1. Pick a good product - Use Micro Niche Finder
2. Reviewazon Plugin for wordpress
3. RSS + Ping plugins for (built in to WP) but find some of the additional RSS tools here

This would be a good start. You could also consider using the Data feeds from Amazon...