Amazon Affiliate - anyone had good success here?

Of course you can ave good succes ,people trust amazon and buy fast only downside its that its low comision like 5% .But if you are a profesional marketar and you know to get good trafic amaon its a good way to go

I had quite a bit of success a few years ago, particularly with clothing items.

These days though the big money is in making drop shipping sites or in persuading people to shop via AliExpress (which I believe has a longer lasting cookie and better commissions).

I've been a full time Amazon affiliate for 6 years now and it is getting better all the time.

You need to build a good authority site in a niche that you are interested in.

Put out great content in the niche, write good reviews for products in the niche and build an email list from the site.

It takes some time to get going but well worth it.

Cheers

Hi Heath,

I run a business which automates affiliate marketing for large publishers like News Corp.

Here's our experience with running Amazon Affiliates (which we stopped using - see cons below):

PROS

• Incredibly high conversion rate - this is for a number of reasons; the number one being the fact that most people have an Amazon account for one reason or another and Amazon's patented 1-click purchase button
• Amazon does an incredible job of making sure their purchase experience is excellent on all devices & browser screens
• Amazon's product recommendations are so good that one way or another, it's likely that the user who has been redirected there will find something they like, even if you did a crap job of suggesting a specific product
• They don't spam the purchaser with sh1tty pops asking people to sign up for their EDM or do anything to turn off the user - they've got it down to a science

CONS

• You'll need to create an affiliate account/tag for each domain you want to run your program on (which makes it useless for someone like us - because we automate the process)
• Poor support for geographies outside of the US, India, Japan, UK and LATAM (we're in Australia... so #fail)
• Incredibly shite/incompetent technical support
• For larger publishers like us, we didn't get the technical support we needed to work around things such as rate limits on their search API, or being able to get a DB dump of ALL products from a specific product vertical for analysis (say you want to auto-list all baby products... #nochance)
• 24 hour cookie period - so the chance of being sniped by another affiliate is high (see [1])

We ran a trial where we directed about 1K users and I can tell you that the conversion rate was exactly 7.32% (#WOW) - so if you want to put up with their #dontcare attitude, I would 100% say - do it!

I might add that this was across a spread of products and different price points (everything from shoes, dresses, books, DVDs and protein powders etc.). The conversion rate remained consistent.

Happy to answer any other questions you might have...

[1] You have 24 hours for the user you direct there to buy - but because you are competing with a million other Amazon affiliates, it's much tougher to be attributed for an eventual sale

Why don't you do a mix of cheap and quite pricey products? Of course you can earn from promoting cheaper ones, but to maximize your profits you must also introduce slightly higher-priced products.

It would also be better if these products are belonging in the same niche, for you to gradually build your reputation in providing factual, interesting and rich information in what you're selling.

I've had successes with Amazon Affiliate, but currently, I do not put much of my time in working on it.

Just give it a shot! Remember: make your content brief, rich, true and interesting, and just promote your website.

Good luck!

Given your tight parameters, the best advice I can give you is either GET INTERESTED in subniches that fit your requirements or KEEP SEARCHING using those parameters

You might want to try eBay to try demand levels or watch list levels

I've kept my Amazon account going because I can always find something to link to when writing on my blog. Their breadth of products is a big benefit.

One good benefit of working with Amazon is that you can refer a visitor to product A and get a commission when they buy product B (or A and B, etc.) If you are in a highly competitive market (say, big TVs), you can focus on helping people with a related problem (like unusual mounting configurations or wiring options) and promote a solution to that problem. Then, very often, they will click the link to your low priced recommendation and add the big ticket item to the purchase as well. I've had people purchase a bracket and then add a $1k sound system to their order.

Amazon has conditioned people to add on to their orders by offering free shipping on orders over a specific dollar figure. People save up their purchases to hit the free shipping amounts. They don't even think about it anymore, so upsells and cross-sells happen frequently.

I'm not going to retire on my Amazon earnings, but it is a very flexible way to monetize content that is not a good fit for other high commission offers.

Andrew

You know, when people go from your site to your amazon site, they don't always buy what you're promoting; sometimes, they buy more expensive things, sometimes they buy less expensive.

But even if they bought only the cheap ones you feel you could promote the best, all that means is that you have to send more buyers to amazon...

1000x10 equals $10,000

so does

1 x 10,000.

I'd suggest start with what you feel you can promote the easiest/best... then, when you have that set up, add additional (more expensive items) or create entirely new streams based on such. I think this is the fastest way to get to your goal.

I have had great success in the past, I think it is a worthwhile program if you are very careful about following the rules.

I always looked at amazon as passive selling.

They don't give high enough commissions to do any real hard selling, but if you have a blog or a niche website. Linking a few amazon products will be good enough to bring in some money.

Most serious amazon affiliates go the SEO route. They rank niche websites and promote products that way. If you don't mind waiting months to see results, It's a proven way to make some passive income, but it's not guaranteed if google will keep your website around in the future.

Focus on creating your own product or at the very least selling a product that will pay enough to cover your costs and give you a profit. You will find offers like this on affiliate networks. Join peerfly or maxbounty if you want to start down the affiliate marketing path.

three months ago I tried amazon niche website & I am earning monthly $40 usd around i am trying to sale 20 - 50 usd products which make me fine income I update 2 article a month.